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Despite reaching $126,000, Bitcoin's late-year sell-off led to its first post-halving annual loss.

Vitalik Buterin has urged Ethereum builders to turn 2025 scaling gains into apps that survive fraud, censorship, and developer exit. He has framed Ethereum as a world computer that should run even if Cloudflare fails, while defending layer-2 strategy and broader decentralization goals as 2026 dawns. The post Vitalik Buterin Pushes Ethereum to Prioritize Long-Term Goals Over Trend Chasing in 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin spot ETFs concluded 2025's final trading session with $348 million in net outflows while BTC settled at $87,496, marking a 6% decline from its December 2024 close as institutional caution offset regulatory optimism. The post 2025 Ended in Red: Bitcoin ETFs Bled $348M on Final Trading Day appeared first on Cryptonews.

The UK joined 47 countries implementing OECD-developed crypto reporting rules requiring exchanges to collect complete transaction records and tax residency data, with automatic information sharing between tax authorities beginning in 2027. The post New Crypto Tax Rules Hit 40+ Countries as HMRC Targets Exchanges appeared first on Cryptonews.

Tether's $876 million bitcoin acquisition in Q4 2025 elevated its holdings to 96,185 BTC, securing the stablecoin issuer's position as the fifth-largest bitcoin wallet globally while corporate treasuries continue accumulating despite market volatility. The post Tether Now Fifth-Largest Bitcoin Holder After $876M Buying Spree appeared first on Cryptonews.

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.“ A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Voyager Digital investors against billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban over the basketball team Dallas Mavericks’ partnership with the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange. In an order filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Roy Altman granted a motion to dismiss the case over claims that the investors “fail[ed] to establish personal jurisdiction,” among other reasons.  The class-action lawsuit, filed in August 2022 shortly after the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy, alleged “false representations and other deceptive conduct” at the company, specifically citing the 2021 deal with the Mavericks, intended to be for five years. The plaintiffs sued Cuban, the Mavericks and others over “misrepresentations and omissions” about Voyager, which do...

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 […] The post Shock $74B emergency bank loan on NYE just revived the dark “COVID cover-up” secret bailout theory appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin at $200,000? Massive volatility? Experts predict where the markets are headed—and it's probably not another winter.

The Trust Wallet update includes a feature to help victims of the $7 million Christmas hack submit reimbursement claims for lost funds. The Trust Wallet browser extension for Google Chrome Web Store is “temporarily unavailable,” delaying the release of a new version that includes tools for victims of a recent hack, according to Trust Wallet CEO Eowyn Chen.  “We hit a Chrome Web Store bug while releasing a new version,” Chen said in an X post, adding that the delayed release includes a feature to help victims of the Christmas Day hack verify and submit their reimbursement claims. She said on Sunday: Chen also warned users to be “alert” to fake Trust Wallet browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store until the latest version is uploaded. Read more

Chainlink has said 2025 adoption has reached governments, banks and asset managers, citing Commerce data feeds, Mastercard crypto purchases, and tokenized fund workflows with UBS. Coinbase used CCIP. It has also worked with SWIFT, Euroclear and DTCC on cross-chain settlement standards ahead of 2026. The post Chainlink Extends Lead in On-chain Finance as Institutional Adoption Grows appeared first on Cryptonews.

Peter Schiff has questioned whether Strategy can join the S&P 500 as MSTR ended 2025 down about 49%. Strategy kept buying Bitcoin, holding 672,497 BTC at an average near $75,000, while critics say the firm trades like a Bitcoin proxy rather than an operating business. The S&P 500 rose 17.3% in 2025. The post Is Bitcoin Disqualifying Strategy From S&P 500? Peter Schiff Thinks So appeared first on Cryptonews.

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

Analysts see Bitcoin entering 2026 supported by long-term demand but constrained by macro and derivatives pressure.

XRP supply on exchanges has fallen to an eight year low as ETF inflows exceed $1.4B and circulation slows. Price remains above key support at $1.80, with analysts from Standard Chartered expecting XRP to rise over 300% in 2026 amid growing institutional accumulation. The post XRP Price Prediction: Exchanges Are Running Out of XRP – Explosive Price Action Coming? appeared first on Cryptonews.

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 […] The post Bitcoin “died” four times in 2025, but a hidden infrastructure boom proves the skeptics completely wrong appeared first on CryptoSlate.

On-chain data shows repeated SOL accumulation by large holders, pointing to growing confidence in the Solana ecosystem.

Crypto legislation is now in place across major economies, and coming soon in the US, but tax and privacy questions remain unresolved. Digital asset regulation finally shifted into gear in 2025 as the US moved toward a more crypto-friendly legal framework and the EU began fully enforcing the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework across Europe. But crypto lawyers enter 2026 facing unresolved questions around prediction markets and super apps, tax, privacy and digital market structure. To understand how crypto law evolved in 2025 and preview what lies ahead, Magazine spoke with legal experts Catherine Smirnova and Yuriy Brisov of Digital & Analogue Partners in Europe, Joshua Chu of the Hong Kong Web3 Association and Charlyn Ho of Rikka in the US. Read more

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. In 2025, the XRP community celebrated the long-awaited resolution of the SEC lawsuit, the launch of multiple US-based spot ETFs, and a surge in Ripple partnerships. Yet, the coveted $5 price target remained elusive, with XRP (XRP) price peaking at $3.66 before falling as much as 50% to a low of $1.58 in October.  Key takeaways: Some of the most bullish events for XRP occurred in 2025, yet it fell by over 50%, underperforming the market. Read more

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. Coinbase and its Ethereum layer-2 Base are drawing pushback from traders and builders who argue that its creator token experiment failed to turn a viral social media moment into sustained onchain activity. The backlash came after YouTuber Nick Shirley launched a token on creator platform Zora. Shirley’s token briefly rode his online fame to about a $9 million fully diluted value before sliding to $3 million. Most of the volume came from existing traders rather than new users. In a widely shared critique, trader and content creator notthreadguy argued that if Shirley couldn’t make the model work, nobody could.  Read more

The pardons cemented crypto as both an economic force and a partisan issue in Washington.