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U.S. federal courts have imposed about 83 years of prison terms on crypto company leaders since early 2024.That total grew yesterday with Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon’s 15-year sentence tied to the TerraUSD and Luna collapse.Kwon was sentenced in December 2025 after pleading guilty to two fraud charges. According to AP News, the judge went beyond prosecutors’ request.Terra’s failure erased more than $40 billion in market value. Prosecutors cited that figure to describe the scope of losses linked to the 2022 unwind.The total provides a numeric snapshot of how U.S. cases against crypto leadership have moved from civil actions and…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure YouTube has quietly added a new payout option that lets creators in the US receive earnings in PayPal’s dollar-pegged token, PYUSD. According to several reports, the change appears to be active now and is being offered through PayPal’s payout rails rather than through any direct crypto custody by YouTube. How The Option Works PayPal’s head of crypto, May Zabaneh, confirmed the setup to Fortune and said the company uses its existing payout network to deliver PYUSD to recipients who opt in. That means YouTube will still calculate…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Cardano is finally doing the unsexy but absolutely necessary plumbing work: getting serious, external oracle infrastructure wired in, with a governance wrapper that looks a lot more like “adult supervision” than the old ad-hoc ecosystem scramble. On a Dec. 11 livestream, Charles Hoskinson said the ecosystem’s new “Pentad” structure — the coordination bloc spanning Input Output, the Cardano Foundation, EMURGO, the Midnight Foundation, and Intersect — has approved its first major integration under the “critical integrations” framework: bringing Pyth’s Lazer oracle to Cardano, with deployment targeted for…

Oracle lost roughly $80 billion in market value on Dec. 11 when revenue missed expectations, and management hiked AI-related capex from $35 billion to about $50 billion, funded in part with rising debt.The stock dropped up to 16%, dragging Nvidia, AMD, and the broader Nasdaq lower.Reports framed the move as fanning “AI bubble” fears, with investors questioning whether the payoff from building massive data-center capacity is arriving fast enough to justify those costs.On the same tape, Bitcoin slipped below $90,000, likely due to worries over the AI sector denting risk appetite.The single-day episode encapsulates Bitcoin’s new structural vulnerability: it has…

Bitcoin is no longer just a grassroots monetary revolution. It’s in the process of moving from the periphery of finance into its centre. The rise of Bitcoin treasury companies is a major force behind this shift. These are firms that accumulate bitcoin not as a side bet, but as a core balance sheet holding. In doing so, they provide access to capital markets, offer yield-bearing instruments, and reshape how companies think about monetary preservation. This article explores what Bitcoin treasury companies are, how they operate, and why their emergence matters, for both corporate finance and Bitcoin’s long-term trajectory. Key Takeaways…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The US Congress is moving rapidly to support President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14330, signed on August 7, 2025, which is focused on “democratizing access to alternative assets, including crypto, for 401(k) Investors.” This order mandates the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to lower regulatory barriers that currently prevent investments in alternative assets—such as private equity, real estate, digital assets, and commodities—from being included in 401(k) retirement plans. Congressional Push For Crypto In 401(k)s In a joint letter signed by Republican…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Vladimir Chistyukhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), has shared crucial details of Russia’s upcoming crypto regulations. The framework is expected to amend key laws related to digital financial assets and the securities market, while potentially prohibiting new digital asset purchases for most investors. New Crypto Framework Could Ban New Purchases On Thursday, Vladimir Chistyukhin told Russian news media outlet RIA Novosti that the Central Bank of Russia, the Ministry of Finance, Rosfinmonitoring, and other federal agencies have been discussing proposals to regulate…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Data shows the XRP transfer fee has witnessed a significant decrease over the last several months, a sign network activity has been declining. XRP Transaction Fee Has Dropped To 650 Tokens Per Day In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm Glassnode has discussed the latest trend in the Total Transaction Fees indicator for XRP. This metric measures, as its name suggests, the amount of fees that senders on the XRP network attach to their transactions every day. On blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum, the transaction…

In brief So-called “accumulator” whales bought 75,000 BTC from December 1 to 10 as short-term holder losses mount, signaling wealth transfer to strong hands. The Fed’s new liquidity program offers technical support but isn’t designed to fuel the excess liquidity crypto needs for a major rally. Experts predict a “low-liquidity run-up” heading into the holidays rather than an explosive surge. Bullish Bitcoin wallets continue to buy up the digital asset, even as unrealized losses mount and liquidity remains sparse throughout the sector.Large holders—dubbed accumulator wallets—purchased 75,000 BTC between December 1 and December 10, including 40,000 BTC in a single day,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, has been honored with a new “disappearing” statue installed at the New York Stock Exchange this week. According to reports, the piece was placed by investment firm Twenty One Capital and is part of a broader public art effort linking Bitcoin’s cultural presence with major financial sites. Installation And The Artist The sculpture was made by Italian artist Valentina Picozzi and is built so that it appears nearly invisible from certain angles, then clearly forms when seen from the side.…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum has retraced below the $3,200 level following the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points, a move that initially boosted risk assets but quickly shifted market sentiment into uncertainty. While the broader macro backdrop now leans toward looser monetary conditions, Ethereum’s reaction suggests that traders remain cautious, especially after the sharp rally from the $2,800 region earlier this month. According to fresh data from CryptoQuant, Binance’s Ethereum Estimated Leverage Ratio has climbed to an all-time high of nearly 0.579. This signals that…