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Traditional finance giants are leading Bitcoin’s rally, acquiring billions through ETFs while Web3 treasuries step back. Analysts caution this wave of TradFi demand could skew organic growth and add volatility to BTC’s market outlook.
Pi Coin’s price action remains puzzling. After months of losses, retail buyers are stepping in, but institutional money is slowing down. Unless both align, Pi’s rebound above $0.272 might not last.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called for zero-knowledge (ZK)–based secret-ballot voting to shield judges and officials from retaliation after a U.S. court fire case drew attention to rising political threats. Analysts project the ZK proving market to reach $10.2B by 2030, as privacy-first governance gains traction worldwide.
- 14:06Stablecoin payment company RedotPay completes $107 million Series B financingJinse Finance reported that Hong Kong fintech company RedotPay, which focuses on stablecoin payments, announced the completion of a $107 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from Pantera Capital, Blockchain Capital, Circle Ventures, and existing investor HSG (formerly Sequoia Capital China).
- 14:05Frontera Labs completes $3 million seed round led by Maven 11According to Odaily, Strata protocol developer Frontera Labs has announced the completion of a $3 million seed round led by Maven 11 Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Faction, Halo Capital, Heartcore Capital, Anchorage Digital Ventures, Nayt Technologies, Split Capital, and a group of angel investors. Strata is described as a universal risk tranching protocol that packages both on-chain and off-chain yield strategies into tokenized senior and junior tranches, each with distinct risk-return characteristics. (CoinDesk)
- 14:05Nick Timiraos: Private sector employment increased by an average of 44,000, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.573%ChainCatcher News, according to Golden Ten Data, "Federal Reserve mouthpiece" Nick Timiraos stated that as of November, the private sector added an average of 44,000 jobs over the past six months, maintaining the level seen in October. This marks the slowest hiring pace in the post-pandemic reopening cycle. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate in November rose to 4.573%, up 13 basis points from 4.44% in September. Powell stated last week that the Federal Reserve believes its policy setting will stabilize the unemployment rate, or "will only rise by another 0.1 or 0.2 percentage points."