CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XLM Gains 9.8% as All Assets Trade Higher Hedera (HBAR) joined Stellar (XLM) as a top performer, gaining 7% from Tuesday.

ARC’s Elroy Cheo on How Asia Is Doing Web3 Differently The co-founder of the exclusive Web3 community argues that Asia is uniquely positioned to lead the next phase of NFT innovation.

Boerse Stuttgart’s Crypto Business Accounts for 25% of Its Revenue as Volume Triples The exchange, which now boasts over one million crypto trading clients, has been expanding its cryptocurrency offerings since 2019.

U.S. Prosecutors Ask Court to Green-Light Return of 95,000 Stolen Bitcoin to Bitfinex The remaining 25,000 bitcoins stolen in the 2016 hack must be returned through a more complex claims process.

How to Ensure Blockchains Are Really Decentralized Decentralization is fundamental to blockchain technology, offering resilience and resistance to censorship, but is the industry focused on the right incentives to drive decentralization? By Pablo Larguía

UK Appoints Emma Reynolds as Economic Secretary to Oversee Crypto Emma Reynolds was appointed as the new economic secretary following the resignation of Tulip Siddiq.

MicroStrategy Targeting $2B Perpetual Preferred Stock Offering: Benchmark Benchmark-Hosted an investor meeting with MicroStrategy’s executive chairman Michael Saylor.

Still Learning After All These Years CoinDesk Indices’ Andy Baehr on grass roots crypto adoption and paying forward the “gimmick.”

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Exceeded Expectations in 2024, but Just Wait for 2025 Gary Gensler has described crypto as the Wild West and one observer said markets are likely to see just that under new leadership in D.C.

Dogecoin, XRP Lead Crypto Rebound, Bitcoin Tops $96K as Traders Await Key Inflation Data The selloff in stocks and cryptocurrencies could mean Donald Trump’s inauguration will less likely be a sell the news event, K33 Research said.

Analysis: Prediction Markets Have a Gambling Problem Academics get it: prediction markets aren’t gambling because the house doesn’t always win. But regulators around the world have differing opinions – and Polymarket is feeling the heat.

Coinbase’s Layer 2 System Base Gets a Marketplace Linked to Gas Revenue Dragonfly-backed startup Alkimiya unveils a DeFi market for betting on the price of blockspace on the Base rollup.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: APT and FIL Gain 6.8% as All Assets Trade Higher Chainlink (LINK) joined Aptos (APT) and Filecoin (FIL) as a top performer, gaining 6.7% from Monday.

Crypto Daybook Americas: Massive Selloff Doesn’t Stop Bitcoin Institutional Adoption Your day-ahead look for Jan. 14, 2025

Bitcoin Bull Tom Lee Sees BTC Reaching as High as $250K by Year-End Fundstrat’s head of research, Tom Lee, calls for a potential short-term drawdown but remains bullish regarding the end-of-year target.

Options Tied to BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Surge to Nearly 50% of Deribit’s BTC Open Interest in Two Months Options linked to BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF (IBIT) began trading on Nov. 19 and have since grown to half the size of Deribit’s BTC options market.

Middle East-Based Sigma Capital Unveils $100M Fund to Accelerate Web3 Innovations The fund will focus on DeFi, tokenization, and blockchain infrastructure by managing a portfolio of liquid tokens

One of Italy’s Largest Bank Buys $1M Worth of Bitcoin: Report Banking giant Intesa Sanpaolo, which has a market cap of $73 billion, has made its first crypto purchase.

Sony’s Layer-2 Blockchain ‘Soneium’ Goes Live The 78-year-old technology giant is the latest big name company to release a blockchain using Optimism’s OP Stack.

Is Bitcoin Bottom In? BTC’s Price Action is Inverse of December Peak Above $108K BTC’s latest price action seems to contrast sharply with the uptrend exhaustion observed at record highs above $108K in mid-December.