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The following is a guest post and opinion from Anurag Arjun, Founder of Avail.
The global stablecoin narrative is about to shift fast. What began as a US-dominated experiment in digital liquidity is morphing into a multipolar fight over who controls the rails of tomorrow’s monetary system. And the most consequential moves are unfolding in Asia—quietly, deliberately, and at increasing speed.
For a...
In 2025, crypto regulation stopped being mostly about courtroom theater and started focusing on actual infrastructure.
Debates over how or whether to regulate crypto became less philosophical and more operational. Regulators spent the year answering the “boring” questions that decide whether a market can scale: who is allowed to issue a “digital dollar,” what backs it, how fast investors can get...
Trust Wallet's Chrome extension shipped a malicious update in December, exfiltrating wallet data and draining roughly $7 million from hundreds of accounts before the company pushed a fix.
The compromised version 2.68 was live for days, auto-updating in the background, the way browser extensions are designed to. Users who followed every standard self-custody rule, such as never sharing their seed...
Bitcoin ETF headlines have turned into a scoreboard with “record inflows,” “largest outflows ever,” and “institutions dumping.” The problem is that most stories isolate a single day or a single fund.
Without context on cumulative flows, fund cohorts, and custody plumbing, they say very little about how much spot Bitcoin is actually changing hands, or what institutions are really doing.
Take the...
On a cold ‘Betwixmas' December morning, the mood around Bitcoin feels familiar and strange at the same time.
Familiar, because the story still swings between euphoria and anxiety. Strange, because the people watching the chart now include a different crowd...
Forced liquidations in the crypto derivatives market reached about $150 billion in 2025, according to CoinGlass data.
On its face, the figure looks like a year of persistent crisis. For many retail traders, watching price feeds turn red became shorthand for chaos. In practice, it captured something more mundane and structural: the notional value of futures and perpetual positions that exchanges...
Trust Wallet told users to disable its Chrome browser extension version 2.68 after the company acknowledged a security incident and pushed version 2.69 on Dec. 25, following reports of wallet drains tied to the Dec. 24 update.
According to BleepingComputer, victims and researchers began flagging thefts soon after 2.68 rolled out. Early public tallies placed losses in a $6 million to $7 million-...
Every Boxing Day, I make the same cup of tea, check the same price chart, and ask the same question: What story is Bitcoin telling this year?
Line up the December 26 close from the start of the exchange era to today, and a pattern appears. The holiday reveals the mood that carried us into the year-end.
Boxing Day as a mirror of Bitcoin’s maturity and market psychology
In the early 2010s, the...
Earlier this month, the US began intercepting and seizing tankers carrying Venezuelan crude, with a first seizure reported around Dec. 10 and a second interception by Dec. 20.
By Dec. 22, US officials said a third vessel was being pursued near Venezuelan waters.
Caracas responded with an emergency law imposing prison terms of up to 20 years for anyone who promotes or finances blockades or similar...
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
Most blockchain...