India Tightens KYC and AML Requirements to Onboard New Crypto Users

India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a regulatory agency that sets anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations, issued new guidelines tightening rules for onboarding users to crypto platforms. The new rules force regulated crypto exchanges to verify users through live selfie pictures and geographic location verification, according to The Times of India. The live selfie pictures are…

XMR Price Reaches $500 for the First Time Since 2021 After Zcash Falls

Key takeaways: Monero (XMR) surged past the $500 mark for the first time since its peak in May 2021. The privacy-focused cryptocurrency briefly touched $500.66 after rising more than 6% on Sunday and 20% over the past week. That brought it closer to its record high of around $517.50, established in April 2021. XMR/USD daily…

BitMine’s Total Staked ETH Holdings Surpass 1 Million

Crypto treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) staked an additional 86,400 Ether (ETH) on Saturday, valued at about $268.7 million at the time of this writing, crossing the 1 million staked ETH milestone.  The 86,400 ETH was staked in four separate transactions, according to data from crypto market analytics platform Arkham Intelligence; this brings BitMine’s…

Bitcoin Power Law Gives $65,000 as Key Bear Market Level

Bitcoin (BTC) faces a “do-or-die” price point if 2026 becomes a classic bear market year. Key points: Bitcoin four-year price cycles and bear markets remain relevant, the latest power law analysis says. 2026 may see a BTC price support showdown with $65,000 as the key level. History demands price “catching up” to power-law targets. Bitcoin…

Primary Goal for 2026 is Crypto Market Structure

In a year in which the United States will hold elections that could upset the balance of power in Congress, a cryptocurrency advocacy organization backed by Coinbase said its first priority is to “help get federal digital asset market structure legislation signed into law.” In its year-in-review report released on Thursday, Stand With Crypto (SWC)…

XMR Price Reaches $500 for the First Time Since 2021 After Zcash Falls

Key takeaways: Monero (XMR) surged past the $500 mark for the first time since its peak in May 2021. The privacy-focused cryptocurrency briefly touched $500.66 after rising more than 6% on Sunday and 20% over the past week. That brought it closer to its record high of around $517.50, established in April 2021. XMR/USD daily…

X’s head of product teases crypto-aware ‘Smart Cashtags’ one day after Crypto Twitter backlash

Nikita Bier outlined plans for asset-aware Smart Cashtags a day after criticism from parts of the crypto community over a now-deleted post. Source link

Russians Ask if Pensions Can Be Paid in Crypto as Adoption Rises

Inquiries about whether pensions can be paid in crypto have become one of the most frequent non-standard requests received by the Social Fund of Russia, a state-run institution responsible for managing Russia’s public pension system. In 2025, the Social Fund’s call center handled roughly 37 million calls, the vast majority related to routine matters such…

Bitcoin Whales Drop BTC Longs in New Bull Signal

Bitcoin whales began repeating a classic bull signal as they took BTC long positions off the table after a year of declining overall market exposure. Bitcoin (BTC) whales are “aggressively” reducing long exposure as a classic bull signal reappears. Key points: Bitfinex whales are rotating out of BTC long positions — something that preceded major…

Donald Trump Will not Consider Pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried: NYT

US President Donald Trump reportedly will not grant a pardon to Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, who is serving a 25-year sentence for his role in the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. According to a Thursday interview with Trump by The New York Times, the president said he had no intention of pardoning Bankman-Fried and others, including…