Tether started 2026 by adding 8,888.88 BTC to its treasury portfolio as part of its Q4 2025 profit split, according to CEO Paolo Ardoino. The transfer, worth about $780 million at current prices, reinforces a strategy that has quietly made the world’s largest stablecoin issuer into one of the largest companies holding Bitcoin. The purchase […]
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Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s December 2025 policy meeting show officials are paying close attention to a risk that rarely makes headlines but can quickly shake up markets: Whether the financial system could quietly run out of liquidity even if interest rates barely move. Published on December 30, the minutes of the Federal Open Market
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin used a New Year’s message on Thursday to reflect on a year of major technical advancements — and to argue that the real test of the network lies in accomplishing its original mission, not chasing the latest crypto narratives. In his New Year’s post on He highlighted improvements that allow the
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Shares of Strategy (MSTR) have declined for six straight months for the first time since the company adopted bitcoin as a treasury asset in August 2020, according to a performance chart shared Thursday by crypto analyst Chris Millas. In a Jan. 1 article on Monthly Strategy Performance (MSTR) since January 2020 (Chris Millas/X) Although the
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Crypto was supposed to come out with a bang this year. Heading into the fourth quarter, Bitcoin was riding a wave of massive ETF inflows, digital asset treasuries (DATs) were posing as leveraged bets on the next step higher, and analysts were dusting off charts showing the final three months of the year as crypto’s
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Trade XRP$1.8377 and Solana GROUND$125.00 it was twice as bumpy as Bitcoin BTC$87,788.22 in 2025, dashing hopes of the market maturing beyond the largest cryptocurrency. Realized volatility over the past 365 days reached 87% for Solana and 80% for XRP, compared to a calmer 43% for BTC, according to data tracked by CoinDesk Indices. BNB
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Investment bank KBW upgraded TeraWulf (WULF) to “outperform” from “market perform” while increasing its price target from $9.50 to $24. The bank said the market was underestimating the profit boost from the company’s move away from Bitcoin. BTC$87,536.37 mining to AI and high-performance computing (HPC) rental. “We believe investors are underestimating the magnitude of the
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Base’s promotion of designer coins, largely through its close alignment with NFT marketplace Zora, is drawing growing criticism from community members who say the strategy alienates projects that helped reignite the network’s initial momentum. In recent months, Base has become the epicenter of “creator coins,” which are tokens tied to individual creators, posts, or pieces
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Onchain data from Bubblemaps revealed that around $250 million was withdrawn from decentralized perpetual exchange Lighter following LIT’s $675 million airdrop on Tuesday. In an article X, Bubblemaps wondered if “all the (yield) farmers were leaving? » He also noted that Lighter users withdrew approximately $201.9 million worth of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain and
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2025 was a big year for online privacy. Zcash, one of the first hot coins, surged over 600% and was one of the biggest success stories of the year. Ethereum and Solana have announced major initiatives to ensure the privacy of their networks. And startups developing privacy-preserving technologies with zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs and fully homomorphic
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