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