Crypto

Post-halving stress is reshaping Bitcoin mining. As margins compress, miners turn to AI, HPC and consolidation to survive heading into 2026. The Bitcoin mining industry has faced a harsher operating environment since the 2024 halving, a core feature of Bitcoin’s monetary design that cuts block rewards roughly every four years to enforce long-term scarcity. While the halving strengthens Bitcoin’s economic hardness, it also places immediate pressure on miners by slashing revenue overnight. In 2025, this resulted in the “harshest margin environment of all time,” according to TheMinerMag, which cited collapsing revenue and surging debt as major obstacles.  Even publicly listed Bitcoin (BTC) miners with sizable cash reserves and access to capital have struggled to remain profitable solely through mining. To make do, many have accelerated their push into alternative, data-intensive business lines to stabilize revenue and diversify away from pure hashprice exposure. Read more

2025 saw the US-China rivalry weaponize every layer of the technology stack—from minerals to models to military doctrine.

Emerging markets are finally accessing finance, with a $310-billion stablecoin market showing that adoption is not hype. Here is what this milestone actually means. The stablecoin market reached a pivotal milestone on Dec. 12, 2025, hitting $310 billion in total value. That represents a 70% increase in just one year. This growth is not just another cryptocurrency bubble metric; it signals a fundamental shift in how digital assets are beginning to be used globally. To understand why the $310-billion stablecoin market matters, it is first necessary to understand what stablecoins are. Unlike Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH), which fluctuate based on market sentiment, stablecoins are designed to aim for price stability by referencing an underlying asset, typically through reserve backing or algorithmic mechanisms. This is typically the US dollar, though some track the euro or commodities such as gold. Read more

After topping $1 billion earlier in 2025, XRP futures open interest has dropped sharply.

CZ proposes a fix to address poisoning after an investor loses $50M, as Changpeng Zhao has urged wallet warnings, blacklist checks, and spam filters to reduce phishing losses across the crypto sector. The post CZ Wants to ‘Eradicate’ Address Poisoning After Massive $50M Loss appeared first on Cryptonews.

Crypto sentiment gauges have spent the past two months deep in the red. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has spent more than 30% of 2025 in fear or extreme fear territory, and alternative trackers put the market in a 10-25 range out of 100 since mid-November. Bitcoin is on track for its worst fourth […] The post Crypto sentiment is trapped in extreme fear because the industry’s biggest structural wins are failing to move prices appeared first on CryptoSlate.

DOGE continues its downward decline on Christmas Day as the token has retreated by 1% in the past 24 hours. However, one analyst sees an explosive move ahead and shared a bullish Dogecoin price prediction of $1 if historical patterns repeat.Dogecoin seems headed to close the year with losses exceeding 60% as the crypto market […] The post Dogecoin Price Prediction: Chart Predicts $1+ DOGE – Analyst Says the Bull Run Could Start Any Moment appeared first on Cryptonews.

BTC may fall to $70,000 and ETH to $2,400 if the Fed pauses rate cuts in the first quarter of 2026 and inflationary pressure persists. Key takeaways: Fed pauses could pressure crypto, but “stealth QE” may cushion downside risks. Liquidity matters more than cuts, shaping the direction of BTC and ETH in Q1 2026. Read more

Dogecoin found itself at the center of a controversial political storm, all while being embraced by traditional institutions.

Quantum computing won’t break Bitcoin in 2026, but the growing practice of “harvest now, decrypt later” is pushing the crypto industry to prepare sooner rather than later. Quantum computing has long been viewed as a threat to cryptocurrencies, a technology that could one day crack the cryptography securing Bitcoin and other blockchains. In 2026, that fear is resurfacing as major tech firms accelerate quantum research and investment. While the technology is not yet ready for widespread use, the pace of investment and experimentation has gained traction. In February, Microsoft unveiled its Majorana 1 chip, which the company dubbed “the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture,” rekindling debate about how quickly quantum hardware might move from research into real-world systems. However, despite growing attention, most experts say the risk to crypto remains theoretical, not imminent. The real concern, they argue, is not a sudden cryptographic collapse next year, but what attacke...

Five years of CME futures data shows where bitcoin has, and has not, built meaningful price support.

A prison letter from Keonne Rodriguez has reignited debate over crypto privacy tools, developer liability and executive clemency. Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Bitcoin privacy tool Samourai Wallet, spent Christmas Eve documenting his first day inside a US federal prison, offering a personal account as a crypto developer now serving a five-year sentence. In a letter shared by The Rage, he described the experience of surrendering himself to the prison camp. The account detailed the intake process, which included searches, medical clearances and the transition into prison housing. Rodriguez also described the emotional weight of leaving his family days before Christmas. Read more

PI dumped hard after its Feb ATH, but what lies ahead?

The global cryptocurrency derivatives market underwent a structural transformation in 2025, shifting away from retail-driven speculation toward institutional capital and more complex risk dynamics The post Crypto Derivatives Enter Institutional Era in 2025 With CME Overtaking Binance: CoinGlass appeared first on Cryptonews.

A research with an IQ of 236 laid out a bullish XRP price prediction that sees the token reaching a price of $1,000 within the next 10 years.YoungHoon Kim, whose X account is followed by more than 388,000 users, outlined the kind of scenario that must play out for this prediction to happen.He said that […] The post XRP Price Prediction: Korean Researcher Says $1,000 XRP Is Possible – Could XRP Really Go Parabolic?  appeared first on Cryptonews.

This year opened with Bitcoin (BTC) proponents expecting a clean rally, driven by halving narratives, spot ETF momentum, and a Fed pivot all stacked neatly in their favor. Instead, the year closed with BTC stuck 30% below its October peak, North Korean hackers walking away with $2 billion, and the US government quietly building a […] The post 10 stories that rewired digital finance in 2025 – the year crypto became infrastructure appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The coming year will see perfect parallel processing, big increases in the gas limit and number of data blobs, and 10% of Ethereum’s network switching to ZK. The coming year is set to be crucial for Ethereum scaling. In 2026, the Glamsterdam fork will bring perfect parallel processing to the chain and ratchet up the gas limit to 200 million, up from 60 million today. A significant number of validators will switch over from reexecuting transactions to verifying zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs instead. This sets the Ethereum layer 1 on a path to scale up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) and potentially beyond, though that target won’t be hit in 2026. Meanwhile, data blobs will increase (potentially up to 72 or more per block), enabling the layer 2s (L2s) to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second. L2s are becoming easier to use as well; ZKsync’s recent Atlas upgrade allows funds to stay on mainnet but trade in the fast execution environment of chains in ZKsync’s Elastic Network. The planned E...

Bitcoin's loss of a key long-term support could lead to deeper losses if bulls fail to reclaim control soon.

The crypto market is slightly higher today, with total cryptocurrency market capitalization up by around 0.7%. The post Why Is Crypto Up Today? – December 25, 2025 appeared first on Cryptonews.

The FSTB and SFC concluded consultations on virtual regimes and plan to introduce new bill to LegCo next year.