Bitcoin

2025 EOY Report: Blockchain of the Year

2025 was a defining year for Web3, marked by widespread enterprise adoption and a major shift toward real‑world asset tokenization. Despite the global rise of artificial intelligence, crypto adoption in the U.S. accelerated sharply after the Trump admi...
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Cryptocurrency
27 Dec 2025

2025 EOY Report: Narrative of the Year

2025 was shaped by quieter structural shifts that rewired how crypto actually works, from stablecoins becoming financial infrastructure to traders abandoning old cycle myths and demanding real revenue instead of hype. If 2024 was the year of anticipati...
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Cryptocurrency
26 Dec 2025

Bitcoin’s inability to reclaim $90,000 exposes a deep structural fracture that could trap investors during the next unwind

Bitcoin’s inability to reclaim $90,000 is looking less like a debate about narratives and more like a test of market plumbing. For the better part of 2025, the surface story was institutional momentum. The US moved toward a workable regulatory perimeter, capped by President Donald Trump signing the GENIUS Act to federalize payment stablecoins. At […]
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Cryptocurrency
20 Dec 2025

Bitcoin ETF outflows look terrifying, but a hidden derivatives pattern proves the smart money isn’t actually fleeing

Bitcoin’s ETF data is doing that annoying thing where it looks terrifying if you only read the headline. Big chunks of ETF buyers are sitting on losses, and every red flow day gets framed as the start of a stampede. But if you look closely at the numbers, they tell a different story. Outflows are […]
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Cryptocurrency
20 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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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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Cryptocurrency
19 Dec 2025