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Nate Kostar
Nate Kostar is a Cointelegraph staff writer based in Mexico City. He’s the author of the non-fiction book The Renaissance Man Project, along with several albums and collections of poetry. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of New Orleans and lives with his wife and their Chihuahua, Chia. His crypto holdings in Bitcoin and Solana exceed Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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Nexo to offer zero-interest crypto lending for BTC and ETH holders The offering expands Nexo’s structured lending products to Bitcoin and Ether holders amid a broader recovery in crypto-backed lending.
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Temple Digital Group launches 24/7 institutional trading built on Canton The platform offers a private, non-custodial venue for regulated institutions to trade cryptocurrencies and stablecoins.
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Coincheck to acquire digital asset manager 3iQ in $112M stock deal The transaction would give the Japanese exchange operator control of the Canadian asset manager, expanding its presence in regulated investment products.
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Gate becomes latest crypto exchange to embed AI market intelligence The new GateAI feature offers automated market summaries and decision-support tools without enabling automated trading.
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Babylon receives $15M from a16z Crypto to expand Bitcoin-native lending The investment was made through the purchase of BABY tokens to support the development of Babylon’s trustless Bitcoin collateral infrastructure.
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Riot Platforms offloads $161M in Bitcoin in December amid strategy shift The Bitcoin miner sold 1,818 BTC and said it will end monthly production updates as it shifts toward a broader data center and infrastructure strategy.
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Flow details December exploit that led to $3.9M in losses due to counterfeit tokens A protocol-level flaw allowed assets to be duplicated rather than minted, prompting a network halt and a governance-led recovery process.
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Jupiter launches JupUSD stablecoin backed by BlackRock’s BUIDL fund The Solana-native token is backed by USDtb and USDC and is designed to serve as a settlement asset across Jupiter’s DeFi stack.
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MarketVector launches stablecoin and RWA tokenization indexes, ETFs The new products offer indirect, regulated exposure to companies building stablecoin and real-world asset infrastructure as adoption accelerates.
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Prediction markets move into real estate with Polymarket–Parcl deal Parcl’s native PRCL token surged over 100% following news of the partnership, which brings housing price indexes into prediction markets.
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Grayscale declares first Ethereum staking payout for US-listed ETF The cash distribution stems from staking rewards earned after the fund enabled Ethereum staking in October.
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Prenetics scraps Bitcoin strategy to focus on Beckham-backed nutrition brand The company will keep its Bitcoin holdings but stopped accumulating BTC as it shifts capital toward scaling its consumer health brand.
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Cypherpunk lifts crypto treasury with $29M Zcash purchase The digital asset treasury company backed by Winklevoss Capital seeks to capture 5% of the total supply of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency.
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Onchain perpetual futures drive surge in crypto derivatives activity According to Coinbase researcher David Duong, decentralized platforms and shifting trader behavior have pushed perpetual futures into a more central market role.
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Strategy’s latest 2025 Bitcoin purchase caps active year of accumulation The purchase lifts the company’s total Bitcoin holdings to 672,497 BTC and ranks among its smaller acquisitions this year compared with earlier multibillion-dollar buys.
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Etheruem’s tokenization role takes focus as Tom Lee outlines bullish outlook Fundstrat’s head of research said institutional tokenization supports a $7,000–$9,000 Ether price in early 2026 and a longer-term case for $20,000.
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USX briefly depegs on Solana DEXs before liquidity support restores price The USX stablecoin briefly slipped below its dollar peg on Solana DEXs before recovering after its issuer injected liquidity into secondary markets.
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Pudgy Penguins brings NFT characters to Las Vegas Sphere during Christmas The non-fungible token project owned by Luca Netz appeared on the Sphere’s exterior screens, with the animated display going live on Christmas Eve.
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Canton token rallies 27% after DTCC outlines tokenized Treasury plans DTCC’s move to bring US Treasurys onchain highlights growing institutional momentum behind tokenized real-world assets.
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From stablecoins to incumbents, VCs map crypto value in 2025 Venture partners such as Pantera, Hash3 and Variant look back on a year of regulatory shifts and uneven markets, outlining crypto’s biggest winners and losers in 2025.
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Binance lists som-pegged stablecoin as Kyrgyzstan deepens crypto push The listing follows Kyrgyzstan’s passage of crypto legislation, the launch of a new US dollar–pegged stablecoin backed by physical gold and plans to build a national crypto reserve.
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Crypto heads into 2026 with privacy, decentralized identity on the line As crypto, governments and Big Tech converge on digital identity, selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs are emerging as a privacy-first alternative to surveillance systems.
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NFTs shifted to utility and culture as price faded in 2025 In 2025, non-fungible tokens were reshaped by falling volumes, cultural repositioning and a growing focus on real-world use cases.
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Brazil's live orchestra to turn Bitcoin price moves into music The project recently received approval to raise private, tax-deductible funding under Brazil’s cultural incentive laws, with a live performance planned in the federal capital.
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Cipher enters US wholesale power market with Ohio data center acquisition The site acquisition gives Bitcoin miner Cipher a foothold in the largest US wholesale power market as miners broaden their infrastructure strategies.
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OKX reports trading increase after expansion into US, EU The exchange cited licensing approvals in Europe and its US launch as key drivers behind the surge in activity on its compliant platforms.
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ETHZilla liquidates $74.5M in Ether to redeem convertible debt The transaction highlights growing pressure on crypto treasury companies to prioritize debt reduction as token prices remain volatile.
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Strategy boosts USD reserve with $748M stock sale, skips Bitcoin purchases The company sold about 4.5 million common shares last week, lifting its cash reserves to $2.19 billion while pausing Bitcoin purchases.