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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure BlackRock pushed into digital assets massively in 2025, with on-chain data revealing just how aggressive the leading asset manager became in accumulating Bitcoin and Ethereum.  Blockchain tracking data shows that the world’s largest asset manager expanded its cryptocurrency holdings by more than $23 billion in 2025, and this is one of the biggest institutional accumulation phases seen in the year. The figures highlight a sustained commitment to Bitcoin and Ethereum, even as price action turned bearish towards the end of the year. BlackRock’s Crypto Portfolio Expansion Through…

On-chain security researcher ZachXBT flagged hundreds of wallets across multiple EVM chains getting drained for small amounts, typically under $2,000 per victim, funneling into a single suspicious address.The theft total climbed past $107,000 and kept rising. The root cause is still unknown, but users reported receiving a phishing email disguised as a mandatory MetaMask upgrade, complete with a party-hat fox logo and a “Happy New Year!” subject line.This attack arrived when developers were on holiday, support channels were running skeleton crews, and users were scrolling through inboxes cluttered with New Year promotions.Attackers exploit that window. The small per-victim amounts suggest…

Bitcoin has a talent for looking calm right up until it isn’t.In the first trading days of 2026, the tape has had that familiar, coiled feel: enough headline noise to keep traders alert, not enough conviction to force a real move.When crypto behaves like that, the next decisive push often doesn’t come from inside the industry at all.It comes from the bond market, the dollar, and the set of economic releases that reprice the cost of money in minutes.That’s why Monday, Jan. 5, matters.At 10:00 a.m. ET, the Institute for Supply Management will publish its Manufacturing PMI, a single report…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The XRP ecosystem made significant strides in 2025, from greater regulatory clarity and key network upgrades to new partnerships with Ripple and more. Now that 2026 is underway, a Ripple developer has revealed that even more groundbreaking innovations are coming for the crypto project. He encourages the community to prepare for upcoming changes to XRP that could take the project to the next level.  Ripple Dev Announces Exciting Changes For XRP In 2026 J. Ayo Akinyele, the Head of Engineering at RippleX, the developer-focused arm of the…

If 2024 was the year crypto reentered the mainstream through TV tickers and glossy ETF commercials, then 2025 was the year the market learned to live with that attention.It absorbed it, metabolized it, and let it shape how liquidity moved day to day.Some stories were loud and obvious. Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in capital, and price charts arced and dipped with the cadence of macro prints.The more useful stories were quieter and lived in the market plumbing: who actually bought, who was underwater, which networks absorbed activity at tolerable cost, and which signals separated excitable rallies from robust advances.A thousand…

Bitcoin ended 2025 with a realized daily volatility of 2.24%, the lowest annual reading in the asset’s recorded history.K33 Research’s volatility chart stretches back to 2012, when Bitcoin saw daily moves of 7.58%, and shows steady compression through each cycle: 3.34% in 2022, 2.80% in 2024, and now 2.24% in 2025.Yet, the narrative doesn’t match the numbers. October’s drawdown from $126,000 to $80,500 felt brutal, and the tariff-driven liquidation on Oct. 10 wiped $19 billion in leveraged longs in a single day.The paradox: Bitcoin became less volatile by traditional measures while attracting larger capital flows and delivering larger absolute price…

In brief The amount of documented wrench attacks has increased in 2025 amid Bitcoin’s price rise. At least 65 have been tracked in a public database, with many more expected to be unreported. Some of the most grisly crimes include murder, severed fingers, and sexual assaults. Crypto’s growing mainstream presence has not been all good news for investors. Alongside Bitcoin’s price rise, a growing list of wrench attacks—that is, physical attacks meant to coerce a victim to hand over access to their crypto holdings—have taken place over the course of 2025. According to a publicly available database of wrench attacks from Jameson…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitfarms Ltd. has completed the sale of its Paso Pe Bitcoin mining site in Paraguay, ending its presence in Latin America. The 70-megawatt facility was sold for up to $30 million, a move that the company says will free cash for projects in North America. Reports have disclosed the deal as part of Bitfarms’ plan to focus its energy and compute efforts closer to home. Sale Terms And Payout Schedule According to the company, the buyer is the Sympatheia Power Fund, managed by Singapore’s Hawksburn Capital, and…

In brief Pudgy Penguin’s approach to consumer packaged goods is changing. A veteran of the toy industry is behind the NFT project’s shift. He wants to strike strategic deals with big-box stores. If the Pudgy Penguins brand was an island like Hawaii, then it would be toward the beginning of a years-long phase, where molten lava erupting from the ocean’s floor has started cooling and forming newly habitable land.That’s according to Steve Starobinsky, at least. With decades of experience in the toy-making world, Starobinsky was tasked in March with refining Pudgy’s approach to consumer packaged goods. But he acknowledged in…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The mastermind behind the Bitfinex hack, one of the most prominent cases in crypto security history, has been released early from prison after serving 14 months, under a 2018 law signed by US President Donald Trump. Bitfinex Hack Mastermind Receives Early Release On Friday, Ilya Lichtenstein, the mastermind behind the 2016 hack that stole over 120,000 Bitcoin (BTC) from crypto exchange Bitfinex, announced that he had been released from prison a year after receiving a five-year sentence. On X, Lichtenstein thanked a law signed by President Trump…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Market expert DeFi Tracer has compiled a series of predictions from an influential figure in the cryptocurrency market — specifically, a “whale,” or an investor with a large portfolio. This particular whale has accurately anticipated every Bitcoin (BTC) all-time high and numerous crypto market tops since 2015.  Long-term Vision The whale’s latest forecasts for 2026, unveiled in a social media post on X (formerly Twitter), include an ambitious target of $250,000 for Bitcoin (BTC), $20,000 for Ethereum (ETH), and $1,500 for Solana (SOL). However, this whale’s insights…

XRP spot ETFs have crossed $1 billion in assets under management, with about $1.14 billion spread across five issuers. Net inflows since Nov. 14 sit near $423.27 million.On the same CoinGlass dashboard, XRP itself sits around $1.88, with a market cap of $114.11 billion and about $382.14 million of 24-hour spot volume.If your mental model is the Bitcoin ETF era, where “wrapper demand” and “price repricing” felt welded together, that combination can read like a punchline.But it isn’t.It’s a reminder that ETFs don’t magically lift prices. They route demand through a fairly specific set of pipes.Unless those pipes are pulling…