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2025 delivered a brutal lesson in market structure for Bitcoin. The year began with political momentum and drifted into a summer of aggressive policy signals.Yet, it snapped into one of the sharpest boom-to-bust sequences in the asset’s history.By December, the price had round-tripped, leaving the asset flat for the year. But the flat chart masked a violent transformation underneath.While Wall Street banks finally opened their doors and ETFs vacuumed up record capital, the network’s physical infrastructure faced a solvency crisis.CryptoSlate has compiled some of the major trends that defined the market in 2025 below:Bitcoin Reserve racePresident Trump moved from election…

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao proposed additional security measures to “eradicate” address poisoning, including wallet warnings and blacklists of suspicious accounts.”All wallets should simply check if a receiving address is a ‘poison address,’ and block the user. This is a blockchain query,” Zhao wrote in a Wednesday blog post.Address poisoning is a form of phishing in which scammers trick victims into sending crypto to illicit wallets by first sending them small transactions. Unsuspecting users often copy and paste the attacker’s address from their wallet history.Phishing scams cost 6,344 victims over $7.7 million in November, according to Scam Sniffer data. That number…

Cryptocurrency derivatives trading volume surged to almost $85.7 trillion in 2025, averaging about $264.5 billion a day, according to a report by liquidation data tracker CoinGlass.Binance led the market with roughly $25.09 trillion in cumulative derivatives volume, or about 29.3% of global trading, meaning nearly $30 of every $100 traded ran through the exchange, CoinGlass said. OKX, Bybit and Bitget followed, each posting $8.2 trillion to $10.8 trillion in yearly volume. These four exchanges accounted for about 62.3% of total market share.CoinGlass said institutional pathways expanded through spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), options and compliant futures, helping drive a structural rise…

Hong Kong plans to complete proposals to regulate virtual asset dealers and custodians and introduce the rules to the city’s Legislative Council in 2026, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said Wednesday.The proposals, developed after a two-month public consultation that drew more than 190 responses, are intended to create a licensing framework for virtual asset dealing and custodial services. The rules will fall under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance and mirror existing requirements for securities dealing. Hong Kong’s government is developing a regulatory environment to encourage the development of…

The majority of crypto exploits in the coming year won’t be caused by a zero-day bug in your favorite protocol, say crypto security experts. It’s going to be caused by you. That’s because 2025 has shown that the majority of hacks don’t start with malicious code; they begin with a conversation, Nick Percoco, chief security officer of crypto exchange Kraken, told Cointelegraph. “Attackers aren’t breaking in, they’re being invited in.”From January to early December 2025, data from Chainalysis shows that the crypto industry witnessed over $3.4 billion in theft, with the February compromise of Bybit accounting for nearly half of that total. …

While most flock to museums to experience world-famous artworks, some of the most influential pieces reside outside institutions—especially in Italy, where, during the Renaissance, a number of wealthy patrons commissioned works of art in smaller chapels. Those chapels were intended as places where their family legacies could live on after their deaths. Many of them still contain some of the most incredible examples of art and architecture; most are open to the public. There are many chapels, both within and beyond Italy. Which ones are most essential? Below is a list of the ones that cannot be missed. Scrovegni Chapel…

ZEC is next in line in terms of daily gains. The modest recovery staged by the bitcoin bulls over the past 24 hours drove the asset to $88,000, where it faced an immediate rejection and now sits well below that level. Most larger-cap altcoins are slightly in the green, but they still can’t get out of the recent nosedive. ZEC has emerged as the top gainer here, while the mid-caps have CC as their daily winner. BTC Halted at $88K The graph below will clearly demonstrate BTC’s choppy market moves as of late. The cryptocurrency went through a volatile…

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) extended their year-end slide in December, with total market valuations falling to their lowest level in 2025.According to data from CoinGecko, the overall valuation of the NFT sector fell to $2.5 billion in December. This represented a 72% decline from a peak of $9.2 billion in January. The decline came as NFT sales activity remained subdued following a weak November performance. In December, weekly NFT sales failed to surpass $70 million during the first three weeks of the month, falling below November’s pace. December is on track to reinforce late 2025’s downward trend as year-end liquidity thins. The NFT market…

Key Takeaways Bitcoin linked to Mt. Gox hacker Aleksey Bilyuchenko continues to move through unknown exchanges. It remains uncertain who has control over the funds. Share this article A wallet linked to Aleksey Bilyuchenko, accused by the US Department of Justice of hacking the Mt. Gox crypto exchange, quietly offloaded around 2,300 Bitcoin in over a month, according to Arkham Intelligence analyst Emmett Gallic. The entity related to Aleksey Bilyuchenko has deposited another 1.3K $BTC ($114M) to the unknown exchanges in the past 7 days. They still hold 4.1K $BTC ($360M). They have sold a total of 2.3K $BTC. https://t.co/GtzPKLb5AC…

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) extended their year-end slide in December, with total market valuations falling to their lowest level in 2025.According to data from CoinGecko, the overall valuation of the NFT sector fell to $2.5 billion in December. This represented a 72% decline from a peak of $9.2 billion in January. The decline came as NFT sales activity remained subdued following a weak November performance. In December, weekly NFT sales failed to surpass $70 million during the first three weeks of the month, falling below November’s pace. December is on track to reinforce late 2025’s downward trend as year-end liquidity thins. The NFT market…