Sberbank is piloting DeFi tools and expanding regulated crypto-linked investments, with total issuance around 1.5 billion rubles. Executives outlined the approach at the "FI Day. AI & Blockchain" conference in Moscow, while the bank engages the Bank of Russia and Rosfinmonitoring on qualified investor access to digital assets.

Solana has been subjected to a distributed denial-of-service attack peaking at nearly 6 terabits per second, reportedly the fourth-largest incident ever recorded against a distributed system, yet its network continued processing transactions without disruption. While validators absorbed the week-long surge in traffic, on-chain indicators now point to shrinking liquidity and persistent realized losses, with analysts describing the current phase as a full liquidity reset that could precede the next market cycle.

The U.S. SEC has reduced crypto enforcement, dismissing or pausing nearly 60% of cases since January. Pullbacks include high-profile actions involving Ripple and Binance, while the agency says decisions reflect legal and policy considerations rather than politics. Leadership changes loom as Caroline Crenshaw prepares to depart and Paul Atkins is expected to remain chair.

MetaMask has introduced native Bitcoin support, enabling users to buy, swap, send, and receive BTC directly in the wallet after previously relying only on wrapped versions. The rollout, announced on Monday following initial hints in February, extends MetaMask's multichain strategy alongside assets like Ethereum, Solana, Monad, and Sei, with further network integrations and a Polymarket partnership also in the pipeline.

Doha Bank completed a digitally native US dollar bond, issuing $150 million in floating-rate notes with T+0 settlement on Euroclear’s D-FMI. Standard Chartered served as sole global coordinator and arranger, and the notes were listed on the London Stock Exchange’s International Securities Market. The bank said the deal diversifies funding and expands its investor base.

Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov has filed a proposal for a 17.45 million CRV grant, valued at about $6.6 million, to fund Swiss Stake AG. The plan covers research, development, infrastructure, and security for Curve’s lending stack and a 2026 roadmap, including upgrades to Llamalend. The proposal appeared on the Curve DAO forum on Sunday.

Market analyst Jeff Park said Bitcoin's stall around $90,000 stems from covered call selling by long-term holders, which adds steady sell pressure via market-maker hedging. He argues options flows are steering short-term moves even as spot ETF inflows remain firm. Traders are also watching the January FOMC path, with 24.4% pricing in another cut.

On December 11, 2025, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued staff no-action letters to Polymarket US, LedgerX, PredictIt, and Gemini Titan. The relief is conditional, requiring full collateralization of all contracts and publication of time-and-sales data to limit enforcement risk.

South Korean investigators report that Binance locked just 17% of Solana-based assets stolen in the November 27 Upbit hack after receiving an urgent freeze request from the exchange and police. Authorities say the attackers laundered funds through more than a thousand wallets and multiple chains before most of the assets reached Binance service wallets, while experts in Korea are now calling for faster, coordinated global freeze mechanisms and Upbit has raised its customer cold storage ratio to 99% following the roughly 44.5 billion won theft.