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Crypto’s challenge in 2026Bitcoin’s new cyclicityEthereum’s year of scalingThe big ideaCrypto in 2026: From narratives to infrastructureCrypto enters 2026 with less to prove – and more to sustain. After years defined by cycles and narratives, the next phase looks quieter on the surface but heavier underneath. The industry isn’t short on innovation; the real test is whether it can scale as financial infrastructure under clearer rules, tighter risk management, and higher expectations.Access becomes allocation-ready: Crypto exposure is increasingly delivered through familiar formats: exchange-traded products, brokerage rails, and balance-sheet vehicles. Global crypto ETP assets already sit in the hundreds of billions…

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has reportedly proposed limiting major shareholders of cryptocurrency exchanges to 15-20% ownership stakes, a regulatory bombshell dropped on December 30-31 that is now casting a long shadow over the industry’s outlook for 2026.The proposal would force the founders and controlling shareholders of Korea’s top five exchanges to divest significant portions of their holdings.Sponsored SponsoredA New Year Clouded by UncertaintyThe timing of the announcement—just days before the new year—has left industry participants scrambling to assess the implications. A local media outlet first broke the story on December 30, which was subsequently covered by major financial…

The world is on the brink of welcoming the next generation of the internet with promising developments in the domain of web3. One of the notable aspects that have been promoting the growth of web3 applications is tokenization. The curiosity to learn about important tokenization terms will lead you to find different ways in which tokenization is essential for the future of web3. Tokenization is a critical requirement for web3 applications to ensure better accessibility of assets. According to a report by McKinsey, the tokenized asset market capitalization could turn into almost $2 trillion by 2030 (Source). The use of…

Doo Money Lender Limited, a subsidiary of Doo Payment, has secured a Money Lenders License from the Licensing Court of Hong Kong Companies Registry. This authorization allows the company to offer money lending services within Hong Kong, adhering to local regulatory standards. Previously, another Doo Group subsidiary, Doo Financial HK Limited, obtained a Type 1 Dealing in Securities license from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, enabling it to provide securities trading services. With this new license, Doo Money Lender has established a professional team to deliver various loan products to both individuals and corporate clients. The company’s offerings…

In brief Total crypto hack losses reached $2.72 billion in 2025, surpassing last year’s record despite subdued market conditions. The Bybit breach in February marked the year’s largest exploit, with North Korean actors suspected of stealing up to $1.5 billion. Major exchanges and DeFi platforms, including Coinbase, Cetus Protocol, Nobitex, UPCX, BtcTurk, and Upbit, reported significant compromises across the year. This year was a record for hacks in the crypto sector, with over $2.72 billion stolen, according to data from TRM Labs.  Yes, with depressed crypto prices getting investors down, 2025 was a particularly bad year for exploits—even after 2024 broke…

Bitcoin’s mining sector reached zettahash scale in 2025, significantly enhancing the network’s security and computational power. Transitioning from 801 exahashes per second at the beginning of the year to achieving zettahash levels by September, this development marks a pivotal shift in the landscape of digital currency mining, according to data from blockchain analytics firms. This milestone in mining capacity is significant for several reasons. Firstly, it underscores the advancement in technology and infrastructure supporting Bitcoin’s decentralized network. The zettahash milestone, equivalent to one sextillion hashes per second, represents an unprecedented increase in computational power, making the Bitcoin network more secure…

Uniswap has executed a major token burn following the approval of its long-anticipated fee burning proposal, removing 100 million UNI, worth roughly $596 million at current prices, from the protocol’s treasury.Onchain data shows the burn transaction was completed at around 4:30 am UTC on Dec. 28, confirming the first large-scale implementation of the governance decision passed earlier this week, according to analyst EmberCN. The transaction permanently reduced Uniswap (UNI)’s token supply, marking one of the largest burns ever carried out by a decentralized finance protocol.The highly anticipated Uniswap protocol fee switch, dubbed “UNIfication,” passed on Thursday with 99.9% support. More…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has claimed Bitcoin provides healthy competition for the US dollar, which in turn pressures policymakers to maintain fiscal discipline and helps preserve the US dollar’s dominance.“[Bitcoin] provides a check and balance on the dollar in the sense of if there’s too much deficit spending or inflation in the US, people will flee to Bitcoin in times of uncertainty,” Armstrong argued in an interview on Tetragrammation with Rick Rubin on Thursday.“It might be okay to have 2-3% inflation if the economy is growing at 2-3% but if inflation outstrips the growth of the economy, you’ll eventually lose…

Bitcoin miners produced block 929,699 on Dec. 27. What if that was the signal for a New Year’s moment, rather than our traditional calendar?The pitch is that block height, the ordered count of blocks every full node can verify, can act as a calendar layer for a market that trades and settles across jurisdictions.For argument’s sake, we’ll use Bitcoin Block Explorer and the last observed chain tip in this snapshot at height 929,699, timestamped Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:47:19 UTC, with a mempool around 5,324 transactions at the time of the page’s update.The same source listed difficulty near 148.26T.According to…

A widening gap between VC pricing and public market caps signals a reset after narrative-driven optimism cooled. Crypto venture capital firms poured billions into early-stage tokens during 2025’s risk-on rebound, but many of those bets are now trading far below their headline fundraising values. The growing gap between private funding numbers and public market caps highlights a market reset after narrative-driven optimism cooled. Data recently shared by CryptoRank shows dozens of well-funded projects losing hundreds of millions, and in some cases nearly all, of their implied value once tokens reached open markets, raising fresh questions about pricing discipline during bull…