Sunday Top Crypto News
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Tom Lee said Strategy (MSTR) has become the crypto market’s key hedge, with its 43% drop driven by institutions using it as a “pressure valve” for Bitcoin.
He said Strategy holds 650,000 BTC and offers far greater liquidity than BTC/ETH derivatives, pushing traders to short MSTR as on-chain hedging dries up amid weak liquidity and damaged market makers.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the market is overlooking a key trend: major tokens are rapidly improving value capture. UNI is moving toward a fee switch that would burn ~16% of trading fees, ETH’s Fusaka upgrade (expected Dec. 3) could 5–10x revenue by adding a minimum L2 data fee, and the XRP community is exploring staking….
Hougan says new regulation is shifting tokens from governance toward value capture, a trend that will become clear in 2026.
Aerodrome, the top DEX on Base, and Velodrome, the leading DEX on Optimism, suffered a front-end compromise early Saturday morning, and urged users to use decentralized mirror links to access the platforms.
Ethereum Foundation announced that Devcon 8 will be held in Mumbai, India in Q4 2026.
Officials highlighted India’s leadership in crypto adoption, noting it onboarded the most new crypto developers globally in 2024 and has one of the fastest-growing developer populations. The local ecosystem is also driven by projects such as EthMumbai, Devfolio, and Polygon.
Crypto majors trade at the following levels
BTC 85,865 (up 1.5% in 24 hours)
ETH 2,790 (up 1.1%)
XRP 2.027 (up 4.1%)
SOL 128.57 (up 0.7%)
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