3+ hour, 24+ min ago (448+ words) Nasdaq's head of digital assets strategy, Matt Savarese, said the stock exchange is ready to answer any questions the SEC may have for its proposal for tokenized stocks. The US Nasdaq stock exchange is making SEC approval of its proposal to offer tokenized versions of stocks listed on the exchange a top priority, according to the exchange's crypto chief. "We'll just move as fast as we can," Nasdaq's head of digital assets strategy, Matt Savarese, said during an interview with CNBC on Thursday, when asked whether the SEC could approve the proposal this year. "I think what we have to really evaluate where the public comments come back in and then answer and respond to the SEC questions as they come through," Savarese said. "We hope to kind of work with them as quickly as possible," Savarese said. The proposal,…...

7+ hour, 31+ min ago (369+ words) Bitcoin miners caught a break on Thursday as difficulty dropped, but the relief may be short-lived if it rises in December, as forecast. The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty is projected to increase during the next difficulty adjustment scheduled for December 11, as hashprice, a critical metric that measures expected miner profitability per unit of computing power, sits at record lows." Bitcoin's next mining difficulty adjustment is expected to occur at block 927,360 at about"12:09:34 AM UTC, marginally increasing the difficulty from 149.30 trillion to 149.80 trillion, according to CoinWarz. The most recent adjustment, which occurred on Thursday, decreased the difficulty from 152.2 trillion to 149.3 trillion, resulting in an average blocktime of about 9.97 minutes at the time of this writing, slightly below the 10-minute target. Despite the recent drop in mining difficulty, hashprice is hovering around $38.3 petahashes per second (PH/s) per day, according to Hashrate Index,…...

9+ hour, 8+ min ago (317+ words) The Hyperliquid development team provided clarity on Saturday's token unlock in response to community fears of increased selling pressure. The team behind the Hyperliquid decentralized exchange (DEX) disclosed a 1.75 million HYPE token unlock for its developers and core contributors on Saturday, valued at over $60.4 million at the time of this writing. Saturday's token unlock was previously announced and is part of HYPE's vesting schedule, according to pseudonymous Hyperliquid developer iliensinc, who celebrated the first anniversary of Hyperliquid's historic airdrop and token generation event. He said: The unlock sparked fear about potential selling pressure that could impact HYPE's market price, which declined by about 4.6% at the time of this writing. Related: Trader torches $3M to punch a $5M hole in Hyperliquid's vault "Even if the team pinky swears to not sell, there is nothing holding them to that," founder of the BitMEX crypto…...

9+ hour, 8+ min ago (317+ words) The Hyperliquid development team provided clarity on Saturday's token unlock in response to community fears of increased selling pressure. The team behind the Hyperliquid decentralized exchange (DEX) disclosed a 1.75 million HYPE token unlock for its developers and core contributors on Saturday, valued at over $60.4 million at the time of this writing. Saturday's token unlock was previously announced and is part of HYPE's vesting schedule, according to pseudonymous Hyperliquid developer iliensinc, who celebrated the first anniversary of Hyperliquid's historic airdrop and token generation event. He said: The unlock sparked fear about potential selling pressure that could impact HYPE's market price, which declined by about 4.6% at the time of this writing. Related: Trader torches $3M to punch a $5M hole in Hyperliquid's vault "Even if the team pinky swears to not sell, there is nothing holding them to that," founder of the BitMEX crypto…...

11+ hour, 30+ min ago (368+ words) Self-custody of assets and financial privacy are both fundamental rights consistent with the pro-freedom philosophy on which the US was founded. Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and head of the SEC's Crypto Task Force, reaffirmed the right to crypto self-custody and privacy in financial transactions. "I'm a freedom maximalist," Peirce told The Rollup podcast on Friday, while saying that self-custody of assets is a fundamental human right. She added: Peirce added that online financial privacy should be the standard. "It has become the presumption that if you want to keep your transactions private, you're doing something wrong, but it should be exactly the opposite presumption," she said. The comments came as the Digital Asset Market Structure Clarity Act, a crypto market structure bill that includes provisions for self-custody, anti-money laundering(AML) regulations,…...

16+ hour, 18+ min ago (1052+ words) Information asymmetry and front-running behaviors are migrating from token markets to institutional products like DATs, warns Shane Molidor of Forgd. Crypto's chronic insider trading problem is expanding from token launches to digital asset treasuries (DATs), as investors exploit early knowledge of upcoming corporate coin purchases. The issue runs deeper than a few bad actors, according to Shane Molidor, founder and CEO of the blockchain advisory firm Forgd. He described insider-style behavior as a structural feature of crypto markets, where prices often detach from fair value. A veteran of both Western and Asian trading desks, Molidor told Cointelegraph that many of crypto's early institutions still treat regulation as an afterthought. "In the West, it's ask permission rather than forgiveness," he said. "In the East, it's move fast, make as much money as possible and deal with the consequences later." Molidor previously…...

16+ hour, 31+ min ago (387+ words) Spot Bitcoin ETFs snap a four-week outflow run with $70 million in weekly inflows as Ether ETFs also turn positive and analysts flag a potential Bitcoin bottom. Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ended a bruising month of withdrawals with a modest turnaround, posting roughly $70 million in net inflows for the week. The reversal follows four straight weeks of heavy outflows that drained about $4.35 billion from the sector and pushed net assets sharply lower, according to data from SoSoValue. The highest weekly outflow occurred in the weeks ending on Nov. 7 and Nov. 21, 2025, with each week seeing $1.22 billion leave spot Bitcoin ETFs. On a daily basis, Bitcoin (BTC) funds registered about $71 million of net inflows on Friday, lifting cumulative inflows to nearly $57.7 billion since launch. Combined net assets have increased to nearly $119.4 billion, around 6.5% of Bitcoin's market capitalization. During the day, BlackRock's IBIT…...

18+ hour, 49+ min ago (1456+ words) Members of the Bitcoin community and supporters of Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, are criticizing JPMorgan's proposed Bitcoin-backed notes, accusing the bank of spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about Strategy and other crypto treasury companies. JPMorgan's notes are a leveraged investment product tied to the price of Bitcoin. The product tracks BTC but amplifies the outcome, giving holders 1.5 times the gains " or the losses " through December 2028. The notes are slated for a December 2025 launch, according to an SEC filing." The move drew sharp criticism from the Bitcoin community, with many saying that JPMorgan is now a direct competitor to BTC treasury companies and has an incentive to marginalize companies like Strategy to promote its own structured financial product. Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu aims to position his company as a vehicle for investors to gain exposure to broader…...

18+ hour, 49+ min ago (422+ words) Bitcoin may be forming a local bottom as RSI nears oversold and whales open longs, fueling a possible relief rally toward the $100,000$110,000 zone. Bitcoin may be carving out a short-term bottom after weeks of heavy selling, with one market analyst arguing that conditions are in place for a relief rally toward the $100,000$110,000 range. One of the main technical signals cited is the Bitcoin Relative Strength Index (RSI) on the weekly chart, which is approaching the 30 level. "We have bottomed out for Bitcoin right here. We have been reaching the 30 level. Boom," he said. The analyst noted that, in past cycles, this zone has coincided closely with market bottoms. While he cautioned that this does not guarantee the start of a new bull run, he said the current setup often signals at least a temporary reversal. Related: Why China's Bitcoin mining…...

22+ hour, 24+ min ago (482+ words) Arthur Hayes says Monad's token structure makes it vulnerable to a brutal selloff, while predicting money printing will fuel the next major crypto rally. Crypto veteran Arthur Hayes has issued a warning over Monad, saying the recently launched layer-1 blockchain could plunge as much as 99% and end up as another failed experiment driven by venture capital hype rather than real adoption. Speaking on Altcoin Daily, the former BitMEX chief described the project as "another high FDV, low-float VC coin," arguing that its token structure alone puts retail traders at risk. FDV stands for Fully Diluted Value, which is the market value of a crypto project if all its tokens were already in circulation. According to Hayes, projects with a large gap between FDV and circulating supply often experience early price spikes, followed by deep selloffs once insider tokens unlock. "It's…...