New York Times editors share their biggest questions as we leave 2025 behind and look toward 2026. By Richard W. Stevenson, Mohammed Hadi, Nestor Ramos, Nikita Stewart, Michael Mason, Gilad Thaler, David Seekamp, Lauren Pruitt, Luke Piotrowski and Edward Vega December 31, 2025
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Cypherpunk Technologies (CYPH), a digital asset treasury company backed by the Winklevoss twins, said it purchased $28 million worth of zcash privacy coins. ZEC$524.53bringing its overall assets to 290,062 ZEC ($152 million). The Nasdaq-listed company said in a press release on Tuesday that it purchased 56,418 tokens at an average price of $514.02 per token
South Korean retail traders continued to pile into Ether stockpile BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. even after the U.S.-listed stock crashed more than 80% from its July peak, making it one of the year’s most extreme examples of speculative demand surviving a wipeout. BitMine is expected to close 2025 as one of the most popular foreign
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Bitcoin BTC$88,422.53 The market became much quieter in 2025 as institutions adopted derivatives linked to the leading cryptocurrency to generate additional liquidity from their idle coin holdings. The calm is evident in the steady decline in BTC’s 30-day annualized implied volatility, as measured by Volmex’s BVIV and Deribit’s DVOL indices. These metrics indicate expectations for
The year 2025 was defined by a marked divergence: structural progress collided with price stagnation. Institutional milestones were achieved and TVL increased across most major ecosystems, but the majority of large-cap layer 1 tokens ended the year with negative or flat returns. This report analyzes the structural decoupling between network usage and token performance. We
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Bitcoin and Ether finished December with little sign of the year-end blowout that traders often bank on, capping a quarter that shows how fragile crypto rallies can look when liquidity dwindles and risk appetite diminishes. The so-called “Santa Gathering” never actually happened. Instead, Bitcoin’s repeated attempts to reclaim key levels sold off, while ether and
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Prenetics (PRE), a health sciences company that raised $48 million earlier this year, in part to build a Bitcoin treasury, said it decided to stop buying BTC amid prolonged weakness in the cryptocurrency market. The company rolled out its bitcoin accumulation strategy in June, following a model championed by Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc, in which
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South Korea’s much-anticipated Digital Asset Basic Act (DABA), a comprehensive framework intended to govern the trading and issuance of cryptocurrencies in one of Asia’s most active digital asset markets, has been delayed due to disagreements among regulators over the issuance of stablecoins. The biggest disagreement is over who should have the legal authority to issue
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Grayscale aims to give US investors exposure to Bittensor’s TAO, pushing decentralized artificial intelligence further into traditional crypto markets. The digital asset manager filed an initial S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday for what would be the first U.S.-listed exchange-traded product (ETP) offering exposure to TAO. The Grayscale Bittensor
Open interest data suggests the advance is likely short position covering, rather than new long positions entering the market.
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