JPMorgan has deployed its digital deposit token JPM Coin to Coinbase's Base blockchain, marking the Wall Street giant's first large-scale access to the public chain ecosystem. JPM Coin differs from stablecoins as a digital representation of bank deposits with interest, limited to transfers between whitelisted users. This move responds to institutional clients' demand for using bank deposit products on-chain, currently mainly used for collateral and margin payments in crypto trading. JPM emphasizes that its deployment method has full permission control and risk isolation, reflecting the convergence of traditional finance towards DeFi.

Analysts estimated that crypto treasury firms face up to $11.6 billion in outflows if MSCI excluded them from its indexes.

The Federal Reserve says it has withdrawn its old guidance around crypto as it was outdated, and its understanding has evolved.

Ethereum could see another rise in transaction speed in January, with developers considering raising the gas limit to 80 million after the next blob parameter-only hard fork.

Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum needs to boost the number of people who can understand the entire blockchain, and it can “get better at this by making the protocol simpler.”

Lightning Network’s capacity reached an all-time high as exchanges increased adoption, while a new Taproot Assets update has enabled multi-asset transactions.

market shows BTC breaking through $90,000, currently at $90,001.81, with a 24-hour increase of 3.3%. The market is highly volatile, please manage your risk accordingly.

 according to Arkham monitoring, the "1011 insider whales" have today unstaked 270,959 ETH through three addresses, valued at 795 million USD, and then transferred all ETH to three new addresses.