### Pastor Sues Over Rape Claim, Court Shields Free Speech Washington appeals court slams the door on a pastor’s defamation suit against his ex-assistant, ruling her “rape” accusation in a letter and blog post is protected speech under the new Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA). Pastor Micahn Carter, who bedded assistant Mary Jones in…
### Washington Court Greenlights Warrantless Drug Searches on Supervised Offenders A Washington state appeals court upheld a conviction for drug possession by ruling that probation-like supervision kicks in immediately upon sentencing, even during electronic home monitoring, allowing warrantless home searches on failed drug tests. This unpublished decision clarifies when Department of Corrections (DOC) authority begins,…
**Washington Court Slaps Estate Heir with Contempt Over Secret Home Sale** A Washington appeals court just upheld a contempt ruling against Shane Hurd, who secretly sold his late father’s house—out from under the man’s longtime partner Dorothy Phillips—then blew the $165,000 proceeds without proof. Phillips, who poured cash into the down payment, renovations, and bills…
**Fifth Circuit Slaps Down Prisoner’s Habeas Bid – No Crypto Link** A federal inmate’s bid to revive his stalled habeas corpus petition crashed in the Fifth Circuit, where judges dismissed his appeal as meritless and denied pauper status for appeal. Olamide Bello failed to counter the lower court’s dismissal for lack of prosecution, handing a…
Uniswap’s token burn, protocol fee proposal backed overwhelmingly by voters Uniswap governance has approved a wide-ranging tokenomics proposal that activates protocol fees for the Uniswap exchange and sets up a major UNI token burn, marking a shift in how value flows through the ecosystem. The proposal, called “UNIfication” and jointly introduced by Uniswap Labs and…
Trust Wallet users lose $7 million to hacked Chrome extension Trust Wallet said users lost roughly $7 million after attackers compromised a version of its Google Chrome browser extension, draining funds shortly after victims imported their recovery phrases. The incident surfaced on Dec. 25, when users began reporting on X that their wallets had been…
Bitcoin Hits $90,000—But Rally May Not Last Through Holidays Bitcoin briefly climbed above $90,000 this week, reaching an eight-day high of $90,353 on Monday, as traders tested a level that has repeatedly capped the market through December. But several indicators suggest the move may be difficult to sustain into the holiday period. Analysts and market…
Flare Launches New Way For XRP Investors To Earn Flare Network has launched earnXRP, a new onchain yield product built with Upshift Finance and Clearstar that aims to let XRP holders earn returns while keeping their exposure denominated in XRP. According to the project’s description, earnXRP targets 4% to 10% returns by deploying wrapped XRP…
The 7 Largest Publicly Traded Ethereum Treasury Firms Publicly traded companies are increasingly adopting crypto treasury strategies that extend beyond Bitcoin and into other major digital assets, led by Ethereum. Data from StrategicETHReserve.xyz shows public entities with Ethereum treasuries collectively hold more than 6.7 million ETH, valued at about $20 billion, representing over 5.5% of…
Crypto Bills Shouldn’t Be Bitcoin or Bust, Says Indiana Lawmaker Indiana State Rep. Kyle Pierce said a cryptocurrency bill he introduced earlier this month was drafted to be intentionally broad, aiming to support the wider digital asset market rather than elevating any single token. In comments to Decrypt, the Republican lawmaker said the approach was…
The Year in Bitcoin 2025: Breaking Records as Governments and Wall Street Took Interest Bitcoin’s 2025 was defined less by a single price trend than by a shift in who drove the market. While headlines focused on sharp rallies and reversals, the year’s lasting story was unprecedented institutional participation alongside major U.S. policy moves and…
Vanguard Opens the Door to Crypto ETFs, Coinbase Challenges State Actions, and ETF Flows Signal Caution Several threads shaping crypto markets in late 2025 converged this week: broader access to crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) through major brokerage platforms, new legal action by Coinbase against multiple US states, and fresh reminders that institutional participation can expand…
XRP ETF net assets cross $1.25 billion milestone, but price action remains muted Institutional demand for XRP exposure continued to build through exchange-traded funds, even as XRP’s spot price stayed range-bound. In recent sessions, investors added $8.19 million to XRP ETF products, lifting total ETF-held net assets to roughly $1.25 billion, according to several widely…
How Pudgy Penguins Landed the Las Vegas Sphere—After Dogwifhat Couldn’t The Las Vegas Sphere is currently displaying animations of Pudgy Penguins, bringing the crypto-native brand’s cartoon characters to one of the most prominent digital billboards in the U.S. The campaign runs for about seven days and was planned over several months, according to details shared…
Bitcoin will be ‘top performer’ in 2026 after lagging this year, VanEck says VanEck says Bitcoin could rebound in 2026 after a difficult period of relative performance in 2025, pointing to a widening gap between crypto and large-cap tech stocks. In the asset manager’s recently published 2026 outlook, David Schassler, VanEck’s head of multi-asset solutions,…
Gold nears a 50-year threshold as bitcoin drifts back toward key support Gold is approaching a historically significant level when measured against the U.S. money supply, while bitcoin is retracing toward a closely watched technical floor—highlighting a widening gap between how investors are treating the two assets in the current market. On a ratio basis…
Bitcoin Has Entered A Bear Market, And This Data Backs It Up Bitcoin is showing multiple signs consistent with a shift into a bear market, according to recent analysis from CryptoQuant and commentary from verified contributors on the platform. A key signal cited by analysts is Bitcoin’s Combined Market Index (also referred to as BCMI),…
Prediction Markets Had Their Breakout Year in 2025 — and There Was No Going Back Prediction markets moved decisively into the mainstream in 2025, shifting from a niche crypto experiment into a fast-growing financial product category with multibillion-dollar activity. Platforms that let users trade on the outcome of real-world events—ranging from elections and economic data…
‘Most important tokenholder rights debate’: Aave faces identity crisis Aave, one of decentralized finance’s biggest lending protocols, is facing a sharp internal split over who should control the project’s brand and related assets — a dispute that is escalating a broader clash between the Aave DAO and Aave Labs, the company led by founder Stani…
The Year in Bitcoin 2025: Breaking Records as Governments, Wall Street Take Interest Bitcoin’s 2025 was defined by a striking contradiction: a market that became more institutional and policy-linked than ever, while still delivering extreme volatility and operational stress across parts of the ecosystem. On price alone, the year produced a new all-time high before…
