The “50-year Bitcoin” joke reveals crypto’s split tempo, where the base layer ossifies while L2s and edge systems innovate rapidly.
Square’s new Bitcoin payments may redefine how merchants accept money online with faster settlement, lower costs and greater financial control.
Canary Capital’s XRP ETF outperformed all 900 ETF launches of 2025, inspiring a bullish rotation among the industry’s most successful traders, who are now betting on XRP’s price increasing.
Pig-butchering scams are expanding into a transnational crime model, blending trafficking and crypto laundering on a massive scale.
Bitcoin ETFs saw $866 million in outflows as the US shutdown ended, pushing BTC to a six-month low and raising concerns over market structure and investor demand.
The most influential crypto events of 2025 included sweeping regulatory moves, ecosystem expansion and the rise of new onchain trends.
A pre-Christmas Fed rate cut could boost spending, shift bond yields, lift risk assets and increase demand for crypto.
Acurast raised $11 million to launch a smartphone-based confidential compute network that claims tamper-resistant execution on consumer phones.
Distributed cloud projects aim to reduce blockchain’s heavy dependence on centralized providers like AWS.
Circle is seeking to improve FX market infrastructure by offering institutions deeper global liquidity access with fewer intermediaries and reduced counterparty risk.