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  • Bitcoin ETF “record outflows” are deceptive as crypto products absorbed $46.7 billion in 2025
    CryptoSlate - 10:23 Dec 27, 2025
    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 […] The post Bitcoin ETF “record outflows” are deceptive as crypto products absorbed $46.7 billion in 2025 appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Bitcoin models show a 70% chance of a massive 2026 breakout, but only if this trend holds
    CryptoSlate - 21:05 Dec 26, 2025
    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. Some are still the veterans who lived through 2017 and 2021, some are newer, the […] The post Bitcoin models show a 70% chance of a massive 2026 breakout, but only if this trend holds appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • How $150 billion was liquidated from crypto market in 2025 driving Bitcoin crash
    CryptoSlate - 18:25 Dec 26, 2025
    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 […] The post How $150 billion was liquidated from crypto market in 2025 driving Bitcoin crash appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Hidden script caught harvesting private keys as Trust Wallet issues emergency warning for Chrome users
    CryptoSlate - 15:05 Dec 26, 2025
    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 […] The post Hidden script caught harvesting private keys as Trust Wallet issues emergency warning for Chrome users appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Bitcoin just missed its $95k Boxing Day record, triggering signal that demands immediate attention
    CryptoSlate - 12:05 Dec 26, 2025
    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 post Bitcoin just missed its $95k Boxing Day record, triggering signal that demands immediate attention appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Gold hits $4,400 as Venezuela blockade bites, but a quiet ownership shift is changing how winners trade
    CryptoSlate - 08:25 Dec 26, 2025
    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 […] The post Gold hits $4,400 as Venezuela blockade bites, but a quiet ownership shift is changing how winners trade appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • XRPL flips to quantum-safe signatures; 2,420-byte proofs replace elliptic curves
    CryptoSlate - 23:30 Dec 25, 2025
    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 […] The post XRPL flips to quantum-safe signatures; 2,420-byte proofs replace elliptic curves appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • The Bitcoin “hard asset” narrative is breaking as silver hits parabolic peaks without taking crypto along for the ride
    CryptoSlate - 21:15 Dec 25, 2025
    Silver left the $50 range in late November and went parabolic into year-end, registering consecutive all-time highs and hitting $72 an ounce on Dec. 24. Gold made a similar run throughout 2025, reaching $4,524.30 the same day. Bitcoin, however, traded at $87,498.12 as of press time, down roughly 8% for the year and 30% from […] The post The Bitcoin “hard asset” narrative is breaking as silver hits parabolic peaks without taking crypto along for the ride appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • The memecoin hall of shame: 10 tokens that defined 2025 wildest trades
    CryptoSlate - 19:05 Dec 25, 2025
    The year opened with a sitting president launching his own token three days before inauguration and closed with researchers proving that one of the year's “comeback stories” was controlled by a few dozen wallets. Between those bookends, 2025 turned memecoins from niche absurdity into crypto's most visible, and most embarrassing, corner. A sovereign leader rugpulled […] The post The memecoin hall of shame: 10 tokens that defined 2025 wildest trades appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Crypto sentiment is trapped in extreme fear because the industry’s biggest structural wins are failing to move prices
    CryptoSlate - 15:30 Dec 25, 2025
    Crypto sentiment gauges have spent the past two months deep in the red. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has spent more than 30% of 2025 in fear or extreme fear territory, and alternative trackers put the market in a 10-25 range out of 100 since mid-November. Bitcoin is on track for its worst fourth […] The post Crypto sentiment is trapped in extreme fear because the industry’s biggest structural wins are failing to move prices appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • 10 stories that rewired digital finance in 2025 – the year crypto became infrastructure
    CryptoSlate - 13:00 Dec 25, 2025
    This year opened with Bitcoin (BTC) proponents expecting a clean rally, driven by halving narratives, spot ETF momentum, and a Fed pivot all stacked neatly in their favor. Instead, the year closed with BTC stuck 30% below its October peak, North Korean hackers walking away with $2 billion, and the US government quietly building a […] The post 10 stories that rewired digital finance in 2025 – the year crypto became infrastructure appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Bitcoin’s 2025 review: The “violent transformation” hidden behind the year’s deceptively flat price chart
    CryptoSlate - 10:00 Dec 25, 2025
    2025 delivered a brutal lesson in market structure for Bitcoin. The year began with political momentum and drifted into a summer of aggressive policy signals. Yet, it snapped into one of the sharpest boom-to-bust sequences in the asset’s history. By December, the price had round-tripped, leaving the asset flat for the year. But the flat […] The post Bitcoin’s 2025 review: The “violent transformation” hidden behind the year’s deceptively flat price chart appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • The top 12 crypto winners of 2025: who got it right this year?
    CryptoSlate - 19:05 Dec 24, 2025
    If 2024 was the year of the crypto reawakening, 2025 was the year the plumbing finally got permitted. This year, the emerging industry entered January with tentative optimism and exited December with federal statutes. As a result, the narrative shifted definitively from “crypto as a casino” to “crypto as capital markets infrastructure.” During this period, […] The post The top 12 crypto winners of 2025: who got it right this year? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Bitcoiners waiting for a “Bukele moment” in Chile are ignoring a $229 billion signal that matters more
    CryptoSlate - 16:05 Dec 24, 2025
    Chile has made a hard pivot. In a decisive Dec. 14 runoff, José Antonio Kast, a conservative former congressman and leader of the Republican Party, won the presidency with roughly 58% of the vote over leftist Jeannette Jara. It marks Chile’s starkest rightward shift since the return to democracy. Markets took it as a deregulatory […] The post Bitcoiners waiting for a “Bukele moment” in Chile are ignoring a $229 billion signal that matters more appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Metaplanet stopped buying Bitcoin for months, concealing a ruthless arbitrage strategy that puts retail to shame
    CryptoSlate - 13:05 Dec 24, 2025
    Over the past quarter, the most notable market signal from Japan-based Metaplanet was not a single Bitcoin purchase, but a pause. The Tokyo-listed firm, which spent much of 2025 aggressively acquiring Bitcoin, has not issued a “Notice of Additional Purchase” since Oct. 1. While retail observers feared a loss of conviction, the silence masked a […] The post Metaplanet stopped buying Bitcoin for months, concealing a ruthless arbitrage strategy that puts retail to shame appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Crypto insiders stopped buying new tokens 2 years ago, creating a liquidity trap that’s crushing retail buyers
    CryptoSlate - 10:50 Dec 24, 2025
    More than 80% of the tokens launched this year are trading underwater, marking a definitive shift in the market's appetite for venture-backed cryptocurrency projects. Data from Memento Research showed that it tracked 118 major token generation events in 2025 and found that 100 of them, or 84.7%, are trading below their opening fully diluted valuations. […] The post Crypto insiders stopped buying new tokens 2 years ago, creating a liquidity trap that’s crushing retail buyers appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Crypto traders say “something broke” after in October, the data says the market really did change
    CryptoSlate - 21:45 Dec 23, 2025
    Two months after Trump’s tariff headline detonated a historic liquidation cascade, Bitcoin is still stuck in a different kind of market, one with less leverage, thinner liquidity, and a weaker bid from ETFs Bitcoin is sitting in the mid $80,000s again, and the vibe feels nothing like early October, when everyone was still talking like […] The post Crypto traders say “something broke” after in October, the data says the market really did change appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Fact check: Bitcoin never really hit $100,000 in 2025 when you apply real world data
    CryptoSlate - 19:25 Dec 23, 2025
    On the day Bitcoin finally punched through $100,000, a lot of people did the same thing. They screenshotted it. They sent it to group chats, posted it with rocket emojis, and pulled up old tweets from 2021 to dust off the victory laps they had been saving for years. It felt like closure, like the […] The post Fact check: Bitcoin never really hit $100,000 in 2025 when you apply real world data appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • Aave prices are crashing as insiders warn a “hostile” holiday vote could destroy the protocol’s dominance
    CryptoSlate - 17:05 Dec 23, 2025
    The battle for control of Aave, the $52 billion decentralized lending giant, has escalated from a debate over interface economics into an open civil war regarding governance legitimacy. What began as a dispute over $10 million in annualized swap fees and brand ownership has, in the last 24 hours, mutated into a bitter procedural fight […] The post Aave prices are crashing as insiders warn a “hostile” holiday vote could destroy the protocol’s dominance appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Ethereum is vanishing from exchanges, and the massive wallets absorbing it prove you aren’t the target audience anymore
    CryptoSlate - 15:05 Dec 23, 2025
    Ethereum (ETH) broke its 2021 all-time high in August, brushing $4,945 and a $600 billion market cap, while exchange balances hit record lows. Corporate treasuries and spot ETFs now control nearly 11% of the circulating supply. By every structural metric, ETH should feel like it's having a moment. It doesn't. No Bored Apes are selling […] The post Ethereum is vanishing from exchanges, and the massive wallets absorbing it prove you aren’t the target audience anymore appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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