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• Chainlink enables now direct transfers between Solana and Base through a new, secure bridge.
• More Base and Solana apps will adopt the bridge and increase the number of tokens and applications supported.

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Since yesterday there is a secure bridge between Base and Solana, which makes it possible to move assets between the two blockchains. Loud announcement From Chainlink, the bridge is secured by the Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol CCIP and co-validated by Coinbase’s infrastructure, creating double verification.

With the bridge now live on mainnet, developers and users have direct connectivity between Solana and Base. The connection leverages a custom crosschain oracle tailored to bridging Solana’s non-EVM architecture and Base’s EVM-based L2 environment.

Every crosschain message, such as a token transfer, must be independently verified by two parties: Chainlink CCIP node operators and Coinbase operators. This improves fault tolerance and increases reliability.

Im Blogpost Base explains that the bridge supports two-way transfers: users can move assets from Solana to Base and vice versa. Customers can now trade native Solana assets such as SOL and other Solana-based SPL tokens within Base applications. Developers on Base can natively integrate Solana assets into their applications, expanding asset selection and potentially attracting liquidity from Solana.

Base users can also export Base assets to Solana, allowing liquidity flows across the chain in both directions. The first applications such as Zora, Aerodrome, Virtuals, Flaunch and Relay are already among those that integrate the bridge.

Solana and Chainlink

In early 2025, Solana became the first non-EVM chain to integrate the Chainlink CCIP. This move had already provided access to $19 billion in collective assets via the Cross Chain Token Standard CCT.

Solana has been using Chainlink’s tools for a while now. The Chainlink price feeds have been live on the network since 2022, and the data streams followed at the end of 2024. Today, GMX-Solana and Kamino Finance have both integrated Chainlink Data Streams into their platforms.

LINK is currently listed at 14,24 $, after a slight increase of 6 % over the past week, with the next resistance at 15,33 $ is expected. The optimism has only increased with Grayscale’s Chainlink Trust exchange traded fund (ETF), ticker GLNK, launching on the NYSE Arca on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Vanguard received approval to allow its customers to trade Solana ETFs on its platform shortly after Fidelity and Canary launched their own Solana funds, FSOL and SOLC. SOL is currently listed at 148 $which represents a decrease of approximately 3 % in the last few days.

• The Aster-Dex has outlined planning for 2026, which includes the launch of the mainnet, new system tools and easier access to fiat money.
• Staking, strategy tools and support for other assets are also planned.

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Aster has its timetable for 2026 published and thus took an important step towards establishing itself as a basic protocol in decentralized finance. The launch of the Layer 1 mainnet is scheduled for the first quarter of 2026, along with the release of the Aster code for future system development.

The company also wants to offer fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat services through partnerships with third-party providers. The aim is to expand access to the platform and become even more customer-friendly.

The launch of the mainnet follows the significant phase of the year 25, which saw the merger of Astherus and ApolloX as well as the launch of a mobile application and the listing on several central exchanges. This paved the way for Aster to now enter the L1 phase.

However, several updates will be made before the end of the year. These include the Shield Mode, which enables data protection-oriented trading with high leverage, as well as the Strategy Order, which uses the Time-Weighted Average Price mechanism to reduce price deviations. In addition, additional upgrades are being introduced that are intended to bring more assets into the system and increase liquidity.

2026 H1 Roadmap Reveal: What’s Next for Aster

2025 was about proving Aster can ship: we merged Astherus & ApolloX, launched multi-asset margin, released our mobile app, completed TGE, listed on major CEXs, and introduced features like Hedge Mode, Trade & Earn, and our buyback… pic.twitter.com/It8ZAigvKc

— Aster (@Aster_DEX) December 4, 2025

Aster staking and governance begins 2Q26

More structural elements will be added to the Aster system in the second quarter of 2026. With the launch of Aster Staking, customers will be able to allocate tokens for the network. The introduction of Aster Governance is intended to help make decisions that promote the sustainability of the system.

Another feature expected in 2Q26 is the Aster Smart Money feature. The tool allows clients to track top trades in real-time, a new level of transparency and strategy sharing. Aster explains:

“Aster is evolving from a trading platform to a foundational DeFi layer.“

At the time of writing this article, the ASTER token was just over 1,05 $ traded. This represents a moderate recovery from the recent slump 0,88 S earlier this week, but the token remains below the technical thresholds that would suggest a confirmed recovery.

Should the ASTER price be below 1 $ fall, the next potential support level would be the previous low of 0,88 $. However, if the price rises again above 1,06 $buying interest could increase again.

• XRP holders used Firelight Finance staking and deposited 25 million FXRP worth around $55 million within a few hours.
• Phase two of Firelight aims to increase DeFi adoption, with stXRP liquidity and backing rewards slated for 2026.

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XRP holders have been quick to adopt Firelight Finance’s recently launched staking protocol on the Flare network. You can deposit FXRP, Flare’s “wrapped” version of XRP, and receive stXRP in return at a one-to-one ratio. In just a few hours, sales reached 25 million FXRP, which is around $55 million.

Firelight Launch Vault Full. Ignition SUCCESS

25M staked (~$55M TVL) within hours, proving massive XRP staking demand.

Vault capacity continues to scale.

Stay alert to what’s coming from @FlareNetworks & @Firelightfi pic.twitter.com/h07zESHHkf

— Flare (@FlareNetworks) December 4, 2025

stXRP serves as a liquid token that can circulate through the Flare network, which includes decentralized exchanges, lending platforms, and liquidity pools. Investors will be rewarded for their commitment before phase two, and staking rewards are scheduled to begin in 2026, after DeFi protocols adopt the insurance model and start paying coverage fees.

Unlike previous Ethereum efforts, the protocol’s design adapts restaking concepts to XRP. Firelight plans to repurpose capital to secure assets while keeping costs in mind, Chief Strategy Officer Connor Sullivan said:

“We are focusing on assets with a structurally lower cost of capital, like XRP, rather than trying to outperform ETH DeFi returns.”

Firelight is targeting phase two with expanded protocol goals

Sullivan highlighted Firelight’s focused DeFi coverage, which targets top-tier protocols where risk modeling is critical. The incentives are based on short, transparent point programs linked to real participation and economic value. Firelight is a Sentora incubator that grew out of IntoTheBlock and Trident Digital and is supported by Ripple and Flare on infrastructure and integration.

Sentora has extensive experience with major DeFi protocols and manages billions of dollars in total value secured through risk strategies and liquidity programs. Sullivan explains:

“Our customers are institutions looking to generate returns from DeFi, and one of the biggest hurdles for them is the lack of this special coverage primitive. DeFi coverage is an essential feature, not a nice-to-have.”

Firelight is now in discussions with various DeFi projects about adopting the coverage system. Participating protocols pay fees for coverage, and a portion of the fees go to stakers. The platform can integrate with any protocol, regardless of the underlying blockchain, not limited to XRP or Flare networks.

The claims process for Covered Incidents requires submission to an appointed agent and review by an independent panel. Once approved, payouts are automatically executed via onchain contracts. The Firelight team is currently focused on building liquidity for the cover module, with full functionality and staking rewards planned for phase two in early 2026.

Institutional adoption of XRP was further strengthened in 2025 when Virtune launched a physically collateralized XRP ETP on Deutsche Börse Xetra. It offers regulated access for private and institutional investors in Germany in accordance with EU and BaFin regulations. The high investor participation combined with the availability of regulated ETPs show the growing trust and support for the XRP system.

• Former Binance boss Changpeng Zhao argues that Bitcoin transactions are verifiable – a quality that gold transactions lack.
• While Zhao rejects offers of tokenized gold, Bitcoin opponent Peter Schiff defends his negative view: “BTC is worthless.”

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Binance Blockchain Week opened on Wednesday, with Binance CEO Richard Teng introducing Binance co-founder Yi He as the new co-CEO.

As the event continued, there was a spectacular appearance by Bitcoin opponent Peter Schiff and ex-Binance boss Changpeng Zhao. The two argued over the value of Bitcoin versus gold.

Zhao asked Schiff about TGold, the tokenized gold platform. He pulled out a gold bar, held it up and asked, “Is this real gold?” Of course, Schiff couldn’t check this. Zhao then explained that the authenticity of Bitcoin could be verified immediately.

Peter Schiff’s Bitcoin criticism

Schiff countered this:

“Bitcoin is worthless to me, not because I can’t touch it, taste it or smell it. I recognize that things that are intangible can have value… The problem is that you can’t do anything with them.”

He continued that Bitcoin has no use other than being able to be transferred from one person to another, such as from him to Zhao and from Zhaoan to someone else.

Another point of discussion was the scarcity of the two assets. Bitcoin has a mathematically defined fixed supply of 21 million tokens, but Schiff argued that gold is inherently scarce and its supply grows slowly. Zhao argued to Schiff that gold’s utility in commercial transactions is limited, while Bitcoin offers practical utility through its entire network. He recalled that he once received his salary in Bitcoin in 2014 and noted that there are now payment cards that allow you to use Bitcoin for everyday purchases.

Alongside Changpeng Zhao, Michael Saylor is a staunch Bitcoin supporter. In September, he predicted that BTC would outperform gold by 10x, linking his forecast to the US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Act introduced by President Donald Trump.

Gold’s market capitalization currently stands at $29.461 trillion, having recently become the first asset in history to reach a value of $30 trillion. Its price reached an ATH of in October 4381,58 $ and is now included 4237 $.

Bitcoin’s market capitalization remains at $1.84 trillion, while its price is at 92.578 $ 26% below its all-time high of 126.000 $ is, with next resistors 99.070 $ and 100.000 $.

• SEI and Allora integrate self-improving predictive AI feeds that deliver fast, adaptive on-chain data.
• Despite measures such as the Giga upgrade and the launch of the Monaco Protocol, SEI’s market performance has declined.

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The SEI Network has partnered with Allora, a decentralized artificial intelligence network. The integration aims to strengthen the network’s on-chain market capabilities by introducing dynamic, self-improving predictive feeds to SEI’s real-time market infrastructure

The Layer 1 network shared the cooperation in one X-Post with highlighting Allora’s self-improving predictive feeds that can learn on their own and update their accuracy in real-time based on changing market conditions.

This approach replaces the reliance on traditional real-time data and allows the Layer 1 network to provide more timely market signals.

Allora is a decentralized AI network that predicts prices, volatility and market trends. By connecting to the blockchain, its models continuously learn and improve their prediction accuracy over time.

This integration is intended to provide the SEI blockchain with more responsive signals and increase its performance, as the blockchain is designed to handle fast trades and heavy workloads. Integrations like these, combined with the v2 upgrade, will significantly increase the transaction speed of the blockchain.

In addition, Allora offers, as in the post described including APIs and data feeds that developers can integrate immediately. SEI dApps can use these predictive signals to improve automated strategies, strengthen risk controls, and streamline liquidity movements.

The most important milestones

This month, SEI announced that its upcoming Giga upgrade will make the network the first blockchain to operate with multiple concurrent submitters instead of a single block creator.

Additionally, in August, the SEI network launched the Monaco protocol, enabling sub-millisecond execution, 400ms finality, shared liquidity, and automatic revenue sharing for developers and institutions.

Meanwhile, the token’s market price is struggling to recover. The SEI token is currently changing hands for 0,1392 $after he in November 13,98 % lost.

European SEI ETP with high losses

The drop was also recorded on Coinshare’s Physical Staked SEI ETP, which am 28 July 2025 at the SIX Swiss Exchange was noted. Since then the ETP has been over 60 % lost in value.

• Crypto exchange Kraken is cooperating with Deutsche Börse Group to connect traditional financial markets with regulated crypto markets.
• The collaboration will expand institutional access to cryptocurrencies, FX liquidity, derivatives and RWA tokenization in Europe and the US.

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Kraken is a partnership with Deutsche Börse Group receivedone of the world’s leading financial market organizations. The aim is to connect traditional markets and the rapidly growing crypto industry.

The collaboration begins after the crypto exchange received a license under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework from the EU – CNF reported.

The two major corporations intend to expand institutional presence and offer traditional markets in Europe and the US access to regulated crypto markets and tokenized assets. The strategic collaboration is significant because Kraken has one of the oldest, most liquid and secure crypto platforms in the world, while Deutsche Börse Group has one of the world’s leading financial market infrastructures.

Joint roadmap

The two billion-dollar companies have created a roadmap to define and streamline the trading, settlement, custody and management of collateral for institutional clients.

The first phase involves immediate and direct interaction between Kraken and Deutsche Börse’s institutional foreign exchange trading venue, 360T. This connection gives banks and companies access to extensive financing options, resulting in better foreign exchange prices and easier foreign exchange.

Additionally, the collaboration will expand Kraken Embed’s operational scope. Kraken Embed, Kraken’s crypto-as-a-service, was launched on Launched on April 30th of this year, it helps traditional financial institutions in Europe and the USA to offer their customers legally regulated crypto trading in both jurisdictions.

In the future, derivatives listed on Eurex will also be included in trading, subject to official approval. All of this expands access to Europe’s largest regulated futures and options marketplace. Customers can already trade derivatives via the respective platforms of Kraken and Deutsche Börse.

Deutsche Börse and the crypto exchange will work with the xStocks and 360X platforms to distribute token-based stocks. As CNF reported, Deutsche Börse subsidiary Clearstream will provide the custody and transfer of securities in tokenized form as a service.

• With ironic self-criticism, Avalanche identifies decentralization, accessibility, versatility and acceptance as its “main problems”.
• Its modular subnet framework offers horizontal scaling through multiple Layer-1 units operating in parallel.

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The Avalanche (AVAX) community is having fun after the development team gave a tongue-in-cheek X-Thread published, which begins with the words: “Avalanche has a massive problem.” The old adage follows: “If you are everything, you are nothing,” before referring to it and calling it “Problem 1”:

“Avalanche can do anything.”

This is due to its architecture. The network is based on three core chains that work smoothly together: the X-Chain, which handles the creation and transfer of assets; the C-Chain, an EVM-compatible smart contract chain that supports Solidity, tokens, dApps and NFTs; and the P-Chain, which coordinates validators, manages staking, and coordinates Avalanche’s subnet system.

Decentralization, subnets and validators

The team further pointed to “Problem” #2, “Avalanche is overly decentralized,” and “Problem” #3, “Launching an L1 is too easy,” noting that creating a Layer 1 blockchain can typically take several years and millions of dollars, making it an uncertain adventure, while Avalanche allows developers to launch their own L1s quickly and effectively.

Avalanche allows the creation of subnets. These are blockchains that can be customized almost at will based on fees, setting up custom governance, and fine-tuning compliance rules without worrying about security or slow transaction speed.

The network is supported by a large, global group of validators. Avascan reports that Avalanche has more than 340 blockchains and more than 800 validators, with approximately 211 million AVAX tokens in stake. No special hardware is required to operate a node, helping to avoid centralization and keeping the network strong.

The background of this Avalanche design with multiple chains, subnets, scalability, decentralization and customizability is to support real-world applications: DeFi platforms, gaming, and asset tokenization.

Self-deprecatingly, the team comes to “problem” number 4: “Companies use Avalanche” and cites as an example FIS Global, a financial technology provider that partnered with Intain to run the “Digital Liquidity Gateway” marketplace on Avalanche.

It was recently announced that Japan’s three largest banking groups, Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui and Mizuho, ​​which together serve over 300,000 corporate customers, will issue stablecoins on Avalanche pegged to the Japanese yen and the dollar.

• Charles Schwab Corporation will begin its own Bitcoin and Ethereum spot trading in 2026.
• Schwab CEO Rick Wurster speaks of future crypto acquisitions, while a rather negative mood increases the pressure on the stock exchanges.

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The confirmation came directly from CEO Rick Wurster during his appearance at the Reuters Next conference in New York. The introduction will take place gradually. Schwab will initially test the product internally with employees.

They then want to offer limited access to selected customers. Wider access will come in later phases, although no date for general access has been announced yet. Wurster emphasized that the company will roll out gradually to maintain quality assurance throughout the process.

Schwab is also currently examining possible takeovers. Wurster noted that the company would consider purchasing a crypto company if the opportunity and price are right. He didn’t name specific goals, but emphasized that strategic deals could add capabilities that are attractive to customers and increase value.

Schwab’s zero trades raise concerns about pricing

Concerns have arisen over Bitcoin spot trading pricing. Eric Balchunas, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg, called fees a critical factor and noted that Schwab already offers free stock and ETF trades. He noted that prices below 50 basis points could put pressure on existing crypto exchanges and distort competition.

We knew this was coming, big q tho: What is the fee? Schwab has free ETF and stock trading. If crypto also free, look out $COIN. Hell, anything under 50bps is big threat to crypto exchanges IMO. On flip, ETFs are already free to trade and have 1-2bp spread so pretty much imposs… https://t.co/FVR79Wx0mH

— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) December 3, 2025

In November, Schwab acquired the private equity platform Forge Global for $660 million. Rick Wurster justified the takeover with increasing customer demand for pre-IPO access. The acquisition is expected to open trading opportunities outside of public markets, provide clients with access to previously limited investment opportunities and help them expand their portfolios.

Wurster described the end of the year as stronger in terms of trading activity. Schwab’s average daily trading volume in the fourth quarter exceeded that of the first months of 2025. Customer balances exceeded internal forecasts, supported by market developments.

Additionally, Africa Bitcoin Corporation went public in Germany to attract global investors and raise capital outside of its home market. The company aims to showcase its digital assets activities, which include mining, custody and payments, and highlight ongoing structural projects in African markets to generate broader interest in Bitcoin-related projects in key regions.

• Since the Fusaka upgrade, L1 performance, blob capacity, and rollup efficiency have increased significantly.
• Increased buying activity caused network activity to rise, and the Ethereum price followed suit with an increase.

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Ethereum has completed the Fusaka upgrade on mainnet, completing an important step in its L1 rollup roadmap. The release strengthens base layer throughput, increases blob capacity, reduces rollup costs, and introduces the only fork switch blob parameter to scale data capacity in controlled phases.

Fusaka update brought PeerDAS as a new scaling layer

PeerDAS allows Ethereum to achieve block consensus without requiring a node to process more than a trivial amount of data. PeerDAS, as introduced by Vitalik Buterin, is a pragmatic sharding tool that has been anticipated for quite some time.

PeerDAS in Fusaka is significant because it literally is sharding.

Ethereum is coming to consensus on blocks without requiring any single node to see more than a tiny fraction of the data. And this is robust to 51% attacks – it’s client-side probabilistic verification, not… pic.twitter.com/OK81xBteER

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) December 3, 2025

The design improves data availability, evidence, and resilience to oppositional environments, paving the way for future L2 expansion.

L1 scalability has been limited by advances in ZK-EVM development. The proposer-builder bottleneck remains as builders are forced to process full data sizes. A sharded mempool is also still pending.

Still, Fusaka is a structural leap for Ethereum’s design, and developers are discussing how over the next two years to expand PeerDAS’s scope, improve stability, and expand its presence on both L2 and L1 when it comes to gas.

ethPandaOps has verified that the upgrade was performed cleanly, and team members continue to monitor network activity as data arrives post-fork. Operators have already been asked to report any discrepancies in order to review them as quickly as possible in all customer implementations.

Fusaka is now live and finalized on Mainnet! We’re busy looking at the data now and will update you on how the networking layer looks once we have enough samples!

In the meantime, please report any bugs you see with your nearest friendly client dev! https://t.co/XF6B1v5lGP

— ethPandaOps (@ethPandaOps) December 3, 2025

ETH technical setup suggests $4,300 target

The Ethereum price rose after the upgrade. ETH rose from 3.037 $ on 3.236 $which represents an increase of approx. 5 % corresponds, and was subsequently added to 3.187,59 $ traded. The accumulation of medium-sized wallets containing 1,000-10,000 ETH continued to gain momentum.

This trend was identified by Santiment as a key price driver in 2025 designated. Network activity has also increased, to a record 190,000 new wallets in a single day.

The technical momentum continued to increase, as a market analyst Sykodelic observedthat ETH experiences a recovery every time the 1-day RSI returns from overbought territory to oversold territory and breaks out of its downtrend.

In the last five years this has regularly led to an increase of at least 45 %what ETH is heading towards again 4.300 $ would bring.

German authorities shut down illegal crypto mixer

As Ethereum advances on its technical roadmap, law enforcement agencies from Switzerland and Germany have, in a joint operation, shut down a criminal-run crypto mixer and taken control of the domain, three servers, €25 million worth of Bitcoin and 12 terabytes of data. This increases regulatory pressure on the entire crypto system at a time when the Ethereum infrastructure is entering a new phase of scaling.

• Charles Hoskinson criticizes lurid 100-fold profit promises and has a serious alternative for small investors.
• He emphasizes that real opportunities for profit lie in the development of useful applications for everyday use.

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Earlier this week, Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson transferred one Live-Stream titled “Hang in There.” In it he discussed some of the upheavals that have characterized the crypto market in recent years.

He began with the remark:

“We lost retail in 2021… Do you know what happened? The industry started selling images of bananas as NFTs for $1.5 million. People were selling tweets, not even the actual tweets, just NFTs representing tweets, for hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

He emphasized that many retail investors have not yet recovered from disasters such as the Terra Luna crash, in which around $60 billion in market value was lost and companies with too little equity such as Three Arrows Capital, Celsius and Voyager went bankrupt.

Hoskinson also mentioned the collapse of FTX in 2022, in which the centralized exchange and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, embezzled $8 billion.

Hoskinson’s alternative for retail

Cardano inventor Hoskinson is convinced that the crypto industry will only regain retail acceptance if it offers customers useful products. He argues that such a product must offer economic agency, personal identity, self-custody and sound money. These are the elements that enable individuals to control their financial affairs.

He called for building a community of retail customers who are able to control their privacy and enjoy the freedom to choose who they interact with.

Cardano has put these ideas into practice and is working to build infrastructure across industries while supporting and growing its community. The Cardano Summit took place in Berlin on November 12th and 13th, attended by over 1,000 executives and more than 75 speakers from the industry. The next summit is scheduled to take place in Singapore on October 26.

As CNF reported, Cardano’s Midnight Mainnet, its privacy-first network, is expected to launch in 2026 – although the NIGHT token is scheduled to be issued as early as December 8th. Most exchanges want to list NIGHT from day one, for which 4.5 billion tokens are earmarked.

ADA is currently at 0,4467 $ traded, representing an increase of 3,57 % last week, despite sales falling 22% to $758 million.