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South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has reportedly proposed limiting major shareholders of cryptocurrency exchanges to 15-20% ownership stakes, a regulatory bombshell dropped on December 30-31 that is now casting a long shadow over the industry’s outlook for 2026.The proposal would force the founders and controlling shareholders of Korea’s top five exchanges to divest significant portions of their holdings.Sponsored SponsoredA New Year Clouded by UncertaintyThe timing of the announcement—just days before the new year—has left industry participants scrambling to assess the implications. A local media outlet first broke the story on December 30, which was subsequently covered by major financial…

Base’s promotion of creator coins, largely through its close alignment with NFT marketplace Zora, is drawing mounting criticism from community members who say the strategy is alienating projects that helped bootstrap the network’s early momentum.In recent months, the layer 2 Base network has become the epicenter for “creator coins,” which are tokens tied to individual creators, posts or pieces of content, with Zora positioned at the center of that narrative. Base is a blockchain built by crypto exchange Coinbase, atop the Ethereum blockchain, using open-source OP Stack, a developer toolkit for the Optimism networkRead more: Coinbase Officially Launches Base Blockchain…

Web3 Foundation (W3F) is making a strategic shift away from its traditional open Grants Program and providing streamlined funding for a product-focused vision for Polkadot and its ecosystem.The Grants Program launched more than six years ago, before Polkadot went live, and played a critical role in bootstrapping the ecosystem. It helped attract thousands of applications and supported the delivery of hundreds of milestones across core infrastructure, tooling, and early ecosystem needs. Over the early years of Polkadot ecosystem development, the W3F-funded open grants program with transparent processes (tracked publicly via platforms like GitHub) proved to be the most effective way…

Bitcoin is closing out 2025 near $87,000, ending the year in a narrow trading range after months of fading momentum. Thin holiday liquidity and a lack of fresh catalysts left the market drifting into the final session of the year, capping a period marked less by explosive gains than by consolidation and unmet expectations. At the time of writing, bitcoin was trading just below $88,000, roughly flat over the past week and modestly lower than where it began the year. The price has spent much of December oscillating between the low $80,000s and the high $80,000s, with repeated attempts to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has recently raised alarms about the increasing number of cryptocurrency scams, particularly those involving Bitcoin ATMs.  Crypto Requests Now Top Choice For Criminals According to a report from ABC News, the latest statistics from the FBI indicate a “clear and constant rise” in fraudulent transactions connected to cryptocurrency kiosks, a trend the bureau notes is “not slowing down.”  In 2024, scammers perpetrated approximately $250 million in losses, which was more than double the amount reported in the previous year. By November…

Ethereum treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies scooped up $97.6 million worth of Ether on Tuesday as the crypto market remains muted in the final days of 2025.Nansen data shows BitMine purchased 32,938 Ether (ETH). Other data shows its total holdings is now 4.07 million ETH, worth $12 billion. BitMine also staked another 118,944 ETH, continuing its strategy to earn passive returns for shareholders.BitMine’s latest buying spree comes amid a broader crypto market compression, which Tom Lee,  the orchestrator of BitMine’s Ethereum strategy, said is partly due to an uptick in tax-loss selling in the US:”Year-end tax-loss related selling is pushing…

Japan Immersion Cooling Market Leander, Texas and Tokyo, Japan – Dec.31.2025As per DataM Intelligence research report “Global Immersion Cooling Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.3% from 2024 to 2031.” Rising data center energy consumption, high-density AI and HPC workloads, demand for sustainable cooling solutions, and inefficiencies of traditional air cooling are fueling adoption of immersion cooling technologies.Download your exclusive sample report today: (corporate email gets priority access):https://www.datamintelligence.com/download-sample/immersion-cooling-market?sindhuriJapan: Recent Industry Developments✅ In November 2025, Japan’s data center immersion cooling market expanded with investments in advanced, eco-friendly solutions aligned with national energy policies, supporting high-density servers and AI…

Bitcoin (BTC) has seen a slight recovery, edging back above the $89,000 mark as it attempts to break through the $90,000 resistance level. Nonetheless, concerns loom over further downward moves, raising worries about the risks this trend poses to firms like Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy). Analysts at the Bull Theory have posed a critical question regarding the potential financial vulnerabilities of Michael Saylor’s Strategy should Bitcoin drop to the critical $74,000 price threshold.  This narrative suggests that a drop to this key price point could place Strategy in financial jeopardy or force the company to sell its Bitcoin assets. However, the…

Larnaca, Cyprus, December 30th, 2025, Chainwire SlotGPT announced the launch of its AI platform that enables players to create production-grade slot games from a single prompt. The platform has already generated nearly 27,000 slot games, and offers users a personalized and accessible way to generate and play their own unique slot games, both for free and real money. SlotGPT allows players to generate 100% of a game on the platform, including styles, mechanics, visuals, and sound. Each game that passes through SlotGPT’s moderation layer is fully original, including bespoke music and audio produced using advanced generative sound and music engines.…

DALLAS, Dec. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Cango Inc. (NYSE: CANG) (“Cango” or the “Company”), a leading Bitcoin miner leveraging its global operations to develop an integrated energy and AI compute platform, announced that Enduring Wealth Capital Limited (“EWCL”) increased its investment in the Company with a US$10.5 million commitment. EWCL will subscribe for additional Class B ordinary shares in cash at US$1.50 per share. This transaction underscores a strong, aligned vision for Cango’s future and provides substantial capital to accelerate its core growth initiatives. Under the terms of this agreement: Pursuant to an Investment Agreement dated December 29, 2025, between…