Creator Capital Markets: How Pump.fun Changed Streaming in 2025 Pump.fun, a Solana-based memecoin creation platform, became one of crypto’s most consequential creator-economy experiments in 2025 by popularizing what it described as “creator capital markets”—the idea that viewers can fund their favorite creators while taking a stake in the future of their content through a crypto…
XRP and Solana volatility in 2025 was twice as bumpy as Bitcoin’s Bitcoin’s price swings have become noticeably calmer in 2025, but that stability has not carried across the broader crypto market. Over the past year, trading in XRP (around $1.87) and Solana (around $126) has been roughly twice as volatile as trading in Bitcoin…
The Year in XRP 2025: New Highs After 7 Years as Ripple’s SEC Case Finally Ends XRP posted its strongest year in years in 2025, fueled by a mix of market momentum and a long-awaited legal resolution for Ripple Labs. After being largely range-bound amid regulatory uncertainty, the token reached a fresh peak and then…
Emerge’s 2025 Tech Trend of the Year: Quantum Computing Stopped Being Background Noise For years, cryptographers and many in the crypto industry have leaned on a familiar reassurance: quantum computers were still too noisy, too fragile, and too immature to pose practical problems for modern cryptography. In 2025, that stance weakened. The shift highlighted by…
The Best Co-Op Games of 2025 to Play With Your Pals A wave of end-of-year lists and roundups is highlighting how strong 2025 was for cooperative and multiplayer games, spanning online shooters, indie surprises, and a renewed interest in local co-op. Across publications and creators, the shared message is clear: co-op play remained a major…
David Beckham-backed Prenetics ditches bitcoin purchase Prenetics, a health-sciences company backed and co-founded by English football icon David Beckham, said it won’t allocate any existing or new capital for the purpose of buying additional bitcoin. The move marks a clear shift from the company’s earlier approach. Prenetics began buying Bitcoin earlier this year, joining a…
$1.6 Trillion Asset Manager Franklin Templeton Highlights XRP, Explains Rationale for Deeper Focus Franklin Templeton, which manages more than $1.6 trillion in assets, is publicly sharpening its focus on XRP and the XRP Ledger (XRPL) as institutional interest in the token continues to expand. In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), the California-based firm…
Bitcoin’s record year hits a sharp reversal as $1tn is wiped from the crypto market A bitcoin logo is displayed at a conference in Hong Kong on Aug. 28, 2025. The image captured a high point in a year when bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies surged for months before the market abruptly turned. After strong gains…
Winklevoss-backed Cypherpunk buys $28 million of zcash, now owns 1.7% of supply Cypherpunk Technologies (CYPH) said it has added $28 million worth of zcash (ZEC) to its balance sheet, increasing its stake to roughly 1.76% of Zcash’s circulating supply. In a Tuesday press release, the Nasdaq-listed company said it purchased 56,418 ZEC at an average…
Michael Saylor-led firm adds $109 million in Bitcoin as “White Whale” market cap jumps Crypto markets were slightly lower on the day as a fresh Bitcoin purchase and a sharp move in a smaller token drew attention. Bitcoin traded around $87,000 (down 1%), while Bitcoin dominance held at 59.0%. Ether was at $2,953 (down 3%),…
Bitcoin Whales Woke Up in 2025 and Moved Billions in BTC—Here’s Why Bitcoin’s run to six figures in 2025 helped trigger a wave of activity from some of the network’s oldest and largest holders. Blockchain data tracked large transfers from long-dormant wallets—some inactive for 10 to 14 years—as Bitcoin surged past $100,000 and later reached…
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….
