Investors seeking both safety and growth appear to have reached an unexpected consensus in 2025, that of bitcoin BTC$87,528.48 failing to capture either trade. This sentiment is evident in a year-to-date comparison of major, widely tracked assets, including stocks, gold, the 10-year Treasury note, bitcoin, industrial metals such as copper, and the dollar index. Gold,
Key Takeaways Bitcoin’s hash rate dropped 4%, the largest decline since April 2024. Historical data analyzed by VanEck shows price gains often follow hash rate drops. Bitcoin’s network hash rate dropped 4% over the last month, the steepest decline since April 2024. VanEck notes that negative hash rate growth has historically led to strong BTC
Bitcoin’s push back toward near the $90,000 mark is giving the crypto market a short-term lift, but few analysts see it as a meaningful turning point after one of the weakest second halves in recent years. Major tokens remained range-bound in the past 24 hours, with xrp, ether, Solana’s SOL, Cardano’s ada and DOGE$0.1316 rising
Neo co-founder Erik Zhang has detailed a set of protocol-level updates spanning Neo N3 and the upcoming Neo 4, focused on transaction fee control and native token infrastructure. Contract fee whitelist Neo core developers have completed development of a Contract Fee Whitelist for Neo N3, with the feature now entering testing and porting to Neo
Jiuzi Holdings is deepening its digital assets presence, announcing a partnership with Exsat Network, a core organization within the EOS crypto ecosystem, to build a global cryptocurrency custody business that could scale to $3 billion. Summary Jiuzi partnered with Exsat, part of the EOS ecosystem, to build a global cryptocurrency custody business that could scale
Vital Block Security has entered into a strategic alliance with PopChain Network, this strategic move will represent a huge transformation in the new face of Web3 security. As part of this partnership, Vital Block will work together with PopChain to develop advanced security protocols for a next generation blockchain aimed at users of ConnectFi. In
The Council of the European Union (EU) the European Central Bank’s (ECB) digital euro design, A Friday document outlined the council’s position on the digital euro, including alignment with the ECB on launching online and offline variants simultaneously ECB President Christine Lagarde that t rest with EU lawmakers “It’s now for the European Council and
While the MSCI is proposing excluding digital asset treasury companies with over 50% crypto holdings from its indexes, Fold Holdings has made sort of an uphill climb by announcing that it will be included in the Russell 2000 Index. Fold Holdings, a Bitcoin financial services firm, has announced that it will be included in the
It is reported that US President Donald Trump may make the appointment of the new FED Chairman, which global markets are eagerly awaiting, in the first week of January 2026. While the decision-making process is said to have entered its “final stage,” critical names are emerging on the candidate list. The meticulous search for the
Taiko, a permissionless, decentralized Ethereum-equivalent-based rollup designed to scale Ethereum, has announced its collaboration with Avalon Labs, a leading on-chain Bitcoin-focused capital markets platform and the issuer of USDa, the Bitcoin-collateralized. The main purpose of this strategic partnership is to enable institutions to deploy compliant, real-world assets (RWA) with Ethereum-level security. Excited to announce our