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Ethereum lost over $100 million in fees this year, and one corporate giant kept the profit

The Ethereum blockchain recorded its strongest operational year in history in 2025, processing record transaction volumes and securing the vast majority of the DeFi market. However, the crypto asset that powers the network failed to...

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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...

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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...

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Bitcoin just lost a hidden $2 trillion liquidity safety net, leaving it exposed to a brutal new pressure wave

Bitcoin’s 2025 rally sat on a liquidity foundation that looks solid until investors examine what changed in the final quarter. Some analysts point to global liquidity indexes hitting record highs and declare the wave is...

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Bitcoin order books just exposed the “wild” mechanics secretly crushing every rally before it starts

Bitcoin has spent the past several weeks going nowhere fast, and that is not because traders have run out of opinions. It is because the market is quietly boxed in by wild forces most people...

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Legendary $197M short seller just flipped long altcoins with high leverage, but funding rates signal a dangerous trap

There are traders you hear about because they talk, and traders you hear about because their footprints keep showing up in public data. The wallet that crypto Twitter has been calling “BitcoinOG,” “1011short,” or some...

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Banks just demanded $26 billion in emergency cash but Bitcoin traders are missing a critical warning signal

It started the way these things often do: a screenshot, a red circle, a big number, and a timeline that makes your stomach do a tiny flip. On Dec. 29, the Federal Reserve’s overnight repo...

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Crypto hacks dropped by half in 2025, but the data reveals a much deadlier financial threat

This year’s defining security event was not a sophisticated DeFi exploit or a novel protocol failure, but the $1.46 billion theft from Bybit, a top-tier centralized exchange. That single event, attributed to sophisticated state-sponsored actors,...

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Bitcoin analyst warns of “biggest financial mistake of the decade” for those still using this common theory

Analyst and creator of the ‘Bitcoin Quantile Model,’ Plan C, just posted a bundle of charts that pushed back on the idea of repeating cycle playbooks as Bitcoin trades around $87,661. The set frames a...

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XRP is quietly forming a “spring-loaded” supply setup that frustrated retail traders are completely ignoring

XRP is ending 2025 with one of the most paradoxical profiles in the crypto market, thanks to record-breaking institutional inflows colliding with one of the weakest price charts. #5 XRP XRP $1.87 +0.46% Market Cap...

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How Strategy used half its stock price to buy 225,000 Bitcoin in 2025

In 2025, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) executed a capital markets feat that effectively cornered the supply of new Bitcoin, purchasing more coins than the global mining network produced for the entire year. Throughout the year, Strategy...

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SEC filings reveal the multi-million dollar trap hiding inside ‘exclusive’ WhatsApp crypto investment clubs

Investors logged into glossy crypto trading dashboards showing five-figure “profits,” then found themselves blocked from withdrawing a cent unless they first wired extra “taxes” or “loan repayments” to overseas accounts. When victims tried to cash...

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Coinbase claims arrest in the $355 million insider extortion scheme that targeted nearly 70,000 customers

Coinbase said a former customer support agent was arrested in India as investigators probe a breach tied to insider bribery and customer data theft. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said on Dec. 27 that the...

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Ethereum’s record staking queue looks bullish, but one corporate giant is secretly distorting the real signal

A single corporate treasury has effectively hijacked Ethereum’s validator mechanics, executing a billion-dollar maneuver that has flipped the network’s flow data from a steady exodus to a sudden traffic jam. For the first time in...

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Bitmain just slashed mining rig prices, proving the market’s oldest “Bitcoin rule” is officially dead

Bitmain cut prices on Bitcoin mining rigs on Dec. 23 after miner revenue per unit of hashrate fell in November. The discounts, which extend to current-generation hydro and immersion products, are landing in a cycle...

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Bitcoin just lost $90,000, and a quiet surge in energy markets suggests the pain isn’t over

Bitcoin traded near $86,800 on Monday morning after reversing its Sunday move above $90,000, as crude oil rose and gold fell. #1 Bitcoin BTC $87,498.25 -0.23% Market Cap $1.75T 24h Volume $45.46B All-Time High $126,173.18...

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We mapped every major 2025 crypto regulation change to show you which rules actually protect your wallet

In 2025, crypto regulation stopped being mostly about courtroom theater and started focusing on actual infrastructure. Debates over how or whether to regulate crypto became less philosophical and more operational. Regulators spent the year answering...

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Ethereum’s 2026 roadmap includes this validator risk that’s bigger than you think

Ethereum’s 2026 roadmap centers on two tracks: expanding rollup data capacity through blobs while pushing base-layer execution higher through gas limit changes. Those gas limit changes depend on validators moving from re-executing blocks to verifying...

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