Looking back to 2025, the sound money, or debasement trade, was decisively won by the metals over bitcoin. Gold delivered one of its best years ever, up 65%, while bitcoin is down 7% so far. Until August, the two assets had similar returns, both up around 30%. From that point on, gold rose while bitcoin […]
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The crypto market’s rich vein of volatility extended into Friday morning with bitcoin BTC$88,303.49 rises from a low at 1:00 UTC at $85,200 to $88,000 over five hours after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates to the highest level in 30 years. The move marked the fourth time bitcoin has risen more than 2%
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The GENIUS Act represents something harder and harder to find in Washington: true bipartisan consensus on complex fiscal policy. After months of negotiations and compromise, Congress delivered a stablecoin framework designed to protect consumers, support innovation and strengthen the dollar’s global leadership. Now, just as regulators begin the hard work of implementation, some in the
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Poland’s lower house of parliament, the Sejm, passed a sweeping bill to regulate the crypto industry, reviving legislation previously vetoed by President Karol Nawrocki and sending it to the Senate for further debate. The Crypto-Asset Market Act, approved Thursday by 241 lawmakers in the Sejm, remains unchanged from the version struck down earlier this month,
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Wall Street bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) said stablecoin supply could reach $500 billion to $600 billion by 2028, far from the most bullish $2 trillion to $4 trillion calls. Stablecoin demand is still primarily a crypto market story, not a payments story, according to the largest US bank by assets. JPMorgan noted that
Aave isn’t just big for DeFi. It is the largest lending protocol in the sector by a mile, with more than $50 billion in assets deposited across its markets. That’s a balance sheet that would place it roughly in the top 50 U.S. banks by assets if it were a traditional institution. This feature is
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Veteran Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr is at the forefront of one of the most hotly debated debates in cryptocurrency – what the original blockchain network should be used for. The emergence of the Ordinals protocol in 2023, which allowed some form of NFTs to be minted on Bitcoin, and Runes a year later, which did
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Jeff Yan rarely speaks publicly, avoids social media and has never taken venture capital money. But in 2025, few individuals have had a greater impact on the shape of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the crypto space itself. This feature is part of CoinDesk’s The list of most influential 2025. Yan is the founder of Hyperliquid,
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US Senator Cynthia Lummis, who has arguably been the crypto sector’s closest friend in Congress, will not seek a second term, she said in a statement on Friday. The first-term lawmaker will resign after her six-year term ends in January 2027, leaving a Republican seat open in extremely red Wyoming but also removing a key
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In 2025, the Solana ecosystem saw a mix of activities related to hype, hardware and high-impact upgrades, marking one of the chain’s most memorable years yet. The year began with a full-on memecoin craze, with speculative energy and hype igniting onchain activity. This wave followed on the heels of the late 2024 rise of BONK,
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