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APIA, Samoa, Dec. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Phemex, a user-first crypto exchange, successfully co-hosted the 7th edition of LONGITUDE with Cointelegraph on December 11 at the Rosewood Hotel in Abu Dhabi. Held alongside Abu Dhabi Finance Week, the gathering brought together Web3 leaders and institutional innovators for an evening of strategic dialogue, celebrating Phemex’s 6th anniversary. The exclusive agenda featured industry heavyweights including Anthony Scaramucci (SkyBridge) and Kristin Smith (Solana Policy Institute), who dissected market trends in the “Solana SZN” panel, while Eli Ben-Sasson (StarkWare) explored the critical role of privacy in a dedicated fireside chat. Meanwhile, the night’s centerpiece…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) on Thursday closed up by +0.21%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI) (DIA) closed up by +1.34%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down by -0.35%.  December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ25) rose +0.23%, and December E-mini Nasdaq futures (NQZ25) fell -0.33%.Stock indexes settled mixed on Thursday, with the S&P 500 posting a 6-week high and the Dow Jones Industrials climbing to a new all-time high. The broader market found underlying support on Thursday after bond yields moved lower amid a jump in weekly jobless claims, which is dovish for Fed policy.  Also, managed healthcare stocks staged a…

Forward Guidance Signals a Slow and Limited Cutting Cycle The language in the post-meeting statement was recycled from December 2024, a period when the Fed paused rate reductions for nine months. That framing suggests the bar for further cuts is high. The latest dot plot reinforced this caution, showing only one projected cut in 2026 and one in 2027, leaving the funds rate near a 3% longer-run level. These projections were unchanged, underscoring reluctance to accelerate easing even as growth estimates shift. Economic Outlook: Inflation Stubborn, Growth Revised Higher Officials upgraded the 2026 GDP outlook to 2.3%, reflecting firmer economic…

US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman Caroline Pham has scrapped “outdated guidance” on the delivery of crypto, which has been applauded for offering exchanges more flexibility.“Eliminating outdated and overly complex guidance that penalizes the crypto industry and stifles innovation is exactly what the Administration has set out to do this year,” Pham said on Thursday.The guidance, originally finalized in March 2020, related to when the “actual delivery” of crypto happened in a commodity transaction, but the CFTC said in a notice that it had to “reevaluate such guidance in light of further developments during the past 5 years.”The CFTC…

Crypto-to-Fiat Conversions in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia & Southeast Asia China – Taiwan / Hong Kong / Singapore —  https://cryptochange.app/, a real-time cryptocurrency exchange rate monitoring platform, is officially expanding into Taiwan and Hong Kong, two of Asia’s most advanced crypto-driven economies. The platform empowers users to instantly discover the most profitable, secure and transparent crypto-to-fiat conversion options — including USDT → TWD and BTC → HKD → ETH → SGD → CNY   — with live market data and verified partners. Crypto adoption in Taiwan and Hong Kong is rapidly growing. From traders and freelancers to…

A Bold New Era of Meme Coins PUTINISGAY.COM is unleashing its unapologetic community meme coin, Putin is Gay (PIG), via pump.fun on the Solana blockchain. PIG is built to fuel free speech, subversive humor, and digital activism on-chain. At the crossroads of tech and satire, PIG turns every meme, every post, and every new holder into fuel for organic growth-pushing market cap higher through sheer community momentum. More Than a Token PUTINISGAY.COM isn’t just another meme coin—it’s a sharp, satirical middle finger to authoritarian ego. PIG is deliberately edgy, defiantly nonconformist, and designed to slice through empty virtue signaling. Every…

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has added a host of blockchain industry executives alongside counterparts from traditional finance as part of the agency’s new CEO Innovation Council. According to an announcement on Wednesday, the CEO Innovation Council will discuss market structure developments relating to the derivatives markets overseen by the CFTC. The discussion topics will primarily be about “tokenization, crypto assets, 24/7 trading, perpetual contracts, prediction markets and blockchain market infrastructure.” The list of participants includes the bosses of crypto exchanges and prediction markets such as Polymarket, Kalshi, Kraken, Gemini, Bitnomial, Crypto.com and Bullish.  Alongside the crypto CEOs, the counterparts from traditional finance…

Wheat posted Wednesday weakness, as futures saw a delayed response to USDA’s added world production from Tuesday. Chicago SRW futures poste losses of a nickel in the front months on the midweek session. KC HRW futures saw losses of 3 to 4 cents on Wednesday. MPLS spring wheat as steady to a penny lower.The weekly Export Sales report will get another catch-up release on Thursday morning. Analysts are looking for between 200,000 to 600,000 MT in sales for the week ending on 11/13. Don’t Miss a Day: From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis.…

Key Takeaways Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Bitcoin converts excess energy into a portable form of money. His comments challenge years of criticism over Bitcoin’s electricity use. Supporters argue the network increasingly relies on stranded and renewable energy sources. For more than a decade, Bitcoin’s critics have pointed to one thing above all else: its energy consumption. But this week, one of the world’s most influential technologists flipped that argument on its head. During a panel on AI and energy, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described Bitcoin not as an environmental burden but as a mechanism for turning unused electricity into…

Glencoe, Illinois, USA, December 10th, 2025, Chainwire Today, BOLTS Technologies (BOLTS), a cybersecurity company pioneering crypto-agile and cipher-neutral security infrastructure, announced the launch of a pilot program to explore bringing quantum-resilience on the Canton Network, the public, permissionless blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance.  The pilot will explore how BOLTS’ quantum-resilient software product, QFlex, could potentially bring quantum-resistant transaction assurance to Canton Network. QFlex addresses the multi-faceted complexities around fortifying blockchain networks against Q-Day. This refers to the day when a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) arrives, and undermines the foundations of current Internet security using Shor’s algorithm. Following the EU’s…