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Wintermute said it will vote against Aave’s token alignment proposal, citing unclear governance, weak value capture, and escalating political infighting. Wintermute founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy said the trading firm will vote against Aave’s token alignment proposal, adding to the growing opposition within the Aave DAO as the vote nears its conclusion. In a detailed thread on X, Gaevoy said Wintermute disagrees with the proposal “as it stands,” while arguing that it asks tokenholders to commit to a major course of action without sufficient clarity on structure, governance, or outcomes. He disclosed that Wintermute has been an investor in…

Key Takeaways Bitcoin fell during the first US trading session after Christmas. The drop triggered over $70 million in liquidations of leveraged long positions on various derivatives platforms. Share this article Bitcoin slid as the US market kicked off its first post-Christmas session, plunging by nearly $3,000 in just a few hours.The sudden pullback swept through the derivatives market, triggering more than $70 million in leveraged long liquidations over four hours, according to data from Coinglass.The sharp decline highlights the volatility inherent in crypto markets, where high leverage amplifies both gains and losses. When prices fall rapidly, traders holding leveraged…

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines REEL GENIUS. The filmmaker Amos Poe, a No Wave pioneer whose gritty, DIY films helped define New York’s punk scene in the mid- and late ’70s, died December 25 at 76 following a battle with cancer, Reuters reports. His seminal works—including The Blank Generation (1975), Unmade Beds (1976), and Subway Riders (1979–80)—broke through the formalism of earlier generations of Downtown filmmakers, offering a mix of humor, off-kilter tenderness, and keen-eyed observation of a moment defined as much by economic decay as by guerrilla freedoms. Often made with amateur actors on minimal budgets, Poe’s films moved with an energy that…

Ethereum’s total value locked (TVL) may surge ten-fold in 2026 as adoption expands across multiple use cases and institutional investors, according to Sharplink’s co-CEO Joseph Chalom.Sharplink Gaming is the second-largest public Ethereum treasury company, holding 797,704 ETH (ETH), worth roughly $2.33 billion at the time of publication, according to Ethereum Treasuries data. “The stablecoin market will hit $500B by the end of next year,” Chalom predicted in an X post on Friday. The total stablecoin market cap is sitting at around $308.46 billion at the time of publication. A move to $500 billion would represent an increase of about 62%. Source:…

Key Takeaways:On-chain trackers show BlackRock transferred 1,044 BTC and 7,557 ETH to Coinbase in its latest move.The asset manager also moved 2,292 BTC and 9,976 ETH two days earlier, keeping traders focused on continued flows.Analysts say Bitcoin remains range-bound, with shrinking volatility hinting at a possible market inflection ahead.BlackRock’s wallet activity has once again landed in the crypto spotlight. After a brief pause over Christmas, the world’s largest asset manager resumed moving Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase and market analysts are watching closely.Read More: BlackRock Transfers $226M in Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase Prime for ETF RebalancingA New Round of…

Bitcoin (BTC) has once again made history, this time with the largest options expiration of all time, totaling an incredible $24 billion on June 28. This event marks a pivotal shift in the market’s structure—one that both retail traders and institutional investors cannot afford to overlook. While conventional sentiment views such massive expiries as harbingers of volatility, uncertainty, or even downside risk, seasoned contrarians interpret this as the market finally catching its breath. Simply put: the shackles are off, and Bitcoin might finally be poised for a significant breakout.Prior to this expiration, BTC’s price action was largely trapped beneath several…

As Bitcoin (BTC) continues to underperform gold and major equity indices, investors are increasingly questioning whether this cycle is unfolding differently than expected. In a new interview with analyst Benjamin Cowen, we dig into why Bitcoin is lagging traditional markets, and why the current setup may feel strikingly similar to 2019.Cowen points out that while stocks and gold are responding positively to expectations around future monetary easing, Bitcoin appears far more sensitive to actual liquidity conditions rather than optimism alone. That distinction, he explains, helps clarify why BTC has struggled to gain momentum even as broader markets push higher. According…

Google’s latest quarterly filing shows something that would have sounded fake a few years ago. The company now tracks “European Commission fines” as a standard expense. The total reached $10.5 billion by September 30. This shows how penalties from the EU have become routine for the largest U.S. tech firms operating in Europe. In 2024, public technology companies based in Europe paid €3.2 billion in income tax. During the same year, regulators collected €3.8 billion in fines from U.S. technology firms. That means penalties alone exceeded the entire tax contribution of the listed European tech companies. Officials inside the bloc…

Ethereum’s growing role in institutional finance took center stage on CNBC’s Power Lunch this week, when Tom Lee, co-founder and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, said Ether could climb to $7,000–$9,000 by early 2026 as Wall Street accelerates efforts to tokenize assets and move financial activity onchain.Lee said Ether’s (ETH) investment case is increasingly tied to its use as financial infrastructure, as Wall Street experiments with onchain settlement and tokenized securities. “Wall Street wants to tokenize everything,” Lee said, pointing to initiatives at Robinhood and BlackRock. The shift, he said, could bring efficiencies to traditional finance while anchoring…

A recently released set of files related to Jeffrey Epstein implied that the convicted sex criminal’s ties to collector Leslie Wexner ran deeper than some previously thought, placing new scrutiny on the former Victoria’s Secret CEO. One email from an FBI official that was released to the public this week referred to potential “co-conspirators” who had worked with Epstein. While the email was heavily redacted, like other files released by the Department of Justice on December 23, the message clearly refers to Wexner, the namesake collector behind the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Related Articles Epstein and…