Kevin O’Leary says the noise across digital assets today boils down to one blunt truth: bitcoin and ethereum are the only alpha left standing.

Digital asset markets continued sliding into early December, with Arca CIO Jeff Dorman arguing in a new note that the selloff defies conventional explanations despite supportive macro conditions.

Bitcoin ETFs opened December with a modest inflow, even as ether and solana products returned to outflow territory. Trading remained active across all three segments, signaling investors are still repositioning as year-end approaches.

Bitcoin clings to the upper edge of its daily range at $87,818, flaunting a market cap of $1.739 trillion while pushing $72.66 billion in volume across a volatile session capped between $83,989 and $87,820. But under the surface of this intraday hustle lies a complex cocktail of trend exhaustion, technical resistance, and momentum limbo across multiple timeframes.

Mauricio Di Bartolomeo is the co-founder and CSO of Ledn, a leading provider of bitcoin-backed loans. He found Bitcoin during hyperinflation in Venezuela and believes in the future of the digital economy. He has an MBA from the Richard Ivey business school at Western University.

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UAE police recovered the bodies of Russian crypto blogger Roman Novak and his wife, Anna, in a high-profile case involving alleged kidnapping, torture, and murder over cryptocurrency.

Goldman Sachs announces acquisition of Innovator Capital Management, a pioneering ETF provider with $28 billion in assets, including bitcoin-linked defined outcome ETF strategies.

YPF, the Argentine oil company, has announced that it will implement a system allowing customers to pay for gas with crypto. With this move, YPF becomes one of the few companies adopting this payment strategy in Latam.

Casa completed a SOC 2 Type II audit covering April 1–Nov. 15, 2025, attesting to its controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy.

Kucoin has obtained a MiCAR license in Austria, giving its European entity the ability to offer regulated crypto services across 29 EEA countries. The approval marks a major milestone in the exchange’s global compliance strategy and strengthens its position as a fully regulated digital asset provider.

The Nigerian High Court dismissed the unlawful detention lawsuit filed by former

European authorities toppled Cryptomixer and seized millions in bitcoin, exposing a sprawling laundering pipeline that pushed more than a billion euros through the platform and intensifying a broader clash over privacy in digital finance.

A fast climb to more than $336 million in assets since launch propelled Canary’s XRP fund to the top of the U.S. market, signaling intensifying institutional interest in regulated access to blockchain-based exposure.

A sweeping market reset may soon set the stage for a stronger bitcoin rebound, positioning it to potentially outpace the Nasdaq and gold as easing macro strain encourages a shift from fear toward selective risk-taking and renewed momentum.