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Solana is staring down a $5.5 billion legal fight as an expanded RICO lawsuit pulls the network’s core entities into the Pump.fun fallout.

Brazil’s main stock exchange B3 has announced plans to launch a tokenisation platform alongside its own stablecoin, with both initiatives scheduled to go live in 2026.

The US Senate has confirmed Mike Selig as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in a single package vote.

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, known as the CLARITY Act, is scheduled to enter the United States Senate markup stage in January, signalling a major advance towards becoming law.

Space has launched a public sale of its $SPACE token, opening community ownership in its Solana-based leveraged prediction market.

Bitcoin briefly surged to $90,000 during the Wall Street open before sharply reversing, triggering over $120 million in liquidations as traders were caught in heightened market volatility.

Coinbase is expanding beyond cryptocurrency by launching stock trading and prediction markets, signalling a major push to turn its platform into an “everything app” while positioning itself more directly against traditional trading rivals such as Robinhood.

Ethereum developers are preparing a potential January increase to the network’s gas limit, aiming to boost transaction capacity while maintaining stability and decentralisation.

US stocks slid after delayed shutdown-era jobs data showed rising unemployment, while bitcoin climbed in a fresh sign of its growing divergence from traditional markets.

Ripple is celebrating the rapid ascent of its RLUSD stablecoin into the top tier of regulated USD tokens, underscoring strong institutional adoption, regulatory alignment and growing global integration.

Former Alameda Research chief executive Caroline Ellison has been transferred from federal prison to a reentry facility ahead of an early release, highlighting her cooperation in the FTX case and renewed public attention on the exchange’s collapse.