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2025 was one hell of a ride! 100+ clients served, 2 strategic acquisitions, 140+ Cryptic Talks, 5 Convergence events across the globe. We made it all happen together. Here’s to making 2026 even bigger 🥂

🚨LATEST: Private on-chain transactions are expanding to more networks. @NullMaskio has brought its privacy technology to @monad and @arbitrum, allowing users to move assets and check balances while keeping their transaction activity confidential. The expansion brings privacy features to both Monad's Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 network and Arbitrum's Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem, extending NullMask's zero-knowledge shielding services across different parts of the blockchain landscape.

🎙 What needs to change in traditional lending? In this clip from Cryptic Talks, Deploi Founder @OskJep discusses the limitations of traditional lending and what made him believe the lending system needs to be rebuilt. Follow @IncDeploi and watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/Xy_jrLb9f84?si=kd38…

⚡️UPDATE: @ethereum has topped @Grayscale's rankings across some of the most important areas of the blockchain ecosystem. The asset manager ranked it first in stablecoin supply, tokenized assets, applications, developer activity, and investment products. With nearly half of the global stablecoin supply, around 40% of tokenized assets, and thousands of applications across its mainnet and Layer 2 networks, Ethereum continues to attract both developers and institutional capital.

NEW: 🇺🇸 Coinbase has secured full federal approval to operate as a national trust bank in the United States. The OCC upgraded the exchange's previously conditional charter, allowing it to expand its federally regulated custody and trust services. @coinbase initially received conditional approval in April as part of a wider push by crypto companies to secure federal trust-bank charters. The move also comes amid growing regulatory attention on stablecoins and federally supervised digital asset services.

⚠️ALERT: @ankr's Ethereum bridge is under attack, with nearly $292,000 already drained. @blockaid_ detected five suspicious withdrawal transactions in which an attacker exploited the bridge's withdrawal process to access its locked assets. The attack was still ongoing when Blockaid reported the incident. Investigations are continuing into how the attacker gained control of the operator wallets and manipulated the bridge's withdrawal mechanism.

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 U.S. Senator Blumenthal has given @binance, @tether, World Liberty Financial and Fight Fight Fight LLC until January 4, 2027, to submit outstanding records tied to congressional investigations. The probes cover alleged sanctions-related transactions involving Binance, USDT's use in Iran's financial networks, and potential conflicts of interest involving Trump's crypto ventures. Blumenthal warned that failure to comply could lead the Senate subcommittee to consider alternative measures, including possible compulsory action.

🚨 BIG: Former FBI agent Patrick Yaroch has pleaded guilty to stealing approximately $2.47 million in crypto by abusing his access to wallet credentials stored in FBI systems. Prosecutors say he carried out around 100 unauthorized transfers involving crypto wallets connected to 35 separate FBI investigations. The stolen assets were linked to criminal groups and foreign adversaries, meaning Yaroch's actions potentially compromised sensitive investigations and exposed information about law enforcement operations.

🚨 LATEST: Binance has appointed Justin Yek as its new Chief Financial Officer, replacing @kaizng, who is stepping down after more than five years at the exchange. Yek previously served as Vice President of Finance at Airwallex. The appointment comes just nine days after @binance suffered a record $6.34 billion hack on October 29, raising questions about the timing of the leadership change. However, co-CEO Yi He says the transition had been planned for six months, meaning the process was already underway before the security breach. Ng is leaving to pursue a new venture, while Binance maintains that the CFO transition was unrelated to the security breach. @cz_binance @heyibinance

Crypto trader Ansem (@blknoiz06) has been accused by memecoin promoter Sahil Arora of receiving payments to promote celebrity-linked tokens, including $MOTHER, $JENNER and $JASON. @villainmonkey claims he paid Ansem approximately $100,000 for MOTHER promotion and shared alleged private messages and transaction records to support his claims. Ansem denied working with Arora. Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery later found no direct on-chain transfers between wallets attributed to the two, although internal Binance transfers could not be ruled out.

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OpenAI remains one of the most closely watched private companies in the world. Until recently, gaining exposure to its growth was largely limited to private market investors. The launch of a pre-IPO OpenAI perp on @OndoPerps changes that dynamic, giving traders a way to express a bullish or bearish view long before any potential public listing. Trade OPENAI → app.ondoperps.xyz/?ref=MZ1H7…

🎙 Could AI agents eventually manage and trade tokenized financial assets? In this clip from Cryptic Talks, Kenomic Co-founder @raycotarrida shares Kenomic's vision for a future where financial assets are tokenized and managed by AI agents, with secure infrastructure and safeguards enabling them to interact. Follow @KenomicAI and watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/bCc6k8WDI-s?si=vg5U…

For decades, private market investing came with a tradeoff. You gained exposure to some of the world's most sought-after companies, but your capital was often locked up and difficult to put to work elsewhere. Ondo Private Markets starts to challenge that model. By bringing private market exposure onchain and making it usable on @OndoPerps, those assets can become more than just holdings in a portfolio. They can become productive capital. That's an important distinction. The real promise of tokenization isn't simply making assets easier to buy and sell. It's making them useful within a broader financial ecosystem. Explore private markets on Ondo Perps → app.ondoperps.xyz/?ref=MZ1H7…

✨️FUN FACT: Hackers Once Stole $600 Million and Gave It Back. The attacker said the hack was meant to expose a security flaw before others could exploit it. After Poly Network offered a $500,000 bug bounty and security firms blacklisted the stolen funds, the hacker returned almost everything and was nicknamed "Mr. White Hat.”

🎙 What will it take for institutions to embrace onchain private credit at scale? In this clip from Cryptic Talks, Deploi Founder @OskJep discusses what needs to change to bring major investors, from banks and hedge funds to asset managers and family offices, into onchain private credit. Follow @IncDeploi and watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/Xy_jrLb9f84?si=CmWr…

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🎙 How can founders prepare their tokenomics for scenarios they can't predict? In this clip from Cryptic Talks, @KenomicAI Co-founder @raycotarrida explains how stress testing lets founders simulate selling pressure, staking activity, liquidity drains, and other scenarios through a digital replica of their protocol. Watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/bCc6k8WDI-s?si=xooT…