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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure VanEck is setting expectations for Bitcoin in 2026 with a tone that’s closer to the risk committee than crypto Twitter: the next year looks more like consolidation than a dramatic regime shift. In its Dec. 18 note, “Plan for 2026: Predictions from Our Portfolio Managers,” Matthew Sigel, VanEck’s head of digital assets research, argues that the signal set heading into 2026 is “mixed but constructive.” The framework is deliberately restrained: volatility has come down, leverage has been washed out in stages, and on-chain activity is still soft…

A macro analyst is detailing what he says is a strong argument for a Bitcoin bear market. In a new YouTube update, Luke Gromen says he does not think “nuclear printing”, or extreme money creation by governments and central banks, will happen next year. “The economy is highly levered as we’ve talked about ad nauseum and everybody knows Bitcoin as the last functioning smoke alarm of liquidity is the equity crunch. Bitcoin’s the equity crunch and since the deflationary pressures of AI and robotics are exponential, as Jeff Booth has has brilliantly pointed out many times, anything less than nuclear…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On Monday, US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) announced its tenth acquisition of the year, revealing plans to acquire The Clearing Company, a prediction market start-up. Coinbase Unveils Ambitious Plans The announcement comes on the heels of Coinbase unveiling its plans to launch a suite of new products aimed at transforming its platform into a comprehensive financial application. This initiative includes integrating stocks, advanced trading tools, and prediction markets into its services.  CEO Brian Armstrong envisions Coinbase as a one-stop destination for a variety of trades, from stocks…

US inflation came in softer than expected, and the Fed delivered its third consecutive rate cut. The Bank of Japan raised rates for the first time in three decades without triggering a meltdown.On paper, the macro tape into year-end looks friendlier than it has in months.As of press time, Bitcoin (BTC) is up 4% since Dec. 18, briefly touching $90,000 again on Dec. 22, only to stall. No parabolic leg, just a brief spike, followed by the same choppy range that has defined the fourth quarter.The mismatch between softer macro conditions and muted Bitcoin response raises a question: if rate…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin treasury company Strategy hasn’t announced any new BTC buy this week, but it has made an expansion to its recently-created USD reserve. Strategy’s USD Reserve Now Stands At $2.19 Billion As announced by Strategy co-founder and chairman Michael Saylor in an X post, the company has increased its US Dollar (USD) reserve by $748 million. Strategy first created the USD Reserve at the start of December, allocating $1.44 billion to it. During the announcement of the reserve, Saylor noted, “we believe it will better position us…

Ethereum’s transparency has long been one of its greatest strengths—but for many real-world applications, it has also become a structural limitation. From MEV-driven trading inefficiencies to data leakage in DeFi, gaming, and AI-driven workflows, the assumption that everything must be public in order to be verifiable is increasingly being challenged. TEN Protocol is built around a different premise: that computation can remain provably correct without forcing users, developers, and businesses to expose sensitive inputs, strategies, or logic to the entire market.In this CryptoSlate Q&A, the team behind TEN Protocol explains its concept of “compute in confidence” and why they believe…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure According to reports, a new round of debate over quantum computers and Bitcoin has pushed technical questions into market talk. Some investors say the threat is close enough to affect price. Charles Edwards, founder of Capriole, warned that Bitcoin could fall below $50,000 by 2028 if the network is not made quantum-ready. Developers Urge Caution Jameson Lopp, a Bitcoin Core developer and co-founder of custody firm Casa, has argued that migration to post-quantum cryptography will not be quick. Lopp told followers on X that while quantum machines…

Solana Mobile has ended software update and security patch support for its Saga smartphone.The company warned that compatibility with new software or services “cannot be guaranteed,” and that Saga-specific customer support is now limited to general inquiries, according to Solana Mobile’s help-center notice.Solana Mobile said the change “does not affect Seeker devices,” which will continue to receive updates and patches.What ending Saga support signals for Solana Mobile’s next phaseThe move sets a time limit on the first wave of “crypto-native phone” adoption as Solana Mobile seeks to expand from a single handset into a distribution layer for apps, identity, and…

In brief Corporate crypto treasuries scaled rapidly in 2025 as firms across sectors copied Strategy’s model, raising billions to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Strategy, Forward Industries, BitMine, The Ether Machine and Metaplanet emerged as the year’s defining treasury players, using debt, equity, and preferred shares to fund large positions. Analysts told Decrypt that conviction and execution, not headline exposure, has separated durable treasury strategies from speculative balance-sheet risks as they head into 2026. This year marked the first time the playbook of the top Bitcoin corporate holder, Strategy, was replicated at scale, with companies across sectors building major treasuries…

The bitcoin price briefly crossed the $90,000 mark earlier Monday, rallying from $88,000 during Asian trading hours to just above $90,000 in European and US afternoon trading.  The surge didn’t last long as the bitcoin price dropped down near $88,000 by the end of afternoon.  BTC has displayed a pattern in recent weeks of gaining momentum during Asian and European trading hours, only to see those advances fade once U.S. investors re-enter the market.  Data from CoinGlass show that bitcoin futures open interest climbed earlier in the day toward $60 billion across major trading venues including Binance, CME, and Bybit.…

In brief A 2025 Nature Communications study found that people engaged in demanding creative activities—especially complex video games—had brains that appeared 4–7 years younger. In controlled tests, non-gamers who trained on StarCraft II showed measurable improvements in brain efficiency; slower, turn-based games did not. The benefits seem tied to real-time complexity and cognitive load, not gaming per se, and don’t replace mental-health gains from exercise. The relentless march of time takes an inevitable toll on cognitive function. Yet, emerging research suggests a surprising countermeasure against neural decline may lie not in a pharmaceutical solution, but in complex, demanding recreational activities—including…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin might be stumbling into a very seasonal setup, not because Santa is real, but because positioning and one of those composite “regime” dashboards are flashing the kind of “bullish, but not sweaty” signal traders love to cling to in late December. CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. put it bluntly on X on Monday: “BTC is entering a window for a Santa rally: the Regime Score is bullish but not overheated. Short liquidations are reinforcing the asymmetry in favor of buyers.”That’s the headline claim. The longer version…

Bitcoin’s 2025 was billed as the year of the “supercycle,” powered by record institutional access and a friendlier policy backdrop out of Washington.However, it is ending very differently.Into December, the world’s largest digital asset is not pricing in a new paradigm so much as grinding through a performance problem. The rally has faded, spot prices are rolling over, and retail participation has thinned out just as the narrative support has given way to the arithmetic of a correction.As a result, on-chain data now point to what analysts describe as a “bear season,” driven by a structural shortfall in demand for…