Crypto markets struggled throughout December, but a small group of institutional investors managed to close the year in the black. New on-chain data from analytics platform Nansen shows that while prices remained under pressure, several major crypto funds generated millions in realized gains, only to pivot toward aggressive selling as the month progressed. Elite Funds
Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, is considering crypto-backed loan products that would allow loans in rubles using digital assets as collateral. Sberbank Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov stated that the bank is ready to cooperate with regulatory bodies in this area and that contacts are ongoing to create the necessary infrastructure. Popov noted that with the increasing
The Fed made three interest rate cuts in 2025, bringing the total rate reduction to 75 basis points. With these decisions, the Fed, which cut rates by 25 basis points in September, October, and December, maintained the expectation of a single rate cut for 2026 in investor projections. However, predictions for 2026 vary. Some economists
Japan’s second largest city, Osaka, has begun testing autonomous AI agents in local government in an attempt to ease the country’s shrinking work force. Osaka Prefecture has launched a public-private consortium that will experiment with AI Agents designed to provide clerical support and multilingual services. The prefecture will pool expertise from a consortium, which includes
Martin Yeza, deputy of the new Congress, stated that stablecoins might fulfill a new pivotal role in the country’s payment structure. He considers that allowing the central bank to hold cryptocurrency and state companies to mine crypto would be positive. Local analysts also supported a so-called economic “tetherization.” Argentina’s New Congress Might Give Crypto A
Gold-backed stablecoins have surged to about $4b in 2025, led by two tokens holding nearly 90% of supply as rising gold prices and a major issuer’s vault push tokenized bullion into the spotlight. Summary Catenaa News data shows gold-backed stablecoins near $4b in market cap, almost tripling since early 2025 as one token expands supply
Exodus will launch a fully reserved, MoonPay-issued digital dollar in early 2026 using M0, powering Exodus Pay and a broader wallet–card payments stack under recent acquisitions. Summary Exodus is partnering with MoonPay and M0 on a fully reserved USD-backed stablecoin designed to power its ecosystem and upcoming Exodus Pay feature. The stablecoin underpins Exodus’ $175m
Data suggests neobanks will expand from roughly $149b in 2024 to $4.4t by 2034 as more services run fully on-chain, replacing slow cross-border systems with software rails. Summary Market projections show neobanking scaling past $1t by 2029 and to $4.4t by 2034, with growth driven by digital, mobile-first and on-chain banking models. On-chain neobanks run
According to analysts, if the Fed keeps interest rates unchanged in the first quarter of 2026, Bitcoin could face a sharp correction. BTSE COO Jeff Mei predicts that in this scenario, Bitcoin could fall to $70,000 and Ethereum to $2,400. According to Mei, although the FED has ended its quantitative tightening (QT) process as of
Argentina has delivered one of the most unexpected economic turnarounds in recent Western history. The country slashed its poverty rate from 52.9 percent to 27.5 percent in less than a year, following sweeping libertarian reforms under President Javier Milei. These changes disrupted decades of interventionist policy and forced a rapid adjustment across households, businesses, and