Crypto News. December 9, 2025
Blackrock filed for staked ETH ETF
Farcaster announced shift to focus on wallet app over social app
Arkham labels ZEC transactions although can’t access shield transactions
Coinbase reopens in India after 2years hiatus
CFTC announce launch of Pilot Program for BTC, ETH and USDC to be used as collateral in derivatives markets
Hashkey launch Hong Kong IPO to raise $215M
Tether gains Abu Dhabi’s approval to launch across 9 chains
France third largest bank, BPCE enabled crypto trading for their 2M clients
AI Agent protocol, Almanak announce tge on 11 Dec
USDT backed Stable chain mainnet went live with token
zkSYNC to shutdown zksync lite next year
Paradigm invested $13.5M in a Series A funding for stablecoin Brazilian firm, Crown
Circle partnered with Bybit for global expansion of USDC
Circle secures financial services permission license from the Abu Dhabi to run as a money services provider
Binance becomes first exchange secure global license under ADGM Framework
Coinbase to list spot Plume and Jupiter today
Solid roundup. The BlackRock staked ETH filing is the big one here, it shifts instituional focus from just holding ETH to actually participating in network economics. The CFTC pilot for BTC/ETH/USDC collateral is also underrated, once derivatives markets start accepting crypto as margin, liquidity dynamics change completly.