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Terrill Dicki Dec 23, 2025 03:28 Mask Network and Firefly kick off 2026 with the WAGMI New Year Lucky Drop, featuring a community-driven prize pool on Firefly. Join the event for a chance to win USDC. As 2026 approaches, Mask Network and Firefly are set to launch the WAGMI New Year Lucky Drop, a community-centric giveaway aimed at fostering collaboration and optimism. This event, hosted on the Firefly platform, encourages participants to engage with their community and start the new year with a win, according to Mask Network. What’s Happening? The WAGMI New…

For the third time this year, Banksy has created a new work of street art. The new piece has been confirmed in the anonymous British artist’s customary fashion, with an Instagram post.  The artwork shows two children lying on their backs and looking toward the heavens, with one pointing a finger skyward. It was spotted Monday outside the Tottenham Court Road Tube station in London, near the landmark Brutalist Centre Point skyscraper.  As Christmas approaches, the work could be read as two children hopefully looking for signs of Santa Claus in the sky, which would be an uncommonly sweet statement…

In brief A 2025 Nature Communications study found that people engaged in demanding creative activities—especially complex video games—had brains that appeared 4–7 years younger. In controlled tests, non-gamers who trained on StarCraft II showed measurable improvements in brain efficiency; slower, turn-based games did not. The benefits seem tied to real-time complexity and cognitive load, not gaming per se, and don’t replace mental-health gains from exercise. The relentless march of time takes an inevitable toll on cognitive function. Yet, emerging research suggests a surprising countermeasure against neural decline may lie not in a pharmaceutical solution, but in complex, demanding recreational activities—including…

Crypto investment products saw $952 million in outflows, marking the first red week in four, as investor sentiment took a hit due to delays to a key US crypto regulatory bill.Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded $952 million in outflows, led by $555 million for Ether (ETH) funds and $460 million for Bitcoin (BTC) funds.The large-scale outflows were mainly attributed to delays to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, or Clarity Act, a matter that prolonged “regulatory uncertainty and concerns over whale selling,” according to a CoinShares report published Monday.”As a result, it now appears highly unlikely that ETPs will exceed…

DeFi lending and borrowing protocol Aave’s governance fight is starting to cost investors wildly.The AAVE token is down about 18% over the past seven days, making it the worst performer among the top 100 cryptocurrencies, even as bitcoin, ether and other large tokens trade flat to slightly higher.The selloff stands out in a market that has otherwise stabilized, suggesting the pressure is specific to Aave rather than a broader risk-off move.The drop follows a growing fight inside Aave governance over who controls the protocol’s brand, domains and public channels, as CoinDesk reported early last week. While that debate played out…

Bitcoin’s 2025 was billed as the year of the “supercycle,” powered by record institutional access and a friendlier policy backdrop out of Washington.However, it is ending very differently.Into December, the world’s largest digital asset is not pricing in a new paradigm so much as grinding through a performance problem. The rally has faded, spot prices are rolling over, and retail participation has thinned out just as the narrative support has given way to the arithmetic of a correction.As a result, on-chain data now point to what analysts describe as a “bear season,” driven by a structural shortfall in demand for…

U.S. lawmakers have unveiled a bipartisan effort to modernize the federal tax code’s treatment of digital assets, with a particular focus on stablecoins, everyday transactions, staking and mining rewards. Representatives Max Miller (R-OH) and Steven Horsford (D-NV) released a draft of the Digital Asset PARITY Act that aims to provide clearer, more practical tax rules for regulated, dollar-pegged stablecoins and reduce unnecessary reporting burdens for routine crypto payments, ensuring that everyday transfers do not trigger capital gains reporting requirements for transactions under a specified amount. The proposal also seeks to clarify how income is sourced from digital asset trading and…

The typical altcoin rally is likely to wane next year, with only “blue chip” cryptocurrencies seeing the lion’s share of liquidity, says CoinEx Research chief analyst Jeff Ko.“Retail investors expecting a rising tide to lift all boats will be disappointed,” Ko told Cointelegraph. “We predict no traditional altseason; instead, liquidity will be ruthlessly selective, flowing only to blue-chip survivors with real adoption.”Ko anticipated “modest global liquidity tailwinds in 2026,” tempered by divergent central bank policies, but added that Bitcoin’s historical sensitivity to the M2 money supply growth “has softened since the 2024 ETF launches, with correlation diminishing.”He added that the…

The Council of the European Union (EU) the European Central Bank’s (ECB) digital euro design,A Friday document outlined the council’s position on the digital euro, including alignment with the ECB on launching online and offline variants simultaneouslyECB President Christine Lagarde that t rest with EU lawmakers“It’s now for the European Council and certainly later on for the European Parliament to identify whether the Commission proposal is satisfactory, how it can be transformed into a piece of legislation or amended.”The offline digital euro’s limitationsDocuments reveal that a cash-like currency observers from linking multiple activities to the same user. The blueprint for…

Bitcoin’s push back toward near the $90,000 mark is giving the crypto market a short-term lift, but few analysts see it as a meaningful turning point after one of the weakest second halves in recent years.Major tokens remained range-bound in the past 24 hours, with xrp, ether, Solana’s SOL, Cardano’s ada and DOGE$0.1309 rising as much as 2%. A decline in Aave’s AAVE continued as its governance tussle rages on, leaving it as the worst performing token with a 7% drop.Total crypto market capitalization has once again moved above $3 trillion, a psychologically important level that has acted as a…