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>>>> gd2md-html alert: inline image link in generated source and store images to your server. NOTE: Images in exported zip file from Google Docs may not appear in the same order as they do in your doc. Please check the images!—–>If you used AI seriously in 2025, you probably noticed the shift. One chatbot stopped being enough. Different platforms started outperforming each other in wildly different ways—research here, video generation there, code scaffolding somewhere else. It forced everyone to rethink their setup.Last year, the AI community wanted to know which model was the king of AI. Now, companies are betting…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum treasury firm Bitmine has started staking its Ether tokens, depositing roughly $451 million worth of ETH into Ethereum’s proof-of-stake (PoS) system on Saturday, December 27. This appears to be a fresh strategy from the digital asset treasury (DAT) firm, which has managed to stay relevant in a nascent, uncertain sector of the cryptocurrency industry. How Much Would BitMine Make From Ethereum Staking? In the early hours of Saturday, December 27, on-chain analyst EmberCN revealed that BitMine has finally started attempting to stake its Ether holdings to…

Ethereum’s 2026 roadmap centers on two tracks: expanding rollup data capacity through blobs while pushing base-layer execution higher through gas limit changes.Those gas limit changes depend on validators moving from re-executing blocks to verifying ZK execution proofs.The first track is already anchored by Fusaka, which shipped Dec. 3, 2025.FusakaFusaka sets up PeerDAS plus blob parameter only (BPO) changes that can raise blob throughput in measured steps, according to ethereum.org.The second track is less mechanized because it relies on draft EIPs, client implementation, and validator operations that have to stay within decentralization constraints, including bandwidth, block propagation, and proving market structure.…

In brief Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs continued generating inflows this year. Access broadened to products tracking XRP, Solana, and beyond. The SEC focused on listing standards and staking. This year, exchange-traded funds opened several doors to crypto on Wall Street, as the SEC forged a fresh approach to the products.Although asset managers had previously fought tooth and nail to offer products tracking Bitcoin and Ethereum’s spot price, many foresaw opportunities in 2025, as the regulatory environment started to shift with President Donald Trump’s return to power in January.As of Dec. 15, spot Bitcoin ETFs had generated $57.7 billion in net…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Ethereum price looks set to end 2025 with a double-digit loss, but its start to the new year appears to be the more worrying subject. A prominent on-chain analyst has identified crucial price levels that could decide ETH’s future in the next few months. 3 Critical Support Zones For ETH Price In a new post on the social media platform X, Alphractal CEO and founder Joao Wedson warned the market of the potential risk of seeing the Ethereum price below the $2,000 mark again. According to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Against widespread expectations, the second term of Donald Trump as the US President has yielded a positive effect on Bitcoin’s price. While the flagship cryptocurrency has recorded an all-time high since Trump’s inauguration in January, the market has mostly been in consolidation and range-bound phase, with the broader picture still taking on a bearish form. Crypto analysis page XWIN Research Japan recently offered a comparative analysis with the post-election euphoria seen in 2016, to explain why the post-2024 price action is without enthusiasm. Analyst Explains Why Bitcoin’s…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to the latest market data, Ethereum has seen an annual record of speculative trading activity in 2025. Below is how much was traded in the ETH derivatives market in the past year. Ethereum Futures Trading Hits New Yearly Record In a December 26 post on social media platform X, pseudonymous analyst Darkfost revealed that Ethereum stood out in one regard despite the mixed performance of altcoins in 2025.  Darkfost highlighted that derivatives trading volumes continued to dominate the entire crypto market this year. However, Ethereum recorded…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The narrative surrounding XRP has undergone a fundamental transformation, and the token has begun to trade like an asset that has already endured its most punishing tests. Years of regulatory uncertainty, legal scrutiny, and prolonged underperformance have tempered speculation and reshaped its investor base, leaving behind a market that appears more resilient than reactive. Why XRP No Longer Reacts To Every Negative Headline XRP is starting to trade like an asset that has already endured its hardest trials after years of regulatory overhang, which forced it to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to the latest report, a former Coinbase customer service contractor has been arrested in India for their role in a recent data breach incident. This arrest comes after hackers reportedly bribed customer service representatives or contractors to gain access to customer information at the US’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. In May, Coinbase revealed that hackers bribed contractors or the company’s employees outside to steal sensitive user information. While the San Francisco-based crypto firm faced backlash for allegedly disclosing the data breach months after initial discovery, several employees…

The following is a guest post and opinion from Anurag Arjun, Founder of Avail.The global stablecoin narrative is about to shift fast. What began as a US-dominated experiment in digital liquidity is morphing into a multipolar fight over who controls the rails of tomorrow’s monetary system. And the most consequential moves are unfolding in Asia—quietly, deliberately, and at increasing speed.For a decade, dollar-backed tokens (such as USDT and USDC) have dominated the market. But 2025 is the year that the reign begins to crack. Behind closed doors in Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jakarta, a different plan is being…

In brief Caltech, Google, and IBM delivered results that reshaped expectations for practical quantum systems. Bitcoin developers reassessed long-term security as quantum timelines grew less speculative. Researchers said the threat remains distant, but 2025 showed a clearer view of the next decade. When scientists at Caltech flicked on their new neutral-atom quantum array in September, the quantum machine broke a threshold many scientists thought was years away. For the first time, researchers successfully trapped 6,100 atomic qubits in a single system and maintained coherence in a way that pushed quantum hardware past the “toy demo” stage.What happened in that lab…

In 2025, crypto regulation stopped being mostly about courtroom theater and started focusing on actual infrastructure.Debates over how or whether to regulate crypto became less philosophical and more operational. Regulators spent the year answering the “boring” questions that decide whether a market can scale: who is allowed to issue a “digital dollar,” what backs it, how fast investors can get a regulated wrapper like an ETF, and what counts as proper custody when the asset is a private key instead of a paper certificate.That’s why 2025 mattered even if you never read a single bill. Most of this year’s new…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure In an important development, a governance dispute within the Aave ecosystem has reignited long-standing concerns around token value capture, operational control, and the blurred lines between decentralized governance and corporate execution. The ongoing debate, which culminated in a highly polarized and controversial DAO vote, highlights broader structural challenges facing DeFi protocols that evolved under restrictive regulatory conditions but now operate at an institutional scale. Governance Proposal Sparks Heavy Debate Despite Rejection At the center of the ongoing controversy was a proposal to bring Aave’s brand and front-end…

In brief Bitcoin whales started selling this year, some after a decade or more of holding BTC. The biggest sale from a Satoshi-era investor tallied $9 billion worth of Bitcoin. The sales have started to put downward pressure on the leading cryptocurrency’s price. This was the year the Bitcoin whales woke up. As the price of the leading cryptocurrency soared to new heights, longtime holders started making moves to the tune of billions of dollars.Selling from O.G. “HODLers” began after the leading cryptocurrency finally hit the mythical $100,000 mark for the first time in December 2024. Whales then briefly slowed…