Author: Kryptonews

Key Highlights: Backpack announces the launching of its Borrow/Lend feature in Japan. Japanese users will now be included within the Backpack Points program. Rising rates in Japan makes crypto lending yields more attractive than traditional savings. Backpack, a well-known crypto wallet and exchange app, has announced today, December 22, 2025, through social media platform X, that it has officially launched its much awaited Borrow/Lend feature in Japan. This update ends simple “buy and hold” habits for crypto users, and offers new ways to earn returns without selling BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and USDC. 【暗号資産ガチホだけの時代終了】 BackpackのBorrow / Lendが遂にスタート🎊Backpack Pointの付与対象です！ BTC /…

Fusaka shipped PeerDAS in addition to a myriad of minor features and Glamsterdam’s major features will include Block-level Access Lists and enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation. Now we begin outlining the subsequent upgrade: Hegotá. Timeline Jan 8th – Feb 4th: Headliner proposals (EthMag) Feb 5th – Feb 26th*: Headliner discussion & finalization (ACD calls) 30-day window to follow: Non-headliner EIP proposals (Hegota Meta EIP) *subject to change Headliner proposals Hegota’s major features (”headliners”) will be chosen first. These features, presented as EIPs, can be submitted on the Ethereum Magicians forum beginning January 8th, using a template that will be posted in the…

The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) and its managing director have parted ways after just over a year, marking a continuing high rate of turnover in the post. Dominique Savelkoul was the fifth managing director in four years. When the Belgian arts administrator took up her post in September 2024, she had never run an art fair before, and was new to a job that touched the commercial arts sector. TEFAF runs a renowned fair that takes place in Maastricht, the Netherlands, every March and showcases 7,000 years of art history; this year’s was the 38th edition. TEFAF inaugurated a…

Rebeca Moen Dec 22, 2025 16:27 Discover how Harvey AI assists legal professionals in refining complex filings by identifying potential weaknesses and providing citation-backed improvements. In the evolving landscape of legal technology, Harvey AI has emerged as a pivotal tool for legal professionals seeking to enhance the quality of their filings. According to a recent blog post by Harvey AI, the platform serves as a virtual second set of eyes, meticulously reviewing complex documents like class action complaints to ensure precision and completeness. The Role of Harvey in Legal Workflows Harvey In Practice,…

In a landmark development for the evolving crypto regulatory environment, the U.S. Senate has officially confirmed Caroline Selig as Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Christy Hill as Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). While most traditional financial media outlets have chosen to focus on broader economic implications, seasoned digital asset investors should glean a much more consequential insight: the United States regulatory framework for cryptocurrency and blockchain assets may be on the verge of a positive pivot. These high-level appointments suggest a potential inflection point toward pragmatic, innovation-friendly governance—potentially unlocking significant growth, market access,…

Ether’s (ETH) price reclaimed the $3,000 level on Monday, a 16% rebound from the $2,620 multimonth low reached on Nov. 21. Market analysts pointed to key data metrics that suggest that ETH is “building up for breakout” to higher highs.Key takeaways:Ethereum whales accumulated aggressively over the last six months.Robust network activity, Ethereum scaling upgrades in January are tailwinds for ETH.Traders expect ETH to rally to all-time highs once the barrier at $4,000 is broken.What’s behind Ether’s rebound?Ethereum whales remained confident about the prospects of a further rally, using the recent pullback to accumulate more tokens. Data from CryptoQuant revealed a growing…

In brief Bitcoin topped $90,000 Monday morning—fueled by futures market speculation, not organic spot buying, as shown by diverging on-chain volume data. Key demand indicators are weak: the Coinbase premium is negative, and U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen sustained outflows over recent weeks. The sole bullish signal is from corporate treasuries, which poured $2.23 billion into digital assets last week—the highest inflow since September. Bitcoin rallied to an eight-day high of $90,353 on Monday, but on-chain data casts doubt on the sustainability of this uptick.Since then, the top crypto has pulled back and is now trading at just under…

Filecoin FIL$1.3157 advanced 4.3% to $1.32 over 24 hours as institutional flows powered the token through critical resistance levels. The advance unfolded across a controlled $0.06 range, establishing clear upward momentum that traders positioned for extended gains, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model.The model showed volume confirmation arrived at midnight UTC with 2.9 million tokens changing hands, 87% above the session’s 1.55 million average. The surge validated FIL’s break above $1.29 resistance, transforming the level into new support, according to the model.Higher lows at $1.260, $1.277, and $1.291 signaled institutional accumulation replacing retail volatility, the model said.The final push…

Coinbase has agreed to acquire The Clearing Company, an on-chain prediction markets startup that spans digital assets, politics, sports, and culture, as it expands its push to become an “Everything Exchange” offering a broad range of investment products.In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Coinbase said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Clearing Company, with the transaction expected to close in January. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.The acquisition marks a rapid turnaround for The Clearing Company, which was founded earlier this year and counted Coinbase Ventures among its investors in a $15 million funding…

If you’ve ever bought a stock and assumed you “owned it” the moment you hit confirm, you’ve already met the least glamorous part of markets: settlement.Settlement is the back-end handoff where the system ensures that the buyer’s cash and the seller’s security actually swap places for good, with no take-backs and no missing pieces.Markets still spend an odd amount of their day waiting for ledgers to match, for cash to arrive, for collateral to land in the right account, and for the middlemen that run the machinery to say, yes, that’s final.Tokenization has promised to shrink that dead time for…