Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP) record roughly 3% gains on Monday, regaining strength mid-holiday season. Despite thin liquidity in the holiday season, BTC and major altcoins are regaining strength as US President Donald Trump pushes peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

Some BOJ board members said Japan’s real interest rate is very low and hinted at more rate hikes, raising the policy rate to 0.75%.

Canton (CC), Toncoin (TON), and Lido DAO (LDO) emerge as top gainers in a broadly slow cryptocurrency market over the last 24 hours. Canton ticks lower on Monday after a three-day rally while Toncoin and Lido DAO extend gains. 

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has risen to 148.2 trillion, the highest level since major miner conflicts.

Bank of America’s CEO Brian Moynihan believes that Trump's tariffs will begin to ease up. 

Late-stage crypto cycles often follow a familiar pattern. Capital stops chasing already massive assets and starts rotating into smaller protocols with working fundamentals. Large caps slow down. Attention shifts. Fresh demand looks for better upside with clearer growth paths. Right now, some analysts believe one new DeFi crypto sits directly in that rotation window, before […]

Bitcoin (BTC) is entering the final stretch of 2025 with a narrow but pivotal window to close the year in the green. According to a leading analyst, the flagship cryptocurrency must rally approximately 6.24% above its yearly open,  around $93,374, to end 2025 higher than it began. Nic Puckrin, CEO of a crypto analytics firm […]

2025 was packed with high-stakes bets that turned fast and often without warning, forcing traders from Tokyo to New York to watch the most extreme markets swing + extreme gains in history. We saw mortgage giants behaved like meme stocks, and a standard carry trade collapsed instantly. Trump-linked crypto trades collapsed after big launches Crypto […]

In DeFi, growth rarely starts with hype. It usually starts much earlier, when the underlying infrastructure is quietly put in place. Protocols that last tend to build liquidity systems, risk controls, and usage logic long before wider attention arrives. By the time headlines follow, the foundation is already set. One new crypto appears to have […]

The Trump administration’s crypto-friendly approach has resulted in reduced oversight of the crypto industry, leading to criticism from advocates and lawmakers.  The SEC has changed its policies from strict enforcement of regulations to a business-friendly model in President Trump’s regime, and contrary to critics, the reduced oversight has not been unreasonably reserved for crypto firms. […]

Blockchain analytics platform BubbleMaps has raised serious concerns about potential insider manipulation in the Atlas token, a memecoin inspired by Vice President JD Vance’s pet dog, after the cryptocurrency was promoted to hundreds of thousands of followers by the influential account Whale Insider. Most influencer-driven memecoin launches have turned out to be rug pull scam […]

Alex Smirnov, co-founder of deBridge has pointed out some things he perceives as critical missteps as the Flow team continues to recover from the recent attack that hit its network.  As part of its efforts to recover, the Flow team has suggested a rollback, which has raised eyebrows as critics like Smirnov, whose company deBridge, […]

Ethereum has entered a quieter phase. After months of movement, price action has slowed and many traders are reassessing where fresh momentum could come from next. This type of pause often leads investors to look beyond large caps. When upside feels limited at the top, attention shifts toward smaller assets that are earlier in their […]

Hyperliquid decentralized exchange has ended the year with more than 600k new users and $844M in revenue.

Early investor opportunities rarely announce themselves loudly. They tend to surface when attention starts shifting, but before prices fully adjust. That moment often comes when familiar names slow down and newer projects begin to show stronger signals beneath the surface. As the market looks toward the next crypto cycle, a small group of cryptocurrencies is […]

While the sentiment grows with regard to a possible positive breakout in the XRP pricing, expert investors continue to turn their attention to the best cryptocurrency to buy in prior to the full-scale bull market to take place. One top crypto, which has recently gained popularity with regard to mainstream industry attention is Mutuum Finance […]

Mirae Asset Group is in talks to buy Korbit for around $100 million.

Market leadership in crypto often changes quietly. It rarely happens at the peak of excitement. Instead, it starts when large-cap coins slow down and attention begins to drift elsewhere. Right now, many market watchers believe that shift may be underway again. While established networks face resistance, a newer DeFi crypto is starting to attract growing […]

The Christmas cheer has skipped the crypto market as the number of Bitcoin investors selling at a loss is on the rise, with daily realized losses now reaching $300 million as recent buyers become frustrated with the cryptocurrency’s current price, which is a far cry from the all-time high it achieved this year. CryptoVizArt, lead […]

OKX CEO Star Xu has advice for decentralized exchange (DEX) products after a weekend of security risks being exposed in exploits. The exchange executive highlighted the need for them to meet the same rigorous standards that centralized exchanges (CEXs) are subjected to.  According to Xu, a lot of existing DEX bot products require that users […]

As the crypto market set for the next major wave of growth, traders are on the lookout for the next Ethereum, where the new projects on the rise promise potential growth from the initial levels. However, the new rapidly growing cheap cryptocurrency is Mutuum Finance. The project is priced only at $0.035 during the current […]

Stolen crypto data sell on the dark web for $105. The data is collected from phishing attacks and is added to a complex supply chain of cybercrime.

There is now a split in Ethereum. While the rest of the market looks on, the big-money players have quietly gone on a $350 million spending spree since December 26. The money flow index You can see this pretty clearly in the data. The Money Flow Index, which tracks how money moves in and out, […]

Cryptocurrency taxation is a matter of political decisions, hence an ever-changing one. And while the common feeling may be that the list of crypto tax havens is shrinking, economic sense, although not that common anymore, still prevails in some European and other capitals. Ahead of the New Year’s Eve, when the time is ripe for […]

South Korea has announced that it has extradited a hacker who stole more than 1.7 billion (approximately $1.8 million) worth of digital assets. According to reports, the 29-year-old Lithuanian national stands accused of using malware to secretly alter the wallet addresses where digital assets were meant to be sent. The development was announced by the […]

An Indian doctor has lost about Rs. 63 lakh (approximately $70,000) to a fraudulent scheme after he was lured under the pretext of high returns. The 69-year-old doctor from Ahmedabad, who has been practising for three decades, reported the incident to the city cybercrime branch in the region. According to the complaint filed at the […]

Emerging markets are expected to drive strong growth in real-world asset tokenization in 2026, according to Bitfinex executive Jesse Knutson.

Uniswap has burned 100 million UNI tokens, worth $635 million, after the protocol's 'UNIfication' upgrade went live. 

The creator of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, has released Midnight Protocol. He is using this cross-blockchain privacy technique to attack Bitcoin and the XRP Ledger. Midnight may help Cardano, but it may also improve the privacy of Bitcoin and XRP, according to Hoskinson. He thinks the technology can compete with the privacy tools available today. Privacy […]

An Australian court has ordered NGS Crypto, a crypto retirement company to shut down its services after it discovered discrepancies in its books. NGS Crypto is a digital asset platform that marketed itself as a crypto-based retirement solution. The federal court order was issued this week, after findings revealed that the Gold Coast-linked group operated […]