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December 03, 2025

Your Daily Digest of the 🔥Hottest News in Crypto

Today's top stories

👀 Fink calls Bitcoin an "asset of fear"

👉 Fusaka goes live as Ethereum upgrades

📺 Saifedean lays out his next-decade BTC thesis

📰 Keep reading for all of today's biggest headlines

BlackRock's Fink Now Calls Bitcoin an 'Asset of Fear'

Larry Fink pivoted in real time on the DealBook stage. Eight years ago, he linked crypto to money laundering. Today, he runs the world's largest spot Bitcoin ETF. Fink called Bitcoin an "asset of fear," but also admitted his thinking has completely shifted — a public reversal he didn't try to soften. When the head of BlackRock frames BTC as a flight-to-safety instrument, you can feel how much the narrative has changed.

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The Author Who Accidentally Predicted Crypto

Catching up with Neal Stephenson felt like opening a time capsule from the early internet. Long before crypto existed as a market or a movement, he was sketching out cypherpunk monetary systems in the pages of Snow Crash. He coined "Metaverse" before the web was mainstream and imagined digital cash mechanics more than a decade before Satoshi. Hearing him reflect on those parallels now — and how fiction accidentally foreshadowed reality — adds a new layer to his legacy.

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The case for a 'non-mandatory KYC' model — Interview with Toobit

Toobit CEO Ray Lee explains how modern exchanges can ensure compliance through "Know Your Transaction" technology, rather than relying on forced ID checks.

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Ethereum's Fusaka Upgrade Raises the Ceiling Again

This latest upgrade supercharges data capacity and slashes costs.

Fusaka finally went live, and Ethereum just took a major step toward the UX it's been promising for years. PeerDAS is the headline feature — a data-availability breakthrough that massively boosts capacity and cuts transaction costs across L2s. The network isn't "instant feel" yet, but this is the closest Ethereum has come to delivering mainstream-ready performance.



Eclipse Brings Solana's Parallel Runtime to Ethereum		Eclipse combines high-throughput execution with Ethereum settlement in a way no other L2 has attempted. Cointelegraph Research breaks down the architecture and the milestones that will define its trajectory.

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U. S. Banks Quietly Test Crypto Rails

Coinbase says large banks are already experimenting behind the scenes.

Brian Armstrong didn't name names at DealBook, but made it clear that major U.S. banks are already running pilots with Coinbase. Stablecoins, custody, trading rails — all in motion. The institutions that dismissed crypto a few years ago are now testing infrastructure they once argued wasn't needed. What stood out even more was Larry Fink nodding along.

BITCOIN ONLY: Saifedean's Case for the Next Decade

Talking to Saifedean Ammous in Amsterdam was a reminder that some voices in Bitcoin don't waver with market cycles. He offered a decade-long view that's as uncompromising as ever — no half measures, no diversification, no "crypto basket."