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India’s competition regulator has approved Coinbase’s plan to acquire a minority stake in CoinDCX, allowing the U.S.-based exchange to deepen its exposure to one of the world’s fastest-growing crypto markets.The Competition Commission of India (CCI) cleared the transaction on Wednesday, giving Coinbase the green light to invest in DCX Global Limited, the parent company of CoinDCX.Loading…Coinbase has been an investor in CoinDCX since 2020. The latest capital infusion signals a renewed commitment to India after the exchange reopened user registrations in the country last week following a two-year hiatus.The approval follows Coinbase’s mid-October disclosure of the investment and caps a…

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research who pleaded guilty to charges related to her role in the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been transferred out of the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, where she spent the past few months serving her two-year sentence. According to Federal Bureau of Prisons records as of Wednesday, Ellison was located at a Residential Reentry Management field office in New York City, marking the first change in housing since she reported to FCI Danbury in November 2024. The former Alameda CEO received a two-year sentence for her role in FTX’s downfall…

Caroline Pham, the Acting Chair of the US derivatives regulator Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is set to leave the agency to join the private sector.Pham will be heading to crypto payments firm MoonPay, once the Senate confirms her replacement with Trump’s pick Mike Selig.“I’m looking forward to a successful confirmation of Mike Selig as the CFTC’s next chairman and a smooth transition once he is sworn in,” Pham wrote on X. “The future is bright. Onward and upward.” I’m looking forward to a successful confirmation of Mike Selig as the @CFTC’s next chairman and a smooth transition once he…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Two massive Ethereum transactions have just flowed out from FalconX, with Lookonchain linking them to ETH treasury company BitMine. BitMine Has Received 48,049 Ethereum From FalconX In a new post on X, on-chain sleuth Lookonchain has pointed out how BitMine appears to have acquired 48,049 ETH from a hot wallet connected to FalconX, an institutional digital asset trading platform. The coins transferred through two transactions to two different wallets. The larger transfer involved 31,867 ETH, while the smaller one 16,182 ETH. In total, the tokens were worth…

Transaction throughput on the Ethereum network is set to be boosted again next month, with developers aiming to increase Ethereum’s gas limit from 60 million to 80 million in January. Christine Kim, vice president of the research team at Galaxy Digital, shared a summary of the All Core Developers meeting on Monday, in which Nethermind representatives said developers should be ready to move forward with a gas limit increase after the next BPO hard fork on Jan. 7.Ethereum Foundation developer operations engineer Barnabas Busa, however, noted that two client-level optimizations are needed before another increase in the block gas limit…

Key Highlights: $27.3 million worth of crypto stolen after attackers gained control of a whale’s multisig wallet. A chunk of this stolen crypto has been laundered through Tornado Cash. This hack highlights security limits of the multisig wallets. PeckShield, a blockchain security company, posted on social media platform X today, December 18, 2025, and reported about a wealthy crypto investor’s wallet being hacked. According to the report, $27.3 million worth of crypto was stolen after the attacker managed to gain access to the wallet’s private key. The wallet was a multisig wallet, which are considered to be very secure and…

HumidiFi’s token WET experienced a double-digit price surge after South Korea’s leading exchanges, Upbit and Bithumb, announced simultaneous listings. Access to South Korea’s crypto market opens new opportunities for WET. Upbit and Bithumb both set trading to begin at 18:30 Korean Standard Time (KST) on December 15.Sponsored SponsoredDual Exchange Listing Fuels Price Rally For HumidiFi (WET)According to Upbit’s announcement, WET will be available for trading against the Korean won (KRW), Bitcoin (BTC), and Tether (USDT) pairs. Deposits and withdrawals are scheduled to open within two hours of the announcement. “Deposits and withdrawals are supported only via the designated network (WET-Solana).…

The Ethereum blockchain needs to better explain its features to users in order to achieve true trustlessness, a challenge common across blockchain protocols, says its co-founder Vitalik Buterin.Trustlessness would see a protocol work without the oversight of developers, as it enforces rules automatically with code. However, if a protocol is so complex that only a small group can work on it, then in practice, others still have to trust that group. Ethereum is already trustless as transactions and smart contracts are enforced by open-source code and a decentralized network of validators, but Buterin said in a X post on Wednesday that…

Iris Coleman Dec 17, 2025 21:15 Render Network made a significant impact at Solana Breakpoint 2025, unveiling key developments like Dispersed and highlighting decentralized compute’s role in creative AI. Render Network made a substantial impression at the Solana Breakpoint 2025 event, emerging not only as a headline sponsor but also as a pivotal presence from the outset. Attendees were greeted by a massive exterior screen displaying visuals by Woosung Kang, rendered using the Render Network, even before entering the Etihad Arena. Innovative Visuals and Booth Attractions The conference kicked off with a breathtaking…

The world’s most-visited museum, it seems, cannot catch a break lately. Unionized staff at Paris’s Louvre Museum voted unanimously on Wednesday to continue a strike that began Monday, when hundreds walked out in protest over “increasingly deteriorated working conditions,” the Associated Press reports.  The action had closed the museum on Monday, and it was closed Tuesday as per its usual schedule. It opened late and only partially on Wednesday, offering a “masterpiece route” that allows visitors to see works like the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo, per the AP’s report. Related Articles About 400 staff members, represented by…