Meme coins entered 2025 riding political buzz and platform-fueled enthusiasm, but they are closing the year sharply smaller, bruised by oversupply, fading attention, and relentless volatility.

Just like yesterday, bitcoin’s price has floated in a tight band between $87,831 and $88,067 in the last hour, revealing a market hesitant to make its next move. With a market cap of $1.75 trillion and a moderate 24-hour trading volume of $35.50 billion, bitcoin may be range-bound for now, but the undercurrents are far from still. Price action over the last 24 hours has etched out an intraday range of $86,855 to $88,037, indicating a market caught in a quiet tug-of-war.

Hundreds of Australians have suffered major losses after a Federal Court ordered the liquidation of NGS Crypto and associated companies for operating without a license. More than 450 investors poured $40.2 million into the scheme, but liquidators have found only $4.6 million in cryptocurrency so far.

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Nationwide demonstrations erupt in Iran as the country’s currency collapses to a record low, with the Central Bank governor resigning and inflation reaching critical levels.

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2025 marked a turning point in crypto security with the $1.5 billion Bybit hack, the largest DeFi breach ever, executed by North Korea’s Lazarus Group. Chainalysis data shows rising risks for individual wallets, while exchanges experiment with controversial protocol‑level freezes. Analysts argue the future of crypto security hinges on balancing rapid‑response coordination, transparency, and decentralized governance.

Bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ended the holiday-shortened week under pressure, while XRP and solana funds quietly extended their positive momentum.

Ether faces mounting downside pressure as prolonged underperformance, shifting macro conditions, and cross-asset comparisons raise the risk of a deeper slide, with Bloomberg Intelligence warning the market may be closer to testing lower levels than reclaiming prior highs.

As part of its plan to accelerate the “construction of a financial power” and develop the digital yuan, the Central Bank of China has announced that it will allow commercial banks to pay interest on digital yuan deposits.

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) navigated historic inflows, brutal drawdowns, and sharp rotations in 2025. The year revealed both the maturity of the market and the growing sophistication of ETF investors heading into 2026.

Bitcoin has spent the last day drifting inside a tight intraday band between $87,418 and $90,307, a price range that looks calm on the surface but masks increasingly complex positioning across futures and options markets. Beneath that consolidation, derivatives data show traders actively shaping expectations for the opening weeks of 2026.

Strategy, the largest bitcoin digital asset treasury (DAT), has announced a new purchase of BTC just before the end of the year. Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy, disclosed the acquisition of 1,229 BTC for $108.8 million, as bitcoin heads into a negative year.

Bitcoin briefly surged past $90K on Dec. 29, briefly lifting its market cap above $1.8 trillion before retreating, exposing weak liquidity and reinforcing a bearish structure. While selling pressure has cooled, buyers remain hesitant, though rising funding rates and $1 billion in open interest show retail traders are betting on a January recovery.

Tokenized real-world assets spent 2025 shedding their “pilot project” label and stepping firmly into the financial mainstream, with treasuries, credit, commodities, and equities all finding real traction onchain.