Cryptocurrency

Gold wins the debasement trade in 2025, but it is not the full story

U.S. bitcoin ETF AUM fell less than 4% despite a 36% price correction from the October high.

20 Dec 2025

Central Bank of Russia Acknowledges Bitcoin Mining as a Ruble Strengthening Activity

The Central Bank of Russia recently referred to the properties of bitcoin mining and how it could help strengthen the Russian ruble. Elvira Nabiullina, head of the institution, stated that it was still difficult to assess the contribution of the activi...

20 Dec 2025

The UK’s crypto rulebook is finally taking shape

A long-awaited crypto regime in the U.K. is moving from theory to execution, even if firms must wait until 2027 for full clarity.

20 Dec 2025

Ethereum Foundation refocuses to security over speed – sets strict 128-bit rule for 2026

The zkEVM ecosystem spent a year sprinting on latency. Proving time for an Ethereum block collapsed from 16 minutes to 16 seconds, costs dropped 45-fold, and participating zkVMs now prove 99% of mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds on target hardware. The Ethereum Foundation (EF) declared victory on Dec. 18: real-time proving works. The performance […]
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20 Dec 2025

Milestone: Bitso Processes Stablecoin Payments for Over $80B in Latam

Bitso Business, the business-to-business arm of Bitso, announced that it was on the way to process nearly $82 billion in stablecoin payments in 2025. Felipe Vallejo, Bitso Chief Corporate Affairs Officer and Country Manager at Bitso Mexico, highlighted...

20 Dec 2025

Autumn stress test for the crypto market: A correction or a new market paradigm

The following is a guest post and opinion from Volodymyr Nosov, Founder and President at W Group, CEO at WhiteBIT. For the second consecutive month, the cryptocurrency market has been in decline. A nearly 30% correction since early October — roughly $1.2 trillion in market capitalization — raises questions about the depth of this downturn […]
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20 Dec 2025

Crypto’s closest ally in Congress, Sen. Lummis, is retiring next year

The most tireless advocate of digital assets issues in the U.S. Senate said she's grown too tired to keep at it, leaving her Republican seat in play next year.

19 Dec 2025

Japan’s rate hike ends the ‘free money’ era and puts Bitcoin on notice

The Bank of Japan tightened policy on Dec. 18, lifting its benchmark rate to 0.75%, the highest since 1995. Governor Kazuo Ueda framed the move as a formal break with the “ultra-accommodative” regime that has helped fuel global risk-taking for decades. Following the news, Bitcoin was little changed near $87,800, but the calm surface belies […]
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19 Dec 2025

New Bitcoin chart pattern signals a 2026 “off-year” that could drag prices down to this brutal support level

Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer said Bitcoin may have completed another halving cycle in both price and time, and he placed support in the $65,000–$75,000 zone. Sharing a “Bitcoin analogs” chart, the Fidelity director of global macro wrote, “While I remain a secular bull on Bitcoin, my concern is that Bitcoin may well have ended another 4-year […]
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19 Dec 2025

SBF’s cohorts at FTX take last SEC hit, Ellison banned from company roles for decade

Three of Sam Bankman-Fried's top lieutenants atop the former FTX empire — Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang and Nishad Singh — agreed to consent judgments.

19 Dec 2025

Shock $4 billion crypto lawsuit exposes the hidden “shadow trading” that may be artificially holding up stablecoin prices

A fresh $4 billion lawsuit tied to Terraform Labs’ collapse is becoming a test of what a stablecoin’s $1 promise means amid the adoption of dollar tokens as payment rails. The case is about more than who pays for a 2022-era failure. It also decides whether a “stable” price can be maintained by arrangements that […]
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19 Dec 2025

Bitcoin gets ‘base case’ price target of $143,000 at Citigroup

The Wall Street bank said its bitcoin forecast relies on further crypto ETF inflows and a continued rally in traditional equity markets.

19 Dec 2025

Bitcoin battles $89,000 price ceiling as bulls try to break U.S. sell pattern

Bitcoin bulls are putting up a fight on Friday to break this week's choppy action that has capped all advances at around $90,000.

19 Dec 2025

Foundation behind restaking protocol EigenLayer plans bigger rewards for active users

An Incentives Committee would direct programmatic token emissions, focusing allocations on participants that secure AVSs and contribute to the EigenCloud ecosystem.

19 Dec 2025

Polkadot’s DOT holds steady with token unchanged over 24 hours

DOT has support in the $1.72-$1.74 zone.

19 Dec 2025

Federal Reserve moves toward narrower, crypto-driven take on master accounts

The U.S. central bank has been mulling the idea of a "skinny" version of master accounts for firms that want payments access without the deeper Fed demands.

19 Dec 2025

Citi is still a believer in crypto stocks despite bitcoin being rocked to end the year

Circle remains the bank's top pick in the sector, with Bullish and Coinbase following.

19 Dec 2025

Most Influential 2025’s Honorable Mentions

The crypto industry is ever-growing and ever-changing. It would be difficult to summarize it in 50 names. Here are a few final individuals and entities we wanted to make note of this year.

19 Dec 2025

Most Influential: Jeff Yan

Jeff Yan, founder of Hyperliquid, has quietly built a $308 billion volume DEX with over half a million users, influencing DeFi while avoiding public attention.

19 Dec 2025

Most Influential: Luke Dashjr

The veteran Bitcoin developer is at the forefront of one of the most hotly-discussed debates in crypto — what the original blockchain network should be used for.

19 Dec 2025

Most Influential: Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz K. Stańczak

The Ethereum Foundation’s new leaders hope to bring in a new era for the second-largest cryptocurrency.

19 Dec 2025

Crypto index ETFs will dominate 2026 because the SEC is about to break the single-asset model

US spot crypto ETFs have attracted more than $70 billion in net inflows since January 2024, making traditional financial investment vehicles the primary entry point for new money into the emerging industry. That surge, driven by products linked to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more recently Solana and XRP, has validated the industry’s view that many investors […]
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19 Dec 2025

A toxic trend that suggests the IPO window is slamming shut for most crypto companies ignored Circle

When Circle's shares opened at $69 on the New York Stock Exchange in June, more than double the $31 pricing, it looked like validation. Investors paid up for a regulated stablecoin issuer with real revenues, treating USDC rails as financial infrastructure rather than speculative crypto exposure. Six months later, Circle trades at $82.58, up nearly […]
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19 Dec 2025

Shipping an L1 zkEVM #2: The Security Foundations

Thanks to Arantxa Zapico, Benedikt Wagner, and Dmitry Khovratovich from the EF cryptography team for their contributions, and to Ladislaus, Kev, Alex, and Marius for the careful review and feedback. The zkEVM ecosystem has been sprinting for a year. A...

18 Dec 2025

The Future of Ethereum’s State

Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Stateless Consensus team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen E...

16 Dec 2025

Perp Dex Farming For Crypto Traders: Earn Your First $100k In Crypto Airdrops In 2026

Perpetual futures decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have emerged as an alternative to centralized exchanges, introducing additional yield farming opportunities for cryptocurrency traders.

And the best part? All you have to do is continue trading digit...

8 Dec 2025

Devconnect Argentina Recap

Devconnect Buenos Aires wrapped up as the largest Ethereum Foundation event yet, bringing together a global mix of developers, founders, creators, and curious newcomers....

4 Dec 2025

Allocation Update – Q3 2025

Q3 2025 brought an exciting wave of innovation and community energy! Explore the projects we funded this quarter and the work they’re advancing:...

2 Dec 2025

Beyond Crypto Price Predictions: Meet Hyperextropy AI

What if instead of price predictions, you could see actual probabilities? Instead of "BTC will hit $150k," you get the statistical likelihood of specific price movements based on thousands of AI-simulated scenarios. Starting today, that's exactly what...

19 Nov 2025

Making Ethereum Feel Like One Chain Again

Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Account Abstraction team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen E...

18 Nov 2025