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Trust Wallet’s Chrome extension shipped a malicious update in December, exfiltrating wallet data and draining roughly $7 million from hundreds of accounts before the company pushed a fix.The compromised version 2.68 was live for days, auto-updating in the background, the way browser extensions are designed to. Users who followed every standard self-custody rule, such as never sharing their seed phrase, checking URLs, and using reputable wallets, still lost funds.The attack targeted the browser layer, not the blockchain, and it exposed a persistent trade-off that the industry has spent years trying to ignore: browser-extension wallets are always-on hot wallets sitting in…

In brief Circle and Bullish finally went public in 2025 after past failed SPAC attempts, with both seeing strong initial investor interest despite Circle’s later momentum slowdown. Trading platform eToro reached a $5.4 billion valuation at its May Nasdaq debut, while Kraken filed for IPO in November following an $800 million raise that valued it at $20 billion. The year marked a turning point for crypto companies accessing public markets, driven by renewed retail interest, political tailwinds, and improved market conditions. This year has arguably been the biggest and most consequential on record for crypto IPOs.A surge in retail interest,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Based on reports from industry outlets and internal pricing lists, Bitmain has sharply reduced the asking prices for several of its Bitcoin ASIC models, a move tied to falling mining revenue and bloated inventory. The cuts place some high-end units near wholesale break-even levels for operators paying standard power rates. Following the April 2024 halving, which cut the Bitcoin block reward to 3.125 BTC, mining companies are increasingly adopting renewable energy to lower operating costs. Normally, higher BTC prices help offset the reduced subsidy, but 2025 defied…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure CoinGlass has drawn the crypto community’s attention to how much was liquidated from the Bitcoin and crypto market this year. The October 10 crash notably stands out as the largest liquidation event in the market’s history.  Here’s How Much Was Liquidated From The Bitcoin and Crypto Market In 2025 A CoinGlass report revealed that the total nominal value of forced liquidations across both long and short positions was approximately $150 billion. This corresponds to a daily average of roughly between $400 and $500 million in routine leverage…

Bitcoin ETF headlines have turned into a scoreboard with “record inflows,” “largest outflows ever,” and “institutions dumping.” The problem is that most stories isolate a single day or a single fund.Without context on cumulative flows, fund cohorts, and custody plumbing, they say very little about how much spot Bitcoin is actually changing hands, or what institutions are really doing.Take the latest wobble. U.S.-traded spot Bitcoin ETFs saw about $175 million in net outflows on Dec. 24, capping five straight negative sessions.It looks grim, but zooming out shows that the complex still holds roughly $113.8 billion in assets and has cumulative…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Japan’s upcoming tax reform is expected to restructure the way crypto assets are treated in the country next year, changing digital assets classification and introducing a separate taxation system for different transactions. Japan Proposes New Taxation System On Friday, local news media outlets shared key details of Japan’s upcoming FY2026 Tax Reform Outline, published by the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party on December 19. CoinPost reported that the 2026 tax reform will introduce significant changes to current taxation system related to the classification and…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On-chain data shows the year 2025 saw Bitcoin mining become notably harder for miners as Difficulty witnessed net growth of 35%. Bitcoin Difficulty Has Crossed 148 Trillion Hashes 2025 is coming to a close, and it was a year where Bitcoin miners significantly expanded their facilities. According to data from Blockchain.com, the network Hashrate, a measure of the total amount of computing power connected by the miners, has seen its 7-day average value go from 795.7 terahashes per second (TH/s) at the start of the year to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly said that the United States is interested in using Zaporizhzhia’s nuclear electricity for crypto mining. US & Russia Are In Talks About Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Russia and the US are negotiating joint control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, according to a report from Kyiv Post, citing Russian business newspaper Kommersant. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is located in Southeastern Ukraine and is the largest nuclear energy facility in Europe. It used to be responsible for more than a fifth…

On a cold ‘Betwixmas’ December morning, the mood around Bitcoin feels familiar and strange at the same time.Familiar, because the story still swings between euphoria and anxiety. Strange, because the people watching the chart now include a different crowd. Market Cap $1.75T 24h Volume $42.45B All-Time High $126,173.18 Some are still the veterans who lived through 2017 and 2021, some are newer, the ones who got exposure through a brokerage account and an ETF ticker, the kind of investor who never had to learn what a seed phrase is.Bitcoin is trading around $89,000. That number would have sounded ridiculous a…

In brief NFT marketplaces OpenSea and Magic Eden have both added fungible token trading to their platforms this year. A market researcher says this is likely due to NFT activity cooling down, and that the moves have helped the platforms stabilize. Magic Eden said token trading isn’t a major focus, and that it’s gunning to expand into what it calls “crypto entertainment.” NFT mania is a distant memory in 2025. It was an era—back in 2021 and early 2022—when Beeple sold a jpeg for $69.3 million, CryptoPunks were going for tens of millions, and celebrities kept aping into the Bored…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The recent surge in Bitcoin (BTC) volatility has led to significant liquidations, prompting renewed suspicions of market manipulation among experts.  Institutional Sell-Off?  A detailed analysis by market expert NoLimit on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) reveals that, at the time of the stock market opening, BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) IBIT transferred hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Bitcoin into Coinbase Prime wallets.  This timing and location indicate a pattern that institutions often follow when selling their assets. As explained, these coins are not…

Forced liquidations in the crypto derivatives market reached about $150 billion in 2025, according to CoinGlass data.On its face, the figure looks like a year of persistent crisis. For many retail traders, watching price feeds turn red became shorthand for chaos. In practice, it captured something more mundane and structural: the notional value of futures and perpetual positions that exchanges forcibly closed when margin fell short.Most of the time, that flow was more of a maintenance function than a crash. In a market where derivatives rather than spot markets set the marginal price, liquidations operated like a recurring levy on…

If rising hardware prices and $80 software weren’t enough proof that gaming’s getting pricier, the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Mario Kart World price tags should seal it.But you don’t need a high-end console or premium release to have a good time. Dig into the indie scene, and you’ll find a stack of great games that cost next to nothing.Every title here costs $20 or less, and many drop even lower during sales. Better yet, they run on just about anything; some barely need a GPU at all, and those that do only ask for hardware from nearly a…