CRYPTO NEWS. DECEMBER 10, 2025
Circle is testing new private stablecoin, USDCx on privacy L1 Aleo, offering bank-level privacy with compliance records using zkSNARKS
Payment chain, Tempo went live on testnet
Xiaomi to integrate pre-installed Sei mobile app into their mobile ecosystem
PNC Bank now offers spot bitcoin trading to private banking clients via Coinbase institutional trading infrastructure
Privacy appchain relaunches as an L3 on Base
Nasdaq-listed Strive is selling up to $500M of preferred stock through major brokers to buy more bitcoin for its treasury and fund operations.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Privacy chain, Octra to hold a $20M public token sale on Sonar on Dec 18 at $200M valuation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Utah based KindlyMD’s subsidiary Nakamoto Holdings secured a $210M USDT one-year loan from Kraken at 8% annual fee, backed by minimum $323.4M in BTC collateral held in Kraken custody, maturing in Dec 2026.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Cascade raised $15M seed funding led by Polychain and Variant to build a decentralized neo-brokerage offering 24/7 perpetual trading markets for all assets
Singapore ranks first in Crypto Adoption Index by Bybit
Bitwise 10 Crypto Index fund is live as an ETF on NYSE Arca
Great roundup! The USDCx announcement is interestin bc it shows how zkSNARKs are finally moving from theoretical privacy tools to actual production stablecoin infrastructure. The PNC integration is also notable, traditional banks going into spot trading through Coinbase shows how much the intitutional infrastructure has matured in the last year or so.