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A new law signed by President Berdimuhamedov allows crypto activity, but strict internet controls and payment bans remain firmly in place. Turkmenistan has officially legalized cryptocurrency mining and trading, in a significant policy transformation for one of the world’s most isolated countries with a little over 7 million people. The new law was signed on Thursday by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov. New Legislation According to the report by Associated Press, the law places virtual assets under civil law and introduces a licensing framework for cryptocurrency exchanges overseen by the central bank. However, digital assets will not be recognized as a means…

Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov has outlined a broader strategic vision for the protocol following a contentious governance vote that rejected a proposal to transfer control of Aave’s brand assets and intellectual property to its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).The failed vote has prompted renewed debate within the Aave community over the protocol’s long-term direction and governance structure, an issue Kulechov addressed directly.In a post published Friday on the Aave governance forum, Kulechov argued that the protocol must evolve beyond its core decentralized finance (DeFi) lending business to pursue opportunities in real-world assets (RWAs), institutional lending and consumer-facing financial products. He…

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, or CLARITY Act, is moving along the right pathway, despite the crypto industry’s growing impatience, according to a Coinbase executive.“I completely understand why this is taking longer,” Coinbase Institutional head of strategy John D’Agostino said during an interview on CNBC on Friday.“It’s the kind of bill that is quite frankly more foundational for the growth of crypto or any real asset class,” he said, emphasizing that it makes sense for the process to take some time. Source: Cynthia LummisHe said that the CLARITY Act is a lot more complex than the Genius Act, the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Roundhill Investments has filed an amended registration statement for its XRP ETF, which it could launch as soon as January 29. Notably, the XRP fund differs from the spot XRP funds and will only seek to provide investors with income from the altcoin rather than provide spot exposure.  Roundhill Files Form N-1A For XRP ETF Roundhill filed a post-effective amendment for its XRP Covered Call Strategy ETF, noting that the filing was intended to delay the fund’s effectiveness until January 29. In line with this, the fund…

South Korea’s Bithumb is launching its third annual dormant asset recovery campaign, revealing that unclaimed cryptocurrency holdings on its platform have fallen to 291.6 billion won ($201 million)—a 34% decrease from last year’s 443.5 billion won ($306 million).The decline follows a previous year’s campaign in which approximately 36,000 customers reclaimed a combined 70.6 billion won ($49 million) in forgotten assets. Market fluctuations also contributed to the year-over-year change.Sponsored The Largest Was Single Account With $2.8M Forgotten AssetThis year’s campaign targets 2.57 million accounts that have shown no login or trading activity for at least one year. Among them, the largest…

Russia is preparing to escalate its crackdown on unregistered cryptocurrency mining, proposing criminal penalties that include forced labor and prison sentences, little more than a year after formally legalizing the industry. The Ministry of Justice on Monday published draft amendments to the Criminal Code that would reclassify many forms of illegal crypto mining from an administrative offense into a criminal one.  The proposal comes amid widespread noncompliance with the regulatory framework that took effect in 2024, following President Vladimir Putin’s signing of mining legislation last summer. Although mining was legalized to bring the fast-growing sector out of the shadows, authorities…

Head of research at on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has explained how demand makes the basis of a Bitcoin cycle, rather than price performance. Bitcoin Apparent Demand Has Been Declining Recently In a new post on X, CryptoQuant head of research Julio Moreno has talked about Bitcoin cycles from a different lens. “Most are focusing on price performance to define a cycle, when it is demand what they should be looking to,” noted Moreno. The analyst has gauged the “demand” for the cryptocurrency using the Apparent Demand indicator, which compares the daily miner issuance against the changes in the 1-year dormant…

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…

Prediction markets topped $4 billion in trading volume in December.Ongoing legal threats pose a key barrier to their growth.Midterm elections in 2026 loom large.Seeking truth has never been so profitable.Prediction markets, futures markets for retail users to forecast everyday outcomes, peaked in December at over $4 billion in weekly trading volume.Despite record volumes plummeting after the 2024 US elections, popular platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket blew past those highs again and again throughout 2025, according to data collated by the Dune user dashboard. Along the way, they raised hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh capital at multi-billion valuations.Now, insiders…

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…