Author: Kryptonews

It’s become fashionable of late to dismiss bitcoin’s BTC$88,111.80 four-year cycle — and the inevitable boom and bust it brings — as an anachronism.Just in the past week, Bitwise’s Matt Hougan and ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood have thrown their considerable weight behind the idea of dismissing the four-year cycle. Each noted the ETFs along with regulatory and institutional acceptance that have blended bitcoin into the traditional financial system. Bitcoin is no longer a fringe asset and there’s no reason for it to follow the same pattern today as it did years ago.Defining the cycleThe four-year cycle is a price pattern…

Ripple’s XRP is facing further pressure due to technical weakness, while attention is being focused on cheaper DeFi alternatives showing increasing momentum. XRP has now broken below the long-standing level of $2, a move marking a paradigm shift in market behavior and far from a normal correction. As the number of bearish indicators mounts, along with the control of the sellers, investors are re-evaluating their crypto investments to determine the best crypto to buy. At the same time, a new crypto worth a price of $0.035 has sparked significant interest in the market, especially as the presale moves to the…

Spot bitcoin ETF investors may have shown themselves to be anything but momentum chasers this year.While it’s no secret that BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has been a wild success since it opened for business in January 2024, data compiled by Bloomberg’s crack ETF analyst Eric Balchunas shows that success in another light.So far in 2025, IBIT ranks sixth out of all ETFs in inflows, bringing in more than $25 billion of investor cash. In a list of the top 25 funds by inflows, ranked first is Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF (VOO) with $145 billion, and ranked 25th is the…

Tom Lee’s investment firm Fundstrat advised private clients in its latest 2026 crypto strategy briefing to prepare for a major Bitcoin correction to $60,000 by the first half of 2026. Macro analysts note that Bitcoin price prediction cycle indicators align with this bias, projecting bear-market bottoms around $56,000-$60,000.Fundstrat Projects BTC, ETH, and SOL CorrectionIn an exclusive report shared by Dong Kuai, Fundstrat head of digital asset strategy Sean Farrell outlined his base case for a 2026 correction, anticipating Bitcoin declining to $60,000-$65,000, Ethereum sliding toward $1,800-$2,000, and Solana revisiting 2023 lows around $50-$75. According to @_FORAB, Tom Lee's fund, Fundstrat,…

In 2025, the Solana ecosystem saw a mix of activities related to hype, hardware, and high-impact upgrades, marking one of the chain’s most memorable years yet.The year began with a full-blown memecoin mania, where speculative energy and hype ignited onchain activity. This wave followed on the heels of the late 2024 rise of BONK, which boosted memecoin activity after some arbitrage traders appeared to be chasing the token airdrop given to every Solana mobile owner.This feature is a part of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2025 list.By early 2025, the memecoin trend exploded further as the memecoin named for — and financially tied…

Key Highlights Grayscale researchers have revealed that the “four-year cycle” has officially ended, as institutional investment in crypto is growing rapidly  The report suggests that there will be more crypto ETFs launched in 2026 Apart from this, the report states that bipartisan crypto market structure legislation is expected to become U.S. law in 2026 While the cryptocurrency market is currently going through turmoil, Grayscale, a leading digital asset management company, has shared a research report in which researchers have officially called off the “four-year cycle” as institutional investment in digital assets is rapidly growing.  This statement from the leading financial…

Looking back on 2025, the sound money, or debasement trade, was decisively won by the metals over bitcoin. Gold delivered one of its best years on record, up 65%, while bitcoin so far is down 7%. Until August, the two assets had similar returns, both up roughly 30%. From that point, gold surged while bitcoin rolled over sharply.This divergence reinforced that gold won the debasement trade narrative leaving bitcoin firmly behind. Bitcoin remains in recovery mode after a 36% correction from its October all-time high, struggling in the $80,000 range. Despite the price weakness, capital flows tell a different story.…

BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT, has ranked sixth in net inflows despite being the only fund in the top cohort posting a negative return for the year.Data shared by Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas shows IBIT pulling in roughly $25 billion in year-to-date inflows, even as its annual performance sits in the red. By comparison, several traditional equity and bond ETFs ahead of IBIT on the leaderboard posted double-digit gains, while gold-backed ETF GLD, which is up more than 60% on the year, attracted less capital than IBIT.Balchunas described the result as a “really good sign” over…

Rebeca Moen Dec 19, 2025 21:25 In 2025, Algorand (ALGO) saw significant growth with new applications, partnerships, and staking options, enhancing its ecosystem and promoting financial empowerment globally. In 2025, the Algorand (ALGO) ecosystem experienced significant growth, marked by the launch of numerous applications and strategic partnerships. This expansion not only strengthened network decentralization but also broadened access to financial tools and services, according to the Algorand Foundation. New Mainnet Applications A diverse array of applications was introduced to the Algorand mainnet in 2025, spanning various sectors including identity, finance, and tokenization. Key…

The zkEVM ecosystem spent a year sprinting on latency. Proving time for an Ethereum block collapsed from 16 minutes to 16 seconds, costs dropped 45-fold, and participating zkVMs now prove 99% of mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds on target hardware.The Ethereum Foundation (EF) declared victory on Dec. 18: real-time proving works. The performance bottlenecks are cleared. Now the real work starts, because speed without soundness is a liability, not an asset, and the math under many STARK-based zkEVMs has been quietly breaking for months.In July, the EF set a formal target for “real-time proving” that bundled latency, hardware, energy,…