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The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is ending the year with major technological developments after a year that saw it gain significant adoption and milestones.
On Dec. 24, Denis Angell, a lead software engineer at XRPL Labs, announced the integration of “post-quantum” cryptography and native smart contracts into AlphaNet, the project’s public developer network.
The ‘Q-Day' inevitability
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Silver left the $50 range in late November and went parabolic into year-end, registering consecutive all-time highs and hitting $72 an ounce on Dec. 24. Gold made a similar run throughout 2025, reaching $4,524.30 the same day.
Bitcoin, however, traded at $87,498.12 as of press time, down roughly 8% for the year and 30% from its October peak of $126,000.
For anyone who spent 2024 calling Bitcoin “...
The year opened with a sitting president launching his own token three days before inauguration and closed with researchers proving that one of the year's “comeback stories” was controlled by a few dozen wallets.
Between those bookends, 2025 turned memecoins from niche absurdity into crypto's most visible, and most embarrassing, corner. A sovereign leader rugpulled his citizens on Valentine's Day...
Crypto sentiment gauges have spent the past two months deep in the red. The Crypto Fear...
This year opened with Bitcoin (BTC) proponents expecting a clean rally, driven by halving narratives, spot ETF momentum, and a Fed pivot all stacked neatly in their favor.
Instead, the year closed with BTC stuck 30% below its October peak, North Korean hackers walking away with $2 billion, and the US government quietly building a digital Fort Knox out of seized coins.
Between those bookends,...
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...
If 2024 was the year of the crypto reawakening, 2025 was the year the plumbing finally got permitted.
This year, the emerging industry entered January with tentative optimism and exited December with federal statutes.
As a result, the narrative shifted definitively from “crypto as a casino” to “crypto as capital markets infrastructure.”
During this period, volumes moved on-chain, policy moved...
Chile has made a hard pivot. In a decisive Dec. 14 runoff, José Antonio Kast, a conservative former congressman and leader of the Republican Party, won the presidency with roughly 58% of the vote over leftist Jeannette Jara.
It marks Chile’s starkest rightward shift since the return to democracy. Markets took it as a deregulatory signal: the peso and equities firmed on expectations of looser...
Over the past quarter, the most notable market signal from Japan-based Metaplanet was not a single Bitcoin purchase, but a pause.
The Tokyo-listed firm, which spent much of 2025 aggressively acquiring Bitcoin, has not issued a “Notice of Additional Purchase” since Oct. 1.
Metaplanet's Last Bitcoin Purchase. (Source: Metaplanet)
While retail observers feared a loss of conviction, the silence...
More than 80% of the tokens launched this year are trading underwater, marking a definitive shift in the market's appetite for venture-backed cryptocurrency projects.
Data from Memento Research showed that it tracked 118 major token generation events in 2025 and found that 100 of them, or 84.7%, are trading below their opening fully diluted valuations. At the same time, the median token in that...