The 2025 market snapshot reveals a contrast across global financial markets. Crypto markets lost momentum and erased massive value. Meanwhile, U.S. equities surged and delivered historic wealth creation. Investors clearly shifted capital with conviction and urgency. Total crypto market capitalization dropped by $325 billion during the year. This decline rattled sentiment across digital asset communities.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is entering uncharted waters. As the legendary “Oracle of Omaha” steps down at the age of 95, the conglomerate now holds a record $382 billion in cash. According to Barchart, this is enough to acquire nearly 480 S&P 500 companies. The massive cash hoard, combined with 12 consecutive quarters of net
Economist Peter Schiff has renewed his criticism of Bitcoin-linked corporate strategies. This time, his focus is Strategy, the software firm best known for its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation under executive chairman Michael Saylor. Strategy isn’t in the S&P 500. But if it were, its 47.5% decline in 2025 would make it the 6th worst-performing stock in
US investors poured over $31.77 billion into US crypto exchange-traded funds in 2025 despite the crypto markets stumbling towards the final months of the year. US spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs took the lion’s share of investor interest, accumulating $21.4 billion in net inflows in 2025, according to Farside Investors data. However, it marks a fall
Investment banking company Keefe, Bruyette & Woods has turned more bullish on Bitcoin miner TeraWulf, citing what it sees as a looming shift in the company’s business mix that investors have yet to fully price in. In a Wednesday report, KBW said it upgraded TeraWulf (WULF) to “outperform” from “market perform” and raised the company’s
Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor and other prominent cryptocurrency executives lost billions of dollars in 2025, partially as a result of losses in an October flash crash. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index released on Wednesday, Saylor lost $2.6 billion over the previous 12 months, reducing his net worth to $3.8 billion. Gemini co-founders Cameron
In 2025, the market sent a clear message: it wants the power, the chips, and the anonymity. Here is the breakdown of the winners and losers from a year that defied correlation. The winners AI demand swallowed global energy capacity, and some crypto miners and infrastructure firms that successfully pivoted to High-Performance Computing (HPC) or
TOFU Story, the Web3-based LINE-integrated Mini Dapp, dedicated to Web3 gaming and rewards, has declared a novel strategic alliance with ENI, an ultra-fast blockchain network designed for large-scale commercial businesses. The partnership is also a milestone to TOFU Story since it seeks to consolidate its blockchain foundation and open up new opportunities to Web3 games
China has once again captured global financial attention with a decisive digital currency policy shift. Following the People’s Bank of China’s announcement that digital yuan wallets may accrue interest, investor sentiment changed rapidly. Capital flowed into companies aligned with the digital yuan ecosystem within days. According to Securities Times, investors poured over $188 million into
Hive Intelligence and ARC have declared a new partnership which seeks to progress AI orchestration of on-chain intelligence and real time blockchain data. The collaboration unites ARC’s attention to safe AI agent coordination with the real-time blockchain data infrastructure offered by Hive Intelligence, which creates a viable interface between artificial intelligence systems and live activity