Author: Kryptonews

Crypto markets woke up fast this week. Reports of fresh Federal Reserve liquidity hopes pushed Bitcoin and Ethereum into a stronger position. BTC held near $92,000 after earlier drops to $88,000. ETH traded above $3,300 after a similar slide. Traders now expect looser liquidity conditions, opening the door for a broad lift in risk assets. Projects with real revenue and real products stood out the most this week. Digitap ($TAP) has received increased attention in recent discussions, particularly among users exploring projects with active products. Its fixed supply, buyback mechanism, and active application have been highlighted by some users as distinguishing…

The United Arab Emirates is not trying to choose between Bitcoin and broader crypto. Instead, it is deliberately building both in different cities and for different stages of adoption.Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, has positioned itself as a hub for Bitcoin (BTC)-focused institutional infrastructure, emphasizing custody, over-the-counter (OTC) liquidity, mining and regulated capital markets. Dubai, by contrast, has built a broader crypto economy that spans payments, stablecoins, Web3 apps, gaming, tokenization and consumer-facing products. While this shows a distinction, industry participants noted that it reflects a layered strategy and not fragmentation. “The two approaches are complementary,” said Gregg Davis,…

Ceal Floyer, an artist whose spare sculptures charmed and confused in equal measure, died on Thursday at 57. Esther Schipper, the Berlin-based gallery that represented her alongside Lisson and 303, said that she died after a long battle with illness. Floyer received international attention for sleek artworks that consider how meaning is constructed. Working within a long tradition of conceptual art that extends back to the 1960s, Floyer often made sculptures using familiar objects such as ladders, umbrellas, drains, and receipts, pondering what happens to the everyday when it is raised to the status of art. Related Articles Her work…

Authorities in Yerevan are extending a temporary exemption allowing Armenians to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with fiat cash. Certain restrictions apply, but the move will give domestic crypto platforms and their users more time to comply with the country’s recently adopted regulations. Armenians allowed to exchange crypto with cash in 2026 Armenia is postponing a ban on cash purchases and sales of cryptocurrency into the next year, local media revealed this week. The government has already approved the necessary amendments to the new law “On Crypto Assets” which will be submitted to the parliament soon. Officials were initially planning to…

Coinbase, the largest US crypto exchange by trading volume, is days away from unveiling its push into prediction markets and tokenized stocks, according to Bloomberg.Coinbase plans to announce next week that it will launch prediction markets and tokenized equities, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.The exchange will hold a livestream on Wednesday to showcase new products, though the report said it hasn’t disclosed whether prediction markets and tokenized stocks will be among them.The news comes nearly a month after tech researcher Jane Manchun Wong reported that Coinbase was preparing landing pages for tokenized equities and…

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) and crypto-friendly bank Standard Chartered (STAN) said they expanded a partnership on digital assets to explore the development of trading, prime services, custody, staking and lending products for institutional clients.The deal builds on the existing tie-up between the two companies in Singapore, where Standard Chartered provides banking connectivity that enables real-time Singapore dollar transfers for Coinbase’s customers, according to a press release.Coinbase is becoming more of a trusted name among institutions, including banks, as time goes on, not least with the recent news that JPMorgan (JPM) brought its JPM Coin deposit token to Base, the layer-2…

This is a technical analysis post by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole.The Fed has come and gone without moving the needle on bitcoin’s BTC$92,276.59 price in any meaningful way. The central bank cut rates by 25 basis points as expected, but supposedly delivered hawkish forward guidance. Still, the dollar has been sold off.Amid all this, BTC continues to bore traders with its directionless price action.The picture on the daily price chart remains largely unchanged since before the Fed, with prices still stuck in that countertrend mini-rising channel within the bigger downtrend.Any seasoned technical trader would tell you…

Poland’s government adopted an unchanged version of its controversial crypto-asset market bill on Tuesday, escalating a bitter standoff with President Karol Nawrocki after lawmakers failed to override his veto last week. According to local reports, Prime Minister Donald Tusk framed the legislation as a matter of national security, citing more than 100 entities in Poland’s crypto registry linked to Russia, Belarus, and other former Soviet states.The reintroduced bill contains no modifications from the version Nawrocki rejected, government spokesman Adam Szłapka confirmed. The measure will now return to parliament later this year despite the president’s concerns about excessive restrictions that exceed…

Video-sharing giant YouTube has reportedly enabled US-based creators to accept payouts in PayPal’s stablecoin, PYUSD. Fortune reported on Thursday that PayPal’s head of crypto, May Zabaneh, said the feature is live, but only for users in the US. The firm integrated the ability for recipients to accept payments in PYUSD earlier this year, with YouTube ultimately opting to open that choice up to its creators. “The beauty of what we’ve built is that YouTube doesn’t have to touch crypto and so we can help take away that complexity,” she said. PayPal has had a long-standing relationship with YouTube, allowing users to pay via…

Key Highlights: Sei clarifies that the Xiaomi partnership does not involve a Xiaomi-run crypto wallet. Future stablecoin payments are only exploratory. SEI token dips after the clarification was posted on X. Sei Network cleared the air after early reports misunderstood its partnership with Xiaomi. This clarification statement was posted on social media platform X, on December 11, 2025. According to the initial press release, many thought that Xiaomi was launching its own crypto wallet and would soon allow stablecoin payments in its global stores, which pushed the price of the SEI token up. However, Sei came forward and clarified that…