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Bitcoin and several major altcoins attempted to start a relief rally, but higher levels continue to attract strong selling by the bears.

As AI blurs the line between real and synthetic media, strategies for restoring user trust online are still taking shape as we enter 2026.

Tokenized commodities are increasing amid growing investor demand for more accessible onchain financial products, following new all-time highs for gold and silver.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation.

The lowdown on how the switchover to ZK-proofs is expected to work this year as part of Ethereum’s plan to scale to 10,000 TPS.

Once a barometer of retail hype, memecoins are closing the year with shrinking liquidity, weaker participation and fading speculative momentum.

From hacks and macro shocks to stablecoin regulation and market-structure upgrades, 2025 reshaped how crypto operates and what mainstream adoption really means.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino warned that an AI sector correction could spill over into crypto markets in 2026, with some analysts projecting BTC to drop to as low as $65,000.

From McDonald’s to municipal taxes, Lugano is proving that Bitcoin adoption is not about predicting the future; it is about building the infrastructure to handle it today.

The malicious Trust Wallet extension has also been exporting users’ personal information, pointing to potential insider activity, according to cybersecurity company SlowMist.

Bitcoin simmered below resistance but teased a bullish breakout as the Asia trading session accompanied new all-time highs for gold and silver.

The failed vote highlights deeper tensions over token value capture, governance power and whether DAO structures can effectively manage protocol identity.

James Howells, who accidentally had his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin thrown away, offered his advice to industry newcomers, veterans and skeptics in 2026.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is hovering at levels lower than during the shock FTX collapse in late 2022, despite Bitcoin trading at roughly five times the price.

If Ether manages to reclaim its all-time high in 2026, it may just be a “bull trap,” says crypto analyst Ben Cowen.

Grok makes X more truth-friendly as it often challenges users’ assumptions instead of confirming them, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

Bitcoiners wanting to focus on short-term factors should be “fairly methodical and mathematical,” says Strategy CEO Phong Le.

The non-fungible token project owned by Luca Netz appeared on the Sphere’s exterior screens, with the animated display going live on Christmas Eve.

Prediction markets are moving into crypto’s mainstream as Crypto.com’s in-house market maker raises fairness questions and Coinbase doubles down on growth.

Headlines move crypto fast, but liquidity decides what lasts. Data from ETFs, stablecoins and onchain flows shows what really drives prices.

DTCC’s move to bring US Treasurys onchain highlights growing institutional momentum behind tokenized real-world assets.

Post-halving stress is reshaping Bitcoin mining. As margins compress, miners turn to AI, HPC and consolidation to survive heading into 2026.

Emerging markets are finally accessing finance, with a $310-billion stablecoin market showing that adoption is not hype. Here is what this milestone actually means.

BTC may fall to $70,000 and ETH to $2,400 if the Fed pauses rate cuts in the first quarter of 2026 and inflationary pressure persists.

Quantum computing won’t break Bitcoin in 2026, but the growing practice of “harvest now, decrypt later” is pushing the crypto industry to prepare sooner rather than later.

Five years of CME futures data shows where bitcoin has, and has not, built meaningful price support.

The FSTB and SFC concluded consultations on virtual regimes and plan to introduce new bill to LegCo next year.

The biggest single-day exit came from BlackRock’s IBIT, which saw $91.37 million leave the fund. Grayscale’s GBTC followed with a $24.62 million outflow.

XRP remains in a $1.85–$1.91 range, with strong selling near $1.90 and consistent bids near $1.86, suggesting a potential decisive break ahead.

Such sudden price changes are often due to thin liquidity and can be exacerbated by fewer active traders during quieter hours.

The release, distributed on Christmas Eve, used Circle branding and claimed to quote executives, but a Circle spokesperson said it was "not real."

Technical factors dominated as FIL maintained a tight correlation with broader crypto sentiment while establishing support above $1.27.

Ethereum’s Glamsterdam, Bitcoin and quantum computing, and new Eigenlayer governance proposal

New directive, which operates alongside MiCA, expands tax data sharing, sets July 1 compliance deadline for exchanges across bloc.

The analyst team said the first long-term co-location agreement at NC-1 validates WhiteFiber’s retrofit model.

XRP's price action aligns with broader market trends, but, contrarily, negative social sentiment may signal a potential rebound.

APT has support at $1.56 and resistance at $1.63, per CoinDesk technical models.

The largest deals of the year included Coinbase's $2.9 billion acquisition of Deribit, Kraken's $1.5 billion purchase of NinjaTrader, and Ripple's $1.25 billion buyout of Hidden Road.

The movement follows inflows into wallets tied to Trump Media, implying the company is actively managing its bitcoin position rather than leaving it static.

The HashKey Fintech Multi-Strategy Fund IV aims will invest in blockchain infrastructure and applications with real-world use cases.

Measured against U.S. money supply, gold is back at levels that marked major historical peaks, while bitcoin retraces toward a key cycle floor.

The crypto payments app joins a growing group of regulated firms as stablecoin transfers gain traction as a cross-border alternative.

The platform attributed the incident to a third-party login provider, which several users speculated was Magic Labs, a popular tool for email-based logins.

A year-end options expiry for bitcoin is suppressing volatility just as macro and risk-asset positioning turns supportive for a higher price.

Gold is rallying on rate cut expectations and geopolitical risk, while bitcoin has struggled to hold key psychological levels and remains sensitive to the same forces that tend to hit equities and other risk assets.

Dogecoin found itself at the center of a controversial political storm, all while being embraced by traditional institutions.

Forget the hype. These are the LLMs that caught our attention in 2025—from autonomous coding assistants to vision models processing entire codebases.

Looking for the year's best games to play with friends and family? From Donkey Kong Bananza to Borderlands 4, these are our co-op picks.

The Las Vegas Sphere is currently adorned with the cartoon creatures of crypto-native brand Pudgy Penguins. Here's how it happened.

Venture capital funding for crypto gaming all but evaporated this year, causing games to shut shop and players to lose their communities.

Solana opened 2025 with major momentum, thanks to the Trump meme coin and a new all-time high. But the year wasn't all up and to the right.

Crypto-linked stocks had a banner start to 2025, then spent the rest of the year learning that narrative alone doesn’t compound.

A crowded release slate buried plenty of standout games this year, so we’ve pulled together a list of hidden gems that still deserve your attention.

A burst of social-media sleuthing has focused on alleged redaction failures in newly released DOJ documents—raising real questions about digital security and viral misinformation.

Ani’s rise showed how chatbots became partners instead of tools, driving a year of AI intimacy and its human consequences.

This year, global power centers like Wall Street learned to love Ethereum—and Ethereum learned to love them back.

Here are the biggest corporate crypto treasury bets of 2025 and what they reveal about how far Strategy’s Bitcoin playbook has spread.

New research suggests complex cognitive challenges, from StarCraft II to musical training, can slow neural aging by years.

Crypto users were the recipients of billions in "free money" token airdrops during 2025. Here's a look at the biggest.

Details have been leaked of 13 suspicious Binance accounts which moved $144 million since the 2023 settlement, and $1.7 billion since 2021.

“Anna’s Archive” claimed it scraped 86 million songs from Spotify—revealing some wild things about people’s favorite music.

The Pudgy Penguins mobile battle royale, Pudgy Party, impressed us this year—and its creators say this is only the beginning.

Bitcoin hit $90,353 in a futures-led rally, but a negative Coinbase premium and ETF outflows reveal a lack of U.S. demand.

From Wall Street to Washington, Bitcoin reached new heights in 2025, despite tensions flaring over changes to the network's codebase.

Digital asset funds saw $952 million in outflows last week as US regulatory delays spooked investors, with Ethereum leading the retreat.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said post-quantum cryptography exists, but would slow blockchains without hardware support.

From Deadrop to Nyan Heroes and plenty in between, many promising crypto games closed up shop this year. These are the biggest.

BitMex co-founder Arthur Hayes thinks Bitcoin will range until year's end, but it could jump to $200,000 before March. Here's why.

Institutions are gobbling up Solana for their balance sheets. These are the top publicly traded treasuries.

Charles Hoskinson explains the "poisoned transaction" Cardano hack that took place back in November, and how it split the chain in two: “I don’t wanna have figure out, like, ‘How do we reimburse all these guys?’ They were honestly following the protocol, their nodes didn’t understand that there was a split.”

Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson talks hash vs lattice-based cryptography, and how November's “poisoned transaction” hack could have destroyed Cardano if they were BFT-based “Ethereum is embracing STARKs and hash-based crypto. [Cardano is] embracing lattice-based crypto on our side. You know, it’s Blu-ray vs HD DVD, we’ll see which one the market picks.”

Under President Trump, the SEC has backed down from nearly all its fights with crypto firms. These are the biggest lawsuits and investigations ended so far.

Bitcoin may be the first digital asset, but it shouldn’t be the only one affected by legislation, Indiana State Rep. Kyle Pierce told Decrypt.

Commission-free stock and etf trading (u.S.), allowing users to trade equities alongside crypto using usd or usdc. Prediction markets, enabling trading on real-world outcomes like elections, sports, and economic data via a partnership with kalshi. Equity futures and perpetuals trading, expanding derivatives access directly inside the main coinbase app. Solana dex trading via jupiter, allowing users to swap solana tokens directly on coinbase. New borrowing functionality against btc and eth holdings. Coinbase token sales, allowing for ico launches and early-stage token support. Coinbase tokenize, an institutional platform designed to support tokenized assets, including tokenized stocks over time. Base app global

Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson says the U.S. government needs much more rigorous testing when it comes to deciding which cryptocurrencies are considered valuable and which are not. “Why is XRP in the system but not Sui? Why is Solana in the system but not BNB? Can we objectively answer that against some metric?”

Charles Hoskinson comments on Trump's meme coin, the president's impact on crypto, and how the government ruined the super cycle: “The minute that Trump Coin got launched. It went from ‘crypto is bipartisan’ to ‘crypto = Trump = bad = corruption.'"

Crypto majors were mixed; btc+0.3% at $87,400; eth -2% at $2,870; bnb -2% at $838, sol -3% at $124. Beat (+26%), pippin (+9%) and cc (+4%) led top movers. Coinbase announced several new products last night, including prediction markets, stock trading, equity perps, ai advisors, borrowing, full dex integration and more. Senators proposed the safe crypto act, creating a federal task force to coordinate agencies on crypto scam enforcement and investor protection. The dtcc said it will issue tokenized securities on canton network, starting with tokenized u.S. Treasuries. Ex-alameda ceo caroline ellison left federal prison after 11 months, moving to

Crypto majors were mostly flat; btc -0.3% at $87,000; eth -1% at $2,930, bnb -1% at $858, sol even at $128. Night (+11%), morpho (+10%) and myx (+5%) led top movers. Bitwise forecasted new bitcoin all-time highs in 2026, pointing to structural factors like institutional capital inflows, regulatory clarity, and continued adoption to outweigh historical bearish factors. The sec ended its four-year investigation into aave, closing the file without recommending enforcement action. Visa expanded its stablecoin pilot to more us banks and to include settlement on solana. The fdic approved a proposal to implement the genius act, outlining how fdic-supervised

Crypto majors were very red to start the week; btc -3% at $87,200; eth -6% at $2,950, bnb -2% at $868, sol -3% at $128. Xdc (+4%), cc (+3%) and sky (+2%) led top movers. Jpmorgan launched a tokenized money-market fund on ethereum, using onchain rails to settle fund shares. The senate punted the crypto market-structure markup to next year, delaying near-term progress on a major u.S. Framework bill. Coinbase and robinhood joined the new u.S. ‘tech force’ aimed at recruiting top engineers to build ai infra for the government. Metamask expanded beyond ethereum by adding native bitcoin support, letting

Crypto majors were very red to start the week; btc -3% at $87,200; eth -6% at $2,950, bnb -2% at $868, sol -3% at $128. Xdc (+4%), cc (+3%) and sky (+2%) led top movers. Jpmorgan launched a tokenized money-market fund on ethereum, using onchain rails to settle fund shares. The senate punted the crypto market-structure markup to next year, delaying near-term progress on a major u.S. Framework bill. Coinbase and robinhood joined the new u.S. ‘tech force’ aimed at recruiting top engineers to build ai infra for the government. Metamask expanded beyond ethereum by adding native bitcoin support, letting

Indiana State Representative Kyle Pierce unpacks hist latest crypto-focused bill, while showcasing his familiarity with Bitcoin.

Crypto majors were mostly flat over the weekend; btc even at $89,700; eth +1% at $3,150, bnb +1% at $888, sol +1% at $133. Mnt (+10%), merl (+3%) and trx (+3%) led top movers. The sec issued a no-action letter allowing certain tokenized stock offerings, giving firms some regulatory clarity to launch tokenized equities without immediate enforcement risk. The sec also issued an investor bulletin explaining the basics of crypto custody. The occ granted national bank charters to circle, ripple, and other crypto firms. Tether considered tokenizing its stock after pursuing a share sale that could value it around $500b.

Securitize co-founder and CEO Carlos Domingo delves into the nuances of tokenization, from its potential benefits to the industry's failed experiments.

Crypto majors were broadly lower, falling 2–4% with BTC down 2% at $91,400, ETH down 2% at $3,130, BNB down 2% at $893, and SOL down 4% at $136, while ZEC (+4%) and TRX (+2%) led the day’s top movers. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said sovereign wealth funds have been steadily accumulating Bitcoin, adding that they “bought more” as BTC declined from $126K into the $80K range to build long-term positions. The IMF warned that rising stablecoin adoption could weaken central bank control in a new report examining currency substitution and monetary sovereignty risks. Solana and Coinbase’s Base network were

Crypto majors traded slightly higher, with ETH leading gains post-Fusaka as BTC rose 1% to $93,000, ETH jumped 4% to $3,190, and BNB and SOL each added 1% to reach $909 and $143, respectively. Among top movers, ZEC (+10%), TAO (+8%), and DASH (+6%) outperformed. Large ETH holders resumed sizeable spot purchases following Monday’s liquidations, suggesting renewed institutional dip-buying. At the Dealbook Summit, Brian Armstrong noted that “top banks” are partnering with Coinbase on pilots for stablecoins, custody, and trading. BlackRock released its 2026 outlook with a risk-on tilt, maintaining an overweight position in U.S. equities and highlighting AI and

Decrypt's daily crypto news recap with @tyler_did_it. Your crypto round-up for December 4th 2025

Crypto majors are sharply higher, climbing 6–10% following Vanguard’s crypto debut and supportive commentary from Bank of America, with BTC up 6% to $92,900, ETH up 9% to $3,070, BNB up 7% to $899, and SOL up 10% to $142. Among top movers, SUI gained 24%, PENGU 19%, and LINK 18%. Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade is scheduled to launch today, aiming to improve mainnet ingestion of L2 data and reduce rollup costs to enhance scalability. Bank of America is now recommending a 1–4% crypto allocation for clients across Merrill Lynch and the Private Bank. On the corporate front, Kraken has agreed

Your Decrypt daily recap with @tyler_did_it for December 3rd 2025 Today’s headlines: BTC jumps back above $92K, BlackRock bullish on tokenized assets, Kalshi raise $11B, & more

Today’s headlines: The latest on Vanguard ETFs, Coinbase lawsuit, Strategy $1.44B reserve, & more. This is Decrypt's Daily Recap with host @Tyler_Did_It. Your crypto round-up for December 2nd 2025

HYPE compressed under the resistance as conviction built for an upside breakout on the charts.

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Ethereum's eyes Glamsterdam fork and Heze-Bogota upgrades in 2026 to address privacy and efficiency concerns.

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What pushed retail users to BNB Chain as CME overtook Binance in Futures?

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Bitcoin battles macro volatility: Holiday rally still on track?

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Traders and investors can remain bearishly biased on APT. Even though a short-term bounce is possible.

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Did Lido’s recent breakout mark a turning point where fundamentals finally reclaimed investor attention?

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2025 wasn’t the year for newly launched altcoins.

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Could this be the moment XRP finally breaks free from its suppressed range?

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Did Layer-1 tokens truly collapse in 2025, or was the damage mostly superficial?

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A partnership spark lifted sentiment, though broader trend pressure still shaped Conflux’s structure.

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Here's why Monad's price rallied in the past 24 hours.

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