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In brief NFT marketplaces OpenSea and Magic Eden have both added fungible token trading to their platforms this year. A market researcher says this is likely due to NFT activity cooling down, and that the moves have helped the platforms stabilize. Magic Eden said token trading isn’t a major focus, and that it’s gunning to expand into what it calls “crypto entertainment.” NFT mania is a distant memory in 2025. It was an era—back in 2021 and early 2022—when Beeple sold a jpeg for $69.3 million, CryptoPunks were going for tens of millions, and celebrities kept aping into the Bored…

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$87,480.67 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…

Wintermute said it will vote against Aave’s token alignment proposal, citing unclear governance, weak value capture, and escalating political infighting. Wintermute founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy said the trading firm will vote against Aave’s token alignment proposal, adding to the growing opposition within the Aave DAO as the vote nears its conclusion. In a detailed thread on X, Gaevoy said Wintermute disagrees with the proposal “as it stands,” while arguing that it asks tokenholders to commit to a major course of action without sufficient clarity on structure, governance, or outcomes. He disclosed that Wintermute has been an investor in AAVE…

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…

Since its inception in mid-2024, the Decentralized Voices (DV) program’s goal has been to ensure that Polkadot and Kusama governance amplifies the voices of not just the token holders but also the people who actually show up, think through the hard questions, and are willing to be held accountable.Over time, DV evolved past being a simple delegation program and went through multiple phases of experimentation, iteration, guardrails, and a real cultural shift toward more explicit reasoning and better norms that were challenging yet authentic. People voted. They disagreed. They challenged each other’s reasoning. Sometimes it was awkward. Sometimes it was…

Ethereum is unlikely to hit new highs in the coming year, given the current conditions for Bitcoin, says crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen.“If Bitcoin truly is truly in a bear market, which is what it feels like, it would be kind of hard for Ethereum to go up there,” Cowen said on the Bankless podcast on Tuesday. It comes after veteran trader Peter Brandt predicted on Dec. 19 that Bitcoin could fall as low as $60,000 by the third quarter of 2026.However, Cowen said that if Ether (ETH) does manage to reclaim its $4,878 all-time high, which it last reached in August,…

By checking the past five years of bitcoin BTC$88,690.92 CME futures trading data, it is possible to assess where that crypto has historically spent time consolidating and, by extension, where support has been more or less established. One useful way to frame this is by examining the number of trading days bitcoin has spent within specific price bands. The more time price has spent in a given range, the more opportunity there has been for positions to be built, which can later translate into stronger support.Data from Investing.com shows clear disparities across price ranges. Excluding the very brief time bitcoin…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure XRP’s price has spent recent weeks moving without a clear directional breakout. The price action has been mostly bearish, but activity beneath the surface is telling a more interesting story.  On-chain data shows XRP leaving Binance at a rapid pace, pushing the exchange’s reserves down to around 2.66 billion XRP, the lowest level recorded this year. This movement has garnered the interest of market participants because it is not reflective of the current price action of XRP. Insights from market commentator Stellar Rippler on X help explain…

Crypto analyst Steph has pointed to an “interesting” chart, which has previously led to an XRP price rally. This came as the analyst also suggested that the altcoin may be forming a bottom in preparation for the next leg to the upside.  Analyst Shares Why This Chart Is Interesting For The XRP Price In an X post, Steph highlighted the 3-week XRP price chart, stating that it was “interesting” for one reason. He revealed that the Stochastic Relative Strength Index (RSI) has dropped to 0.00 on the 3-week timeframe, which is extremely rare and has only happened once before, which…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The Ethereum price edged up a fraction of a percentage in the past 24 hours to trade at $2,940.22 as of 12:56 a.m. EST, with trading volume dropping 43% to $12.5 billion. This ETH is under intense selling pressure after BlackRock deposited around 2,292 BTC ($199.8 million) and 9,976 ETH ($29.23 million) to Coinbase Prime, according to Arkham data quoted by Lookonchain. BlackRock just deposited 2,292 $BTC($199.8M) and 9,976 $ETH($29.23M) to Coinbase Prime.https://t.co/qmuDIrPHc6 pic.twitter.com/Fc578xdurz — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) December 24, 2025 The move has sparked bearish pressure, as…