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The Vice President of Privacy, Safety, and Security Engineering at Google, Royal Hansen, released a statement addressing several lawmakers who are requesting to ease the process of AI in the United States. According to him, it is essential to encourage the responsible development and use of this technology, rather than allowing the country to fall behind other nations in the adoption of AI. During “The Sunday Briefing,” Hansen pointed out that it is best if they are encouraged to make significant investments and develop AI responsibly, as this technology offers numerous benefits when used effectively, such as in energy production,…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has defended prediction markets against critics who view betting on real-world events as morally questionable, arguing that these platforms offer superior truth-seeking mechanisms to social media while addressing concerns about their potential to incentivize harm.Writing on Farcaster, Buterin acknowledged prediction markets could theoretically create incentives for harmful actions but dismissed this risk for small-scale markets covering large events.He noted that regular stock markets pose similar concerns, pointing out that political actors could profit from disasters simply by shorting stocks with far higher volumes than those on prediction platforms.Source: FarcasterTruth-Seeking Versus Social Media SensationalismButerin positioned prediction markets…

Finance platforms racing to add prediction markets are doing so at the cost of accelerated “casino-like” user churn, says venture capital firm Inversion Capital founder and CEO, Santiago Roel Santos.Santos argued in a blog post on Saturday that while he is a “believer in the underlying idea” of prediction markets, he thinks offering them in mainstream finance apps like Robinhood threatens future value capture by increasing the risk of user account liquidation. “The problem with casino-like products isn’t that users lose money. It’s that casinos accelerate churn,” he said. “The longer you exist inside a casino, the higher the probability of liquidation.…

New Bitcoin Whales Are Rewriting BTC’s Market Structure: DataFor years, the term Bitcoin whales evoked images of early tech enthusiasts, cypherpunks, or legacy institutional players who seized on Bitcoin’s potential when it was still a niche digital experiment. These individuals and entities, who amassed thousands of BTC when prices were mere dollars, established the playing field for Bitcoin’s early market volatility and structure. But recent onchain trends highlight a new epoch in Bitcoin’s trajectory—one shaped by a new generation of Bitcoin whales with distinct strategies and motivations.The rise of these new BTC holders signals more than just changing investor profiles—it…

Key Highlights: Lifinity will return $43.4 million in USDC from its treasury and development funds. LFNTY tokens holders can redeem their tokens for around $0.90-$1.10 each. Any unclaimed funds will be redistributed after one year. Lifinity, an early DeFi project that was started on Solana, has decided to shut down after the community voted to end the protocol. The decision was revealed on December 18, 2025 through social media platform X. The team could have easily just walked away and ended the protocol but they are returning the remaining funds to the users by converting around $43.4 million from its…

The highly-anticipated Uniswap protocol fee switch, dubbed “UNIfication,” is set to pass and go live later this week, having reached the 40 million vote threshold needed to trigger one of the biggest upgrades in the decentralized exchange protocol’s seven-year history.As of early Monday, nearly 62 million votes have already been cast in favor of the UNIfication governance proposal since voting opened on Dec. 20, with voting set to close on Thursday, Christmas Day.Uniswap Labs CEO Hayden Adams said on Thursday that a successful vote would follow a two-day timelock period in which Uniswap v2 and v3 fee switches would flip…

Rongchai Wang Dec 21, 2025 13:07 SUI price prediction shows potential recovery to $1.70-$2.10 range within 4-6 weeks as technical indicators suggest oversold conditions near $1.43 support level. SUI Price Prediction: Technical Recovery Setup Despite Market Fear Sui (SUI) is currently trading at $1.43, down 2.46% in the last 24 hours, as the cryptocurrency market grapples with extreme fear sentiment. However, our SUI price prediction analysis reveals compelling technical indicators suggesting a potential recovery toward the $1.70-$2.10 range over the coming weeks. SUI Price Prediction Summary • SUI short-term target (1 week): $1.55-$1.65…

In brief Charles Hoskinson said quantum-resistant cryptography is already standardized, but remains too slow for widespread use. He pointed to DARPA’s quantum benchmarking program as a key reference for when cryptographic risk becomes practical. Hoskinson said Cardano is exploring staged mitigations while waiting for hardware acceleration to mature. As blockchain developers debate protocol updates to counter possible future quantum attacks, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said the central issue is timing and not what changes to make, warning that moving too soon could carry a high cost for blockchain networks.According to Hoskinson, the cryptographic tools needed to protect blockchains from future…

Klarna, a Swedish fintech company known for its “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) service, has partnered with crypto exchange Coinbase to add stablecoins to its institutional funding toolkit.Under the arrangement, the global payments and digital banking firm plans to raise short-term funding from institutional investors denominated in USDC (USDC), using Coinbase’s crypto-native infrastructure, according to a Friday announcement.“This is an exciting first step into a new way to raise funding,” Klarna chief financial officer Niclas Neglén said. “Stablecoin connects us to an entirely new class of institutional investors, and gives us the potential to diversify our funding sources in ways…

Bitcoin’s “miners are dumping” story is comforting in the way simple stories always are. Price slides, miners run out of oxygen, coins hit exchanges, and the price is shoved around by a single, easy villain.But miners are not a single actor, and selling pressure isn’t just a mood. It’s math, contracts, and deadlines. When stress shows up, what matters is not whether miners want to sell, but whether they have to, and how much they can sell without breaking the business they’re trying to keep alive.That’s why the most useful way to think about a miner “capitulation” is as a…