🔍 🔴😞 Market Analysis: 29-12-00

The closing hours of 2025 have thrown crypto markets into sharp relief as gold steals the limelight with yet another all-time high—trading north of $4,560 per troy ounce—while Bitcoin stumbles, briefly plunging on major exchanges and struggling to reclaim the $90,000 benchmark. Precious metal... ... Read full 🔴😞 Market Analysis: 29-12-00

Flow validators urged to halt work after blockchain rollback proposal

Flow validators urged to halt work after blockchain rollback proposal

deBridge founder Alex Smirnov has urged validators on the Flow blockchain to stop processing transactions until the Flow Foundation devises a remediation plan for users impacted by its controversial rollback plan for the chain.The rollback proposal was in response to the theft of $3.9 million on Dec…

Ethereum Price Targets Break Above $3K, Bulls Smell Opportunity

Ethereum Price Targets Break Above $3K, Bulls Smell Opportunity

Ethereum price started a decent upward move above $2,900. ETH is now showing positive signs and might eye more gains above $3,000.Ethereum started a recovery wave above the $2,920 zone.The price is trading above $2,950 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average.There is a bullish trend line forming wi…

XRP Rich List Revealed: Are Retail Investors Being Priced Out?

XRP Rich List Revealed: Are Retail Investors Being Priced Out?

A new image showing the alleged XRP Rich List is making the rounds on social media, raising fresh questions about who really owns XRP and whether small investors are slowly being pushed out.The chart breaks down how many wallets hold different amounts of XRP. One thing stands out clearly: most XRP w…

Bybit Compliance Update: Reaffirmation of Monitoring and Restriction on Non-compliant Affiliate Mark

Bybit Compliance Update: Reaffirmation of Monitoring and Restriction on Non-compliant Affiliate Mark

DUBAI, UAE, Dec. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, continually reviews and enhances its global compliance framework to align with applicable local legal and regulatory requirements. As part of this framework, Bybit maintains a polic…

Bitcoin helps USD's reserve status ‘in a strange way’: Coinbase CEO

Bitcoin helps USD's reserve status ‘in a strange way’: Coinbase CEO

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 d…

China unveils new action plan for digital yuan management

China unveils new action plan for digital yuan management

China’s central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), has released an action plan for the digital yuan, setting January 1, 2026, as the start date for a revamped governance structure, operational model, and supporting ecosystem, according to local media.The digital yuan is China’s central bank di…

Bitcoin Won't Replace Banks. It Could Become Their Quiet Reserve Asset. — Barrons.com

Bitcoin Won't Replace Banks. It Could Become Their Quiet Reserve Asset. — Barrons.com

By Emir PhillipsAbout the author: Emir Phillips is an associate professor of finance at Lincoln University. His research on central banking and the political economy has appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economic Issues .Nearly 20 years after Satoshi Nakamoto debuted …

Trump-linked crypto venture Alt5 Sigma retains auditor - FT

Trump-linked crypto venture Alt5 Sigma retains auditor - FT

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There Is No XRP Supply Shock, Top Analyst Says

There Is No XRP Supply Shock, Top Analyst Says

The narrative of an imminent "supply shock" for XRP, one of the leading altcoins, has been rejected by a prominent market analyst. Vet, a pseudonymous XRP Ledger validator, the market remains far too elastic to support the theory. To back up his argument, he has pointed to deep liquidity pools and t…

Silver’s wild 6% price spike and 10% plunge mirrors crypto volatility

Silver’s wild 6% price spike and 10% plunge mirrors crypto volatility

The price of silver continues to notch new highs amid a precious metals market boom, with the asset trading in a very crypto-like fashion over the weekend with sharp volatility. Silver hit a new all-time high (ATH) of almost $84 on Sunday, U.S. time, with demand for gold also driving the price up to…

China’s PBOC Issues ‘Action Plan’ to Strengthen Digital Yuan Starting January 2026

China’s PBOC Issues ‘Action Plan’ to Strengthen Digital Yuan Starting January 2026

The People’s Bank of China has issued an “Action Plan” to enhance the management and financial infrastructure of digital yuan.The new generation central bank digital currency (CBDC) framework, management and operational mechanism will be officially launched on January 1, 2026, a on Monday.Lu Lei, De…

Most crypto treasuries ‘will disappear’ amid bleak 2026 outlook: Execs

Most crypto treasuries ‘will disappear’ amid bleak 2026 outlook: Execs

Digital asset treasury (DAT) companies face a grim future heading into 2026, with shares in many of the largest players sharply down, industry executives say.“Going into the next year, I think that the outlook for DATs is looking a bit bleak,” Altan Tutar, co-founder and CEO of crypto yield platform…