With bitcoin off 5.5% for the month of December on a returns basis, plenty of eyes are squinting at the chart and asking what comes next. To size things up, we leaned into the wisdom of the crowd and peeked at what today’s most active prediction markets are betting on. Myriad Bettors Still Favor $100K,
Bitcoin whipsawed again after Thursday’s soft inflation report signaled a recovery, triggering over $500 million in crypto liquidations. With headline and core inflation coming in at 2.7% and 2.6%, respectively, below 3% forecasts, the crypto market outlook seemed bullish. Bitcoin even came close to revisiting $90,000, but sellers stepped up again, undoing the gains in
The final quarter of 2025 has been a crucible for digital assets. Following the largest single-day liquidation event in history, the cryptocurrency market finds itself in a state of profound psychological flux. Beneath the surface noise of price crashes and sharp volatility, a significant, and perhaps defining, structural divergence has emerged: retail sentiment is paralyzed
In a major move for on-chain real-world assets, Robinhood tokenized stocks expanded rapidly on Arbitrum with a new wave of equity contracts. Summary Robinhood pushes 500 tokenized stock contracts in 24 hours Factory-style contract system keeps costs near $0.03 Total on-chain stock tokens near 2,000 on Arbitrum Backend phase: infrastructure live, liquidity still dormant Arbitrum
Contrary to popular belief, quantum computers will not “crack” Bitcoin encryption; instead, any realistic threat would focus on exploiting digital signatures tied to exposed public keys. Quantum computers cannot decrypt Bitcoin because it stores no encrypted secrets on-chain. Ownership is enforced by digital signatures and hash-based commitments, not ciphertext. The quantum risk that matters is
Strategy CEO Michael Saylor claims that “quantum fears” could actually be uniquely bullish for Bitcoin. He reframes what is typically seen as an existential threat to Bitcoin as a catalyst for a massive upgrade and a price increase. A bullish catalyst Saylor argues that a quantum threat will not appear in a vacuum just for
Fragmentation across blockchain networks is already imposing a measurable economic cost on the tokenized asset market, with inefficiencies translating into up to $1.3 billion in annual value drag. In a report sent to Cointelegraph, real-world asset (RWA) data provider RWA.io argued that while blockchains accelerated innovation, they also created walls that trap liquidity and prevent
Japanese bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet (3350) said its American depositary receipts (ADRs) will start trading Dec. 19 on the U.S. over-the-counter (OTC) market under the ticker MPJPY. The securities are designed to improve access, transparency and operational efficiency for U.S. based investors in the fourth-largest corporate holder of bitcoin BTC$88,092.82. They will replace existing, unsponsored
The new strategic partnership between Stability World AI and Cache Wallet represents a significant step in the development of safe and AI-driven Web3 infrastructure. The partnership unites the generative AI platform of Stability World AI with the wallet technology of Cache Wallet, both interested in enhancing the level of safety, access, and ownership of digital
Stablecoins roared back into the spotlight in 2025, with on-chain transaction volumes surging to levels not seen since the heady days of 2021. “2025 marked the year of the stablecoin resurgence,” analytics shop Sentora wrote on X, pointing to on-chain volumes that reached a multi-year high of $4.511 trillion in October, a spike that, while