Crypto News. December 16, 2025

Pancake introduced Probable, a prediction marketplace incubated by them, launching soon.

Phantom rolled out Phantom Cash debit cards

Strategy acquired 10,645 BTC for $980.3M at 92,098 per BTC

Hong Kong-based fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments raised $107M in Series B, round participants include Pantera, Goodwater Cap etc

SBI Holdings and Startale partner to launch Yen denominated stablecoin in Q2 2026

JPMorgan launched its first tokenized money-market fund, MONY, on Ethereum and seeded it with $100M

MetaMask rolled out support for Bitcoin

Ripple taps Wormhole adopting their NTT standard to expand issuance of RLUSD across ETH L2s (Optimism, Unichain, Ink Chain, Base)

Circle acquired Interop Labs, the team behind Axelar, with Common Prefix set to lead Axelar going forward

Anchorage acquired Securitize wealth management team

Bitwise amended its Hyperliquid filing adding ticker and fees, signaling an imminent launch.

Bittensor TAO completed its halving