Author: Kryptonews

In brief The stablecoin supply jumped $100 billion to a total of $314 billion in 2025. Tether leads in transaction activity, followed by Ripple’s RLUSD and Circle’s USDC. The Trump-backed USD1 reached the top 5 just months after April launch. This was a defining year for stablecoins, with the signing of the GENIUS Act, a high-flying IPO for Circle, and a handful of tokens outpacing the rest.Since the start of January, the overall U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin supply has increased by more than $100 billion, to $314 billion total. But that doesn’t mean all boats have risen at the same rate.To…

Today, the cryptocurrency market registered robust bullish movements in certain digital assets, which delivered remarkable gains with strong upward momentum. Amid the continued consolidation phase in the wider market, some tokens recorded notable spikes, suggesting that strategic investors are reallocating funds to some select assets, according to data shared today by market analyst Phoenix Group. The larger crypto market displays a consolidation picture as the year nears its end. Bitcoin and Ethereum currently trade at $87,442 and $2,921, showing reluctance to break above the crucial psychological $90,000 and $3,000 marks, respectively, after recent multiple failed attempts. The relaxed environment, projected…

The Ethereum price has struggled to reclaim the critical $3,000 mark for the past 48 hours, raising concerns about potential declines in the cryptocurrency’s value if this essential support level is not regained by the end of the week. Analyst Predicts Further Downside Market analyst Ted Pillows pointed out on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that without a quick recovery above $3,000, Ethereum could face further downside pressures, possibly dropping toward the $2,800 range in the near term.  This scenario would indicate an additional retracement of approximately 5% from its current trading price, which hovers just above $2,940. This…

Prediction markets have emerged as one of the cryptocurrency sector’s most consequential, if not contested, frontiers. Once the domain of niche platforms, they are now attracting serious attention from major exchanges, venture capital and even traditional financial institutions. As prediction markets move closer to the core of crypto’s business model, Crypto.com has sparked questions around fairness and market structure after seeking to hire a quantitative trader for an in-house market-making unit that would buy and sell contracts alongside other traders.Meanwhile, Coinbase has signaled a longer-term bet on regulated prediction markets with its acquisition of The Clearing Company, an onchain prediction market…

The year opened with a sitting president launching his own token three days before inauguration and closed with researchers proving that one of the year’s “comeback stories” was controlled by a few dozen wallets.Between those bookends, 2025 turned memecoins from niche absurdity into crypto’s most visible, and most embarrassing, corner. A sovereign leader rugpulled his citizens on Valentine’s Day, an AI chatbot’s fart jokes spawned a billion-dollar token, Dogecoin got two regulated ETFs, and the platform that minted 9.4 million tokens became the year’s de facto casino.What made these ten tokens iconic wasn’t quality or innovation, but their capacity to…

Crypto markets are often explained through narratives. Political developments, regulatory headlines, institutional adoption and cycle-based expectations dominate the price action during volatile periods.These narratives influence positioning and sentiment, but over the past year, price sustainability has been dictated more by measurable capital flows, liquidity conditions and onchain behavior than by headlines themselves.Key takeaways:Bitcoin’s 56% rally after the US election aligned with a sharp rise in futures open interest, but weak spot follow-through limited the trend’s duration.BTC rallied when spot ETF inflows were sustained and stalled when flows slowed or turned negative, showing ETFs were demand-sensitive, not a backstop.A 50% drop…

Dogecoin slipped under the $0.13 level Tuesday as heavy spot selling coincided with a sharp jump in derivatives activity, suggesting traders are positioning for wider swings rather than an immediate rebound.News backgroundBitMEX reported Dogecoin futures volume surging 53,000% to $260 million as traders ramped up exposure into the move, a sign that volatility expectations are rising even as spot price weakens. The burst in derivatives turnover came alongside a heavy spot selloff that pushed DOGE through the $0.13 psychological floor, keeping the meme-coin complex under pressure while broader crypto markets remained uneven.The rise in futures activity also comes as traders…

Bitcoin BTC$88,063.66 has spent virtually all of December locked between $85,000 and $90,000, while U.S. equities rallied and gold hit all-time highs. That’s left bitcoin investors frustrated, and the explanation lies in derivatives mechanics.Now, those same mechanics indicate that the largest cryptocurrency could be making a break toward the high end of the range. The more likely outcome after expiry is an upside resolution toward the mid $90,000s rather than a sustained break below $85,000. The key driver has been a heavy concentration of options around current prices. Options are contracts that give traders the right, but not the obligation,…

Canton Coin has climbed about 27% over the past week, Cointelegraph data shows, outpacing the broader cryptocurrency market as traders reacted to fresh signals of institutional adoption.The gains follow a Dec. 17 announcement from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) outlining plans to tokenize a portion of US Treasury securities held at its Depository Trust Company subsidiary on the Canton Network. DTCC operates post-trade infrastructure for US securities markets, with its subsidiaries processing about $3.7 quadrillion in securities transactions last year. Canton Coin price over past 7 days. Source: CoinGeckoFrank La Salla, CEO of DTCC, said the “collaboration creates…

Key NotesCZ proposes wallet-level blocks and UI filters to stop “poison” addresses and copy-paste traps.Case in point: an investor mis-sent ~$50M USDT to a look-alike address; funds were quickly split and obfuscated.Binance security tracks millions of poisoned addresses; phishing-style losses remain elevated across the sector. Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao urged crypto wallets to detect and block address-poisoning scams automatically. He proposed industry-wide blacklists and UI filtering after an investor mistakenly sent $50 million in USDT to a spoofed address last week. In a post titled “Let’s Eradicate the Poison Scams,” Zhao said wallets should query known “poison addresses,” warn…