2025 was a big year for privacy onchain. Zcash, one of the original privacy coins, jumped more than 600%, and was one of the year’s biggest success stories. Ethereum and Solana announced major initiatives to bring privacy to their networks. And startups building privacy-preserving tech with zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) continued…
Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT), the company behind Truth Social, said Wednesday it plans to distribute a new digital token to shareholders through a deal with Crypto.com. The token will be issued using Crypto.com’s Cronos blockchain. Trump Media said in a press release that once the program launches, each shareholder would receive one token…
APT$1.6948 fell 2.4% to $1.69 on below-average volume, significantly underperforming the broader crypto market. The broader market gauge, the CoinDesk 20 index (CD20), was 0.5% higher at publication time. This relative weakness against major cryptocurrencies signals selective investor caution toward APT, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The model showed that the token declined…
Bitcoin’s BTC$88,820.30 bull run in 2025 was expected to be historic, with some industry experts suggesting the largest cryptocurrency would reach highs of $180,000-$200,000 by year-end. Historic it was. Just not the way anyone thought. It’s true that bitcoin punched to an all-time high earlier than most models projected, rising to over $126,200 on Oct….
Crypto asset manager Bitwise filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to introduce 11 crypto “strategy” exchange-traded funds (ETFs) including aave AAVE$149.32, uniswap UNI$5.9037, zcash ZEC$524.89, SUI$1.4473 and TAO$222.94. The Tuesday N-1A filing details an approach that includes investing up to 60% of a fund’s assets directly in the underlying token, with the remainder…
Cypherpunk Technologies (CYPH), a digital asset treasury firm backed by the Winklevoss twins, said it bought $28 million worth of privacy coin zcash ZEC$525.35, taking its overall holdings to 290,062 ZEC ($152 million). The Nasdaq-listed company said in a Tuesday press release that it purchased 56,418 tokens at an average price of $514.02 per token,…
The bitcoin BTC$88,348.04 market grew much calmer in 2025 as institutions embraced derivatives tied to the leading cryptocurrency to generate extra cash from their idle coin holdings. The calmness is evident in the consistent decline in BTC’s annualized 30-day implied volatility, as measured by Volmex’s BVIV and Deribit’s DVOL indexes. These metrics indicate expectations for…
South Korean retail traders have kept piling into Ether hoarder BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. even after the U.S.-listed stock collapsed more than 80% from its July peak, turning it into one of the year’s most extreme examples of speculative demand surviving a wipeout. BitMine is set to close 2025 as one of the most popular…
2025 was defined by a stark divergence: structural progress collided with stagnant price action. Institutional milestones were reached and TVL increased across most major ecosystems, yet the majority of large-cap Layer-1 tokens finished the year with negative or flat returns. This report analyzes the structural decoupling between network usage and token performance. We examine 10…
XRP slipped to $1.85 after breaking the $1.87 support zone, with heavier exchange inflows pointing to renewed distribution just as bitcoin’s rebound lost momentum and broader risk appetite stayed cautious. News background Institutional interest in XRP remains structurally supportive through ETFs, but near-term flows are telling a different story. On-chain data shows a sharp pickup…
