Five crypto stories worth knowing today — stripped down to the part that actually matters.
Bitcoin was pushed back from the $87,000 area for a third time since late September and slipped toward the mid-$85,000s. The setup now looks compressed between rising support and a stubborn resistance ceiling, making the next clean break worth watching.
Read at CoinDesk →Ethereum developers shipped a late Prysm client update ahead of the Glamsterdam Sepolia test. The test raises the block gas limit to 200 million, giving developers a real-world check on whether validators can handle much larger blocks before similar capacity changes reach mainnet.
Read at CoinDesk →The Solana Foundation introduced an open-source delivery-versus-payment standard designed to settle both sides of an institutional trade atomically in seconds. JPMorgan contributed settlement expertise, while future work is expected to focus on privacy and other institutional requirements.
Read at CoinDesk →FinCEN withdrew an old proposal that would have required additional reporting for large transfers involving self-custody wallets. It also dropped a separate proposed framework aimed at crypto mixing transactions; neither proposal had ever taken effect.
Read at CoinDesk →The CFTC outlined an early federal licensing framework for crypto platforms, with a particular focus on leveraged trading. The proposal points toward a single federal route for exchanges while adding custody, recordkeeping, market-surveillance and customer-protection requirements.
Read at Decrypt →