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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure 2025 was a challenging year for the cryptocurrency market and industry, and it did not spare the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The US-based Bitcoin ETF market experienced wet and dry spells in equal proportions over the course of the year. However, BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, iShares Bitcoin Trust (ticker: IBIT), has been a standout performer at times this year. According to the latest market data, the product’s performance in 2025 has earned it a spot among some of the best funds in the global ETF market.…

On Dec. 15, Elizabeth Warren put two names at the top of a letter that signals where she thinks US crypto policy is actually written: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Attorney General Pamela Bondi.The ask is simple on paper but awkward in practice. Are their departments investigating what she calls “national security risks” tied to decentralized exchanges, and if so, how far does that scrutiny go when the president’s business orbit is part of the story?The hook she chose is PancakeSwap, a DeFi venue that, in Warren’s telling, sits at the uncomfortable intersection of “no account needed” trading and the…

In brief Arthur Hayes believes Bitcoin could run to $200,000 by March before settling around $124,000. The BitMex co-founder thinks the Fed’s new RMP policy is a catalyst, likening it to quantitative easing (QE). In this scenario, Hayes sees BTC ranging from $80,000-$100,000 to close out the year. BitMex founder and Bitcoin billionaire Arthur Hayes says BTC will soon rise to a price of $200,000 before falling back to create a bottom above $124,000.According to Hayes, the sharp rise in Bitcoin’s price will stem from the Fed’s “Reserve Management Purchases” or RMP, a new operating policy shared by the Fed…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Hyundai Group’s Seoul offices were evacuated after an email threatened explosions unless a Bitcoin ransom was paid, authorities and media reports said. The message demanded 13 Bitcoin — roughly $1.1 million — and set a deadline of 11:30 AM, prompting an immediate safety response across multiple company sites on December 20, 2025. Threat Sent To Seoul Offices According to police and news outlets, the email named two locations: the Hyundai Group building in Yeonji-dong, Jongno-gu, and the Hyundai Motor Group tower in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu. Staff left work…

In brief Indiana State Rep. Kyle Pierce doesn’t want his crypto bill to pick winners or losers. His legislation does not include market-cap thresholds for digital assets. The bill would prevent Indiana from targeting crypto miners, he said. Bitcoin may be the first cryptocurrency ever created, but it shouldn’t be the only one lifted by legislative initiatives across the U.S., according to Indiana State Rep. Kyle Pierce.The Republican, who introduced legislation earlier this month, told Decrypt that his bill centered on Indiana’s treatment of cryptocurrency was written in a way that was intentionally broad. He described that as a matter…

When a network brags about throughput, it’s really bragging about how much chaos it can swallow before it chokes. That’s why the most interesting part of Solana’s latest “stress test” is that there’s no story at all.A delivery network called Pipe published data that put a recent barrage against Solana at roughly 6 terabits per second, and Solana’s co-founders backed the broad thrust of it in public posts. If the number is right, it’s the kind of traffic volume usually reserved for the internet’s biggest targets, the sort of thing Cloudflare writes long blog posts about because it isn’t supposed…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Tom Lee, chairman of BitMine and managing partner at Fundstrat, has been a vocal optimist when it comes to the cryptocurrency market, especially for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Most recently, Fundstrat’s managing partner revived his $62,000 target call for the Ethereum price in 2026. However, it appears that Lee and his investment firm do not align in terms of their market expectations for the coming year. Fundstrat seems to be looking at a more bearish setup for most of the large-cap digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana,…

Bitcoin (BTC) walks to close 2025 with more than $112 billion locked in US spot ETFs, exchange reserves at a record low of 2.751 million BTC, and perpetual futures open interest of nearly $30 billion.Every single one of those data points would have sounded constructive in 2022. In late 2025, they map to the same outcome: price chopping between $81,000 and $93,000 while narratives stay bullish and volatility stays suppressed.The gap between what the numbers say and how the market trades defines structural stagnation. In this regime, liquidity exists but doesn’t flow, where capital is large but fragmented, and where…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, Kings County, has charged a man for allegedly defrauding $16 million from unsuspecting individuals by posing as a Coinbase representative. The elaborate scam, which reportedly ran from April 2023 to December 2014, resulted in about 100 victims, 70 of whom were interviewed over the course of the investigation. Brooklyn Man Indicted In Nationwide Phishing Scam In a press statement on Friday, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced the Virtual Currency Unit had indicted one Ronald Spektor of Sheepshead Bay, for orchestrating a…