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Tampa, Florida, December 15th, 2025, Chainwire The Geode Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to fostering economic opportunity and community empowerment through blockchain innovation, today proudly announces the primary exchange listing of its native cryptocurrency, GEODE, on BitMart.com. This milestone marks GEODE’s trading debut, opening the doors for broader adoption and liquidity in a project that has been quietly revolutionizing decentralized applications since its inception almost four years ago. As the crypto market continues to evolve amid a pro-crypto regulatory landscape in the United States, Geode Chain stands out as a beacon of long-term sustainability and real-world utility. Built on a…

Singapore, Singapore, December 15th, 2025, Chainwire The institutional-grade liquidity solution enables accelerated ETH redemptions for competitive on-chain and institutional yields mETH Protocol, the top ten ETH liquid restaking provider with a peak total value locked (TVL) of $2.19 billion, today announced a major liquidity upgrade that utilises Aave’s ETH market to support more efficient redemption flows for mETH. Its key feature is a curated Buffer Pool mechanism designed to deliver an estimated 24-hour ETH redemptions, subject to buffer capacity availability and network conditions. This marks a drastic improvement over Ethereum’s 5-20 day exit queues for native staking and most liquid…

US Cryptocurrency Regulators Approved to Establish Trust Banks, Assets Becoming Quasi-Banked. Moon Hash Capitalizes on Compliance with PoW + Tidal Energy. How Does the Project Operate? Why Does It Have a Greater Advantage? Moon Hash centers on mainstream cryptocurrencies (such as BTC and ETH), utilizing a PoW computing power participation mechanism to obtain block rewards, while introducing tidal energy to reduce energy costs and policy risks. Operating within a compliant framework, its profit logic is more transparent, the entry barrier is lower, and it better aligns with the US market’s preference for “security and long-term sustainability.” Simply put, it’s like…

Retail traders can now fund their IBKR accounts with stablecoin transfers.Interactive Brokers (IBKR), one of the world’s largest brokerage services, now allows users to deposit stablecoins in their brokerage accounts.According to a Bloomberg report, the feature will have a staggered rollout beginning in the United States, allowing eligible accounts to fund their brokerage accounts with stablecoins.The move presents a much-needed alternative for those who made their wealth in crypto, as before, users were required to offramp via a centralized exchange, transfer funds to their bank account, and then transfer money from a bank account to a licensed brokerage, while paying…

YO Labs, the development team behind YO Protocol, has raised $10 million in a Series A round to expand its crypto yield optimization platform.Venture capital firm Foundation Capital led the round, joined by Coinbase Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Launchpad Capital.The San Francisco-based company plans to use the funding to bring its yield optimization protocol to more blockchains and improve its infrastructure.YO Protocol is designed to help users earn yield on crypto assets by automatically rebalancing capital across multiple decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols while factoring in risk. It currently offers users access to USD, EUR, BTC, and gold-based yield products.Unlike most…

Barclays expects a more tepid year for crypto in 2026, with trading volumes trending down and investor enthusiasm waning. In a wide-ranging year-end report published Friday, the bank flagged a difficult backdrop for digital asset exchanges like Coinbase (COIN), citing unclear catalysts for renewed activity and a slow start to token adoption efforts.Retail-facing exchanges, which benefited from surging trading interest during the crypto bull runs of prior years, are now facing a more subdued environment. Barclays analysts noted that trading volume in spot markets — key revenue drivers for companies like Coinbase and Robinhood (HOOD) — has cooled sharply. Without…

In response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent investor bulletin on crypto custody, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe has positioned his firm as the only provider offering all the custody options described by the SEC.It comes only days after BitGo secured regulatory approval to operate as a bank, effectively expanding its institutional services.Sponsored BitGo Claims It Can Do What No Other Crypto Custodian CanIn a post on X (Twitter), Belshe emphasized that the BitGo exchange enables institutions to combine self-custody and third-party custody into a single hybrid strategy, creating custom risk profiles that no other provider can replicate. “BitGo…

After three years of development, Firedancer went live on Solana mainnet in December 2024, having already produced 50,000 blocks across 100 days of testing on a handful of validators.The milestone, announced Dec. 12 by Solana’s official account, marks more than a performance upgrade. It represents the network’s first real attempt to eliminate the architectural bottleneck that has underpinned its most damaging outages: near-total reliance on a single validator client.Solana has spent years marketing sub-second finality and four-figure transaction-per-second throughput, but speed means little when 70% to 90% of the network’s consensus power runs the same software.A critical bug in that…

In brief Transhumanism was labeled a “death cult” by critics who argued it misunderstood what it means to be human. Advocate Zoltan Istvan defended the movement as a humanitarian effort to end suffering, aging, and death through technology. Philosophers and AI researchers warned that promises of digital immortality were flawed and raised unresolved ethical risks. Transhumanism, a movement that seeks to defeat aging and death through technology, was sharply criticized during a recent debate between philosophers, scientists, and transhumanist advocates, who rejected the accusation as misguided and reactionary.The exchange took place Dec. 4 at the UK-based Institute of Art and…

Walk into a gas station, grocery store, or convenience store today, and you might see a small orange kiosk glowing in the corner. What started as a curiosity has quietly become one of the most familiar in-person touchpoints in the digital economy: the crypto ATM.With close to 40,000 crypto ATMs operating worldwide, this technology has become a staple for the crypto-curious and enthusiasts alike, helping spark mainstream interest in a digital asset once considered esoteric and unapproachable. As a physical bridge between traditional fiat currency and the digital asset world, these kiosks have made crypto more accessible, tangible, and user-friendly…