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Peter Zhang Dec 29, 2025 04:35 The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) expands its RMB Business Facility, increasing the quota to RMB100 billion and adding 40 participating banks in Phase 2. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has announced a significant expansion in its Renminbi (RMB) Business Facility, as reported on December 29, 2025. The total quota allocated for participating banks has been increased to RMB100 billion, doubling from the previous RMB50 billion, and the list of participating banks has expanded to 40 institutions. Expansion Details Commencing from December 1, 2025, Phase 2…

Bitcoin BTC$90,177.20 rose on Monday as dampened hopes of a Russia-Ukraine peace deal pushed oil prices higher.BTC, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, jumped over 2% to trade above $90,000, bringing cheer to the broader market. Major alternative cryptocurrencies such as ether ETH$3,046.21, XRP$1.9146 and solana SOL$128.72 gained 3% or more, according to data source CoinDesk.In traditional markets, prices for the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude increased by 1% to $57.24 per barrel. Brent crude rose 0.80% to $60.81 per barrel. Asian stocks traded tentatively as year-end holidays kept volumes and market liquidity thin. South Korea’s KOSPI index was an…

>>>> gd2md-html alert: inline image link in generated source and store images to your server. NOTE: Images in exported zip file from Google Docs may not appear in the same order as they do in your doc. Please check the images!—–>If you used AI seriously in 2025, you probably noticed the shift. One chatbot stopped being enough. Different platforms started outperforming each other in wildly different ways—research here, video generation there, code scaffolding somewhere else. It forced everyone to rethink their setup.Last year, the AI community wanted to know which model was the king of AI. Now, companies are betting…

After a breakout rally across 2023 and much of 2024, artificial intelligence–focused crypto tokens have swung sharply in the opposite direction. Key Takeaways: AI-focused crypto tokens have lost about 75% of their value year over year, erasing roughly $53 billion from the market. The selloff accelerated into year-end, with December alone accounting for nearly $10 billion in losses. Fading hype, thinner liquidity and broader market pullbacks pushed AI tokens into a deep correction in 2025. A new report shows the sector has entered a deep correction, erasing tens of billions of dollars in value as investor appetite cooled and market…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has claimed Bitcoin provides healthy competition for the US dollar, which in turn pressures policymakers to maintain fiscal discipline and helps preserve the US dollar’s dominance.“[Bitcoin] provides a check and balance on the dollar in the sense of if there’s too much deficit spending or inflation in the US, people will flee to Bitcoin in times of uncertainty,” Armstrong argued in an interview on Tetragrammation with Rick Rubin on Thursday.“It might be okay to have 2-3% inflation if the economy is growing at 2-3% but if inflation outstrips the growth of the economy, you’ll eventually lose…

Bitcoin miners produced block 929,699 on Dec. 27. What if that was the signal for a New Year’s moment, rather than our traditional calendar?The pitch is that block height, the ordered count of blocks every full node can verify, can act as a calendar layer for a market that trades and settles across jurisdictions.For argument’s sake, we’ll use Bitcoin Block Explorer and the last observed chain tip in this snapshot at height 929,699, timestamped Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:47:19 UTC, with a mempool around 5,324 transactions at the time of the page’s update.The same source listed difficulty near 148.26T.According to…

A widening gap between VC pricing and public market caps signals a reset after narrative-driven optimism cooled. Crypto venture capital firms poured billions into early-stage tokens during 2025’s risk-on rebound, but many of those bets are now trading far below their headline fundraising values. The growing gap between private funding numbers and public market caps highlights a market reset after narrative-driven optimism cooled. Data recently shared by CryptoRank shows dozens of well-funded projects losing hundreds of millions, and in some cases nearly all, of their implied value once tokens reached open markets, raising fresh questions about pricing discipline during…

A proposed 5% tax on billionaires’ wealth in California has drawn a strong response from crypto executives, who argue it would trigger an exodus of entrepreneurs and capital flight, and would be wasted anyway.The ballot initiative, known as the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, proposes a 5% tax on net wealth above $1 billion to help fund the health care system and state assistance programs, according to the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West union.As the proposed wealth tax is partly assessed against unrealized gains, some billionaires may need to sell stock or parts of their businesses to raise funds to pay…

As of December 23, the platform has recorded over 18.5 million transactions for the month. To put this in perspective, Kalshi logged roughly 22 million transactions in all of November 2025. This means that in just 23 days, the platform has already reached 84% of last month’s total. If this momentum continues, Kalshi could surpass 25 million transactions in December and end the year with over 100 million all-time transactions. Event trading allows users to speculate on outcomes of real-world events, such as economic indicators, election results, or weather patterns. Each trade is tied to a yes or no outcome,…

Key Takeaways Arthur Hayes purchased roughly 1.9 million LDO, spending more than $1 million. He also added about $973,000 worth of PENDLE, expanding his position. Share this article BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes is ramping up his DeFi bet. The analyst on Friday acquired about 1.9 million Lido DAO (LDO) tokens for over $1 million, according to data tracked by Lookonchain. Arthur Hayes(@CryptoHayes) just bought 1.855M $LDO($1.03M).https://t.co/loeYKUb9rNhttps://t.co/NISCOnoO3T pic.twitter.com/773lJ85IgO — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) December 26, 2025LDO is the governance token for Lido DAO, the organization behind Lido Finance, one of the largest liquid staking protocols in crypto. The token is trading at around…