Author: Kryptonews

Belarus expanded platform blocking in December, tightening access to exchanges and reinforcing a High-Tech Park perimeter for residents.The move fits a wider access playbook across EMEA and APAC that now uses telecom blocklists, app-store removals, and KYC gates to shape who reaches the same BTC and USDT order books.The practical result is a de facto return of capital controls in a digital wrapper, where passports, IP ranges, and local licenses set the trading venue and the price to exit.Belarus’s telecom registry, BelGIE, continues to add domains to its restricted resources list used for ISP-level blocking.Local reports in December flagged fresh…

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond has returned 41 terracotta relief fragments valued around $400,000 to Turkey after an investigation led by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The works, acquired by the VMFA in the 1970s, were found to have been illegally taken from a Phrygian temple dating back to the 6th century B.C.E. The museum purchased 34 of the reliefs from Summa Galleries in Beverly Hills, California, in 1978, and then received others as gifts from the Chicago-based antiquities dealer Harlan J. Berk as well as Summa Galleries a year later. Related…

The crypto market slid on Thursday even as the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared to a fresh record, underscoring a sharp investor rotation out of tech and into economically sensitive stocks following the Federal Reserve’s latest interest-rate cut. Summary Crypto slumped even as the Dow hit a record high, with Bitcoin and Ethereum falling alongside a broad selloff. Investors rotated out of big tech and AI plays after weak Oracle earnings. Despite price declines, Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs saw strong inflows, signaling sustained institutional interest. Bitcoin hovered just above $91,000, down about 1.5%, while Ethereum slipped roughly 5% to trade…

Bitcoin BTC$92.462,69 clawed back to $93,000 on Thursday as traders digested the Fed decision, but altcoins mostly didn’t join in the bounce.Slipping to $89,000 after the Federal Reserve’s Wednesday rate cut and a sharply lower open for U.S. stocks, bitcoin recently was trading at $93,000, up marginally over the past 24 hours.Altcoins mostly held onto their early losses, with Cardano’s ADA ADA$0.4237 and Avalanche’s AVAX (AVAX) leading declines, down 6%-7%. Ether ETH$3.239,67 was 3% lower on the day, holding above $3,200.Bitcoin’s late-day bounce came alongside similar action in U.S. stocks, with the Nasdaq managing to close down just 0.25% after…

Ether’s (ETH) price action cooled this week after a sharp rejection from the $3,650 to $3,350 supply zone, with the altcoin now hovering near $3,200. The rejection aligned with the 200-day exponential moving average (EMA), reinforcing overhead resistance just as spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) flows began showing early signs of recovery.Key takeaways:Spot Ether ETF flows have risen from $16.8 billion to $21.5 billion since Nov. 21, a 28% increase. Net taker volumes rose, signaling that aggressive sellers are weakening while taker buyers slowly return. Ethereum one-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewETF inflows resume, but ETH charts reflect traders’ fearAccording to Glassnode, spot…

Chainlink’s LINK token fell nearly 5% over the past 24 hours to $13.74 on Thursday, reversing early gains despite a major announcement from Coinbase.Earlier in the day, Coinbase revealed it had selected Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to power a new bridge connecting its $7 billion in wrapped assets, including cbETH, cbBTC and cbDOGE. The move marked a major institutional endorsement of Chainlink’s cross-chain infrastructure and positioning within the tokenization space.In other news, Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury firm Caliber (CWD) said it has started staking its LINK holdings for yield, starting with a 75,000 token deployment.Despite the headlines, broader market…

Ether’s (ETH) price action cooled this week after a sharp rejection from the $3,650 to $3,350 supply zone, with the altcoin now hovering near $3,200. The rejection aligned with the 200-day exponential moving average (EMA), reinforcing overhead resistance just as spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) flows began showing early signs of recovery.Key takeaways:Spot Ether ETF flows have risen from $16.8 billion to $21.5 billion since Nov. 21, a 28% increase. Net taker volumes rose, signaling that aggressive sellers are weakening while taker buyers slowly return. Ethereum one-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewETF inflows resume, but ETH charts reflect traders’ fearAccording to Glassnode, spot…

Coinbase has begun expanding its native support for Solana, introducing Solana-based DEX trading directly inside its app. The move gives the exchange’s 100 million users immediate access to every token launched on Solana without waiting for listings, and it marks one of Coinbase’s most aggressive steps yet into permissionless markets, positioning Solana as a top priority in its broader product strategy. Coinbase Brings Full Solana Token Access to Its App During a presentation at the Solana Breakpoint 2025, Andrew, a protocol specialist at Coinbase, explained that the company wants to make the fast-growing Solana ecosystem easily reachable for everyday users.…

Update (Dec. 11 at 7:35 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a Thursday policy announcement from Caroline Pham.The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee said the full chamber could vote on US President Donald Trump’s pick to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission “maybe as soon as this afternoon.”In a prepared statement for a Thursday hearing on CFTC reauthorization, Committee Chair Glenn Thompson said the Senate could vote on Michael Selig’s nomination to chair the agency on Thursday. The potential vote would come just a few weeks after the Agriculture Committee advanced Selig’s nomination to the…

Key Takeaways Caliber has staked 75,000 LINK to support Chainlink node operations, marking its first direct involvement in Chainlink’s infrastructure. Staking LINK aligns with Caliber’s Digital Asset Treasury strategy, aiming for transparent exposure and yield for public equity investors. Share this article Nasdaq-listed Caliber announced Thursday it has staked 75,000 LINK tokens with a Chainlink node operator, marking its direct involvement in the Chainlink Network’s core infrastructure.The move is part of Caliber’s Digital Asset Treasury strategy aimed at supporting Chainlink’s growth by providing financial support to node operators, ensuring transaction validation on the network.Caliber anticipates earning token-denominated yields from its…