Author: Kryptonews

Key Highlights: Hayes shifts from ETH to DeFi amid improving liquidity. In the past week, Hayes sold $5.53 million worth of ETH and bought ENA, PENDLE, and ETHFI. Macro tailwinds and whale moves may boost DeFi tokens. Arthur Hayes, BitMEX co-founder, has recently moved about 682 ETH worth $2 million to Binance, according to crypto analytics platform Lookonchain. This transfer indicates a shift towards the DeFi tokens. In the past week, the co-founder sold 1,871 ETH, worth $5.53 million and bought 1.22 million ENA (which were worth $257.5K), 137,117 PENDLE (worth $259,000), and 132,730 ETHFI (worth $93,000). This move by…

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This move comes amid ongoing volatility in crypto markets, where sudden price swings can trigger forced liquidations, affecting both traders and market integrity. The new system introduces specialized Insurance Fund Pools to provide targeted protection based on contract type and correlated risks. Specialized Insurance Fund Pools The updated mechanism features two dedicated pools. The New Listing Insurance Fund Pool caters to newly-listed USDT Perpetual Contracts during their first 30 days, starting with a minimum balance of $8 million. This higher capital allocation offers extra protection during the volatile post-listing phase, when sudden price swings are most common. The Portfolio Insurance…

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Bitcoin (BTC) institutional outflows continued into Christmas as the US gained the title of biggest BTC seller.Key points:Bitcoin ETF netflows stay negative for Christmas Eve as the institutional investment vehicles lose another $175 million.Tax obligations and the quarterly options expiry are blamed for the poor performance.Hope remains for a broad rebound after the holiday season.Analysis: Bitcoin institutional bid to return “soon”Data from UK-based investment company Farside Investors confirms that on Christmas Eve, net outflows from the US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) totalled over $175 million.Bitcoin institutional capital saw no reason to wrap up for the holidays while Wall Street…

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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. …

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James Ding Dec 24, 2025 08:59 HBAR price prediction shows potential 27% upside to $0.14 resistance level within 30 days, supported by bullish MACD histogram despite oversold RSI conditions at $0.11. HBAR Price Prediction: Technical Setup Points to $0.14 Recovery Target Hedera (HBAR) finds itself at a critical juncture as technical indicators present a mixed but increasingly constructive picture for the cryptocurrency’s near-term prospects. With HBAR trading at $0.11 amid bearish sentiment, our comprehensive HBAR price prediction analysis reveals key levels that could determine the token’s trajectory into early 2026. HBAR Price Prediction…

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The crypto industry is closing out the year with a record $8.6 billion in mergers and acquisitions, according to the FT, up sharply from $2.17 billion the year prior.The deal surge comes amid a major policy shift in Washington, where the Trump administration has backed the sector with a string of regulatory developments that include the GENIUS Act, which created a federal framework for stablecoins and paved the way for institutions to settle tokenized assets.The White House support helped drive 267 deals, an 18% jump from 2024, the story continued.The largest deal of the year was Coinbase’s $2.9 billion acquisition…

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The defining strategy of 2025 was not choosing a single “best large language model.” It was assembling a stack. Claude for premium coding and editing. DeepSeek or Qwen for cheap volume. Muse for fiction. Dolphin when constraints mattered more than polish.Models stopped being personalities this year. They became tools. The advantage went to users who treated them that way.The technology matured into something genuinely useful in 2025—models became smarter, cheaper, and specialized for specific tasks. The era of chasing a single “best” model was over.Here’s which models earned their spot in our stack.CodingVibe coding, the ability to make AI code…

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The Bitcoin community is hopeful for the cryptocurrency to again rally after billionaire Elon Musk predicted that the US economy could experience significant growth by December 2026 at the earliest. “Double-digit growth is coming within 12 to 18 months,” Musk said in an X post on Tuesday, “If applied intelligence is proxy for economic growth, which it should be, triple-digit is possible in ~5 years.”Bitcoiners often look to macroeconomic signals, from growth forecasts to central bank policy, as clues for how broader economic trends could impact Bitcoin’s (BTC) price. US Federal Reserve rate cuts this year have been one catalyst investors…

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Bitcoin briefly displayed $24,111 on Binance in a sharp wick on the BTC/USD1 trading pair late Tuesday before snapping back above $87,000 within seconds, according to exchange data.(Binance) The move did not show up on any other major BTC pairs and appeared isolated to USD1, a stablecoin launched by Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial. The pair later normalized, with bitcoin trading back near prevailing market prices.These sudden “wicks” are typically caused by thin liquidity – or a possible display issue – rather than a broader crash. New or less-traded stablecoin pairs often have fewer market makers quoting tight prices, meaning…

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The crypto sector reportedly saw a record $8.6 billion worth of deals in 2025, as the crypto-friendly Trump administration gave confidence to crypto-focused mergers and acquisitions.The Financial Times reported on Wednesday that 267 deals were inked in the crypto industry up to Dec. 23, up 18% from 2024. The $8.6 billion in deal value is a nearly 300% jump from last year, which saw $2.17 billion in deals, and the growth is expected to continue into 2026.Coinbase made the biggest acquisition of the year with its $2.9 billion purchase of the crypto options trading Deribit, the biggest-ever acquisition in crypto.Other…

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