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What’s next for DeFi in 2026?We reveal the trends we will look closely at next year.Last year, DL News attempted to predict the top three DeFi trends for 2025. We forecast that traditional finance would enter DeFi at an unprecedented pace, more protocols would launch their own blockchains, and financial technology firms would incorporate DeFi into their offerings at scale.Well, we did quite well. In 2025, we saw banks launch stablecoins, asset managers allocate billions of dollars to DeFi lenders, and Wall Street firms pile into tokenised assets. In January, Coinbase kicked off the fintech integrations with its Morpho-powered Bitcoin…

Since its inception in mid-2024, the Decentralized Voices (DV) program’s goal has been to ensure that Polkadot and Kusama governance amplifies the voices of not just the token holders but also the people who actually show up, think through the hard questions, and are willing to be held accountable.Over time, DV evolved past being a simple delegation program and went through multiple phases of experimentation, iteration, guardrails, and a real cultural shift toward more explicit reasoning and better norms that were challenging yet authentic. People voted. They disagreed. They challenged each other’s reasoning. Sometimes it was awkward. Sometimes it was…

It’s been a turbulent and volatile fourth quarter for Bitcoin in 2025. BTC has endured a turbulent December, with prices dropping nearly 9% and volatility spiking to levels not seen since April 2025. In its latest mid-December “ChainCheck” report, VanEck’s digital asset analysts painted a nuanced picture: while on-chain activity remains weak, liquidity conditions are improving, and speculative leverage appears to be resetting, offering cautious optimism for long-term holders. The firm highlighted the contrasting behaviors between different investor groups. Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) have been actively buying the dip, accumulating 42,000 BTC — their largest addition since July — bringing…

Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to. In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started the degree with an aim of eventually making a career…

Solana (SOL) price traded to around $122 on December 24, 2025. Fresh losses pushed SOL near the critical $120 mark. Waning investor confidence and macroeconomic headwinds see the altcoin at risk of further declines. Solana has extended its downturn in the final weeks of 2025, dipping below the $130 mark and testing levels around $120. On Wednesday, prices fell to these lows across major exchanges, and more declines could allow bears to test recent lows of $116. The $120 zone has acted as intermittent support throughout the year. But as this decline aligns with a wider cryptocurrency market retracement amid…

George Town, Cayman Islands, December 23rd, 2025, Chainwire First-of-its-kind DEX eliminates wrapped tokens and centralized exchanges, enabling direct native asset swaps across multiple blockchains THORChain announced today the public beta launch of swap.thorchain.org, a dedicated DeFi swap interface designed to serve as the protocol’s primary front-end for seamless cross-chain cryptocurrency trading. The platform enables users to swap native digital assets directly across blockchain networks without relying on wrapped tokens, bridges, or centralized exchanges. Built as infrastructure for the decentralized finance community, the new interface represents THORChain’s commitment to making trustless cross-chain swaps accessible to both newcomers and experienced traders alike.…

Bitmine now owns 3.37% of the ETH token supply, two-thirds of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots” total $13.2 billion, including 4.066 million ETH tokens, total cash of $1.0 billion, and other crypto holdings Bitmine will hold its annual stockholders meeting at the Wynn Las Vegas on January 15, 2026 Bitmine leads crypto treasury peers by both the velocity of raising crypto NAV per share and by the high trading liquidity of BMNR stock Bitmine is the 66th most traded stock in the US, trading $1.7 billion per day (5-day avg)…

Galaxy Research is willing to put a big number on the board, $250,000 bitcoin by the end of 2027, while basically refusing to pretend 2026 will cooperate with clean forecasting. The firm’s 2026 outlook calls next year “too chaotic to predict,” even as it concedes that new all-time highs could still happen somewhere in the mess. $250K Bitcoin By 2027, Turbulent 2026 “BTC will hit $250k by year-end 2027. 2026 is too chaotic to predict, though Bitcoin making new all-time highs in 2026 is still possible. Options markets are currently pricing about equal odds of $70k or $130k for month-end…

Tokenholders denied a proposal to allocate 17.4 million CRV tokens to Curve’s core development firm.The Curve DAO has rejected a governance proposal to allocate 17.4 million CRV tokens, worth about $6.2 million, to the decentralized exchange’s (DEX) development team.The proposal submitted by Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov sought approval for a grant of CRV tokens to fund Swiss Stake AG, the core development firm behind Curve, managed by Egorov.The funding is intended to cover software development, infrastructure, security work and ecosystem support for Swiss Stake’s roughly 25-person team working on the protocol, which is the third-largest DEX in decentralized finance…

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / PlanChecker AI, a leading innovator in AI-driven construction and architectural compliance, officially announced today that its groundbreaking “Interactive Plan Chat” feature is now available for purchase and public use. For the first time, homeowners, architects, engineers, contractors, developers, and even first-time applicants can instantly upload building plans and receive real-time, conversational analysis powered by advanced GPT intelligence; no corporate account, pre-approval, or specialized training is required.This release marks a major milestone in the evolution of construction technology. With Interactive Plan Chat, PlanChecker AI becomes the first platform to merge…