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U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted about $1.29 billion in net outflows over the 12 sessions from Dec. 15 through Dec. 31.The quiet holiday stretch became one of the cleaner stress tests yet for how “sticky” the category is when trading desks are thinly staffed, and portfolios are being squared before the calendar flips.The moves were not evenly distributed. According to Farside, the period saw about $812 million in gross inflows across just two positive days, Dec. 17 and Dec. 30, versus about $2.10 billion in gross outflows across the rest of the window.Bitcoin flows (Source: Farside)The tape read like a…

Very few times of the year are truly dead for games anymore, with former doldrum months like July and August, or February and March, now often being filled with killer games. This year, though, January actually earns the label. It’s not empty, but the release slate is light enough that you can be selective, or finally chip away at that ever-growing backlog without feeling like you’re missing out. And if you stocked up on holiday deals the last couple months, now’s the time to turn your attention to those.Two of the biggest releases this month are simply the same game we…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum investors appear to be stepping back in as they double down on the leading altcoin despite its price struggling to produce another significant upward move. This renewed buying pressure from major investors is being demonstrated in the recent surge in the number of coins acquired by accumulation wallet addresses.  Behind The Ethereum Slow Price Momentum The price of Ethereum may be exhibiting sluggish performance on the surface, but beneath the market noise, there is a noticeable shift in investor sentiment. Currently, ETH investors are turning up…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Market expert Andy has drawn attention to a significant loss that Michael Saylor’s Strategy took in the last quarter of 2025, mainly due to its Bitcoin exposure. Meanwhile, renowned economist Peter Schiff also highlighted how the MSTR stock would have been one of the worst-performing stocks if the company were in the S&P 500.  Michael Saylor’s Strategy Posts $17.5 Billion Loss Amid Bitcoin Decline In an X post, Andy noted that Saylor’s Strategy will report GAAP earnings for a fourth-quarter loss of $17.5 billion in 2025, which…

Guest Contributor Shane Neagle Editor In Chief • The Tokenist Between the end of 2025 and up to July 2026, the European Union’s MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets) regulation will go into full effect. Specifically, crypto exchanges, self-custody wallet providers, custodians, asset transfer providers, stablecoin issuers and portfolio managers will have to obtain formal authorization to continue operating.Notably, out of the 27 EU member states, only Poland is delaying the national implementation of this strict crypto framework. Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed the MiCA-compliant bill this month because it would “threaten the freedoms of Poles, their property and the stability of…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin rang in 2026 by switching his X profile image back to a Milady-style avatar and pairing it with a manifesto-like post that re-centers Ethereum’s identity around a single, old-school ambition: becoming “the world computer” for an open internet. “Welcome to 2026! Milady is back,” Buterin wrote, before ticking through what he framed as Ethereum’s 2025 progress: higher gas limits, a larger blob count, better node software quality, and zkEVMs hitting major performance milestones. He also argued that “with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made…

A crypto trader, Vida, realized more than $1.5 million in gains after spotting an anomalous wall of buy orders on Binance for the little-known token BROCCOLI714 on New Year’s Day.Vida, who shared detailed logs of the trade on social media platform X, said they initially treated the move as a likely hacked account or market-making bug.Due to this, he revealed that he traded around the anomaly in two phases, first by exiting a large spot and futures exposure into the pump and later by shorting the token.Binance has not publicly commented on the incident and has yet to respond to CryptoSlate’s…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has revealed how the company expanded its Bitcoin treasury by over 8,888 tokens during the last quarter of 2025. Tether Has Purchased Another 8,888 Bitcoin In a new post on X, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has shared the blockchain details of a Bitcoin transaction that the company made during the past day. With this transfer, the firm moved exactly 8,888.8888888 BTC from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex to its BTC reserve. Tether is a digital asset company best known for being the issuer of…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Roundhill Investments has filed an amended registration statement for its XRP ETF, which it could launch as soon as January 29. Notably, the XRP fund differs from the spot XRP funds and will only seek to provide investors with income from the altcoin rather than provide spot exposure.  Roundhill Files Form N-1A For XRP ETF Roundhill filed a post-effective amendment for its XRP Covered Call Strategy ETF, noting that the filing was intended to delay the fund’s effectiveness until January 29. In line with this, the fund…

Bitwise’s year-end barrage of ETF paperwork should have been a perfect spark for “alt season.” On Dec. 30, the issuer filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch 11 single-token “strategy” ETFs tied to Aave, Uniswap, Zcash, NEAR, Starknet, Sui, Bittensor, Tron, and other protocols.Each fund would allocate about 60% of its assets to the underlying coin and the rest to related ETPs and derivatives, with an expected effective date in March 2026.However, crypto prices and flows barely registered the news. That gap is where a market is now showing ETF filing fatigue.The 11 new Bitwise products land…

This year is already shaping up to be a killer one when it comes to games, and not just because that one game we’ve all been waiting for is probably going to come out, finally.There’s a ton of other stuff already on the docket for 2026, and this list, for obvious reasons, doesn’t even cover the stuff we don’t know about yet. If we get even two-thirds of this list in our hands by the end of the year, then we have a lot to look forward to.Editor’s note: All of the games on this list are traditional “Web2” games without…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Crypto pundit Cryptoinsight has commented on what Ripple haters get wrong about how the company handles its XRP holdings. The pundit also explained why the altcoin is set to explode this year, even as it eyes new all-time highs (ATHs).  What Ripple Haters Get Wrong About XRP In an X post, Cryptoinsight stated that people who hate XRP are so close to being right, but that they miss one key step in their equation. The pundit noted that these haters accuse Ripple of selling their XRP, so…