Author: James Wilson
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Upshift, Clearstar, and Flare have unveiled earnXRP, a new onchain yield vault that allows XRP holders to earn compounded, XRP-denominated returns. Upshift, Clearstar and Flare are launching earnXRP, a new XRP-denominated yield vault designed to make earning onchain XRP yield simpler, more transparent, and more accessible. XRP holders can now generate yield directly denominated in XRP, without managing complex DeFi strategies themselves. The Flare XRP Yield Vault is made possible by Flare’s FAssets system, supported by Upshift’s vault infrastructure,…
Bitcoin’s Coinbase premium has stayed negative for seven days, signaling weaker U.S. spot demand as Western year-end selling contrasts with steady Asian dip-buying. Summary The Coinbase Bitcoin premium has been negative for seven consecutive days, indicating U.S. spot prices trading at a discount to the global average. Year-end portfolio rebalancing, profit-taking and tax-loss harvesting are pressuring U.S. flows, while Asian traders accumulate BTC on intraday dips. Similar U.S.-selling/Asia-buying patterns in 2019, March 2020 and late 2022 ultimately preceded higher prices once Western selling pressure exhausted. Coinbase premium has remained negative for seven consecutive days, indicating weakening cryptocurrency demand in the…
Neo’s ‘Grouchy, Grinchy, Grumpy AI Christmas’ game lets users pay 0.5 GAS to quiz a lying, rude AI, crowd‑solve a mystery gift and share a growing 200+ GAS prize pool. Summary Neo’s web game at xmas.neo.org uses SpoonOS AI that lies, misdirects or insults players, who must decode responses to identify a stolen mystery gift. Daily question limits scale with a wallet’s Neo N3 activity, and users must play on at least three days to submit a final guess; Ledger wallets are excluded. Each participant pays a 0.5 GAS entry fee that tops up a base 200 GAS pool, which…
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. As XRP price volatility persists, cloud mining platforms like WPA Hash are offering holders a more stable way to generate daily returns without selling their assets. Summary WPA Hash enables users to convert XRP into a productive asset through cloud mining contracts that deliver regular, traceable daily settlements. No hardware, electricity, or maintenance is required, users simply activate a contract and share in mining rewards. Returns are driven by computing power and block rewards rather than short-term price movements,…
Bitcoin price hovered near the $89,000 mark on Monday, as demand for its spot exchange-traded funds continued to fade. Summary Bitcoin ETFs recorded nearly 4500 million in outflows over the past week. BTC price chart hints at a prolonged bearish trend ahead. According to data from SoSoValue, the 12 spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $497.05 million in net outflows over the past week, between Dec. 15 and Dec. 19. BlackRock’s IBIT saw the strongest outflows with $240.3 million exiting the fund. Bitwise’s BITB and ARK 21Shares’ ARKB followed with net outflows of $115.1 million and $100.7 million, respectively. VanEck’s HODL and…
The majority of the Uniswap community has voted in favor of “UNIfication,” a governance proposal that will reshape the protocol’s tokenomics and introduce a new system for burning UNI tokens using revenue collected from trading fees. Summary Over 69 million UNI votes have backed the UNIfication proposal. A two-day time lock will follow before protocol fees are activated and automated UNI burns begin. 100 million UNI tokens will be burnt from the protocol’s treasury. As of presstime, the proposal has over 69 million votes in favor of the sweeping tokenomics overhaul, much higher than the 40 million vote threshold that…
Leaked files show Binance let $1.7b move through 13 suspicious accounts — including $144m after its $4.3b U.S. plea deal — despite terror‑finance red flags and odd logins. Summary Internal data reviewed by the FT shows 13 suspicious Binance accounts handled $1.7b in crypto, with around $144m in volume after the 2023 U.S. criminal settlement. One Venezuelan slum account moved about $93m, and another tied to a 25‑year‑old woman received $177m while cycling through 647 bank detail changes and 496 accounts. Several wallets received USDT from addresses later frozen by Israel over alleged links to Hizbollah and Iran‑backed Houthis, even…
Kaspa price appears to be on the verge of a breakout from a bullish reversal pattern ahead of its upcoming listing on crypto exchange HTX. Can it recover from its recent monthly losses? Summary Kaspa price rose nearly 10% over the past day. KAS is set to be listed on HTX, while the community is also hyped over a rumoured Crypto.com listing. A falling wedge pattern formed on the weekly chart hints at a potential breakout in the upcoming trading sessions. According to data from crypto.news, Kaspa (KAS) rose 9.5% over the past day to $0.047 last check on Monday…
A user lost nearly $50m in a stablecoin address poisoning scam after copying a fake address, as U.S. senators push the SAFE Crypto Act to tackle rising crypto fraud. Summary A stablecoin user sent 49,999,950 tokens to a poisoned address copied from transaction history after an initial test transfer to the correct recipient. Address poisoning scams plant near‑identical wallet addresses in history, exploiting copy‑paste habits rather than protocol bugs or smart contract exploits. The bipartisan SAFE Crypto Act would create a federal task force linking agencies, law enforcement and industry to detect and disrupt crypto fraud schemes. A cryptocurrency user…
Bitcoin ally Sen. Cynthia Lummis won’t seek reelection in 2026, saying she lacks the stamina for another term but will use her remaining time to advance key crypto bills. Summary Lummis announced on X that she will not run again, saying Wyoming has been her priority but she no longer has the energy for another six‑year term. The “Bitcoin senator” stresses that her pro‑crypto stance is unchanged and that she will focus on moving major digital asset legislation to Trump’s desk by 2026. Crypto figures including White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks and entrepreneur Mario Nawfal praised her…