Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

On-chain data shows a dollar in banks earns 10x more profit than USDC on Aave. Most DeFi lending revenue comes from volatile collateral and stable debt strategies. Aave’s total loans top $20 billion, with borrowing mostly used for yield farming and leveraged positions. On-chain analysis reveals stru...

SMX (NASDAQ: SMX) shares jumped nearly 2000% as the firm bridges crypto transparency to physical assets like plastics, metals, and textiles. By embedding verifiable identity into materials, SMX enables on-chain tracking of real-world provenance. The move has positioned SMX as one of the altcoins to ...

Phantom announced the launch of a free SDK, 'Phantom Connect,' on December 17, enabling unified account access across apps. The tool supports fast onboarding, shared account systems, and asset portability, with built-in security to prevent potential security breaches. Developers can now reduce onboa...

Aave CEO Stani Kulechov shared the project’s roadmap for 2026, focusing on V4, Horizon, and mobile app growth. The plan includes scaling deposits, expanding real-world asset markets, and boosting crypto adoption. Kulechov outlined the roadmap in a Dec. 17 post, after the SEC closed its probe. Aave V...

On December 17 (UTC+8), OpenLedger and the Cambridge Blockchain Center announced a $5 million funding initiative to support decentralized AI research. The program will back students and researchers working on transparent datasets, verifiable training pipelines, attribution-driven reward systems, and...

Trump is reportedly eyeing Fed Governor Christopher Waller for the Fed Chair role. Waller, a crypto-friendly official, may shape monetary policy and liquidity and crypto markets. His stance could ease regulatory pressure on stablecoins and DeFi. The EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation may also se...

What is stablecoin adoption? It’s a growing force in the crypto market, with a $250 billion supply and strong product-market fit. Western Union (WU) is emerging as an asymmetric play by using its 200,000 global locations. The firm integrates USDPT and its Digital Asset Network, adding stablecoin flo...

OpenLedger and the Cambridge Blockchain Centre have launched a $5 million grant program to support decentralized AI research. The blockchain-focused initiative will fund projects exploring transparent datasets, verifiable training pipelines, attribution-driven reward systems, and language models on ...

Moore Threads claimed a silver award in the 3DGS Challenge at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025, with LiteGS boosting training efficiency through hardware-software co-optimization. The company open-sourced the LiteGS base library to support open collaboration in 3D reconstruction. Market participants are watching ...

ChipForge, a groundbreaking project in the semiconductor space, has launched as the world’s first decentralized chip design initiative. Built on Bittensor subnetwork SN84, it uses RISC-V to eliminate licensing costs and open up chip design to global engineers. The project team is rewarding top desig...

Top altcoins like Chainlink (LINK) are showing renewed whale interest. On-chain data shows the top 100 LINK whale addresses added 20.46 million tokens, worth $263 million, since early November. This accumulation reversed October selling and pushed their total supply to a new high. Most buying happen...

Safeheron has open-sourced its C++ implementation of the Lindell 17 two-party MPC (2PC) threshold ECDSA protocol. The code is optimized for 2-of-n collaborative signing and supports secp256k1. The release includes full key generation and signing, with security hardening against known attacks. As alt...

Bitcoin news: Jack Mallers, founder of Strike, has called Bitcoin the best money in human history. He argues that its decentralized and fixed-supply model can address global financial instability and support stronger economies, particularly in regions with weak governance. Mallers is focused on buil...

Paradigm has led a $13.5 million Series A round for Brazilian stablecoin firm Crown, its first investment in a Brazilian company. The firm previously raised $8.1 million in a seed round in October 2025. Crown issues BRLV, a real-pegged stablecoin with a total supply of 100 million tokens and a 30-da...

FORM price today jumped over 30% in 24 hours, according to Captainaltcoin. The rise follows expanded regulated access via ETPs and better liquidity. The Valour ETP, launched in September, helped bring traditional investors into the fold. Form blockchain, a SocialFi Layer 2 platform, combines social ...