Korbit, the South Korean crypto exchange in talks to be bought by Mirae Asset, was fined 2.73 billion won ($1.9 million) by the country’s regulator for multiple anti-money laundering and customer verification violations. The financial intelligence unit said the exchange violated key provisions of the country’s special financial transactions law, including the lapse of customer […]
Bitcoins BTC$88,890.52 bull run in 2025 was expected to be historic, with some industry experts suggesting that the largest cryptocurrency would reach heights of $180,000-$200,000 by the end of the year. It was historic. Just not as anyone thought. It is true that bitcoin hit an all-time high earlier than most models expected, rising above
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Crypto asset manager Bitwise filed an application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to introduce 11 crypto “strategy” exchange-traded funds (ETFs) including aave AAVE$149.57unswap UNI$5.9132zcash ZEC$526.63, SUI$1.4458 and TAO$223.25. Tuesday’s N-1A filing describes an approach that includes investing up to 60% of a fund’s assets directly in the underlying token, while allocating the rest
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New York Times editors across the newsroom share their biggest questions as we leave 2025 behind us and look ahead to 2026. By Richard W. Stevenson, Mohammed Hadi, Nestor Ramos, Nikita Stewart, Michael Mason, Gilad Thaler, David Seekamp, Lauren Pruitt, Luke Piotrowski and Edward Vega 31 December 2025
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Cypherpunk Technologies (CYPH), a digital asset finance company backed by the Winklevoss twins, said it bought $28 million in privacy coin zcash ZEC$524.42bringing its total holdings to 290,062 ZEC ($152 million). The Nasdaq-listed company said in a press release on Tuesday that it bought 56,418 tokens at an average price of $514.02 per token and
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South Korean retailers have continued to pile into Ether hoarder BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. even after the U.S.-listed stock collapsed more than 80% from its peak in July, making it one of the year’s most extreme examples of speculative demand surviving a wipeout. BitMine is set to close 2025 as one of the most popular
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Bitcoin BTC$88,422.77 the market became much quieter in 2025 as institutions embraced derivatives tied to the leading cryptocurrency to generate extra cash from their idle coin holdings. The calm is evident in the consistent decline in BTC’s annualized 30-day implied volatility, as measured by Volmex’s BVIV and Deribit’s DVOL indices. These metrics indicate expectations for
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Bitcoin and ether ended December with little sign that the year-end blowout traders often bank on, capping a quarter that shows how fragile crypto rallies can look as liquidity thins and risk appetite wanes. The so-called ‘Santa Claus convention’ never really came to fruition. Instead, bitcoin’s repeated attempts to regain key levels sold off, while
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2025 was defined by a sharp divergence: structural progress collided with stagnant price action. Institutional milestones were reached and TVL increased across most major ecosystems, yet 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 examine 10
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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 due to 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
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