December 2025

Lightning Network hits record capacity on crypto exchange adoption 2025-12-17 at 08:08 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Lightning Network’s capacity reached an all-time high as exchanges increased adoption, while a new Taproot Assets update has enabled multi-asset transactions. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

SAFE Crypto Act will have scammers shaking in their boots: Crypto lawyer 2025-12-17 at 07:06 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Newly proposed legislation could see the US Treasury, FinCEN, the Secret Service, and law enforcement coordinate to catch crypto scammers and fraudsters. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Inside New Orleans’ Real Time Crime Center 2025-12-17 at 07:05 By Director Ross Bourgeois explains how New Orleans built a 24/7 real time crime center that fuses video, CAD, LPR, and strict governance. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Exodus, MoonPay to roll out stablecoin in early 2026, joining gold rush 2025-12-17 at 06:02 By Cointelegraph by Martin Young Exodus partnered with MoonPay to launch a USD-backed stablecoin for everyday payments, integrating it into Exodus Pay for self-custodial transactions. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

US government ‘tech force’ gets backup from Coinbase, Robinhood 2025-12-17 at 05:01 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan The US government wants 1,000 tech workers to boost its capabilities and has turned to the private sector to plug its skill shortages. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Aave founder outlines 2026 ‘master plan’ after end to SEC probe 2025-12-17 at 05:01 By Cointelegraph by Brian Quarmby Aave’s 2026 plan focuses on scaling via v4’s Hub and Spoke architecture, $1 billion in real-world assets, and growing its new mobile app.  This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Tether leads $8M funding for Lightning startup focused on stablecoins 2025-12-17 at 04:07 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Speed, which leverages the Bitcoin Lightning Network to facilitate USDT transfers, has secured $8 million from Tether and Ego Death Capital. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto ETPs to enter ‘cheesecake factory’ era in 2026: Bitwise 2025-12-17 at 04:07 By Cointelegraph by Ciaran Lyons The number of crypto exchange-traded products is going to “accelerate forward at ridiculous speed” in 2026, according to Bitwise researcher Ryan Rasmussen. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bank of Canada lays out criteria for ‘good money’ stablecoins 2025-12-17 at 03:03 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Canada’s central bank will approve only fiat-backed, high-quality stablecoins to ensure they are “good money” as part of the country’s plan to modernize its financial system. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64 2025-12-17 at 02:35 By Simon Sharwood No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) on Monday revealed its most advanced processor yet and hailed it as a “reliable” product and a step towards the creation of

China’s Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks 2025-12-17 at 01:32 By Jessica Lyons Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days out Chinese espionage crew Ink Dragon has expanded its snooping activities into European government networks, using compromised servers to create illicit relay nodes for future operations.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Spot Bitcoin ETFs see $358M outflow: Are investors abandoning BTC? 2025-12-17 at 01:05 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Bitcoin price held above $85,000, but weakening spot BTC ETF flows and a disappointing end-of-year performance cast doubt on a December rally to $100,000. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs 2025-12-17 at 01:05 By O’Ryan Johnson The company has reportedly consulted itself and decided it needs fewer people Consultant cut thyself! Where consulting firms typically tell other companies how to make more money by trimming the fat, they are now looking inward, as advances in

Analytics provider: We didn’t expose smut site data to crims 2025-12-16 at 23:54 By Jessica Lyons An employee of the adult site could be responsible. Analytics vendor Mixpanel says it is not the source of data stolen from Pornhub and says the info was last accessed by an employee of the adult site.… This article

Meta’s SAM bot keeps ’em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips 2025-12-16 at 23:54 By Brandon Vigliarolo No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on people Want to hear just the guitar riff from a song? How about cutting out the train noise from a voice recording?

Browser ‘privacy’ extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats 2025-12-16 at 23:24 By Thomas Claburn More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions Ad blockers and VPNs are supposed to protect your privacy, but four popular browser extensions have been doing just the opposite. According to research

US senator sounds alarm on DeFi, cites PancakeSwap amid market structure delay 2025-12-16 at 23:01 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright With the US Senate set to break for the holidays, Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Justice and Treasury Department officials to disclose any potential investigations into the DeFi platform. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com