AI Summary
- Venture capitalists are mapping out trends in the crypto industry as they speculate on the future, assessing impacts from regulations and market fluctuations, suggesting that 2025 will reveal significant winners and losers.
- Bitcoin faces a challenging end-of-year landscape with options markets favoring bears and signs indicating a potential bear market, despite optimism surrounding forthcoming economic stimuli and demand resurgence in 2026.
- Kyrgyzstan has made strides in crypto legislation by introducing a US dollar-backed stablecoin and seeking to establish a national crypto reserve, signaling greater government engagement with digital assets.
- Regulatory developments are altering the crypto landscape globally, with the SEC halting several cases against firms like Coinbase and Ripple, while countries such as the Philippines and Russia are tightening their licensing and operational guidelines.
- NFTs are evolving to focus more on utility, while broader institutional interest is rising, with significant investments shifting towards tokenized assets, suggesting a resilient but cautious future amid persistent market volatility.
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Cointelegraph
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From stablecoins to incumbents, VCs map crypto value in 2025
2 hours ago
by Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar
Venture partners such as Pantera, Hash3 and Variant look back on a year of regulatory shifts and uneven markets, outlining crypto’s biggest winners and losers in 2025.
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Here’s what happened in crypto today
3 hours ago
by Cointelegraph by Cointelegraph
Trump memecoin, Solana memecoin, TRUMP token, Solana, SOL, Nova Labs, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Crypto regulation, TRUMP rally, BitcoinNeed 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.
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Binance lists som-pegged stablecoin as Kyrgyzstan deepens crypto push
3 hours ago
by Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar
The listing follows Kyrgyzstan’s passage of crypto legislation, the launch of a new US dollar–pegged stablecoin backed by physical gold, and plans to build a national crypto reserve.
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Bitcoin bears currently favored in BTC’s end-of-year $30.3B options expiry
5 hours ago
by Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman
Bitcoin options markets remain tilted toward bears despite US investors’ expectations of economic stimulus injections and semi-bullish outlook for 2026.
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Crypto heads into 2026 with privacy, decentralized identity on the line
5 hours ago
by Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar
As crypto, governments and Big Tech converge on digital identity, selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs are emerging as a privacy-first alternative to surveillance systems.
CoinDesk
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Circle platform promising tokenized gold, silver swaps is 'fake,' company says
6 hours ago
by Francisco Rodrigues
Web3, Security, Circle, USDC, Exclusive, NewsThe release, distributed on Christmas Eve, used Circle branding and claimed to quote executives, but a Circle spokesperson said it was "not real."
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Filecoin drops 2% as crypto markets weaken
9 hours ago
by Will Canny
Markets, AI Market Insights, Filecoin, Technical Analysis, NewsTechnical factors dominated as FIL maintained a tight correlation with broader crypto sentiment while establishing support above $1.27.
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The Protocol: Aave community split
10 hours ago
by Margaux Nijkerk
Tech, The Protocol, Newsletters, Aave, Bitcoin News, EigenLayer, Ethereum News, NewsEthereum’s Glamsterdam, Bitcoin and quantum computing, and new Eigenlayer governance proposal
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EU’s crypto tax reporting starts in January with threat of asset seizure
10 hours ago
by Olivier Acuna
Policy, EU, crypto tax, NewsNew directive, which operates alongside MiCA, expands tax data sharing, sets July 1 compliance deadline for exchanges across bloc.
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WhiteFiber NC-1 deal is promising, says B. Riley, seeing 127% upside after stock price plunge
10 hours ago
by Will Canny
Markets, AI, Data Centers, B. Riley, NewsThe analyst team said the first long-term co-location agreement at NC-1 validates WhiteFiber’s retrofit model.
Decrypt
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The Best AI Large Language Models of 2025
4 hours ago
by Jose Antonio Lanz
Long ReadsForget the hype. These are the LLMs that caught our attention in 2025—from autonomous coding assistants to vision models processing entire codebases.
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The Best Co-Op Games of 2025 to Play With Your Pals
6 hours ago
by Eric Frederiksen
GamesLooking 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.
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How Pudgy Penguins Landed the Las Vegas Sphere—After Dogwifhat Couldn't
7 hours ago
by Ryan Gladwin
dogwifhat, pudgy-penguins, BusinessThe Las Vegas Sphere is currently adorned with the cartoon creatures of crypto-native brand Pudgy Penguins. Here's how it happened.
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GG Story of the Year 2025: Crypto Gaming Collapses as Funding Dries Up
9 hours ago
by Ryan Gladwin
Long ReadsVenture capital funding for crypto gaming all but evaporated this year, causing games to shut shop and players to lose their communities.
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The Year in Solana 2025: Trump and Wall Street Take Notice
11 hours ago
by Logan Hitchcock
Long ReadsSolana 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.
AMBCrypto
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Spain to expose every crypto transaction: Will 2026 see the end of privacy?
2 hours ago
by Ishika Kumari
Global News, News, News 1, Social, Trading ViewWhile Spain prepares a tax clampdown, the U.S. considers letting citizens pay federal taxes in Bitcoin.
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Avantis rallies 24% in a day – Can AVNT squeeze toward $0.40?
4 hours ago
by Akashnath S
Altcoin, Analysis, HideCryptopanic, News, News 1, No Homepage, Social, Trading ViewA short-term pullback to the $0.33 and $0.3 support levels would give AVNT bulls an opportunity to go long.
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Asia steadies Bitcoin dips as accumulation remains muted
4 hours ago
by Adewale Olarinde
Bitcoin, News, News 1, Social, Trading ViewAsian trading sessions have helped steady Bitcoin during recent pullbacks, but on-chain data shows no clear return of broad accumulation.
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Bank of Russia: Crypto is now legal, but do not buy it unless…
5 hours ago
by Ishika Kumari
Global News, News, News 1, Social, Trading View, ambcryptoMandatory knowledge tests and a 300,000-ruble cap show Russia’s shift from outright bans to cautious regulations.
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Bitcoin’s Christmas blues – Why BTC’s Santa rally can be cancelled
6 hours ago
by Benjamin Njiri
Bitcoin, BTC Trading View, News, News 1, Social, Trading View, ambcryptoAnalysts expected a post-Christmas Day Bitcoin rally.