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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…

Trust Wallet told users to disable its Chrome browser extension version 2.68 after the company acknowledged a security incident and pushed version 2.69 on Dec. 25, following reports of wallet drains tied to the Dec. 24 update.According to BleepingComputer, victims and researchers began flagging thefts soon after 2.68 rolled out. Early public tallies placed losses in a $6 million to $7 million-plus range across multiple chains.The Chrome Web Store listing shows Trust Wallet extension version 2.69 as “Updated: December 25, 2025,” anchoring the vendor’s patch timing to the day the incident entered wider circulation.The same listing displays about 1,000,000 users.…

In brief The KM3NeT project is redefining astronomy by pairing deep-sea engineering with multi-messenger physics long before construction is even finished. KM3NeT captured a 220-PeV neutrino in 2023—an energy so extreme it reshaped expectations for cosmic particle accelerators. Its ORCA and ARCA detectors turn a cubic kilometer of Mediterranean water into a precision observatory for the universe’s most elusive messengers. The Mediterranean Sea, usually celebrated for its sun-drenched coasts and azure surface, hides a secret in its crushing darkness.Three and a half kilometers beneath the waves off the coast of Sicily, the water is pitch black, near freezing, and under…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The XRP Ledger (XRPL) continues to evolve as Ripple pushes forward with new technical upgrades to strengthen network reliability, expand future use cases, and improve overall network performance. A recently released amendment report highlights several key developments that investors may want to track closely, as these could spark significant changes for the network by 2026.  Upcoming XRP Ledger Developments Ripple rolled out the XRPL version 3.0.0 earlier this month, introducing five new amendments currently under review by validators. These proposed changes directly address issues related to price-oracle…

A US city is preparing to hand out a pile of cash in a new guaranteed income program for disadvantaged residents. The New York City Council says it is allocating $1.5 million in the 2026 budget for a guaranteed income initiative known as the “Cash with Care” program, targeting residents facing housing insecurity. “The goal of the guaranteed income program is to support young people along their journey out of homelessness by providing flexible, reliable income alongside wraparound services.” Under the program, 60 young New Yorkers aged between 18 and 24 years who are living in homeless shelters and other…

In brief Ripple Labs ended a yearslong court battle with the SEC in 2025, giving way to new growth for the firm. That helped fuel the Ripple-linked XRP’s surge to a new all-time high of $3.65. The firm’s stablecoin also blossomed to more than a $1 billion market cap, and it made four major acquisitions, helping its valuation grow to $40 billion. Crypto’s biggest wins are often tightly connected to the rise in asset prices, but Ripple’s 2025 successes extend far beyond the price of XRP—the Ripple-linked asset that sits inside the top five crypto assets by market capitalization. Instead, most…

Every Boxing Day, I make the same cup of tea, check the same price chart, and ask the same question: What story is Bitcoin telling this year?Line up the December 26 close from the start of the exchange era to today, and a pattern appears. The holiday reveals the mood that carried us into the year-end.Boxing Day as a mirror of Bitcoin’s maturity and market psychologyIn the early 2010s, the series was tiny on the page, and Bitcoin closed about $0.26 on Boxing Day.Liquidity was thin, the market was more chat room than Wall Street, and every uptick felt like…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to a report by liquidation tracker CoinGlass, cryptocurrency derivatives trading hit roughly $85.7 trillion in 2025, an average of about $264 billion a day. That surge put derivatives back at the center of crypto activity and left a clear imprint on markets worldwide. Market Concentration And Exchange Share Binance handled roughly $25 trillion of that volume, or about 29% of global derivatives trading. OKX, Bybit and Bitget each posted between $8 trillion and $10 trillion, and the four of them together controlled about 62% of the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Trust Wallet says a “security incident” hit only one slice of its product stack: the Chrome browser extension on version 2.68. If you are a mobile-only user, the company says you’re not affected. If you are on any other extension version, the company says you’re not affected either. The problem, per Trust Wallet’s own wording, is tightly scoped, even if the fallout doesn’t feel that way when you’re staring at an emptied address. The first public flare went up on Dec. 25 via on-chain investigator ZachXBT, who…

Earlier this month, the US began intercepting and seizing tankers carrying Venezuelan crude, with a first seizure reported around Dec. 10 and a second interception by Dec. 20.By Dec. 22, US officials said a third vessel was being pursued near Venezuelan waters.Caracas responded with an emergency law imposing prison terms of up to 20 years for anyone who promotes or finances blockades or similar disruptions to maritime commerce.With onshore storage nearing capacity, PDVSA shifted to floating storage (loading crude onto tankers and anchoring them offshore), while some ships made U-turns and loadings slowed.That’s the scene as of this week: oil…