⏰What happened in Crypto in the last ~24h:
- $PIPPIN Robinhood Spot Listing
- HashKey is Listed on HKEX
- $HYPE Proposes to Burn Assistance Fund
- Binanace has tested UTF-8 implementation on Spot platform
- Binance Announces its Listing Process and Framework for Transparency
- Coinbase Announces New Products
- Circle has introduced ARC Builders Fund
- ETHGas Raises $12M Seed Round Led by Polychain Capital
- $AAVE Announces 2026 Master Plan
- Tether Launches PearPass
- Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham to Join MoonPay
- Bhutan Unveiled a National Bitcoin Development Pledge
- DTCC Partnership with Canton Network to Tokenize U.S. Treasuries
- Grayscale’s 2026 Digital Asset Outlook with 10 Themes
• $PIPPIN - @RobinhoodApp has announced the $PIPPIN are now available to trade on Robinhood Crypto.
• $HSK - @HashKeyGroup has officially gone public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX). The company raised approximately $205M in its IPO after pricing shares at around $0.86 each—near the top of the marketed range ($0.76–$0.89). This marks a major milestone for HashKey and a significant step toward broader accessibility of digital assets.
• $HYPE - The Hyper Foundation proposes a validator vote to formally burn approximately 37M $HYPE tokens—about 10% of the current circulating supply—from its Assistance Fund, permanently removing them from circulating and total supply; the fund auto-converts trading fees to HYPE at the irretrievable system address 0xfe------fe, which lacks a private key like the zero address.
• UTF-8 is a character encoding standard that can represent Chinese, Japanese, Korean characters. Binance also uttered: this upgrade will NOT affect spot trading or any related functions. However, users showed optimism that the Chinese TICKER could be listed on the spot market, and #币安人生(BinanceLife) rose by about 10–15% after this announce.
• @binance @cz_binance has released an announcement detailing its listing procedures across Alpha, futures, and spot markets, stressing that projects must apply solely via official channels while banning third‑party agents outright. The exchange named several blacklisted intermediaries—BitABC, Central Research, May/Dannie, Andrew Lee, Suki Yang, Fiona Lee, and Kenny Z—and vowed legal measures against such scams.
• @coinbase announces new products including prediction markets, stock trading, equity perps/futures, full DEX integration with millions of Solana assets, $BTC/$ETH borrowing, payment/money transfer features, AI-powered Advisor, Coinbase Business (out of beta), and Token Sales.
• Nasdaq: $CRCL - The @arc Builders Fund provides funding from @circle Ventures for select companies, access to an investor network, and hands‑on support for early‑stage teams building applications. The fund will be initially focused on high‑impact verticals including: Always‑on markets and capital formation, Offchain assets and credit markets, FX, Agentic commerce, Energy and compute. The Arc Builders Fund has engaged a growing community of top‑tier investors.
• @ETHGasOfficial has closed a $12M fundraise led by Polychain Capital, featuring notable ETH investors such as Stake Capital, BlueYard Capital, SIG DT, and Amber Group. The raise fuels the next phase of ETHGas’ development and provides the foundation needed to turn blockspace into a real, programmable financial market that’s capable of making every transaction instant, invisible, and budgetable. Alongside the fundraise, ETHGas has debuted Ethereum’s blockspace market with $800M in commitments from leading validators, builders, and wholesale network participants.
• $AAVE - @aave unveils its 2026 roadmap post‑SEC probe resolution, centering on three pillars: Aave V4 upgrade, Horizon for scaling real‑world assets, and a mobile‑first Aave App to onboard millions to DeFi while driving $AAVE growth and bringing the next trillion in assets onchain.
• @Tether_to launches PearPass, a decentralized P2P password manager that stores credentials solely on user devices with encrypted synchronization and open‑source code to eliminate centralized breach risks. This approach reflects Tether’s broader strategy of building technology that is resilient against future pressures of centralization.
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman Caroline Pham confirmed again that she's heading to crypto firm @moonpay when the Senate confirms her replacement and he's sworn in. President Donald Trump's CFTC chair nominee Mike Selig was set for a Senate vote Wednesday evening, according to that chamber's schedule.
• Bhutan has committed up to 10,000 $BTC to the long‑term development of Gelephu Mindfulness City, a new economic hub in southern Bhutan, leveraging its years‑long bitcoin mining powered by surplus hydropower while officials emphasize prioritizing capital preservation, transparency, and long‑term stewardship.
• $CC - @The_DTCC partners with the privacy‑focused @CantonNetwork to tokenize U.S. Treasury securities held in DTC custody, following an SEC No-Action Letter that authorizes the regulated tokenization service for three years. The organizations are working towards an MVP in a controlled production environment during the first half of 2026, with plans to expand the project's size and scope in the months that follow, based on client interest, according to the press release.
• @Grayscale expect 2026 to accelerate structural shifts in digital asset investing, which have been underpinned by two major themes: macro demand for alternative stores of value and improved regulatory clarity. Top 10 Crypto Investing Themes for 2026 include Dollar Debasement Risk driving monetary alternatives, Regulatory Clarity for digital assets, Stablecoin growth via GENIUS Act, Asset Tokenization inflection, Privacy solutions for mainstream blockchain, AI centralization needing blockchain fixes, DeFi acceleration led by lending, Next‑gen infrastructure for adoption, Sustainable revenue focus, and default Staking for investors.