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As President Donald Trump’s opening year wanes in his second administration, he’s finally landed permanent appointments to helm two of the most important U.S. crypto regulators — Mike Selig as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.The CFTC is poised to become a leading regulator of U.S. crypto activity, especially if Congress completes the legislative work to give more specific crypto authority to the derivatives watchdog. The Senate approved Selig and Hill in a package of dozens of other nominees on Thursday with a 53-43 vote. Once sworn in,…

Base’s new tokenized app blends social content, crypto trading, and payments, with stocks and prediction markets coming. Coinbase’s ‘Everything app’ has officially launched, bringing social features, trading, payments, and earning tools into a single platform. The cryptocurrency exchange has also confirmed plans to introduce stock trading and prediction markets on the platform. Tokenized Social and Trading Platform First announced in July, the Base app was positioned as a rebrand of Coinbase Wallet, marking what the company described as a new chapter in its ecosystem. The beta version of the ‘Everything app’ had initially only been available to waitlisted users since…

Geneva, Switzerland, December 18th, 2025, TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today announced that Kalshi, the world’s largest prediction market platform, has integrated the TRON blockchain network. This integration enables seamless deposits and withdrawals using TRX, the native utility token of the TRON network, and USDT on TRON, expanding Kalshi’s multichain infrastructure by providing additional liquidity pathways for global market participants while bridging traditional finance with blockchain infrastructure. The integration positions TRON as a critical component in Kalshi’s expansion beyond traditional finance rails into the blockchain…

BitGo, a digital asset infrastructure company, announced it now offers Bitcoin Lightning Network access directly from its qualified custody platform. The move makes it one of the first companies to provide Lightning payments for institutional custody. The service aims to give clients faster and cheaper Bitcoin transactions while keeping institutional security standards intact. It builds on BitGo’s earlier self-custody Lightning solution. The new offering is powered through a partnership with Voltage, a Lightning Network infrastructure provider. Clients can now use Lightning without running their own nodes or managing keys. BitGo and Voltage handle infrastructure, channels, liquidity, and key management. Through…

Bitcoin trades near $89,000 today after its 14-day relative strength index fell below 30 in mid-November, a threshold traders track for capitulation.A chart circulated by Global Macro Investor’s Julien Bittel, sourced to LSEG Datastream, overlays Bitcoin’s recent path with the average trajectory that followed the last five RSI breaks below 30 and traces a route that ends near $180,000 about 90 days after the oversold print.The $180,000 waypoint is return math. With Bitcoin near $89,000, reaching $180,000 would imply a roughly 105% gain in roughly three months, or about 0.80% compounded daily.The chart isn’t a forecast distribution but an event-study…

Interest in Ethereum-based casinos continues to grow as blockchain technology reshapes how online gambling platforms operate. These sites are often discussed for features such as faster transaction processing, increased transparency, and greater user control compared to traditional card-based casinos. With many platforms competing for attention in 2025, understanding how they differ in terms of security, games, and reliability is essential when evaluating the space.We review each site hands-on and focus on what matters to you. We cover payouts, fees, bonuses, games, safety, and player support. You’ll see which casinos pay fast, treat players fairly, and deliver a smooth experience. Continue…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage US President Donald Trump will interview pro-crypto Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller today as he considers successors to current Fed Chair Jerome Powell. That’s according to people familiar with the matter cited in a Dec. 16 report by the Wall Street Journal.  It said Waller is one of five candidates being considered, alongside front runner Kevin Hassett, who is National Economic Council director, and Fed Governor Kevin Warsh. On the decentralized prediction markets platform Polymarket, traders give Hassett a 54% chance of succeeding Powell, with Warsh in…

With an any-minute-now confirmation of Mike Selig to take over the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, its stand-in chief, Caroline Pham, is closer to her longstanding plan to jump to crypto firm MoonPay.As CoinDesk reported last month, Pham was said to be planning to take on the role of chief legal officer and chief administrative officer at the company, a financial technology company focused on crypto, which just obtained a New York trust charter last month. It’s a path further confirmed by the company on Wednesday, including a statement from Pham acknowledging her transition once she’s replaced by President Donald…

The Competition Commission of India, the regulatory body responsible for promoting fair competition in the country, has approved Coinbase acquiring a minority stake in cryptocurrency platform CoinDCX.In a Tuesday notice, the regulator said it had approved Coinbase Global’s minority stake acquisition in DCX Global Limited, the company behind CoinDCX. Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal confirmed the news in a Wednesday X post, saying it deepened the exchange’s “long-term partnership with one of India’s most established and trusted digital asset platforms.” Source: Paul GrewalNeither the regulatory announcement nor Grewal’s post included information about the percentage of Coinbase’s stake in the…

Tortola, British Virgins Island, December 17th, 2025, Chainwire Space is the first 10x leverage prediction market on Solana where users trade real-world outcomes across crypto, politics, sports, technology, culture and beyond – getting paid for being right. Today, they announced the public sale of their native token, $SPACE. The company has a token flywheel mechanism where 50% of revenue goes into buying back and burning $SPACE. Space is built by the team behind UFO, a top 100 project in 2021 on CoinMarketCap that grew to $1.5B+ market cap with a large on-chain community. That success came from distribution and community,…