Haseeb Qureshi, a managing partner at crypto-focused venture firm Dragonfly, says 2026 is shaping up to be a year where crypto’s long-term trends assert themselves rather than reset, even as markets deliver sharp moves in both directions. In a Dec. 29 post on X, Qureshi outlined a wide-ranging perspective that reflects a broader investor reassessment […]
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With Democrats favored by 75% to win the US House majority in 2026 on prediction market Kalshi, Representative Maxine Waters’ new criticism of Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins’ crypto policies could gain more steam. Although Congress remains on winter break, the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee asked Atkins on Monday
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Layer-1 network Flow scrapped plans to roll back its blockchain after a $3.9 million exploit, reversing course after pushback from ecosystem partners who warned that rewriting chain history would undermine decentralization and create operational risks. Instead, the network released a statement on Dec. 29 saying it will restart from the last sealed block before transactions
APT$1.7053 down 1.7% to $1.70 over the past 24 hours, underperforming broader crypto markets. The broader market gauge, the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20), was 0.7% lower at press time. The drop came amid notably muted trading activity, with APT’s volume running 16% below its 30-day average, suggesting limited institutional conviction behind the price advance, according
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Bitcoin BTC$87,587.62 could be heading into a longer downturn, according to Cantor Fitzgerald, but it will likely be a prelude to the crypto industry entering a more stable, institutionally driven phase. Markets are likely in the early stages of a crypto winter, echoing bitcoin’s historic four-year cycle, according to a year-end report from analyst Brett
Cardano (ADA) was also a top performer, rising 4.2% from Friday.
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) said its combined crypto, cash and higher-risk “moonshot” investments have reached $13.2 billion, fueled by an ether ETH$2,938.41 position that now stands at more than 4.1 million tokens. The firm, in a press release on Monday, said the holdings make it the world’s largest publicly owned ether treasury and ranks it
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DOT$1.8901 fell 2% to $1.84 in the last 24 hours. Trading volume was 7.8% above the seven-day moving average of 7.76 million tokens, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The model showed that the movement in DOT occurred without clear fundamental catalysts as technical factors dominated the price action. The token underperformed the broader
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Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly traded holder of bitcoin BTC$89,558.82resumed purchases after increasing its US dollar reserves to $2.2 billion in the previous week. The company acquired 1,229 bitcoins last week for $108.8 million at an average price of $88,568 per coin, according to a filing published Monday morning. Total holdings rose to 672,497 BTC,
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Sberbank, Russia’s second-largest bank, issued the country’s first bitcoin-backed loan to one of its biggest bitcoin miners, calling the transaction a pilot and hinting it was eager to issue more in the future “We believe that this product will not only be relevant for cryptocurrency miners, but also for companies that own cryptocurrencies,” the bank
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