Five Crypto Firms Win Conditional OCC Approval for U.S. National Trust Bank Charters The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted conditional approval for national trust bank charters to five major digital-asset firms: Ripple, Circle, Fidelity Digital Assets, BitGo, and Paxos. The approvals, announced in a Friday notice, represent a significant…
U.S. Market Structure Bill May Slide to January as Talks Continue Over Several Points Senate negotiations over a major crypto market structure bill are running up against the year-end calendar, with several disagreements still unresolved as lawmakers head toward the holiday break. With only seven working days left before the Christmas recess, participants in the…
State of Crypto: Policymakers Dominated CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2025 List CoinDesk has begun unveiling its annual “Most Influential” list, a retrospective ranking of the people who most shaped the crypto industry over the past year. The 2025 edition is notable for who rose to the top: policymakers, particularly in the U.S., who used executive and…
Prediction markets are coming to Phantom’s 20M users via Kalshi integration Phantom has added Kalshi’s prediction markets directly inside its crypto wallet, bringing regulated event trading to an audience of more than 20 million users, the companies said Friday. Announced in San Francisco on Dec. 12, 2025, the integration introduces Phantom Prediction Markets, a product…
Bitcoin Plunges Below $90K as AI Worries Drag Nasdaq, Crypto Stocks Down Bitcoin fell back below $90,000 on Thursday as a bout of risk-off trading hit both cryptocurrencies and U.S. technology stocks, with markets reacting to renewed concerns about the profitability of artificial intelligence investments. The move was described as a fresh signal of broader…
Bitcoin Holds Above $90,000 as Implied Volatility Slides Into Year-End Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value, continued to trade without a clear direction above $90,000 as traders headed into the final stretch of the year with fewer near-term catalysts. A key change beneath the surface has been the sharp decline in options-implied volatility. Bitcoin’s…
Most Influential: Tom Lee Thomas “Tom” Lee, a longtime Wall Street strategist and the head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, is stepping deeper into crypto through his role as chairman of BitMine. His shift comes as more traditional finance firms and investors engage with digital assets, reflecting a broader industry convergence. BitMine has adopted…
XRP Ledger Upgrade Lays Groundwork for Lending, Tokenization Expansion RippleX, the development group that maintains the XRP Ledger’s core software, has released rippled v3.0.0, a required upgrade for operators running XRPL servers to remain compatible with the network. While the release does not add major new user-facing features, it focuses on hardening the core client…
