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2025 delivered a brutal lesson in market structure for Bitcoin. The year began with political momentum and drifted into a summer of aggressive policy signals.Yet, it snapped into one of the sharpest boom-to-bust sequences in the asset’s history.By December, the price had round-tripped, leaving the asset flat for the year. But the flat chart masked a violent transformation underneath.While Wall Street banks finally opened their doors and ETFs vacuumed up record capital, the network’s physical infrastructure faced a solvency crisis.CryptoSlate has compiled some of the major trends that defined the market in 2025 below:Bitcoin Reserve racePresident Trump moved from election…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Mt. Gox-linked bitcoin tied to Aleksey Bilyuchenko is continuing to filter onto exchanges, extending a slow, closely watched stream of legacy supply that on-chain analysts have been flagging since the fall. Mt. Gox Hacker Unloads More Bitcoin Arkham analyst Emmett Gallic said entities related to Aleksey Bilyuchenko deposited another 1,300 BTC, about $114 million, into unknown exchanges over the past seven days. The wallets still hold roughly 4,100 BTC (around $360 million), and have sold a total of 2,300 BTC. Gallic wrote via X on Dec. 23:…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On-chain data shows newbie Bitcoin whales have seen their loss-taking flatten recently, a potential sign that their capitulation has paused. Bitcoin Whale Selling Has Returned To Neutral Recently In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has talked about how the behavior of the Bitcoin whales has changed recently. “Whales” refer to the BTC investors who are carrying more than 1,000 tokens of the cryptocurrency in their wallet balance. At the current exchange rate, the cutoff for the cohort converts to $86.7 million, which is…

The defining strategy of 2025 was not choosing a single “best large language model.” It was assembling a stack. Claude for premium coding and editing. DeepSeek or Qwen for cheap volume. Muse for fiction. Dolphin when constraints mattered more than polish.Models stopped being personalities this year. They became tools. The advantage went to users who treated them that way.The technology matured into something genuinely useful in 2025—models became smarter, cheaper, and specialized for specific tasks. The era of chasing a single “best” model was over.Here’s which models earned their spot in our stack.CodingVibe coding, the ability to make AI code…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum is struggling to reclaim higher price levels as persistent resistance continues to cap upside momentum. After repeated failed recovery attempts, ETH remains locked in a fragile structure that reflects broader uncertainty across the crypto market. While analyst opinions remain divided on the near-term outlook, a growing majority are increasingly vocal about the risk of a broader bear market emerging in 2026, citing weakening momentum, deteriorating sentiment, and fading liquidity as key warning signs. Against this uneasy backdrop, on-chain activity has drawn renewed attention. Data tracked by…

The defining strategy of 2025 was not choosing a single “best large learning model.” It was assembling a stack. Claude for premium coding and editing. DeepSeek or Qwen for cheap volume. Muse for fiction. Dolphin when constraints mattered more than polish.Models stopped being personalities this year. They became tools. The advantage went to users who treated them that way.The technology matured into something genuinely useful in 2025—models became smarter, cheaper, and specialized for specific tasks. The era of chasing a single “best” model was over.Here’s which models earned their spot in our stack.CodingVibe coding, the ability to make AI code…

If 2024 was the year of the crypto reawakening, 2025 was the year the plumbing finally got permitted.This year, the emerging industry entered January with tentative optimism and exited December with federal statutes.As a result, the narrative shifted definitively from “crypto as a casino” to “crypto as capital markets infrastructure.”During this period, volumes moved on-chain, policy moved into the White House, and major asset managers moved past their hesitation, as evidenced most starkly by Vanguard’s reversal earlier this month, which allowed crypto ETFs on its platform.However, in a year defined by record-breaking flows and legislative victories, not everyone shared the…

Gamers love competitive shooters—that much is obvious from the popularity of games like Battlefield, Call of Duty, and Fortnite.Cooperative games are often overlooked, though. They aren’t quite as popular and can get washed away in the mix of ultra-popular competitive shooters and high-profile single-player games. But they offer an alternative to either staying offline or going online and getting stomped by people who have much more time to get good at the game than you do.They offer the connection of online games, without that sweaty competitiveness. And if you’re looking for a good way to game with family or pals…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Charles Hoskinson has explained what the Midnight Network’s launch will mean for the Cardano network. This comes as the Cardano network doubles its efforts to improve DeFi on the network and, in the process, boost ADA’s utility.  Hoskinson Explains Midnight Will Boost Cardano’s DeFi During a livestream, the Hoskinson rebutted speculation that Midnight would kill the Cardano ecosystem, stating that it would instead 10x DeFi on the network. He also mentioned that the Midnight network provides an incentive for users to leave other networks, such as Ethereum…

In brief Pudgy Penguins characters are currently appearing on the outside of the Las Vegas Sphere. The activation follows the Dogwifhat meme coin community failing to accomplish the same earlier this year. The Pudgy Penguins campaign doesn’t spotlight its crypto elements, which include NFTs and a meme coin. Pudgy Penguins will wrap the Las Vegas Sphere for Christmas after debuting on the glowing venue on Tuesday.The crypto-native brand’s recent announcement sent some traders into a meltdown, as the community behind Solana meme coin Dogwifhat (WIF) failed to advertise on the venue earlier this year despite raising $700,000 in an attempt…

Chile has made a hard pivot. In a decisive Dec. 14 runoff, José Antonio Kast, a conservative former congressman and leader of the Republican Party, won the presidency with roughly 58% of the vote over leftist Jeannette Jara.It marks Chile’s starkest rightward shift since the return to democracy. Markets took it as a deregulatory signal: the peso and equities firmed on expectations of looser labor rules, lower corporate taxes, and a law-and-order push aimed at crime and migration pressures that dominated the campaign.Kast’s road to La Moneda ran straight through public anxiety about security and stagnant growth. His platform blended…

This was the year that, for many, the crypto gaming dream died. But that dream didn’t end on its own—it was smothered by venture capitalists who stopped believing in it, and crucially, stopped investing in it.In 2025, numerous notable crypto games shut down their operations, which Decrypt has tracked throughout the year. These closures left developers unemployed, dedicated player bases abandoned, and entire collections of digital assets rendered practically useless.Some of these titles even promised to be forever games, claiming the power of the blockchain would keep it running indefinitely—a promise that was evidently broken.The video game industry has faced…