Ukraine Blocks Polymarket, Raising Friction for Prediction‑Market Users and Institutional Flows
Ukraine has moved to block Polymarket as part of a broader online gambling crackdown, removing a direct in-jurisdiction on-ramp and increasing friction across wallet and dApp flows. From an operating model standpoint, this is an immediate access-control event that forces teams to reassess compliance hooks, routing assumptions, and user support readiness.
Thailand Moves to Curb ‘Grey Money’: Tighter Crypto and Gold Rules Raise Compliance Friction
Thailand has rolled out a coordinated regulatory package aimed at addressing an estimated $2B in illicit flows, sharply increasing compliance requirements for both crypto providers and gold dealers. The practical reality is more steps, more data capture, and more points of verification across onboarding and transaction execution. These measures launched in late 2025 and are […]
Coinbase Could Pull CLARITY Act Support Over Stablecoin Rewards Ban
Coinbase is signaling it could pull its support for the CLARITY Act if lawmakers add a stablecoin-rewards ban that goes beyond disclosure requirements. The company’s position is that an outright prohibition would materially weaken reward-based stablecoin products that drive usage and retention.
Sharplink Pockets $33M from Ether Staking, Deploys Another $170M ETH to Linea
SharpLink is leaning harder into an active Ethereum-treasury playbook, and it’s doing it with measurable inputs. The company is positioning ETH as productive balance-sheet capital rather than a passive reserve.
Grayscale Files for Bittensor Spot ETF Under GTAO
Grayscale Investments filed an S-1 to convert the Grayscale Bittensor Trust into a spot ETF that would trade on NYSE Arca under the ticker GTAO. The filing, submitted around December 30, 2025, is designed to make TAO easier to access for both institutions and retail investors, pending SEC approval.
Analysts Say Bitcoin Doesn’t Need Gold And Silver To Slow Down Amid Market Divergence
Analysts argue Bitcoin’s trajectory is increasingly diverging from the precious-metals rally, challenging the assumption that “stores of value” move in sync. Bitcoin is described as down roughly 30% from its October peak while gold and silver delivered outsized year-to-date gains, forcing traders and treasuries to rethink correlation-based allocation and risk models.
Russia, US Discuss Bitcoin Mining at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow and Washington have discussed joint management of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), with the United States reportedly interested in using the site’s output for Bitcoin mining. The narrative frames Bitcoin mining as the focal use case, linking energy supply constraints with digital-asset demand.
Recent Bitcoin Miner Capitulation May Signal Bottom is Near
VanEck thinks the latest dip in Bitcoin’s hashrate could be telling a familiar story: miners are getting squeezed, some are switching off machines, and that kind of stress has often shown up near local bottoms. Their core point is that a 4% one-month hashrate drop—the biggest monthly pullback since April 2024—looks like miner capitulation rather […]
Clarity Act delays led to $952M in crypto fund outflows: CoinShares
The U.S. legislative slowdown tied to the Clarity Act coincided with a $952 million weekly withdrawal from digital-asset investment products ending December 22, 2025, according to CoinShares. The report frames the move as a policy-driven risk-off shift that immediately tightened institutional risk budgets and redirected capital flows.
Polymarket shows stronger retention than most DeFi, wallets and exchanges
Polymarket is spotlighting a retention gap that many crypto teams prefer not to benchmark. While attracting new users is not always the bottleneck, keeping them active after month one is harder. Retention data compiled by analytics company Dune and market maker Keyrock tracked monthly cohorts of new active users and measured how many returned to […]