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Key Highlights: Lighter announces launch of Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT) today, December 30, 2025. The token supply is split between community and team. The main aim of the platform is to bridge TradFi and DeFi. Lighter is a crypto trading platform that is built on Ethereum and lets people trade perpetual contracts. The platform is designed to be professional and institutional-level, similar to tools used by big financial firms. It has been announced on social media platform X today, December 30, 2025, that Lighter has announced its own token called Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT). The token is being issued by…

Spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States continued to attract capital through December, extending their inflow streak to 29 consecutive days despite choppy market conditions.According to data from SoSoValue, spot XRP (XRP) ETFs recorded $8.44 million in net inflows on Monday, pushing cumulative inflows to $1.15 billion since they launched. Total net assets stood at about $1.24 billion, even as XRP prices and broader crypto markets faced selling pressure during the month.“XRP inflows are a function of regulatory clarity and steady accumulation into a less crowded trade, than BTC/ETH,” Vincent Liu, chief investment officer at Kronos Research, told…

Alvin Lang Dec 30, 2025 06:59 Hong Kong Monetary Authority and banks launch ‘Money Safe’ service to enhance deposit protection and combat scams effectively. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), in collaboration with The Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB), has announced the full deployment of the ‘Money Safe’ service across all retail banks, including digital institutions. This initiative is aimed at enhancing deposit protection and mitigating scam risks for individual customers, according to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. Enhancing Customer Safety The ‘Money Safe’ service functions like a secure vault within a…

The rapid maturation of blockchain infrastructure has pushed developers to explore architectures capable of delivering speed, flexibility, and customisation far beyond what Layer‑1 and Layer‑2 stacks were originally built to handle. This surge of innovation has coincided with increasing interest in speculative, high‑growth crypto opportunities, which often emerge from new technological shifts. For investors trying to understand how infrastructure advances connect to market behaviour, information on ‘’What crypto is most likely to explode?’’ reflects the curiosity surrounding tokens linked to high‑velocity ecosystems. As Layer‑3 networks gain prominence, this appetite for identifying potential breakout assets reinforces why infrastructure trends matter to traders…

2025 was a year of a major crypto drop, especially toward the end. Zcash, Monero, and OKB were among the coins that outperformed the market and closed 2025 with significant gains. That said, two privacy coins and an exchange token dominated 2025’s leaderboard. We tried to compile a concise look at how much each coin climbed this year, why it moved, and how traders reacted to it. However, if you’re more into the future rather than the past, please read our 2026 crypto predictions. Zcash (ZEC): over 800% YTD Quick context: Zcash was launched in 2016 by Electric Coin Company.…

In brief Pump.fun brought livestreaming back this year after it was forced to shutdown the feature because a rise of dangerous stunts being performed on the platform. The meme coin launchpad started to invest in the ecosystem, including streamer kits, hiring clippers, and having a squad of recruiters onboard traditional streamers. It gave it all a more professional feel. But content creators worry about an overreliance on sensationalist stunts to pump tokens. This time last year, the Solana meme coin launchpad Pump.fun had disabled its livestreaming feature after creators flooded the platform with videos of dangerous stunts in attempts to…

Perpetuals-focused Ethereum-based Layer 2 decentralized exchange (DEX) Lighter has announced the debut of its native cryptocurrency, the Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT), to align traders, builders, and backers as it looks to blend traditional markets with DeFi. The LIT token supply is divided evenly: 50% to the ecosystem, 50% to the team and investors. An immediate airdrop rewards early participants with free money by instantly converting their 12.5 million points (earned in 2025) into LIT tokens. This represents 25% of the project’s total fully diluted value – the maximum possible tokens if everything is issued. The rest funds future rewards, partnerships,…

Demand for alternative stores of value and clearer regulations are driving what could become crypto’s next bull market, according to Grayscale. Speaking on CNBC’s “Crypto World,” Grayscale’s head of research Zach Pandl said Monday that the strongest driver remains macroeconomic pressure. Increasing government debt, persistent fiscal deficits and concerns over fiat currency debasement are pushing investors to look beyond traditional assets. “There’s a lot of things happening in crypto … but the biggest asset in the market, Bitcoin, is driven because of demand for alternative stores of value because of debt and deficits and the risk of fiat currency debasement,”…

This week started with a sensational screenshot shared across hundreds of breathless posts on X, and a claim designed to hit every financial nerve ending at once.A “systemically important” US bank, a silver margin call, liquidation by the exchange in the middle of the night, the Federal Reserve allegedly “forced” to pump billions into the system, and the bank’s name “concealed.”Screenshot circulating on X about US bank collapseIt reads like a ‘Big Short’ or ‘Margin Call’ movie sequel, and the internet ate it up amid the slow news season between Christmas and New Year.My initial thoughts were as follows: Silver…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Joseph Chalom, the CEO of Sharplink, has outlined an optimistic forecast for Ethereum’s (ETH) future, emphasizing a significant increase in the total value locked (TVL) within the network in the coming year.  Stablecoin Expansion And Institutional Interest According to a report from CoinMarketCap, Chalom anticipates that the stablecoin market will soar to $500 billion by December 2026. Currently, the total market capitalization for stablecoins stands at approximately $308.46 billion, suggesting a 62% growth from current figures.  Given that Ethereum is responsible for processing over half of all…