Aave Labs has acquired San Francisco fintech company Stable Finance, enhancing its DeFi offerings with user-friendly onchain savings applications. Founder Mario Baxter Cabrera will lead product development as the team integrates into Aave's ecosystem.

Standard Chartered reframed bitcoin’s trajectory as ETF demand eclipses halving dynamics, keeping a long-range path toward high valuations intact even after trimming forecasts, underscoring confidence that institutional flows can still propel the asset’s multiyear climb.
Standard Chartered

A new CFTC pilot program opens the door for regulated tokenized collateral in U.S. derivatives markets, signaling broader acceptance of bitcoin, ether and stablecoins while removing barriers that once constrained digital asset innovation.
CFTC Launches Tokenized Collateral Pilot and Pulls Back

French fintech Lyzi is expanding its European footprint by enabling cryptocurrency payments at Porsche Centre Montpellier and Lamborghini Bordeaux, where customers can purchase luxury cars using bitcoin, tezos, stablecoins, and over 80 digital assets.
Dealerships Emphasize Innovation and

Two unconventional bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) landed at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Dec. 9, 2025, and they arrived with enough personality to make even the most jaded ETF watcher raise an eyebrow.
Bitcoin ETFs Get Weird: Night-Trading and Tail-Risk Designs

Bitmine has disclosed $13.2 billion in combined crypto, cash, and strategic “moonshot” holdings, reaffirming its status as the world’s largest ethereum treasury. The update highlights the company’s long-term accumulation strategy as ETH continues to strengthen in market prominence.
Massive $13.2 B

A recent New York Times piece misleadingly suggests that stablecoins facilitate money laundering by criminal actors. However, the article reveals that crypto-to-cash conversion services and inadequate compliance measures by financial companies are the primary mechanisms enabling such activities.

Investigators from more than 10 African countries—including Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda—recently completed a week-long course in Kenya on cryptocurrency crime investigations.
Equipping Detectives with Advanced Forensic Skills
Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) recently

The Canada Revenue Agency has recovered over $72 million in unpaid taxes from cryptocurrency audits in the past three years. However, the agency has reportedly not laid any criminal charges since 2020.
High Non-Compliance Rates Among Crypto Users
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has collected

Curve’s latest collaboration with Yieldbasis has reshaped decentralized governance on the protocol, sparking a flurry of DAO proposals, liquidity expansions, and fresh revenue channels centered on crvUSD growth.
Curve and Yieldbasis Deepen Integration
The partnership between Curve and Yieldbasis

Bernstein's latest outlook predicts that bitcoin is entering a prolonged bull cycle driven by institutional adoption, with strong ETF flows and a revised price target of $150,000 by 2026, potentially reaching $1 million by 2033.

Yield trading platform, Spectra, has introduced yield tokenization that splits interest‑bearing tokens into principal tokens and yield tokens. Principal tokens guarantee fixed returns at maturity, while yield tokens allow speculation or hedging on future yield rates.
Benefits for Users and the

The data was provided by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas on Thursday, and may partly explain the recent bitcoin downturn.
Layoffs Climb to a Grim Milestone: Nearly 1.2 Million…and Counting
A Chicago-based outplacement firm quietly announced a rather dire metric that