Author: admin

Pi Coin has reached a critical inflection point. Following a sustained period of depreciation and sideways movement, the token is now attempting to establish a floor near its historical lows. Although immediate momentum remains stagnant, the next few weeks will be vital in determining if this stabilization marks a long-term bottom or merely a brief pause in a larger corrective trend.PI Technical AnalysisPI is currently moving sideways near the $0.1920 zone, which marks the lower boundary of its recent price structure. This area has acted as a short-term floor, but buying pressure remains limited. Volume is thin, and price action…

Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), the machines used to mine proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies, has reportedly slashed prices on several generations of mining hardware amid sector-wide turmoil for the mining industry.The company is offering bundle deals and discounts across the board, including on its S19 and S21 series machines that would have been considered “distressed sales” earlier in 2025 when Bitcoin (BTC) was rising in price, according to TheMinerMag.Even newer, flagship mining hardware like the S21 immersion-cooled ASICs were offered at discounts of $7 per terahash-second (TH/s), and some hardware bundles were auctioned off to mining operators…

Few topics divide the crypto industry more than politics. Donald Trump is often referred to as “America’s first crypto president,” while the Biden administration earned a reputation for being hostile toward the sector. But when rhetoric is stripped away and replaced with market data, the picture becomes more nuanced. The key question is not which administration spoke more favorably about crypto, but under whose leadership Bitcoin ultimately performed better.Bitcoin Performance: The Numbers Tell a Clear Story In the 2024 United States presidential election, Trump positioned himself as a pro-crypto candidate, vowing to make the US the “crypto capital of the world.” He…

Ethereum’s total value locked (TVL) may surge ten-fold in 2026 as adoption expands across multiple use cases and institutional investors, according to Sharplink’s co-CEO Joseph Chalom.Sharplink Gaming is the second-largest public Ethereum treasury company, holding 797,704 ETH (ETH), worth roughly $2.33 billion at the time of publication, according to Ethereum Treasuries data. “The stablecoin market will hit $500B by the end of next year,” Chalom predicted in an X post on Friday, as the total stablecoin market capitalization currently sits at around $308.46 billion. A move to $500 billion would represent an increase of about 62%. Source: Joseph ChalomWith over half…

In what’s become all too familiar action at the start of the U.S. trading day, the crypto sector quickly more than gave up even the tiniest hint of an overnight rally.Nudging above $89,000 at one point as the U.S. slept on Friday, bitcoin BTC$87,365.22 quickly tumbled back below $87,000 as American stocks opened for trade following the Christmas holiday.Again all too familiar for crypto bulls, the poor price action occurred as metals continued to soar, with gold, silver, copper and platinum all posting new record highs on Friday.Already attracting capital that might otherwise go to bitcoin as part of the…

The fallout from one of crypto’s most high-profile security breaches has gone international. Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said a former customer service agent was arrested in India, months after hackers bribed support staff to gain access to sensitive customer information at the largest U.S.-based crypto exchange. Summary Coinbase confirmed the arrest in India of a former customer service agent tied to a major breach in which hackers bribed support staff to access sensitive customer data and demanded a $20 million ransom. The breach, disclosed in May, could cost Coinbase up to $400 million to remediate and has been…

APIA, Samoa, Dec. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Phemex, a user-first crypto exchange, has announced a major upgrade to its Retail Price Improvement (RPI) order system. By deepening strategic ties with top-tier institutional liquidity partners, the enhanced RPI ecosystem now delivers market-leading depth that significantly outperforms industry benchmarks. Latest data from a comprehensive market audit conducted in late 2025 reveals that the RPI upgrade has triggered a massive surge in liquidity across Phemex’s core assets. Based on internal comparative research of public order book depth (±0.1% from mid-price) relative to top-tier exchange averages: BTCUSDT: Liquidity depth is now 2x the standard industry…

In just a year, tokenized real-world assets have gone from an idea to billions in on-chain liquidity, shaking up traditional finance.In 2025, real-world assets (RWAs) tokenized on a blockchain moved from being a mere concept to something institutions and corporations actively adopted, anticipating the next big thing to emerge in the space.In early 2025, on-chain tokenized RWAs totaled around $5.5 billion, but quickly tripled to roughly $18.6 billion over the course of the year, according to RWA.xyz data. Analysts now project the market could reach about $2 trillion by 2030.“In a bullish scenario, this value could double to around $4…

In brief The stablecoin supply jumped $100 billion to a total of $314 billion in 2025. Tether leads in transaction activity, followed by Ripple’s RLUSD and Circle’s USDC. The Trump-backed USD1 reached the top 5 just months after April launch. This was a defining year for stablecoins, with the signing of the GENIUS Act, a high-flying IPO for Circle, and a handful of tokens outpacing the rest.Since the start of January, the overall U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin supply has increased by more than $100 billion, to $314 billion total. But that doesn’t mean all boats have risen at the same rate.To…

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’ inevitabilityMost blockchain networks, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, secure user funds using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).This math works because current computers find it impossibly difficult to reverse the calculation and derive a private key from a public one. However, this security model relies on the limitations of classical physics.Quantum…