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Key Highlights: Bitcoin (BTC) drops below the $86,000 mark today, December 16, 2025. Gold prices rise as investors move from risky assets to traditional safe haven. BTC ETFs experienced outflows on December 15, 2025. On December 16, 2025, Bitcoin (BTC) fell sharply and was hovering around the $85,500 mark. In the past week, the token was hovering over the $90,000 mark but as the market sentiments turned negative, the token price dropped by almost 4%. At press time, the price of the token stands at $86,203.36 with a dip of 3.8% within the last 24-hours as per CoinGecko. BTC 24-hours…

Bitcoin (BTC) is down 30% from its $126,200 peak, trading just above the $85,000 support and fueling concerns of a deeper pullback toward the $70,000 region. Still, onchain data showed institutions and high-net-worth individuals are accumulating BTC.Key takeaways:Bitcoin sharks accumulated aggressively at 2012-level speeds, signaling a dip-buying trend.Heavy selling by long-term and OG whales continues to cap upside, keeping near-term downside risks elevated. BTC/USDT daily chart. Source: TradingViewMid-sized Bitcoin traders add 54,000 BTC in a week Bitcoin “sharks,” entities holding between 100 and 1,000 BTC, increased their collective holdings to about 3.575 million BTC from roughly 3.521 million BTC over…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has sharply scaled back its enforcement actions against the cryptocurrency industry since President Donald Trump returned to office. Key Takeaways: The SEC has dropped or paused nearly 60% of crypto cases since Trump took office. Enforcement pullbacks include major cases against Ripple and Binance. The agency denies political motives, calling the shift a policy reset. The agency has dismissed or paused close to 60% of crypto-related cases, according to a report published Sunday by The New York Times.While enforcement activity continues across traditional markets, cases involving crypto firms have been disproportionately affected by withdrawals,…

Felix Pinkston Dec 16, 2025 07:36 Animoca Brands Corporation Limited is set to conduct its 2025 Annual General Meeting on December 18, 2025, at 11 a.m. AEDT, offering both in-person and online participation options for shareholders. Animoca Brands Corporation Limited, a prominent figure in the digital assets and blockchain industry, has announced the date for its 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM). The meeting will take place on December 18, 2025, at 11 a.m. AEDT, according to Animoca Brands. Participation Details Shareholders have the option to attend the AGM either in person or via…

More than 5% of all emails sent worldwide contain malicious content, according to internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare. The web security giant revealed that an aggregate of 5.6% of global email traffic analyzed by the firm over the past year was found to be malicious. This equates to more than one in every twenty emails containing harmful content.In November, that figure surged to almost one in 10, nearly double the average for the year, it found. Malicious emails include those that can cause harm, such as the theft of credentials, data, or money, Cloudflare explained in its 2025 year-in-review report. The findings are particularly…

However legitimate her background in architecture and jewelry design may be, Bianca Censori is first and foremost known for her distinctive, revealing fashion choices and for being Ye’s—né Kanye West’s—wife and muse. On December 12 and 13, Censori debuted BIO POP (The Origin), the first in what will be a series of seven performance art pieces spread out over the next several years. BIO POP took place at Layer 41, an event space in Seoul, South Korea, and was attended by over 500 people. Censori’s website has a video recording of the austere, unnerving performance. The 14-minute event began with…

In brief The profit/loss margin for recent Bitcoin buyers hit -25%, a level that has marked local bottoms four times since the 2023 bull run. Long-term holders have distributed 1.78 million BTC since July, while short-term holders have accumulated a nearly identical 1.8 million BTC. This shift in cohort behavior is a normal late-cycle wealth transfer, not a structural top, which increases near-term price fragility, Decrypt was told. Bitcoin’s Monday drop to $85,800 shows both new large investors and long-term holders are driving the selloff that has pressured prices for months.Unrealized losses for entities that have accumulated more than 1,000…

Ripple Labs is expanding its US dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD to Ethereum layer-2 blockchains as part of a pilot while it awaits regulatory approval for a full rollout next year.In partnership with Wormhole, a crosschain interoperability protocol that allows assets to move between different blockchains, the pilot will test RLUSD on Optimism, Base, Ink, and Unichain, according to a statement from Ripple on Monday.Initially, RLUSD was issued on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum; however, Ripple said that the latest expansion is “essential for a scalable, efficient, and interoperable future.”“The future of crypto is undeniably multichain, and to truly serve both institutional…

Solana users could soon swap Singapore dollars (SGD) for U.S. dollars (USD) instantly online, marking the popular high speed blockchain’s first access to digital tokens tied to one of the premier Asian currencies.That’s because, crypto infrastructure firm StraitX said Tuesday, that it’s planning to launch its Singapore dollar stablecoin XSGD and U.S. dollar stablecoin XUSD on the Solana public blockchain, creating an easy to way to exchange these currencies. The early 2026 debut, targeted in collaboration with the Solana Foundation, will enable instant swaps between Singapore dollars (SGD) and U.S. dollars (USD) on Solana, per a press release. Think digital…

Bitcoin is trading near $86,000 as losses build across ETFs, treasury companies, and miners.According to Checkonchain’s Dec. 15 “System Stress” note, investors are carrying about $100 billion in unrealized losses.Bitcoin system stress (Source: Checkonchain)Miners are pulling back hashrate, many treasury-company stocks are trading below their Bitcoin book value, and about 60% of spot Bitcoin ETF inflows are underwater.Checkonchain’s chart of ETF average inflow cost basis and ETF market value to realized value (MVRV) places the ETF cost basis and the True Market Mean in the same area, around $80,000–$82,000.That puts a large share of institutional positioning near breakeven.Those anchors matter…