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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…

Bitcoin BTC$90,192.44 rose on Monday as dampened hopes of a Russia-Ukraine peace deal pushed oil prices higher.BTC, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, jumped over 2% to trade above $90,000, bringing cheer to the broader market. Major alternative cryptocurrencies such as ether ETH$3,046.01, XRP$1.9138 and solana SOL$128.84 gained 3% or more, according to data source CoinDesk.In traditional markets, prices for the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude increased by 1% to $57.24 per barrel. Brent crude rose 0.80% to $60.81 per barrel. Asian stocks traded tentatively as year-end holidays kept volumes and market liquidity thin. South Korea’s KOSPI index was an…

After decisively losing the $2.00 support earlier this month and even dipping below $1.80 briefly, Ripple’s XRP managed to find some relief above the next key line of defense at $1.90. However, that level also gave in yesterday, and the asset closed below it, currently sitting at $1.87, even after rebounding from the intraday low of $1.83. Popular crypto analyst Ali Martinez outlined the significance of this support once again. He noted that with $1.90 gone, XRP could be on the verge of a massive price slump to $1.10. Support is gone for $XRP. $1.10 comes into focus. pic.twitter.com/RGBqV52vf6 —…

Interested in adding Solana (SOL) tokens to your crypto portfolio? With multiple options available, including crypto exchanges and Web3 wallets, choosing the right platform to purchase SOL can be challenging. In this article, we’ll dig deeper into how to buy SOL on centralized and decentralized exchanges. We’ll also walk you through the key factors to consider before purchasing SOL. Where to Buy Solana (SOL) in 2025?The best way to buy Solana is through a reputable centralized exchange such as Coinbase or Kraken, especially for beginners. For seasoned investors who prioritize enhanced privacy, anonymity, and automation, decentralized exchanges like PumpSwap and Raydium are…

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…