Bitcoin (BTC), that old reliable, hit a high of $93,438-only to sneak back down to its current perch. It’s up almost 3% in the last 24 hours, hanging around $92,668 like a cat on a windowsill. Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP), the reliable sidekicks, are also smiling in green, and overall market cap got a cozy boost of nearly 2%. Cheers to that! 🍻
In a proclamation that echoed through the halls of fintech on a fateful Friday, Ripple Payments declared it would bestow upon Amina the gift of its payment infrastructure. “No more shall you wallow in the quagmire of traditional systems!” they cried. “Behold, transactions shall flow like a mountain stream-swift, cheap, and transparent!” This, my dear reader, is but the latest act in their ongoing saga, following Amina’s embrace of the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin in the balmy days of July. 🌊
Ah, Ethereum, the proud giant, has clung to its perch above $3,000, a mere 3.5% rise, yet enough to stir the bulls from their slumber. They snort and paw at the $3,342 resistance, dreaming of the $4,000 horizon. The 3-day MACD, that fickle oracle, has whispered of a bullish cross, a prophecy last fulfilled in July, when the price soared 90%. But hope, like a Soviet promise, is a fragile thing. Will it hold? Or will the bears, those silent sentinels, drag it back into the abyss? 🦬⚔️
A certain rogue investor, we are told, sought to unload a trifling $1B in shares at a valuation fit for a modest village bakery 🥐-nay, $280B when the company’s ambitions towered at half a trillion! Tether, ever the vigilant guardian of its financial reputation, swiftly intervened. “Pray, do not disrupt our negotiations with those esteemed Wall Street suitors!” one executive reportedly gasped, clutching their pearls. 🦪
you run, you earn. No treadmill necessary. 🏃♂️ They took home 15,000 PI tokens. That’s a lot of gaming, folks!
Bitcoin, that sly fox, climbed 2.45% and kept its nose above $92,000, like a well-dressed gentleman at a party 🦊. Ethereum, ever the underdog, danced near $3,240 with a 1.68% leap, proving that even the stodgiest coins can shake a leg 🐲. 🎉
According to Solana’s announcement, Firedancer has survived 100 days of testing, producing 50,000 blocks without incident. One might call it a “success,” though “success” here means “no explosions.” Built in C++ (because Python was too… poetic?), Firedancer promises to handle workloads like a Russian peasant with a plow and a vendetta. The validators, now 20% more distributed than a government handout, have shifted allegiances as if swapping winter coats for summer flannels.
Biometric verification, once a tool of dystopia, now masquerades as salvation. Co-founders Sam Altman and Alex Blania, with their gleaming smiles, herald a new economic model. But what of the individual, crushed beneath the weight of web3’s utopian lies? “It’s hard to identify unique people,” Altman sighs, as if the problem were the people, not the system.
Klarna, that paragon of financial innovation, announced a research partnership with Privy on December 11, 2025, aimed at developing wallet solutions for its crypto products, including the recently launched USD stablecoin. The collaboration seeks to make cryptocurrency more accessible to everyday users, building on Klarna’s existing financial services platform. 🚀
According to the wise folks in the court, his scheme was basically the crypto version of a house of cards – collapsing faster than your hopes for Dogecoin to hit the moon. Thousands of investors are now more broke than a college student on pizza night, thanks to his shady dealings with TerraUSD and Luna, which, fun fact, were supposed to be stablecoins but turned out about as stable as a caffeinated cat. 🐱☕