Bitcoin briefly surged to $92,000 on Dec. 8 before slipping back to $90,000, despite Michael Saylor’s firm, Strategy, announcing the purchase of 10,624 bitcoins. Analysts and influencers remain divided: some point to market manipulation, while others argue the crypto economy is entering a bear phase.

Investigators from more than 10 African countries—including Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda—recently completed a week-long course in Kenya on cryptocurrency crime investigations.

Bitcoin and ethereum delivered sharp weekend reversals as thinning year-end liquidity amplified price moves across the crypto market. With positioning light and institutions quietly accumulating, traders now look to this week’s Fed meeting for direction.

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The Canada Revenue Agency has recovered over $72 million in unpaid taxes from cryptocurrency audits in the past three years. However, the agency has reportedly not laid any criminal charges since 2020.

Robinhood moves to expand its global footprint with plans to enter Indonesia’s fast-growing trading market, signaling a major push to bring its equities and crypto platform to millions of new investors.

Dubai’s new pact with Binance signals a bold push to embed blockchain and crypto payments into customs operations, positioning the emirate for faster trade flows, lower costs and a more competitive digital-economy footprint.

Coinbase’s renewed push into India marks a decisive step for its global expansion, reviving user onboarding and signaling confidence in a market still shaped by strict tax rules and evolving regulatory expectations.

Bernstein’s latest outlook signals bitcoin entering a longer, institution-led bull phase, with resilient ETF flows and expanding corporate adoption pointing to powerful structural momentum that could reshape crypto’s trajectory.

XRP’s rapid ascent in the U.S. investment market gained fresh momentum as its spot ETFs crossed a major asset milestone, underscoring soaring demand for regulated crypto access and expanding traditional investor reach, according to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.

Binance won full authorization under Abu Dhabi Global Market’s framework, advancing its global legitimacy and opening broader regulated access as the exchange positions itself to shape a safer, more structured digital-asset landscape.

Analysts warn that the so-called reparation loans proposal revealed by the EU on Wednesday, which would transfer part of the over $200 billion in Russian assets frozen to support the Ukrainian war effort, might fundamentally alter the global economic landscape.

The first week of December wrapped and BTC closed out the day at $90,349 per coin on Bitstamp, leaving it 28.45% shy of its all-time peak above the $126,000 zone. With three weeks still on the clock this year, we posed a curious question to a lineup of today’s most capable artificial intelligence (AI) models: What do they think bitcoin’s price will be when Dec. 31, 2025, finally rolls around?

Yield trading platform, Spectra, has introduced yield tokenization that splits interest‑bearing tokens into principal tokens and yield tokens. Principal tokens guarantee fixed returns at maturity, while yield tokens allow speculation or hedging on future yield rates.

Recent data shows the Coinbase Premium Index has finally clawed its way out of a long streak of discounts since the end of October, and it’s now lounging comfortably in positive territory. Meanwhile, bitcoin prices in South Korea are still riding high, holding their own in premium territory too.