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Investors logged into glossy crypto trading dashboards showing five-figure “profits,” then found themselves blocked from withdrawing a cent unless they first wired extra “taxes” or “loan repayments” to overseas accounts.When victims tried to cash out, the platforms demanded advance fees to “unlock” their accounts, yet never released any money.On Dec. 22, the SEC charged three purported crypto trading platforms and four investment clubs over an alleged $14 million fraud that ran from January 2024 to January 2025.Playbook in five stepsThe complaint reads like a manual for how these schemes work, and the structure is clean enough to serve as a…

In brief Stablecoin market capitalization surged 49% in 2025, reaching $306 billion by December, driven by regulatory clarity and institutional adoption. The GENIUS Act signed in July established the first federal regulatory framework for stablecoins in the U.S., providing market clarity. Major issuers including Circle, Ripple, and Paxos received provisional banking charters from the OCC, signaling further mainstream integration. Stablecoins just had their biggest year on record.The total stablecoin market capitalization has grown by 49% in 2025, going from $205 billion in January to $306 billion at the end of November, according to data on crypto analytics platform DeFi Llama.The…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Shiba Inu lead developer Kaal Dhairya published a year-end letter on Dec. 29 describing what he called the most difficult period in the project’s history, outlining post-hack recovery steps, law-enforcement engagement, and a proposed on-chain claims system meant to track repayment to affected users. Shiba Inu’s Team Year-End Letter “This year — especially the last few months — has been the hardest period in Shiba Inu’s history,” Dhairya wrote. “The hack happened. The leadership that was supposed to be here and help us through this difficult time…

In 2025, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) executed a capital markets feat that effectively cornered the supply of new Bitcoin, purchasing more coins than the global mining network produced for the entire year.Throughout the year, Strategy added approximately 225,027 BTC to its corporate treasury, bringing its total holdings to roughly 672,497 BTC. This purchasing campaign exceeded the estimated post-halving issuance of 164,000 coins, creating a mathematical supply shock.Yet, the company enters 2026 facing a stark market reality: its stock price has halved, decoupling violently from the very asset it hoards.Data from Strategy shows its shares plummeted 52% over the final three months…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to local reports, protests spread through Iran’s capital city Monday as the rial plunged to record lows and families watched savings shrink. The currency traded at about 1.4 million rials to the US dollar, and the rial has lost over 40% of its purchasing power since the two-week war in June. The central bank governor, Mohammad Reza Farzin, resigned amid the unrest, heightening public worry. Crowds Close Shops As Tensions Rose Shop owners around the Grand Bazaar and the Jomhouri shopping areas shut their doors and…

December 30th, 2025 – Victoria, Seychelles Margex, a cryptocurrency trading platform boasting ultra-convenient, user-friendly copy trading, is excited to announce the listing of ASTER, Hyperliquid (HYPE), Pump.fun (PUMP), Hedera (HBAR), DASH, Zcash (ZEC), Worldcoin (WLD) and Plasma (XPL) on its platform. Margex’s new listing, in addition to 50+ pairs available on its platform, aims to improve trading and enable exposure to trending tokens, in addition to the other 50+ pairs on the platform, allowing users to open leverage trades of up to 100X.  This new listing further highlights Margex’s commitment to listing trending market pairs, building a better user experience…

Bitcoin’s tape over the past 24 hours looked engineered for crypto investors, as BTC surpassed the $90,000 threshold in the early hours of Dec. 29, only to give back those gains less than 12 hours later.Traders like TedPillows posted clown emojis alongside charts showing repeated peaks and troughs, while CryptoSeth called it “fraud commodity” behavior, pointing to the same sawtooth pattern replaying 30 times.Bitcoin V-shaped crashes (Source: TedPillows)Additionally, Wimar X blamed Binance and Wintermute outright, claiming “multi-billion dollar manipulation” visible on-chain. However, the on-chain transfers involving Wintermute, as shown in his screenshot, totaled less than $30 million.Still, the question isn’t…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On Monday, December 29, 2025, Michael Saylor’s Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) announced its latest Bitcoin purchase. The company had acquired over $100 million worth of the digital asset again, keeping in line with its consistent buying over the years. While Strategy’s large Bitcoin buys have often been a cause for celebration in the crypto community, not everyone believes that this is a good strategy. Mainly, world-renowned economist Peter Schiff has blasted the move, highlighting its profits so far as subpar. Strategy’s Bitcoin Move Would Have Been Better With…

Cantor Fitzgerald believes the current Bitcoin and crypto downturn may be more of a temporary pullback than the start of a prolonged crypto winter. In a new CNBC interview, analyst Brett Knoblauch says that shorter drawdowns so far this cycle, Federal Reserve rate cuts, the absence of a major “black swan” event, and growing regulatory support in the US and abroad could be signs that more than half of any potential decline may already be over. “I think if you look at the previous kind of cycles, the peak to trough duration is about 364 days. We are 85 days…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin treasury company Strategy has capped off the year 2025 with one final Monday acquisition, adding $108.8 million worth of BTC. Strategy Has Dropped Another $108.8 Million On Bitcoin As announced by Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor in an X post, the company has completed a fresh Bitcoin acquisition involving 1,229 BTC. The purchase took place in the period between December 22nd and December 28th, and cost the firm $88,568 per token or $108.8 million in total. According to the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin continues to trade below the $90,000 level after multiple failed attempts to break higher since December 14, reinforcing a growing sense of caution across the market. Each rejection near this psychological threshold has added weight to the bearish narrative, with an increasing number of analysts now warning that Bitcoin may be entering a prolonged corrective phase in the year ahead. Despite this muted price action, on-chain data suggests a more nuanced picture beneath the surface. Top analyst Axel Adler recently shared a chart tracking Bitcoin realized…

XRP is ending 2025 with one of the most paradoxical profiles in the crypto market, thanks to record-breaking institutional inflows colliding with one of the weakest price charts.According to CoinShares data, XRP investment products attracted approximately $70.2 million in net new money in the final trading week of December. This pushed its monthly inflow to more than $424 million, making it the best-performing crypto investment product for the month.During the month, Bitcoin products recorded $25 million in outflows, while Ethereum funds shed $241 million.Crypto Assets Weekly Flows (Source: CoinShares)Yet, the spot tape tells a sharply different story.According to CryptoSlate’s data,…