Martin Young

The total crypto market cap fell to $2.93 trillion, its lowest since April, erasing yearly gains as analysts anticipated further declines.

Crypto has tracked lower late this year despite pro-regulation shifts, ETF launches, and institutional buying, prompting analysts to question structural issues.

Analysts estimated that crypto treasury firms face up to $11.6 billion in outflows if MSCI excluded them from its indexes.

Bitwise predicted Bitcoin's volatility will stay below Nvidia's in 2026, citing institutional adoption and ETFs as drivers of the asset’s maturation.

Lightning Network’s capacity reached an all-time high as exchanges increased adoption, while a new Taproot Assets update has enabled multi-asset transactions.

Exodus partnered with MoonPay to launch a USD-backed stablecoin for everyday payments, integrating it into Exodus Pay for self-custodial transactions.

Bitcoin fell 26% in three months but outperformed most crypto sectors as Ether dropped 36%, AI tokens fell 48%, and memecoins dipped 56%.

Cloudflare found over 5% of global emails were malicious in 2025, peaking near 10% in November, with more than half of them containing deceptive links.

The Senate Banking Committee delayed crypto market structure hearings until 2026 amid ongoing bipartisan negotiations.

A bug in Ethereum's Prysm client caused network participation to drop to 75% costing validators 382 ETH as nodes experienced resource exhaustion.

Bitcoin fell to $87,600 amid more Sunday selling pressure, while Michael Saylor hinted that Strategy would buy more.

The Blockchain Game Alliance reports industry confidence rose to 66% as developers pivoted from speculation to sustainable models following a funding collapse since 2021.

Crypto markets rebounded after the Fed’s third rate cut this year, with analysts predicting a larger bounce following the typical post-cut pattern.

Binance added a host of zero-fee trading pairs for the Trump family’s stablecoin and used it to back its own stablecoin collateral.

Australia’s securities regulator has removed licensing requirements for stablecoin intermediaries and approved omnibus accounts, reducing compliance costs.

A16z Crypto has opened its first Asian office in Seoul, South Korea, led by former Polygon Labs executive SungMo Park, with the venture capital firm noting the region’s dominance in global adoption.

Sygnum’s APAC HNWI Report 2025 found that 87% of Asia’s high-net-worth individuals are already exposed to crypto, with an average allocation of approximately 17%.

Bitcoin surged to $94,625, its highest in three weeks, as positive social sentiment returned, but comments from the Fed on Wednesday could put it back on shaky ground.

Strive, co-founded in 2022 by American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, launched a $500 million preferred stock offering to acquire more Bitcoin and Bitcoin-related products.

Twenty One Capital launched on the NYSE with strong institutional backing and a massive Bitcoin treasury.

Paradigm researchers found that major analytics dashboards are double-counting Polymarket’s trading volume due to redundant blockchain events.

Bitcoin is holding a critical Fibonacci support level, but analysts warned that a break could trigger losses down to April lows of $76,000.

Robinhood acquired an Indonesian brokerage and digital asset trading firm to access a market with 17 million crypto investors.

Ether exchange balances dropped to a decade low of 8.7% as more ETH moved into staking and custody, setting up a potential supply squeeze.

ETF expert Eric Balchunas argued Bitcoin's 17-year track record and multiple recoveries make tulip mania comparisons obsolete despite recent criticism.

Bitcoin’s liveliness indicator reached new peaks, suggesting strong demand despite lower prices and signaling the bull market cycle may not be over yet.

Santiment says social sentiment toward XRP has hit its lowest levels since October, entering the fear zone, but suggested that has preceded a rally in the past.

Base launched a Chainlink-secured bridge to Solana, enabling crosschain asset transfers between the Ethereum layer-2 and the Solana blockchain.

Citadel Securities argued that DeFi platforms offering tokenized US stocks should be regulated under securities laws and not get exemptive relief from the SEC.

Connecticut has sent cease and desist letters to Robinhood, Crypto.com and Kalshi, claiming the platforms' event contracts are unlicensed sports betting.