Crypto

Privacy coins surge 80% as Zcash and Dash hit multi-year highs, driven by rotation, halving hype and renewed demand for transaction privacy. Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies have rallied sharply, with sector value up nearly 80% by November 2025. Zcash hit a seven-year high and Dash a three-year peak as traders rotated into privacy assets. Technical breakouts, derivatives positioning and an upcoming Zcash halving fueled the move. Read more

Researchers bought 97 BTC in 2012 for a blockchain study. Thirteen years later, they’re selling the stash to fund quantum research projects. A Spanish public research institute is preparing to sell a long-forgotten Bitcoin stash, worth over $10 million, which was purchased for just $10,000 in 2012 as part of a blockchain research project. The Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), overseen by the Tenerife Island Council, acquired 97 Bitcoin (BTC) more than a decade ago to study blockchain technology. The council is now finalizing plans to divest the holdings, according to a report from Spanish-language newspaper El Día. Juan José Martínez, Tenerife’s innovation councillor, told the outlet that the council is working with a Spanish financial institution authorized by the Bank of Spain and the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) to facilitate the sale. Read more

Robinhood executives said prediction markets are gaining traction and crypto trading remains strong, as the company looks to expand overseas.

Bitcoin (BTC) trades near $102K, a key long-term support. Analysts warn of a possible 60% drop to $40K if the level fails to hold.

For years, XRP holders have had no native way to earn real yield on-chain. That era is over. XRP Tundra has unveiled its Cryo Vaults, the first audited, verifiable staking system built around the XRP Ledger and Solana. With rates reaching up to 20% APY, the platform redefines what “staking XRP” actually means — transforming […]

NewYorkCoin is trending purely because Zohran Mamdani won NYC - zero fundamentals, just politics, reaction tweets, prediction markets, and election drama.

The following is an in-depth review of the popular altcoin-focused cryptocurrency exchange MEXC.

With the perpetual preferred share STRC now trading at par, Strategy may unlock a new path to acquire bitcoin through its at-the-market program.

The corporate Bitcoin (BTC) treasury trade that validated itself through the second quarter hit a wall in the fall. Public companies added 159,107 BTC in the second quarter, pushing total corporate holdings to roughly 847,000 BTC, approximately 4% of the capped supply, and proving that “Bitcoin on balance sheet” worked as a capital-markets play. Then […] The post How a $100M Bitcoin backed loan can rewrite the corporate treasury playbook appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Accredited investors in Hong Kong have access to the U.S. dollar, Luxembourg-registered, tokenized UCITS money-market product.

XRP rises to $2.33 after a 12% rebound as 21,595 new wallets are created, marking the highest growth on the XRP Ledger in months.

ICP is the other massive gainer over the past day.

Ethereum hit $3,277, its lowest level in four months, with sellers dominating trading on the Binance exchange.

The Treasury has exceeded its target by roughly $150 billion. This extra liquidity will be released after the government reopens, reigniting the crypto bull run.

The USDC policy reversal on firearm purchases suggests that “stablecoins are at the whims of politicians,” an industry expert told Decrypt.

Bitcoin’s rebound above $100,000 has revived hopes of a recovery, but analysts warn the bounce may be more technical than fundamental.

Cardano drops 37% in 30 days. TD Sequential signals a possible trend shift as ADA tests key support near $0.50.

The court said the man had waited too long to reclaim his Bitcoin fortune, which he says was on a now-destroyed hard drive.

Investors are better off buying ETFs than buying shares in a firm that’s simply putting a crypto asset on its balance sheet, argues Bitwise’s Matt Hougan. Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan says digital asset treasuries need to start taking the hard path if they want to stand out from the crowd; otherwise, investors are better off investing in crypto exchange-traded funds instead. One of the best ways to discern whether a digital asset treasury (DAT) is worth looking at is to ask the question, “Are they doing something hard?” Hougan argued in an X post on Wednesday. “Buying a crypto asset and putting it on a balance sheet today isn’t hard. It was hard at one point, but it’s not hard now. If that’s all a DAT is doing, you are better off owning an ETF. This is true even if the DAT is staking, as ETFs now stake,” he said. Read more

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez started receiving his salary in Bitcoin four years ago, when Bitcoin was valued at around $64,000. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who started to take Bitcoin as salary in late 2021, said he’s unfazed about the recent volatility in the crypto market, claiming he’s now up around 300% on his Bitcoin paychecks. Speaking to Fox Business on Wednesday, the crypto-friendly Mayor was asked if he was “concerned” about Bitcoin (BTC) following the recent dip under $100,000, with most of the crypto market also bleeding over the past week.  “No, because I got paid at $30,000, so it’s up 300%, it was actually up to 400% when it was up to $120,000, so I’m not concerned about everyday market swings from one day to the other,” he said, adding:  Read more