Tether began 2026 by adding 8,888.88 BTC to its treasury as part of its profit allocation for the fourth quarter of 2025, according to CEO Paolo Ardoino. The transfer, worth about $780 million at current prices, solidifies a strategy that has quietly turned the world’s largest stablecoin issuer into one of bitcoin’s largest corporate owners. […]
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The minutes from the Federal Reserve’s December 2025 policy meeting show officials paying close attention to a risk that rarely makes headlines but can quickly rattle markets: whether the financial system could quietly run out of cash even as interest rates barely move. Published on December 30, the minutes of the meeting of the Federal
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin used a New Year’s message Thursday to reflect on a year of major technical advances — and to argue that the network’s real test lies in fulfilling its original mission, not in chasing the latest crypto narratives. In his New Year’s keynote at X, Buterin said Ethereum made significant progress in
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Shares of Strategy (MSTR) have fallen for six consecutive months for the first time since the firm adopted bitcoin as a financial asset in August 2020, according to a performance chart shared Thursday by crypto analyst Chris Millas. In a Jan. 1 post on X, Millas highlighted the rare streak and attached a chart showing
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Crypto should go out with a bang this year. Heading into the fourth quarter, bitcoin rode a wave of strong ETF inflows, digital asset treasuries (DATs) pitched themselves as leveraged bets on the next leg higher, and analysts dusted off charts that showed the last three months of the year as crypto’s most reliable winning
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Trade XRP$1.8377 and solana SUN$125.03 felt twice as bumpy as bitcoin BTC$87,778.28 in 2025, dashing hopes of market maturation beyond the largest cryptocurrency. Realized volatility over the past 365 days hit 87% for solana and 80% for XRP, compared to BTC’s calmer 43%, according to data tracked by CoinDesk Indices. GDP GDP$862.44 the clock 55%
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Investment bank KBW upgraded TeraWulf ( WULF ) to “outperform” from “market perform” while raising its price target to $24 from $9.50. The bank said the market is underestimating the earnings upside from the company’s shift away from bitcoin BTC$87,492.78 mining against AI and high-performance computing (HPC) leasing. “We believe investors are underestimating the magnitude
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Base’s promotion of creator coins, largely through its close alignment with NFT marketplace Zora, is drawing increasing criticism from community members who say the strategy alienates projects that helped launch the network’s early 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 after it aired $675 million in LIT on Tuesday. In an X post, Bubblemaps questioned whether “all the (yield) farmers left?” It also noted that Lighter users raised about $201.9 million worth of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain and
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2025 was a big year for on-chain privacy. Zcash, one of the original privacy coins, jumped more than 600% and was one of the biggest success stories of the year. Ethereum and Solana announced major initiatives to bring privacy to their networks. And startups building privacy-preserving technology with zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs and fully homomorphic encryption
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