Crypto

Tether Quietly Adds 8,888 BTC as Its Bitcoin Stash Taps 96,369 Coins

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer by market capitalization, expanded its bitcoin holdings in the fourth quarter of 2025 with the acquisition of 8,888.8888888 BTC. As the calendar turns to 2026, the firm’s wallet ranks as the fifth-largest a...

1 Jan 2026

Which predictions landed this year? One ignored model actually nailed the 2025 market cycle

At the start of 2025, crypto's biggest names issued bold forecasts: Bitcoin to $200,000, Ethereum to $7,000, a US strategic reserve, and stablecoins going mainstream. Twelve months later, the scoreboard reveals a pattern. The price targets mostly crashed and burned, while the structural calls on regulation, ETFs, and payments infrastructure quietly came true. Here's who […]
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1 Jan 2026

Bitcoin RSI demands breakout as exec says ‘RIP’ to 4-year BTC price cycle

Bitcoin entered a "new era" as the 2025 yearly candle closed red, said analysis, with BTC price volatility signals firing into the new year.

1 Jan 2026

Crypto’s 2026 investment playbook: Bitcoin, stablecoin infrastructure, tokenized assets

After a volatile 2025, investors are rethinking crypto cycles. Here are three investment themes that will shape the market’s next phase in 2026.

1 Jan 2026

Is the Bitcoin Four-Year Cycle Broken After 2025’s Unexpected Finish?

Bitcoin’s long-observed four-year market cycle is facing renewed skepticism after the asset closed 2025 lower than it opened, a first for a post-halving year. For the First Time Ever, Bitcoin’s Post-Halving Year Ends in the Red The four-year cycle refe...

1 Jan 2026

Happy New Year, Mark Cuban: Judge dismisses lawsuit over Voyager Digital

The class-action suit, filed against Cuban and others in August 2022 shortly after Voyager filed for bankruptcy, alleged “false representations and other deceptive conduct.“

1 Jan 2026

Shock $74B emergency bank loan on NYE just revived the dark “COVID cover-up” secret bailout theory

On the last trading days of the year, the kind of chart that almost nobody outside finance ever looks at started yelling again. Banks piled into the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility, borrowing a record $74.6 billion on Dec. 31 for 2025. Overnight funding rates popped, the benchmark SOFR briefly hit 3.77%, the general collateral repo […]
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1 Jan 2026

Trust Wallet browser extension knocked offline by Chrome Store ‘bug,’ CEO says

The Trust Wallet update includes a feature to help victims of the $7 million Christmas hack submit reimbursement claims for lost funds.

1 Jan 2026

Vitalik Buterin on the two goals Ethereum must meet to become the ‘world computer’

After major technical gains in 2025, Buterin says the network must double down on usability and decentralization to meet its original goals.

1 Jan 2026

Bitcoin “died” four times in 2025, but a hidden infrastructure boom proves the skeptics completely wrong

2025 delivered at least four distinct “crypto is dead” episodes: a January AI-induced flash crash, the October tariff liquidation that erased $19 billion in leveraged positions, months of altcoin carnage, and a fourth quarter slump that wiped out the year's price gains. Mainstream outlets dusted off “crypto winter” language each time. Bitcoin logged more obituaries […]
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1 Jan 2026

Hyperliquid Explained: A Deep Dive Into the Perp DEX That Reshaped Crypto in 2025

Hyperliquid didn’t rely on hype cycles or marketing blitzes to break into the spotlight—it engineered its way into relevance, forcing the crypto industry to reassess how far onchain trading infrastructure had come. What Hyperliquid Is At its core, Hype...

1 Jan 2026

The XRP Army got everything except $5 price: Will 2026 deliver?

XRP scored every major win in 2025 with the SEC case resolved and spot ETFs launched, yet the price crashed 50%, with the $5 target remaining elusive.

1 Jan 2026

Base’s creator coin experiment meets resistance after Nick Shirley launch

Base’s push into creator coins is facing mounting criticism from traders and builders after Nick Shirley’s token on Zora spiked to about a $9 million valuation and then promptly slumped.

1 Jan 2026

Warren Davidson’s New Year Reflections Remember Bitcoin’s Raison D’être

Congressman Warren Davidson reflected on the origin of bitcoin and its true purpose. As part of his New Year’s message, Davidson remarked that bitcoin’s promise was not to be “an illiquid inflating asset” but a “permission-less, peer-to-peer payment sy...

1 Jan 2026

Crypto privacy in 2026: Compliance-friendly tools take center stage

Crypto privacy is approaching an inflection point as relevant lawsuits near their conclusions and developers pivot toward designs that ensure privacy while appeasing regulators.

1 Jan 2026

SOL accumulation tops crypto trends on New Year’s Day: Santiment

Whale accumulation across Solana tokens is headlining crypto-related social buzz as 2026 begins, according to data from Santiment.

1 Jan 2026

Bithumb flags $200M in dormant crypto assets across 2.6M inactive accounts

Millions of long-inactive users still hold crypto at Bithumb, highlighting how early retail capital can remain untouched for years.

1 Jan 2026

XRP on exchanges hits 8 year low, but historical data exposes a brutal flaw in the popular “moon” narrative

Glassnode data shows that XRP's exchange balances hit their lowest level since 2018 in late December, sparking the usual wave of accumulation phase speculation and “tight supply = moon” commentary. While the eight-year low encompasses the entire exchange ecosystem, CryptoQuant data for Binance offers a recent window into whether these troughs actually precede rallies. Binance's […]
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1 Jan 2026

Can Solana shed its memecoin image in 2026?

Solana’s bid to move beyond memecoins will depend on whether its upgrades can deliver predictable execution for serious onchain finance.

1 Jan 2026

Strategy shares register first six-month losing streak since adoption of bitcoin strategy in 2020

Crypto analyst Chris Millas has highlighted an unusually persistent slump in Strategy shares, breaking with past drawdown patterns even as the firm continued accumulating bitcoin.

1 Jan 2026

How crypto’s promised year-end fireworks turned into a bloodbath

Digital asset treasuries, altcoin ETFs and bitcoin’s famed year‑end seasonality were meant to supercharge prices. What came instead was the worst drawdown since 2022's crypto winter.

1 Jan 2026

Bitcoin ETF fatigue is real, ignoring noise, these are the 10 days that mattered in 2025

If you followed Bitcoin ETFs day to day in 2025, you probably developed the same habit everyone did: you checked the print at night, read one sentence about “risk-on” or “risk-off,” then tried to map a clean story onto a messy market. The problem is that daily flows are noisy by design. They're the residue […]
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1 Jan 2026

Tether snaps up another 8,888 BTC, now fifth-largest Bitcoin wallet

Tether closed out 2025 with an 8,888 BTC purchase, increasing its disclosed Bitcoin holdings to more than 96,000 BTC.

1 Jan 2026

Trader bags $1M from ‘abnormal’ BROCCOLI714 memecoin activity on Binance

A trader claimed to have made $1 million by timing a long-short trade after spotting abnormal activity by a market maker account on Binance, while the exchange denied any security breach.

1 Jan 2026

Final nail in 4-year cycle? BTC ends year after halving in red

Following the 2012 halving, Bitcoin surged to end the following year at a new high; and a similar pattern played out in 2016 and again in 2020.

1 Jan 2026

Investors funnel $32B into US crypto ETFs despite year-end pullback

BlackRock further separated itself from competitors in the crypto ETF market in 2025, with its Bitcoin and Ether funds, IBIT and ETHA, accounting for the majority of net inflows.

1 Jan 2026

Four crypto comebacks from 2025 that could help shape year ahead

From Ross Ulbricht’s pardon to Ripple’s SEC victory, here’s a list of crypto’s most celebrated turnarounds this year and what they mean for the year ahead.

1 Jan 2026

Crypto forces to compound in 2026, accelerating adoption: Coinbase

Coinbase’s head of research said the forces that drove crypto in 2025, such as regulation, ETFs, stablecoins and tokenization, will only get stronger in the coming year.

1 Jan 2026

Strategy Ends 2025 With 672,497 BTC as Saylor’s Hyper-Bullish Bitcoin Accumulation Stance Holds Firm

Strategy Inc.’s massive bitcoin exposure keeps it central to institutional crypto debates, blending extreme leverage, deep liquidity and index inclusion while facing volatility, dilution pressure and looming index-rule risks that could reshape how inve...

1 Jan 2026

Private messaging faces threats from AI, limited user awareness: Session execs

Session’s Chris McCabe and Alex Linton tell Cointelegraph that AI-integrated devices could bypass messaging encryption, creating privacy and security issues.

1 Jan 2026