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Decentralised perpetual futures exchange Grvt has integrated the Aave lending protocol to allow traders to earn yield on margin collateral while keeping derivatives positions open.

Market analysts have pushed back against claims that Jane Street is engineering a daily 10 a.m. Bitcoin sell-off, saying available data does not support the idea of a systematic price dump.

Mastercard and MetaMask have launched the MetaMask Card in the United States marking its first availability across 49 states including New York after pilot programmes over the past two years.

Beast Industries has suspended a video editor while it investigates insider trading allegations after prediction market platform Kalshi fined and banned the employee for two years.

American Bitcoin, the Nasdaq-listed mining firm co-founded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., reported a $59.45 million net loss for the fourth quarter of 2025 as softer crypto prices weighed on performance.

Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum has launched Sygnum Select, an institutional crypto asset management service aimed at the growing $100 billion corporate digital asset treasury market.

Dogecoin moved sharply higher, breaking above $0.10 after clearing resistance at $0.0950 and $0.0980 as the broader crypto market extended its rally.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has selected Monee Financial Technologies, ReStabilise, Revolut and VVTX to join a dedicated stablecoin cohort within its Regulatory Sandbox, with testing set to begin in the first quarter of 2026.

World Liberty Financial has proposed a governance overhaul requiring tokenholders to stake WLFI tokens for at least 180 days to participate in votes, alongside new incentives aimed at increasing use of its USD1 stablecoin.

Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan said traditional investors are overlooking a structural shift as major financial institutions move deeper into crypto and tokenisation initiatives.

Stripe co-founders Patrick Collison and John Collison said blockchains may eventually need to process more than one billion transactions per second to support a future dominated by artificial intelligence agents.

Mutuum Finance has launched its V1 lending and borrowing protocol on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet and confirmed that an additional feature will be rolled out next week as development progresses.