SUI Group Adds Former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz to Board

Brian Quintenz joins SUI Group’s board, bringing regulatory expertise from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to the company’s treasury strategy. SUI Group Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: SUIG) announced the appointment of former CFTC Commissioner and a16z crypto Global Head of Policy Brian Quintenz as an independent director, effective Jan 5, 2026. Quintenz will also serve on the board’s audit … Read more

Grayscale’s Ethereum Staking ETF Distributes First US Staking Rewards

Grayscale’s ETHE ETF pays $0.083178 per share, marking the first U.S. crypto product to pass staking earnings to investors. Grayscale announced that its Ethereum Staking Exchange-Traded Fund (ticker ETHE) will make a distribution of $0.083178 per share to shareholders, reflecting proceeds from staking rewards earned between October 6, 2025 and December 31, 2025. The payout is scheduled for … Read more

Polymarket Launches Real‑Estate Prediction Markets Using Parcl’s Housing Indices

Parcl and Polymarket partner to create prediction markets that settle on daily housing‑price indices. Parcl, the onchain real‑estate data platform, and Polymarket, the prediction‑market exchange, announced a partnership to bring Parcl’s daily housing price indices to a new suite of real‑estate prediction markets on Polymarket. The markets will settle against Parcl’s published indices, giving traders … Read more

Crypto.com Gains Conditional VASP License in Cayman Islands

Crypto.com becomes the inaugural digital‑asset company approved for a conditional Virtual Asset Service Provider license by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. Crypto.com announced it has received conditional approval from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) to operate as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP), making it the first digital‑asset firm to obtain such authorization in … Read more

US Representative Ritchie Torres to Introduce Act Targeting Government Insider Trading in Prediction Markets

The new bill would bar federal officials from trading prediction‑market contracts based on insider information, such as knowledge about military attacks on foreign powers. Representative Ritchie Torres (D‑NY) will support the introduction of the Public Integrity in Financial Prediction Markets Act of 2026, which would prohibit elected officials, political appointees and Executive Branch employees from buying, selling … Read more

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum’s New Architecture Solves Scalability Trilemma

Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin says the latest upgrades give the blockchain high‑bandwidth, consensus‑driven performance. Vitalik Buterin announced that zero‑knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines have reached production‑quality performance and that PeerDAS data‑availability sampling is live on mainnet, combining to give Ethereum decentralized consensus and high bandwidth. He contrasted this with earlier peer‑to‑peer models such as Bittorrent’s bandwidth‑heavy, consensus‑free design … Read more

PWC Leans Into Cryptocurrency After Trump‑era Policy Shift

PWC’s U.S. leader says the firm is now actively expanding crypto services following recent pro‑digital‑asset regulations. Paul Griggs, U.S. senior partner of Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC), told the Financial Times that the firm is “leaning in” to cryptocurrency work after years of caution, citing the Trump administration’s embrace of digital assets and new legislation such as the Genius … Read more

US Dollar Faces Worst Annual Performance Since 2017, Drops 9.5% in 2025

Global currency markets see significant shifts as the U.S. dollar experiences substantial decline, with euro gaining 13.5% and other major currencies making strong gains amid economic uncertainties. The U.S. dollar is set to close 2025 with its biggest annual drop since 2017, declining 9.5% against a basket of major currencies. Factors driving the downturn include … Read more

Iran Faces Largest Protests in Three Years Amid Soaring Inflation and Currency Crisis

Nationwide demonstrations erupt in Iran as the country’s currency collapses to a record low, with the Central Bank governor resigning and inflation reaching critical levels. Massive protests broke out across Iran on Monday, with traders and shopkeepers rallying in major cities including Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Mashhad. The demonstrations were triggered by the Iranian rial’s … Read more

BC Card Completes Pilot for Foreign Stablecoin Payments in South Korea

BC Card finishes a two‑month trial allowing foreign‑held stablecoins to be used for QR‑code payments at Korean merchants. BC Card announced on Tuesday the completion of a pilot that tested the use of foreign stablecoins, held in overseas digital wallets, as digital prepaid cards for payments at domestic BC Card‑affiliated merchants. The trial, conducted with … Read more