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Traditional finance leveraged investment products are at a record high, but the appetite for speculative assets remains muted in the cryptocurrency market.Speculative appetite is cooling among crypto investors, with memecoin dominance versus altcoins hitting a near two-year low last seen in February  2024, according to crypto data platform CryptoQuant.“Memecoin markets are dead,” wrote CryptoQuant co-founder and CEO Ki Young Ji in a Thursday X post. Memecoin dominance in altcoin markets. Source: Ki Young JuIn contrast, speculative appetite is soaring among equities investors, as traditional leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hit a new all-time high of $239 billion in assets under management…

The payments subsidiary of blockchain services company Ripple has partnered with Swiss bank Amina to provide it with access to its payment infrastructure.According to a Friday Ripple Payments announcement, the company will allow Amina to “settle transactions more efficiently without relying on traditional payment infrastructure, making transactions faster, lower cost, and with increased reliability and transparency.” This builds on a previous relationship between the companies, with the bank’s integration of the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin happening back in July.The move also reinforces Ripple’s presence in Europe, with Amina being a Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority-regulated financial institution. The bank’s Austrian…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors rebound after recent selloff; BTC back to $92k, SOL leads Solana announced the launch of Firedancer live on mainnet YouTube announced creator payments in stablecoins The DTCC has been cleared to offer tokenization services by the SEC Coinbase is reportedly launching prediction markets & tokenization next week 🌑 Justice, FinallyNearly three years after Terra’s $40B vaporization, a U.S. judge finally handed down the verdict.Do Kwon…

Maria Balshaw, the director of London’s Tate, has announced that she will step down from her role in spring 2026. She joined the museum in 2017 after directing the Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth Art Gallery. Her predecessor was Nicholas Serota, who led Tate for almost 30 years. “It has been an absolute privilege to serve as director of Tate over this last decade and to work with such talented colleagues and artists,” Balshaw said in a statement. “With a growing and increasingly diverse audience, and with a brilliant forward plan in place, I feel now is the right…

Pakistan’s authorities are moving to regulate major global cryptocurrency exchanges, issuing preliminary clearances to platforms including Binance to set up shop in the country.The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) has granted no objection certificates (NOCs) to Binance and HTX, paving the way for the exchanges to register locally and pursue full licensing, the regulator announced on X on Friday.The NOCs aim to ensure Pakistan’s phased approach to regulating crypto asset service providers aligns with the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policies of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), PVARA said.“Strong governance, AML and CFT compliance remain central as Pakistan builds a…

U.S. federal courts have imposed about 83 years of prison terms on crypto company leaders since early 2024.That total grew yesterday with Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon’s 15-year sentence tied to the TerraUSD and Luna collapse.Kwon was sentenced in December 2025 after pleading guilty to two fraud charges. According to AP News, the judge went beyond prosecutors’ request.Terra’s failure erased more than $40 billion in market value. Prosecutors cited that figure to describe the scope of losses linked to the 2022 unwind.The total provides a numeric snapshot of how U.S. cases against crypto leadership have moved from civil actions and…

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)Bitcoin BTC$92,516.08, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, continues to trade directionless above $90,000, with implied volatility in meltdown as the year end approaches.Volmex’s BVIV, which tracks bitcoin’s options-based 30-day implied volatility, has dropped to an annualized 45.10%, the lowest since Nov. 10, according to TradingView data. That’s down from a peak of 65% observed on Nov. 21.Coins like ZEC and AAVE have gained over 9% in the past 24 hours, outpacing BTC and ether ETH$3,251.07. HYPE, TAO and SUI are up over 5% while KAS and TRX are down over 1%.…

Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia and Capital A, the parent company of AirAsia, have taken a major step into the country’s digital asset landscape with plans to explore a ringgit-pegged stablecoin. Key Takeaways: Standard Chartered and Capital A will jointly explore a ringgit-backed stablecoin built for institutional and wholesale use. The pilot operates under Malaysia’s Digital Asset Innovation Hub as the country accelerates tokenization. Malaysia has been pushing toward a broader national digital-asset strategy. The two companies signed a letter of intent on Friday to work on the initiative under Malaysia’s Digital Asset Innovation Hub, a regulatory framework launched by Bank…

A cross-party group of members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, including former Defense Secretary Sir Gavin Williamson, shadow Science and Tech (AI) Minister Viscount Camrose, and the former Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak’s Chief Whip Lord Hart, have urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to intervene over the Bank of England’s proposed regime for systemic stablecoins.In a joint open letter to the Chancellor on Dec. 11, they warned that the Bank of England’s proposals for regulating stablecoins could drive innovation and capital offshore.Stablecoins already a “pillar” of the digital economyThe parliamentarians say the plans…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implicitly granted approval for some stocks and other securities to be tokenized and traded on blockchains.The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC), the world’s largest securities settlement system, said on Thursday that a subsidiary, the Depository Trust Co. (DTC), received a no-action letter allowing it to offer a tokenization service on approved blockchains for three years.Tokenization is the process of representing stocks, bonds and other real-world assets (RWAs) as digital tokens that can be bought, sold and traded on blockchains, with the aim of achieving greater efficiency and faster settlement. Some of the…