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The year 2025 has emerged as a year of consolidation, with major layer-1 networks laying the groundwork for the tooling and technology that will lead to better interoperability, as well as pushing forward with real-world financial use cases.For Ethereum, that meant a surge in institutional adoption and steady progress on scaling, while builders increasingly looked toward interoperability as the key challenge heading into 2026. For Solana, the focus was on stress-testing the network under real demand and hardening its infrastructure, setting the stage for deeper financial use cases in the year ahead. Together, the two networks offer a glimpse into…

December’s losses were spread across 26 incidents, showing fewer large-scale breaches rather than a total absence of attacks. Blockchain security firm Peckshield has shared that December 2025 closed with a surprising decrease in crypto exploit losses. On-chain data shows the figures fell by 60% compared with those recorded in November. $76 Million Lost Across 26 Incidents According to the Peckshield report revealed via X, hacks and cybersecurity exploits in the crypto sector dropped in December 2025, with only $76.2 million stolen across 26 major incidents. This figure represents a 60% decrease from November’s $194.2 million. The largest single hack during…

Fedi will release its full software stack as open source on Jan. 3, completing a pledge made at launch in 2024. The company said all Fedi software has now transitioned to the Affero General Public License (AGPL), following an interim period under a business source license.  The change makes Fedi’s codebase publicly available under a copyleft license that requires derivative works to remain open, according to a spokesperson from Fedi.  The date carries weight in Bitcoin history. Jan. 3 marks the anniversary of the Bitcoin genesis block, mined in 2009. Fedi said the timing reflects its focus on community ownership…

Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov has outlined a broader strategic vision for the protocol following a contentious governance vote that rejected a proposal to transfer control of Aave’s brand assets and intellectual property to its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).The failed vote has prompted renewed debate within the Aave community over the protocol’s long-term direction and governance structure, an issue Kulechov addressed directly.In a post published Friday on the Aave governance forum, Kulechov argued that the protocol must evolve beyond its core decentralized finance (DeFi) lending business to pursue opportunities in real-world assets (RWAs), institutional lending and consumer-facing financial products. He…

Bitcoin traded in the $80,000s on Dec. 31 just as U.S. inflation cooled and investors priced Federal Reserve rate cuts.The lack of follow-through has left traders leaning less on macro headlines and more on a mix of real yields, money-market plumbing, and spot ETF flows. That shift is keeping price action pinned to defined levels even when “cuts are coming” dominates the narrative.Macro without the Boom: Why “Good News” isn’t moving BitcoinThe latest inflation data reinforced that narrative on paper.Headline CPI rose 2.7% from a year earlier in November, and core CPI rose 2.6%.But the print also arrived with a…

The whole world is saying goodbye to 2025 and welcoming another year with hopes of starting a new chapter. As the CEO of 101 Blockchains, I, Aviv Lichtigstein, extend my best wishes to you for the New Year. Our primary goal here at 101 Blockchains has always been to create the best blockchain and web3 training and make it accessible to everyone. I would like to begin this year’s 101 Blockchains CEO Message with a note of gratitude to you, our beloved community. You have showered us with love and put your trust in our learning resources; that has made…

The story of cryptocurrency’s rise to mainstream popularity is one of the most bizarre in history. Created by an anonymous, shadowy figure named Satoshi Nakamoto—who’s now among the richest people in the world—the technology is now a darling of finance bros, altruistic lefties, white supremacists, Balkan political dissidents, West African entrepreneurs, and Redditors convinced that Satoshi was in fact an alien.So it’s hardly surprising that 2025 began with U.S. President Donald Trump launching a meme coin just days before his inauguration. And it only got weirder from there, from college kids betting on whose sperm was the fastest to betting…

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, or CLARITY Act, is moving along the right pathway, despite the crypto industry’s growing impatience, according to a Coinbase executive.“I completely understand why this is taking longer,” Coinbase Institutional head of strategy John D’Agostino said during an interview on CNBC on Friday.“It’s the kind of bill that is quite frankly more foundational for the growth of crypto or any real asset class,” he said, emphasizing that it makes sense for the process to take some time. Source: Cynthia LummisHe said that the CLARITY Act is a lot more complex than the Genius Act, the…

A cryptocurrency analyst has pointed out how Dogecoin could be on track for $0.08 based on this breakout from a consolidation channel. Dogecoin Has Fallen Under An Ascending Channel In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has talked about where Dogecoin could be heading based on a technical analysis (TA) pattern. The pattern in question is an “Ascending Channel,” which is a type of Parallel Channel. Parallel Channels appear whenever an asset’s price observes consolidation between two parallel trendlines. When these lines have a positive slope, the pattern is known as an Ascending Channel. This channel corresponds to…

The recent federal class action lawsuit against DeFi Technologies Inc. has raised alarms in the crypto industry, according to Jason Bishara, a governance expert at NSI Insurance Group. Investors accuse the company of misleading them about the profitability of its proprietary DeFi Alpha arbitrage trading strategy. With the market reacting swiftly—sending stock prices tumbling—the question now is whether this legal challenge is just the tip of the iceberg. Bishara weighs in on the potential for more lawsuits targeting digital asset companies over undisclosed risks. Summary As DeFi Technologies faces a securities class action lawsuit for allegedly misrepresenting the financial health…