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GoTyme Bank, the Philippines’ fastest-growing digital lender, has rolled out in-app cryptocurrency trading for its 6.5 million customers, partnering with U.S. fintech Alpaca to deliver seamless access via its mobile platform. Announced December 7, 2025, “GoTyme Crypto” enables peso-to-USD conversions for buying and holding 11 assets—including BTC, ETH, SOL, and DOT—without external exchanges, targeting beginners amid the nation’s ninth-ranked global …

After a two-year exile, Coinbase has relaunched operations in India, reopening user registrations and enabling crypto-to-crypto trading as of December 2025. This cautious comeback follows the exchange’s 2023 offboarding of millions of users due to regulatory hurdles. A full fiat gateway—allowing seamless INR deposits and withdrawals—is slated for 2026, per APAC Director John O’Loghlen at India Blockchain Week. The move …

In a poignant milestone for Ethereum’s scaling saga, Matter Labs has announced the planned deprecation of ZKsync Lite—the blockchain’s inaugural zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup—in 2026. Launched in June 2020 as ZKsync 1.0, this payments-focused Layer 2 solution pioneered validity proofs for batched transactions, slashing fees and boosting throughput while anchoring security to Ethereum’s mainnet. Today, with ~$50 million in bridged assets …

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has reignited discussions on network economics with a fresh proposal for a trustless, on-chain gas futures market—framed as a prediction market on the Base Fee—to deliver long-term predictability amid scaling uncertainties. Shared in an X post on December 6, 2025, the idea counters persistent user skepticism: With current fees at multi-year lows (0.47 gwei, ~$0.01 for …

Argentina’s Central Bank (BCRA) is drafting rules to repeal its May 2022 prohibition, potentially allowing traditional banks to offer cryptocurrency trading and custody services under a stringent new framework. This shift, reported December 8, 2025, aligns with President Javier Milei’s pro-crypto stance and aims to formalize the $93.9 billion in crypto volume (July 2022–June 2025), second-highest in Latin America per …