🎯Today's Crypto Pulse
Updated 2h agoWhat's happening: Michael Saylor’s Strategy adds $204M of Bitcoin in 101st purchase
The firm bought 3,015 BTC for $204.1M, raising its total holdings above 720,000 BTC and bringing the cumulative cost to roughly $54.8B. The average price of $67,700 per BTC was below its overall cost basis of $75,985.
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By the numbers: Pepeto raises $7M in token presale
News•Dec 25, 2025
The Memecoin Hall of Shame: 10 Tokens that Defined 2025 Wildest Trades
2025 turned memecoins from niche jokes into a headline‑grabbing market segment, highlighted by ten tokens that charted a wild trade cycle. Political figures launched TRUMP and MELANIA, while Argentina’s LIBRA turned sovereign endorsement into a scandal. AI‑driven FARTCOIN revived hype, celebrity drops like YZY and MOTHER sparked pump‑and‑dump storms, and Dogecoin secured regulated ETFs. The year closed with PIPPIN’s manipulated comeback, underscoring how attention, platform finance and coordinated wallets now drive memecoin dynamics.
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 25, 2025
Canton Token Rallies 27% After DTCC Outlines Tokenized Treasury Plans
Canton Coin surged 27% after DTCC announced plans to tokenize U.S. Treasury securities on the Canton Network. DTCC, handling $3.7 quadrillion in transactions, will issue tokenized Treasuries via its DTC subsidiary. The move highlights growing institutional interest in real‑world asset tokenization,...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Crypto and Bitcoin Poised for Rally After January Correction
January is a period where asset managers are reallocating their assets. If you look at most of the charts, where would you go? For sure, nothing in commodities, they are well due for a correction. For sure, not tech stocks, as they...
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Time Altcoin Bottoms to Flush Markets, Then Rally
If you want to get everyone out of the markets, instead of peaking in the last quarter of the 4-year cycle, make sure that #Altcoins bottom out in that quarter. Everyone is gone, and then, the next quarter, you send...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 25, 2025
Quantum Computing in 2026: No Crypto Doomsday, but Time to Prepare
Quantum computing re‑emerged as a headline in 2026 after Microsoft unveiled its Majorana 1 topological‑core chip, prompting renewed debate over crypto security. Experts agree that breaking Bitcoin’s ECDSA signatures remains a decade‑plus away, but they warn that attackers are already harvesting...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 25, 2025
Bitcoin’s $70,000 to $80,000 Zone Highlights Gap in Historical Price Support
Analysis of five years of CME Bitcoin futures reveals that the $70,000‑$79,999 price band has been visited only 28 trading days, the fewest among major ranges. By contrast, lower zones such as $30,000‑$49,999 accumulated close to two hundred days each,...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 25, 2025
Samourai Wallet Co-Founder Spends Christmas Eve Recounting First Day in Prison
Keonne Rodriguez, co‑founder of the Bitcoin privacy tool Samourai Wallet, documented his first day in a U.S. federal prison on Christmas Eve, marking the start of a five‑year sentence. His letter describes the intake process, medical checks, and the emotional strain...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 25, 2025
TradFi Backs Crypto Bill, Shifting Policy Landscape
How Even TradFi Wants to Pass the Crypto Market Structure Bill On this 🧑🎄 episode of DEX in the City, @TuongvyLe12, @kkirkbos & Jessi Brooks break down: 🏦 How TradFi now BACKS the crypto bill 🗓️ Why January isn’t just another markup 🏛️ What...
By Laura Shin
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Volatility Spike Could Push $STBL to $0.18
I continue to daytrade this one, it's nice and volatile: $STBL. When you're trading a volatility strategy, that's what you'd like to see and I expect volatility to pick up momentum in the coming period for this one. The recent test at...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 25, 2025
Hong Kong Regulators Target 2026 Legislation for Virtual Asset Dealer and Custodian Rules
Hong Kong’s Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and the Securities and Futures Commission will table a bill in 2026 to create a licensing regime for virtual‑asset dealers and custodians. The framework, shaped by a two‑month public consultation that attracted...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Crypto Faces Growing Competition From Alternative Investments
I have a show coming out next week that touches on a lot of points he made here (about other types of investments competing with crypto). @ramahluwalia @perkinscr97 and @John1wu touched on this in this week’s @bitsandbips as well I think...
By Laura Shin
News•Dec 25, 2025
Crypto Derivatives Volume Explode to $86T in 2025, Averaging $265B per Day
Crypto derivatives trading surged to $85.7 trillion in 2025, averaging $264.5 billion daily, according to CoinGlass. Binance led with $25.09 trillion, representing 29.3% of global volume, while OKX, Bybit and Bitget together accounted for over 60% of market share. Institutional products such as...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 25, 2025
CZ Proposes Fix to Address Poisoning After Investor Loses $50M
Binance co‑founder Changpeng Zhao called for new wallet safeguards to eradicate address‑poisoning, proposing blockchain queries that block known malicious addresses and filter out tiny spam transactions. He highlighted a recent $50 million USDT loss as evidence of the threat’s scale. Address...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Ecosystem Growth Outpaces Prices as Assets Target 20‑Day MA
The ultimate goal for most of the assets is: break through the 20-Day MA. #Bitcoin is fighting it, $ETH is next to it, and most altcoins like $SEI. Price-wise, you would argue that things aren't looking great. However, fundamentally, most of...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 25, 2025
NFT Collections Get No Santa Rally as Market Hits 2025 Lows
The NFT market valuation plunged to $2.5 billion in December, a 72 % drop from its January peak of $9.2 billion. Weekly sales failed to breach $70 million, marking the weakest three‑week stretch of the year. Participation eroded sharply, with unique buyers sliding to...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Bitcoin Poised to Break $90k, Eyeing $100k
I'll continue to update the same chart. As you can see, the crucial resistance zone at $90,000 wasn't possible to break upwards. Therefore, #Bitcoin had to come back down again to find enough buy pressure on crucial levels: $86,500. That held. It remains...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 25, 2025
Bitcoin and Ether ETFs See Outflows Ahead of Christmas, Led by IBIT and ETHE
Spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs recorded significant outflows on December 24, with Bitcoin funds losing $175 million and Ether funds shedding $57 million. BlackRock’s IBIT led the Bitcoin exits with a $91.37 million withdrawal, while Grayscale’s ETHE drove the Ether outflow with $33.78 million, pushing...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 25, 2025
Social Engineering Cost Crypto Billions in 2025: How to Protect Yourself
Crypto thefts in 2025 totaled over $3.4 billion, with social engineering responsible for the majority of losses. Kraken’s CSO Nick Percoco highlighted that attackers gain entry through human manipulation rather than technical exploits, exemplified by the Bybit breach that alone accounted...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 25, 2025
Bitcoiners Bullish over Elon Musk Tipping 'Double-Digit' Economic Growth
Elon Musk posted on X that the United States could achieve double‑digit GDP growth within the next 12‑18 months and, if artificial intelligence drives productivity, even triple‑digit growth in about five years. The bullish forecast has energized Bitcoin enthusiasts, who...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 25, 2025
Bitcoin Briefly Trades at $24,000 on Binance’s USD1 Pair in Flash Move
Bitcoin briefly displayed $24,111 on Binance’s USD1 pair before snapping back above $87,000 within seconds. The flash wick appeared only on the USD1 stablecoin pair, which is backed by World Liberty Financial, and did not affect other major BTC markets....
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 25, 2025
Solana and Ethereum Can Coexist in Tokenization Race: Dragonfly VC
Dragonfly VC partner Rob Hadick told CNBC that Solana and Ethereum will both thrive in the tokenization race, with neither chain likely to dominate the market. He highlighted Ethereum’s $183.7 billion network asset value and its stablecoin dominance, while noting Solana’s...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 25, 2025
Tokenization Has Moved Past Money only Meaning Fiat: Kraken Exec
Kraken’s Head of Consumer Mark Greenberg told CNBC that blockchain tokenization is redefining money, extending it beyond fiat to assets like stocks, Bitcoin, gold and stablecoins. Kraken’s xStocks tokenized‑stock product, unavailable in the U.S., has amassed over 80,000 wallets and...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Negative Sentiment Could Trigger Massive XRP Rally
XRP About to SKYROCKET? Negative Sentiment Signals MASSIVE Rally 12/24/2025 #cryptowendyo #crypto #bitcoin #xrp #solana
By Wendy O
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Seeking Opinions on Bitcoin Price Target Predictions
How do you feel about these bitcoin price targets? #bitcoin #crypto #crypyowendyo
By Wendy O
News•Dec 24, 2025
From Stablecoins to Incumbents, VCs Map Crypto Value in 2025
Venture capital partners highlighted incumbents such as Robinhood, stablecoin issuers, and prediction‑market platforms as the top value creators in 2025. Regulatory clarity enabled incumbents to act aggressively, while stablecoins experienced surging transaction volumes and record profitability per employee, exemplified by...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 25, 2025
BTC Price Discovery Now Driven by Derivatives, Not Spot
$BTC price discovery has shifted decisively to derivatives markets, according to a new CoinGlass report. Futures, perps, and options now dominate trading activity, meaning short-term price moves are driven more by leverage and positioning than by spot buying or selling. Source: AMB...
By Wendy O
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Helius Showcases Solana Features, Jumpstarting New Apps
By exposing the unique features possible on Solana , Helius bootstrapped applications that used them. Lesson in this
By Zaki Manian
News•Dec 24, 2025
Crypto Heads Into 2026 with Privacy, Decentralized Identity on the Line
Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin is urging the crypto industry to prioritize privacy and self‑sovereignty over simple user onboarding, warning that walled‑garden solutions betray decentralisation. In 2025, Ethereum became a testing ground with over 750 privacy‑focused projects targeting decentralized identity and selective...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Low Liquidity Spike Corrected, No Liquidations Occur
This actually shows the exchange is NOT involved in trades. Low liquidity on new pairs means one large market order can spike prices, but arbitrageurs quickly corrected it. No liquidations occurred, as this pair isn't included in any index. 🤷♂️
By Changpeng Zhao
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Unification Passes: 100M UNI Burned, Fees Flipped
Voting has concluded on Unification 🦄 125,342,017 YES 742 NO Unified, true to the name After a ~2day vote timelock, 100m UNI will be burned, fee switches will be flipped, labs will turn off frontend fees and focus on the protocol, and more Merry...
By Hayden Adams
News•Dec 24, 2025
Circle Platform Promising Tokenized Gold, Silver Swaps Is 'Fake,' Company Says
A press release on Dec 24 claimed Circle launched a platform called CircleMetals for swapping USDC with tokenized gold (GLDC) and silver (SILC) tokens backed by COMEX liquidity. Circle’s spokesperson confirmed the announcement is fake, stating the company never created such...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Flow Embeds FCM, Becoming Native Infrastructure Provider
"By hardening financial primitives such as FCM directly into the protocol, rather than relying on third-party contracts, Flow is vertically integrating to become an active infrastructure provider." go with the Flow
By Roham Gharegozlou
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Bitcoin Whales Exiting Boost Zcash’s Appeal
Every Bitcoin whale that sells out the revolution strengthens the case for Zcash
By Zaki Manian
Social•Dec 25, 2025
HFTs Grab 40 Hours MEV as Holiday Market Gap
Every year, HFTs collocated with tradfi exchange servers receive a Christmas bonus in the form of a market gap that lets them to extract ~40hrs of MEV from the market Merry Christmas to everyone building a better system in DeFi
By Hayden Adams
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Misusing Privacy Tools Still Leaks Your Data
How not to use Zcash, and also how not to use *any other* privacy tool, even if — like Zcash — it leaks zero additional information. You using the tool like this already leaked too much information.
By undefined
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Bitcoin Revitalizes Communities, Driving Local Economic Growth
What’s the real-world impact of Bitcoin on local communities Here is what @NathanOnCrypto and I discovered. https://t.co/zMykR3A2c4
By Eli Ben-Sasson
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Turned $1K Into $17K Trading Altcoins in 3 Months
I'm daytrading the markets on #Altcoins & #Bitcoin. I tweeted about my account, it went from $1,000 to $17,000 in nearly three months. How did I do this? Learn everything here: https://t.co/7BSDNWC65E
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Simple Diagram Explains How Stablecoins Work
Read this to understand stablecoins or just look at this diagram Very good explainer https://t.co/PyL9uK3Svu
By Santiago Santos
Social•Dec 25, 2025
ZK‑STARKs and Starknet Deliver Scalable, Private, Post‑Quantum Security
Infinite scale? Privacy? Post-quantum security? ZK-STARKs. Starknet.
By Eli Ben-Sasson
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Curiosity Precedes Conviction; Let's Discuss Bitcoin Fundamentals
Respect the candour, Nikhil. 👍 Curiosity comes before conviction. If you happen to spend time on it next year, happy to exchange notes, especially on Bitcoin fundamentals and how this space is evolving.
By Sumit Gupta
Social•Dec 25, 2025
Early Bitcoin Gains Come From Buying Fear, Not Peaks
When bitcoin was ATH, have you ever thought, “I wish I bought bitcoins early”? Guess what, those who bought early did not buy at ATH, they bought when there were fear, uncertainty and doubt. Merry Christmas 🎄
By Changpeng Zhao
Social•Dec 25, 2025
UTXO's Hidden Benefit Leaves Bitcoin, Cardano Untouched
Another reason utxo is awesome. Bitcoin and Cardano are not impacted
By Charles Hoskinson
Social•Dec 24, 2025
Flow Aims to Spark Next Consumer DeFi Wave
the last christmas eve i was this excited about what we were building @dapperlabs + @flow_blockchain was also deep in a bear market. we were starting to work on @NBATopShot – the product was taking shape but felt like a...
By Roham Gharegozlou
Social•Dec 24, 2025
Use Wallet Addressbook to Avoid Look‑alike Scams
These poisoning attacks have become quite common. Core Wallet does its best to not show these addresses to users, but in general, don't rely on your history to recall addresses. Note that the attackers "grind" through addresses to come up...
By Emin Gun Sirer
Social•Dec 24, 2025
Tokenized Culture and Finance Return Ownership to Communities
i love disney pinnacle. tokenized culture and tokenized finance are two sides of the same coin—ownership without middlemen, putting control back in peoples' hands instead of monopolistic platforms, and letting value flow to the communities that help create it.
By Roham Gharegozlou
Social•Dec 24, 2025
Negative XRP Sentiment Signals Bullish Rally Amid ETF Inflows
$XRP social sentiment recently turned more negative, which Santiment says can be bullish, as retail skepticism often precedes rallies. Meanwhile, spot $XRP ETFs continue to see strong demand, with six straight weeks of inflows topping $1.2B. Source: Cointelegraph
By Wendy O
Social•Dec 24, 2025
Coinbase Founder Discusses Crypto Evolution and Regulation
Thanks @GoldmanSachs for inviting me to talk at the Builders & Innovators summit. My full session with @DavidSolomon is live on YouTube now. We talked about the founding and growth of Coinbase, the evolution of crypto, and regulatory clarity for crypto....
By Brian Armstrong
Social•Dec 24, 2025
Prediction Markets Need Better Content, Not More Liquidity
prediction markets have a content problem, not a liquidity problem. less spreadsheet, more espn
By Roham Gharegozlou
Social•Dec 24, 2025
Bitcoin Believers Always Want More, Never Less
No one that understands Bitcoin, wants less Bitcoin.
By Samson Mow
Social•Dec 24, 2025
OP Builds Powerful Tech on Ethereum, Shaping Web3 Future
$OP is building great technology on top of $ETH. Now, I've discussed the future of $OP and how they see Web3 going forward. Watch it here: https://t.co/vw2XAP4mTn
By Michaël van de Poppe