The Year in Stablecoins 2025: Record Growth as GENIUS Act Opens the Floodgates Stablecoin market capitalization surged 49% in 2025, reaching $306 billion by December, as the sector benefited from clearer rules and a widening base of institutional users. The expansion was closely tied to a shifting regulatory environment in the United States. The GENIUS…
Hyperliquid Explained: A Deep Dive Into the Perp DEX That Reshaped Crypto in 2025 Hyperliquid emerged as one of the defining forces in decentralized finance in 2025, not through aggressive marketing, but by scaling a product that many traders had long argued on-chain markets could not support: high-volume, low-latency perpetual futures. At its core, Hyperliquid…
Korbit fined $1.9 million for anti-money laundering, customer verification breaches Korbit, a South Korean crypto exchange, was fined KRW 2.7 billion (approximately $1.9 million) after inspectors found repeated breaches of anti-money laundering and customer verification rules, according to the provided description. The exchange, described as the country’s fourth-largest, was penalized after authorities said it violated…
2025 EOY: “Person of the Year” spotlights converge as crypto’s big shift becomes structural As 2025 closed, multiple organizations and publications released “Person of the Year” selections that, taken together, pointed to a common theme: technology and institutional change mattered at least as much as celebrity or politics. In crypto, that same dynamic showed up…
Charles Hoskinson Says Trump-Branded Crypto Projects Pulled Digital Assets Into Partisan Politics Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, weighed in on the growing intersection between U.S. politics and cryptocurrency, arguing that some high-profile, Trump-linked crypto initiatives have had a counterproductive effect on public interest in the sector. Hoskinson said the launch of projects such as…
Tom Lee reiterates 2026 crypto targets as ETH buying and “tax harvesting” narrative return to focus Fundstrat managing partner and financial analyst Tom Lee has again laid out a bullish medium-term outlook for major cryptoassets, arguing that near-term price pressure may be tied to year-end tax strategies while longer-term adoption trends remain supportive. In market…
Crypto Goes to Hollywood A new film is putting crypto at the center of a familiar Hollywood formula, reflecting how digital assets have moved from niche technology into mainstream storytelling. In the DCP-backed thriller “Cold Wallet”, crypto is portrayed less as a technical obsession and more as a practical tool. According to Hoderine, crypto is…
Coinbase’s Base faces builder backlash over creator coin push Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network Base is facing mounting criticism from developers and traders over its aggressive push into creator coins, a strategy closely associated with the NFT platform Zora. The complaints center on concerns that Base is prioritizing a narrow SocialFi narrative while sidelining long-time Base-native…
Grayscale files for first U.S. Bittensor ETP as decentralized AI gains momentum Grayscale Investments has filed an initial S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking approval to convert its Grayscale Bittensor Trust into a U.S.-listed exchange-traded product (ETP) that would provide exposure to TAO, the native token of the Bittensor network….
XRP Price At $100 Is A “Liquidity Event” Number, What This Means A recent framing circulating in the XRP community argues that a price of $100 should be understood less as a conventional price target and more as a “liquidity event” level. In this context, a liquidity event is defined as a moment when an…
Grayscale says regulation, not quantum fears, will shape crypto markets in 2026 Grayscale’s research team is positioning regulation as the key force likely to shape digital asset markets in 2026, arguing that clearer rules—particularly in the U.S.—will matter more in the near term than worries about quantum computing. In its 2026 cryptocurrency market outlook, the…
Michael Saylor discloses $109M Bitcoin purchase as “White Whale” market cap jumps to $71M Crypto markets were slightly lower on the day, with Bitcoin at $87,000 (-1%) and bitcoin dominance holding steady at 59.0% (0%). Major altcoins also declined, including Ethereum at $2,953 (-3%), BNB at $853 (-1%), and Solana at $124 (-3%). Against that…
The Best AI Large Language Models of 2025 A new 2025 review is drawing attention to how quickly large language models (LLMs) are evolving, highlighting DeepSeek R1 and related techniques such as RLVR, alongside broader shifts in model evaluation, architecture choices, and inference-time scaling. The overview also places the LLM market in a wider enterprise…
BlackRock flags crypto as infrastructure as Polymarket prepares a U.S. return Prediction market platform Polymarket is moving closer to re-establishing operations in the United States, expanding its rollout plans to include more market categories such as crypto, technology, and politics. The company is not yet live in the U.S., citing remaining regulatory hurdles. To support…
Charles Hoskinson Highlights Key Differences Between Hash Functions and Lattice-Based Cryptography Cardano founder and IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson drew attention this week to a technical but increasingly relevant topic in cryptography: the distinction between cryptographic hash functions and lattice-based cryptography. Hoskinson’s remarks, shared under the headline phrase “Most Crypto People Have No Clue What’s About…
Grayscale files for first U.S. Bittensor ETP as decentralized AI gains momentum Grayscale has filed paperwork with U.S. regulators to launch an exchange-traded product tied to Bittensor’s TAO token, a move that would expand crypto investment options linked to decentralized artificial intelligence. The digital asset manager submitted an initial S-1 registration statement with the U.S….
Grayscale files for first U.S. Bittensor ETP as decentralized AI gains momentum Grayscale has moved to expand crypto investment access tied to decentralized artificial intelligence by filing for a new exchange-traded product focused on Bittensor’s TAO token. The digital asset manager filed an initial S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on…
Bitcoin Whales Woke Up in 2025 and Moved Billions in BTC—Here’s Why Large Bitcoin holders, often referred to as “whales,” began moving significant amounts of BTC after the asset reached the long-watched $100,000 level, according to experts speaking with Decrypt. The activity stood out because the coins involved had reportedly been held for an extended…
GG Story of the Year 2025: Crypto Gaming Collapses as Funding Dries Up Crypto gaming’s funding pipeline shrank sharply in 2025, leaving many GameFi teams without the capital needed to keep building. The downturn was marked by a steep decline in quarterly investment and a parallel slide in token valuations, a combination that drained project…
Crypto markets rise 7%–10% as Bank of America backs the asset class and Kalshi reaches an $11 billion valuation Crypto prices moved higher by roughly 7% to 10% as the sector absorbed two headline developments: Bank of America publicly recommending crypto and event-contracts platform Kalshi closing major fundraising that put its valuation at $11 billion….
