🎯Today's Crypto Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: Bitcoin ETF Custody Concentrates Power, Raising Systemic Risk
Spot Bitcoin exchange‑traded funds now hold over $54 billion, roughly 1.5 million BTC. The ETF structure places the underlying coins in a trust controlled by a handful of custodians, with Coinbase identified as the dominant custodian, creating a single point of operational failure.
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By the numbers: Pepeto raises $7M in token presale
News•Dec 21, 2025
Crypto Market ‘Isn’t Scared Enough’ to Call a Bottom Yet: Santiment
Santiment founder Maksim Balashevich warns that crypto traders lack sufficient fear on social media to confirm a Bitcoin bottom, suggesting the price could still slide to around $75,000—a 14.8% drop from the current $88,350 level. He points to overly optimistic retail chatter and recent Japanese central‑bank rate hikes as factors that could trigger further downside. Competing forecasts from Fidelity and Bitwise illustrate divergent views on Bitcoin’s 2026 trajectory. Meanwhile, the Crypto Fear & Greed Index remains in extreme‑fear territory, highlighting mixed market signals.
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Fed's $6.8B Injection Signals Bullish Bitcoin Move
UPDATE 🚨 The Fed plans to inject $6.8 billion into the market tomorrow at 9am ET This is bullish for bitcoin https://t.co/8OXOJDoVAQ
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Ethereum Eyed for Euro‑backed Stablecoin Launch
Ethereum $ETH is being considered as a possible blockchain to launch the Euro Stablecoin https://t.co/QNNzWScZpj
By That Martini Guy
News•Dec 21, 2025
Crypto Coin Minute for December 21st, 2025 at 05:15 AM Pacific Time.
Senator Cynthia Lummis announced she will not seek reelection, prompting disappointment across the crypto community. Meanwhile, U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation to exempt small stablecoin transactions and staking rewards from taxes, aiming to stimulate broader usage. Analysts warn that a sharp...
By Crypto Coin Minute
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Adoption Uncovers Hidden Overvaluation in Markets
Adoption exposes overvaluation
By Santiago Santos
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Bitcoin Poised for a Disastrous Year and Possible Crash
The next year for $BTC might be disastrous, according to multiple signals. There might be a big crash, according to a lot of people. Let's talk about it in the new video: https://t.co/5yDPzvsyGr
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 20, 2025
Tom Lee Responds to Controversy Surrounding Fundstrat’s Differing Bitcoin Outlooks
Fundstrat co‑founder Tom Lee clarified why the firm’s analysts have issued seemingly conflicting Bitcoin forecasts. Head of digital‑asset strategy Sean Farrell projects Bitcoin could retreat to $60,000‑$65,000 in the first half of 2026, while Lee has suggested the cryptocurrency may...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 21, 2025
NEAR: Seamless Swaps, Payments, and Bridges All‑in‑One
NEAR - money you can command Swap this, pay that, bridge there, buy the other. No hassle, just getting things done.
By Illia Polosukhin
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Dalio Advises Holding Both Gold and Crypto
Billionaire Ray Dalio says, "Some of BOTH, GOLD and CRYPTO should be in your portfolio." https://t.co/lh4vZfwmqU
By That Martini Guy
News•Dec 20, 2025
Sell Bitcoin for Gold? Not so Fast, One Analyst Says
Bitcoin analyst Matthew Kratter argues that Bitcoin’s inherent scarcity, portability and verifiability make it a superior long‑term store of value compared with gold, whose supply grows 1‑2% annually and could double every 47 years. He warns investors against swapping BTC...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Eric Trump Claims Major Nations Are Actively Buying Bitcoin
Eric Trump says there are a lot of major countries that are "actively buying" Bitcoin 🇺🇸 https://t.co/i1Xrb8LPVR
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Tokenized Private Equities Could Eliminate Traditional IPOs
As tokenized equities for private companies gain momentum, @JohannKerbrat says he sees a world with no more IPOs. 🤯 Here's why 👇 https://t.co/ZnFuh8iL9K
By Laura Shin
News•Dec 20, 2025
VanEck's New Avalanche ETF Filing to Include Staking Rewards for AVAX Investors
VanEck has amended its S‑1 filing for the proposed Avalanche ETF, VAVX, to allow the fund to stake up to 70% of its AVAX holdings and capture staking rewards. The rewards, after a 4% service fee to Coinbase Crypto Services,...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Starstream and Midnight Collide in New Experience
Starstream + Midnight = https://t.co/puEHDQ9gxp
By Charles Hoskinson
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Deep Dive Into Bitcoin: Trading, AI, Regulation, Adoption
On Friday, I shared my latest thoughts on $BTC trading, digital gold, Strategy, AI, quantum FUD, regulation, protocol debates, and global Bitcoin adoption with @DavidGokhshtein. https://t.co/Axl2EgyZiF
By Michael Saylor
News•Dec 20, 2025
Ethereum’s ‘Glamsterdam’ Upgrade Aims to Fix MEV Fairness
Ethereum developers are planning the "Glamsterdam" upgrade, targeting a 2026 launch, to address MEV fairness and improve block execution. The core of the upgrade is Proposer‑Builder Separation (ePBS) under EIP‑7732, which splits block building from proposing, removing reliance on centralized...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 21, 2025
Midnight's Rolling Averages Reveal Demand for Private Markets
When Midnight turns on, imagine the 12 month rolling average TVL, transactions, and MAUs. A lot of people want private prediction markets, stablecoins, and DEXes
By Charles Hoskinson
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Current Bearish Sentiment Likely to Flip to Bullish
I don't think that the current sentiment is comparable to the period of 2019. The #Altcoins are completely buried and are down significantly, while the fundamental growth for some is substantially higher. Quite rarely, the sentiment continues to be reflected in...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 20, 2025
Blockchain and No-Code Tools Challenge AWS' Dominance: Crypto Exec
AI‑driven no‑code platforms combined with blockchain are poised to erode Amazon Web Services' cloud dominance. Crypto and Web3 projects, despite branding themselves as decentralized, still depend heavily on AWS, as highlighted by two major outages in 2025 that disrupted exchanges...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 20, 2025
April ETH and Yuan Bottoms Signal Upward Surge
There's a strong confluence between the Chinese Currency and ETH vs. BTC. These have bottomed out in April of this year. They have also bottomed in 2016 and 2019 in the exact same week. This time, $ETH has bottomed out...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 20, 2025
XRP ETFs Are Booming, but a Quiet $15 Billion Payment Layer Matters More than the Price
Four XRP spot ETFs now trade in the U.S., collectively managing $941.7 million, up from $336 million at launch. While ETF assets have surged, Ripple’s On‑Demand Liquidity processed $15 billion in cross‑border payments in 2024, dwarfing the ETF layer. XRPL activity also grew,...
By CryptoSlate
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Top Emerging Fintech Themes: Stablecoins, AI, Privacy, More
Most common and interesting answers: - Stablecoins - Privacy (agree, but it would be interesting to hear which kind of privacy?) - Identity (age, attention, attendance, etc) - Storytelling (related to identity?) - AI agents - Payments - Tokenization - Neobanks - Prediction markets Setting a reminder to check...
By Eli Ben-Sasson
News•Dec 20, 2025
Brazil’s Gen Z Drives Crypto Boom as Stablecoins, Income Tokens Surge
Brazil’s cryptocurrency market is being reshaped by Gen Z investors, whose participation grew 56% in 2025. Younger users favor low‑volatility assets, allocating funds to stablecoins and tokenized fixed‑income products called Renda Fixa Digital (RFD). Mercado Bitcoin distributed roughly $325 million through RFD, achieving returns...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 20, 2025
What BitMine’s 4M ETH Holdings Mean for Its Stock Valuation
BitMine Immersion Technologies disclosed nearly 4 million Ether, valued at about $13 billion, bringing its crypto treasury in line with its roughly $13 billion market capitalization. Recent financing added millions of shares, diluting the per‑share exposure to the Ether pile. The company now...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Crypto Industry Needs Better Customer Service
We need better customer service in crypto #crypto #cryptocurrency #cryptowendyo
By Wendy O
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Extreme Fear Signals BTC Price Rebound Opportunity
The markets are in extreme fear, which have often been providing to be a great opportunity to be seeing a strong move afterwards. The recent crash on the markets for $BTC was a massive disconnect, and it's just a matter of...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 20, 2025
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF a True Rarity: Massive Inflows Even with Negative Performance
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) pulled in more than $25 billion of new capital in 2025, ranking it sixth among all U.S. ETFs by inflows. Despite a 9.6% decline in price performance, the fund out‑raised the gold‑focused SPDR Gold ETF (GLD),...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Zcash Privacy: Solving Full-Node Proofs Without Trusted Third Parties?
Question for all the zcash people out there Back in the early days of Zcash - sapling and such - one of the fundamental problems with achieving functional privacy was that you had to download the entire blockchain to your device...
By Kyle Samani
News•Dec 20, 2025
Gold Wins the Debasement Trade in 2025, but It Is Not the Full Story
In 2025 gold outperformed bitcoin dramatically, delivering a 65% gain while bitcoin slipped 7% after a 36% correction from its October peak. The two assets were neck‑and‑neck through August, but gold’s surge thereafter cemented its win in the so‑called debasement...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Bitcoin Undervalued, Gold Overvalued: RSI Signals Bullish Divergence
The last times the markets have hit their low, that was the moment BTCUSD/Gold has hit the low as well. One of them is getting overvalued. One of them is getting undervalued. In my thesis, Gold is getting overvalued, while #Bitcoin...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 20, 2025
How a Single Copy-Paste Mistake Cost a User $50M in USDt
A user inadvertently transferred nearly $50 million USDt to a malicious wallet after copying a look‑alike address from their transaction history, marking one of the largest on‑chain losses of 2025. The scam relied on subtle address‑poisoning, where the first three and...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 20, 2025
SEI Poised for 20‑Day MA Breakout, Target $0.16
Crucial for the coming period is the breakout above the 20-Day MA for most of the #Altcoins. One of them is $SEI. This one is looking better after the bounce yesterday, but still needs to gain more momentum in order to be...
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Execution Layer Will Drive Crypto Market’s Revenue Split
It’s been a crazy year. Can open permissionless protocols actually grow and maintain revenues is still an open question. I am a believer that the entire crypto mcap will continue to grow and eventually it will have to be...
By Anatoly Yakovenko
News•Dec 20, 2025
Fundstrat’s Circulating 2026 Crypto Outlook Warns of Pullback, Contrasting Tom Lee
Fundstrat Global Advisors allegedly circulated an internal 2026 crypto outlook that predicts a meaningful drawdown in the first half of 2026, with Bitcoin targeted at $60,000‑$65,000, Ether at $1,800‑$2,000, and Solana at $50‑$75. The report, attributed to head of digital...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Fearful Investors Lose; Patient Holders Gain More Sats
The rush to make some quick fix to appease the Quantum Panicoooors feels reminiscent of the Big Blockers and their urgency to scale Bitcoin. If investors are scared, that’s their problem and their loss. More sats for the rest of...
By Samson Mow
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Conservative Bitcoin Development Beats Panic‑driven Fixes
Bitcoin dev must be conservative. Rushing a fix just because a few people are in a panic could be disastrous. @Blockstream is leading much of the research on quantum resistance. For real alpha, follow @adam3us one of the top minds...
By Samson Mow
Social•Dec 20, 2025
TPU‑Only Transactions Performance on 10/10 Reviewed
How well did tpu only txs land on 10/10?
By Anatoly Yakovenko
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Bear Markets: Prime Time for Building Foundations
Bear markets are for building
By Benjamin Cowen
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Get 50% Bonus on Crypto Deposits with WEEX
Looking to trade Bitcoin or Altcoins? WEEX has a 50% deposit bonus. Access it here 👇 https://t.co/YSpDrijDsv DYOR. Not financial advice. https://t.co/gldxyM2C3z
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 20, 2025
New Cardano Native Asset Plans Post‑Hong Kong
After Hong Kong, I got some plans for Cardano Native Assets. #MidnightSyndicate
By Charles Hoskinson
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Bitcoin May Rally 2026; Altcoin Hype Irrelevant
There are reasons you can make for why Bitcoin could be bullish in early 2026. But “my shitcoin hasn’t gone to a new high yet” is not one of them
By Benjamin Cowen
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Vote Now: Unification Proposal Live
🦄 Voting for the Unification proposal is now live https://t.co/HolX0c26dt
By Hayden Adams
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Bought a Solana Crypto Poker Set on Fundl
There is a crypto poker set on @FundlDotFun This is awesome. I just bought a Solana poker set https://t.co/eiwMON57NM https://t.co/D7CrBq7Zb4
By Kyle Samani
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Get Ready: Japan Adventure Awaits Everyone
Everyone ready for Japan? https://t.co/K7SPxmTg5N https://t.co/wg929LHBMD
By Charles Hoskinson
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Bitcoin's Bull‑Bear Cycles Consistently Span About 1060 Days
The last 3 cycles for Bitcoin all lasted around the same amount of time. 2015-2017: 1067 days 2018-2021: 1059 days 2022-2025: 1062 days Sometimes the simplest indicators are the best. https://t.co/VKbWLEcZiT
By Benjamin Cowen
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Crypto RSI Hits Weekly Low, Echoes Past Market Bottoms
The total market capitalization for #Crypto has hit the lowest RSI on the weekly timeframe, compared to Gold. The last few times that we've had this, we made: - The bottom in 2018. - The bottom in 2022. Those are great signals for...
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Understanding Gold's Yield Sources Explained
On oro, where does the yield come from?
By Kyle Samani
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Norway's Central Bank Holds $1.18B in MicroStrategy
BULLISH 🚨 Norway’s central bank now holds $1.18 billion worth of MICROSTRATEGY ( $MSTR ) Shares https://t.co/DMXrIVF85R
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Bitcoin 2025: Key Events Set to Shape Price
Bitcoin's 2025 events & price action Full breakdown here👇 https://t.co/mQQ2xSXYzA https://t.co/cRmiRXWntd
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 20, 2025
Crypto Continues the Pirate Party’s Empowerment Legacy
> Crypto is building toward human empowerment, as it has been since the beginning "Empowerment" was the code of the philosophy of the Pirate Party, before crypto even existed. https://t.co/3keGzBxVYJ
By Vitalik Buterin