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In brief The top five crypto airdrops in 2025 paid users more than $4.5 billion at their respective peaks. Top airdrops were led by tokens from new layer-1 networks like Story Protocol and Berachain. JUP, the token from Solana DEX aggregator made the list again, alongside ANIME and LINEA. Crypto airdrops provided users a major stimulus in 2024, granting users more than $19 billion at all-time high token prices. But 2025 was a different story, even as crypto majors like Bitcoin and Ethereum stampeded to new all-time highs. There were fewer high-profile token drops over the course of the year, and…

Last week, bulls needed to hold closes above $85,000 to stave off the bears, and they managed to do just that. Bitcoin price dropped to support once again last week, and the bulls defended it well, pushing the price back up to close the week out at $88,656. The price on the weekly chart has been rejecting from the lower trend line of the broadening wedge pattern for several weeks now, but the trend line is so low now that the price should push above it this week. If it fails to do so this week, look for the price…

U.S. lawmakers have unveiled a bipartisan effort to modernize the federal tax code’s treatment of digital assets, with a particular focus on stablecoins, everyday transactions, staking and mining rewards. Representatives Max Miller (R-OH) and Steven Horsford (D-NV) released a draft of the Digital Asset PARITY Act that aims to provide clearer, more practical tax rules for regulated, dollar-pegged stablecoins and reduce unnecessary reporting burdens for routine crypto payments, ensuring that everyday transfers do not trigger capital gains reporting requirements for transactions under a specified amount. The proposal also seeks to clarify how income is sourced from digital asset trading and…

In brief Leaked internal data suggest that Binance failed to prevent 13 suspicious accounts from operating after its November 2023 settlement with the U.S. The suspicious accounts have moved funds worth $144 million since November 2023, and $1.7 billion since 2021. The settlement established a five-year FinCEN monitorship of Binance, with monitors responsible for ensuring that the exchange complies with its new obligations. Suspicious accounts continued to operate on Binance even after the world’s largest exchange agreed to stricter AML controls as part of a 2023 settlement with the U.S., according to a report in the Financial Times.In November 2023,…

In brief Shadow library Anna’s Archive has “backed up Spotify,” scraping 86 million audio files amounting to 300TB of data. The group claims to be building a “music archive primarily aimed at preservation.” Data reveal that Electronic/Dance is the largest genre category by artist count, followed by Rock and World/Traditional. Anna’s Archive, the shadow library best known for making pirated ebooks and academic papers searchable, announced this weekend what might be the largest music piracy operation in history: “We backed up Spotify.”The group claims it scraped 86 million audio files from Spotify, representing 99.6% of everything people actually listen to…

Gemini’s Director of Institutional, Patrick Liou, outlined five key predictions for the crypto market in 2026, following what he called a “historic” 2025 for digital assets. His outlook highlights structural shifts in the market, increasing institutional adoption, and growing mainstream political acceptance, according to a note shared with Bitcoin Magazine. Bitcoin breaks the four-year cycle narrative Liou predicts that Bitcoin may end 2026 with a negative return, challenging the traditional four-year cycle that has historically guided investor expectations. According to Liou, the market’s maturation — characterized by new participants, regulated investment vehicles, and deeper liquidity — has reduced volatility. He…

Over the last few months, oil prices have collapsed below $60 a barrel alongside Bitcoin’s slide from $126,000 in October to around $89,000 today.So, does energy’s slide reflect weaker demand or an inflation break that could impact risk assets like Bitcoin going forward?Brent closed at $58.92 and WTI at $55.27, the lowest settlements since early 2021.That move can be read as a macro repricing toward abundant supply and softer consumption.For crypto markets, that framing shifts the focus away from a simple “inflation down, risk up” narrative.Instead, it raises the question of whether a growth scare tightens financial conditions before policy…

In brief Pudgy Party has attracted over 1 million downloads while maintaining a 4.9 Apple App Store rating. It adds to what made Fall Guys such a smash hit, infusing viral memes with a crypto underbelly waiting to explode. That’s why the Pudgy Penguins mobile battle royale is GG’s 2025 Game of the Year. Pudgy Party delivers a premium mobile gaming experience that the Pudgy Penguins team intends to make one of the franchise’s core pillars moving forward—and it is GG’s 2025 Game of the Year.Mythical Games, the studio behind Pudgy Party and other crypto games like NFL Rivals and FIFA…

Ghana has legalized bitcoin and crypto trading after parliament passed the Virtual Asset Service Providers Bill, 2025, ending years of regulatory uncertainty around digital assets in the West African nation. The law establishes a formal framework for licensing, supervising, and regulating crypto-related businesses, according to Bloomberg reporting.  It also grants the Bank of Ghana authority to oversee the sector, with a focus on consumer protection, financial stability, and risk management. Bank of Ghana Governor Dr. Johnson Asiama announced the development over the weekend in Accra, saying the legislation brings crypto activity “within clear, accountable, and well-governed boundaries.” Under the new…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Solana is set to flip Ethereum in revenue numbers for the first time ever. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko commented on this development, highlighting the gap between both networks while also questioning how they could sustain this trend.  Solana On Course To Flip Ethereum In Yearly Revenue In an X post, the Solana treasury company DeFi Development Corporation (DFDV) revealed that SOL is on course to surpass ETH in annual revenue for the first time. The company stated that this is not just a milestone but “instead a…

Crypto asset management giant Grayscale is expecting a 1,000x jump in one crypto subsector amid “structural shifts in digital asset investing.” In a new research report, Grayscale mentions tokenized assets, or the practice of placing real-world assets like eqtuities, real estate, or commodities on the blockchain for more accessible and efficient trading. The firm says that the asset class has the potential to grow by 1,000x, and that the coins set to benefit from the “enormous” potential growth include layer one chains Ethereum (ETH), BNB Chain (BNB), Solana (SOL), and decentralzied oracle service Chainlink (LINK). “Tokenized assets are tiny today:…

In brief Bitcoin topped $90,000 Monday morning—fueled by futures market speculation, not organic spot buying, as shown by diverging on-chain volume data. Key demand indicators are weak: the Coinbase premium is negative, and U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen sustained outflows over recent weeks. The sole bullish signal is from corporate treasuries, which poured $2.23 billion into digital assets last week—the highest inflow since September. Bitcoin rallied to an eight-day high of $90,353 on Monday, but on-chain data casts doubt on the sustainability of this uptick.Since then, the top crypto has pulled back and is now trading at just under…

In brief Financial institutions continued adopting Bitcoin in 2025. Bitcoin-buying firms emerged in all shapes and sizes. Controversy brewed over a change to Bitcoin’s codebase. From Wall Street to Washington, Bitcoin reached new heights in 2025.Although the cryptocurrency’s price is on track to limp into the new year, its record-setting climb coincided with new support from the White House, Bitcoin-buying firms, and issuers of exchange-traded funds that track the asset. Meanwhile, the asset’s community confronted questions over privacy and Bitcoin’s permissionless ethos.When Bitcoin topped $126,000 in October for the first time ever, it had come from much further than just…

If you’ve ever bought a stock and assumed you “owned it” the moment you hit confirm, you’ve already met the least glamorous part of markets: settlement.Settlement is the back-end handoff where the system ensures that the buyer’s cash and the seller’s security actually swap places for good, with no take-backs and no missing pieces.Markets still spend an odd amount of their day waiting for ledgers to match, for cash to arrive, for collateral to land in the right account, and for the middlemen that run the machinery to say, yes, that’s final.Tokenization has promised to shrink that dead time for…