Author: Kryptonews

Bear markets tend to expose weak ideas very quickly. Liquidity often declines, speculative narratives fade, and many projects struggle to show ongoing usefulness. This is the type of environment where some projects attempt to differentiate through utility — Digitap ($TAP) positions itself this way.While many tokens rely on momentum, Digitap is marketed as a crypto presale focused on financial utility, which may appeal to users during risk-off market conditions. The presale is ongoing, and its current price is below the stated listing level; however, presale demand and post-listing performance can change quickly. That combination may interest readers who prioritize utility…

2025 didn’t unfold the way many cryptocurrency investors expected.Although Bitcoin (BTC) peaked almost precisely in line with its historical four-year cycle, the long-anticipated blow-off top never materialized. Notably, Bitcoin’s gains failed to cascade into the broader market, leaving hopes for a full-fledged altcoin season largely unfulfilled.As a result, 2026 opens under a cloud of uncertainty. Investor sentiment is extremely negative, marked by caution and skepticism, even as the industry finds itself in an unprecedented position. For the first time in crypto’s 15-year history, institutions, corporations and regulators are largely moving in the same direction, laying the groundwork for broader adoption…

Financial experts are making their predictions for the coming year, and while the outlook includes possible profits for investors, they’re also flagging serious bumps that could shake the market along the way. Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, believes investors could see their portfolios grow by 12 to 15 percent this year. However, he’s cautioning that getting there might mean enduring a storm beforehand. “We’re looking at three spectacular years in a row. That doesn’t mean, though, that this fourth year can’t be solid,” Detrick said during a conversation with TheStreet. “We probably don’t gain 20%. Well, you…

Norman Rockwell‘s art, with its quaint visions of small-town America, is today widely considered to be a force of conservatism, a call for things to remain the same even as everything changes. But according to the artist’s granddaughter, everyone has his art all wrong. “Norman Rockwell was antifa,” Daisy Rockwell told the Bulwark this week, for an article called “The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell.” That headline is a reference to the Department of Homeland Security’s posts featuring Rockwell’s art over the summer. “Protect our American way of life,” read DHS’s caption, which accompanied a cropped version of Rockwell’s 1971 painting…

The Trust Wallet update includes a feature to help victims of the $7 million Christmas hack submit reimbursement claims for lost funds.The Trust Wallet browser extension for Google Chrome Web Store is “temporarily unavailable,” delaying the release of a new version that includes tools for victims of a recent hack, according to Trust Wallet CEO Eowyn Chen. “We hit a Chrome Web Store bug while releasing a new version,” Chen said in an X post, adding that the delayed release includes a feature to help victims of the Christmas Day hack verify and submit their reimbursement claims. She said on Sunday:“So…

Since June, more than 10,000 ETH in total yield has been generated, worth roughly $30 million at current prices. This steady flow of returns is often described as an Ethereum treasury flywheel. In this system, assets earn yield, the yield strengthens the treasury, and a larger treasury generates even more value. Recent results from SharpLink help make this idea concrete. How the Ethereum Treasury Flywheel Works At its core, the treasury flywheel is about putting ETH to work in a controlled and transparent way. Instead of simply holding Ethereum on a balance sheet, organizations deploy ETH into yield strategies such as…

Chainlink said it has strengthened its position as the industry-standard infrastructure for onchain finance in 2025, as governments, banks and asset managers increasingly adopted its technology to move real-world financial activity onto blockchains, according to blog post published by the company. Major Chainlink milestones in 2025 ↓https://t.co/qAk3YmoKv6— Chainlink (@chainlink) December 31, 2025 The report highlights 2025 as an important year in which Chainlink’s oracle and interoperability standards became embedded across public- and private-sector financial systems used from everything from government data publication to institutional tokenized funds.Government Adoption AcceleratesGovernment use of blockchain infrastructure marked progess during the year. Chainlink said the…

Crypto privacy entered the spotlight in 2025 as new technology clashed with regulators, a trend that is set to intensify in 2026 with developers pushing the envelope and legal battles approaching a conclusion.In its early days, Bitcoin (BTC) was often viewed as an anonymous payment tool despite its transparency. Since then, the introduction of onchain analytics and surveillance has made it increasingly apparent that transparent blockchains are far from private.This led to an arms race between pro-privacy developers, onchain surveillance organizations and regulators, culminating in high-profile legal cases. The developers of the decentralized Ether (ETH) mixer Tornado Cash are fighting…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin used a New Year’s message on Thursday to reflect on a year of major technical progress — and to argue that the network’s real test lies in fulfilling its original mission, not in chasing the latest crypto narratives.In his New Year’s post on X, Buterin said Ethereum made meaningful progress in 2025 by becoming faster, more reliable and better able to handle growth without sacrificing its decentralized design. He pointed to improvements that allow the network to process more activity, reduce bottlenecks and make it easier for people to run the software that keeps Ethereum operating.…

Key Highlights On December 29, the HYPE token witnessed a surge of over 3% on a daily chart, soaring its value to $25.89 This surge comes after the cryptocurrency exchange announced a major token distribution with 1.2 million unstaked HYPE tokens In 2025, Hyperliquid generated $844 million in revenue On December 29, Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE, witnessed a small rally with a 3.5% surge on a daily chart, climbing its value to $26.24 with an impressive market capitalization of $8.89 billion. According to CoinMarketCap, the cryptocurrency is trading at around $26. This spike in cryptocurrency follows a $90,000 rally in…