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Another day, another round of “is crypto back or is it broken?” As 2026 gets underway, the market feels a bit like it’s standing in a doorway: one foot in a bruising 2025, the other edging toward what could be a very different future. Let’s start with the big mood swing: the 2026 crypto outlook. On one side, you have the bears. Crypto badly lagged stocks in 2025. Bitcoin (BTC) just logged its first annual loss since 2022, despite hitting as high as $126,000 during the year. Momentum faded, macro headwinds hit hard, and the classic “number go up after halving” script went off‑book. On the other side, the bulls are laying out a pretty compelling list of reasons why 2026 might not just be a rerun of last year. Regulation is finally moving from vibes to text. Institutions are quietly becoming regulars instead of tourists. Spot ETFs are now part of the furniture. And optimism around Ethereum and a more crypto‑friendly White House is feeding the idea that 2026 could be the year the industr...

Crypto closed out the day with a strange mix of exhaustion and ambition: volumes are scraping the bottom of the barrel, big players are making huge conviction bets, regulators are still catching up, and hackers are having their best year since, well, ever. Let’s walk through what actually mattered. First, the backdrop. Markets are limping into year‑end. Bitcoin (BTC) is stuck in a grinding consolidation below its recent highs, while majors like Ethereum (ETH) and XRP (XRP) have lost momentum around the latest FOMC noise. It’s been a banner year for ETFs, but that hasn’t translated into a happy year‑end rally. Fear, forced liquidations, and a holiday‑driven volume drought have combined into a kind of uneasy stillness. Trading activity for BTC, ETH, and Solana (SOL) has fallen more than 50% from earlier in the year, social chatter is muted, and whales look like they’ve taken early vacations. Historically, this type of liquidity lull has a habit of ending not quietly, but with sharp vo...

Crypto markets are heading into the night with a strange mix of impatience and quiet conviction. Prices are choppy, leverage is loud, regulators are confused as ever, and yet the long-term crowd seems more confident than they’ve been in years. Let’s start with XRP (XRP), which spent the day stuck in a tense standoff. The token is trading in the $1.85–$2 band, but under the surface it’s not exactly calm. Both retail traders and large holders are selling into strength, even as institutional money keeps flowing in. On-chain activity is weakening and support levels keep getting tested and broken, which is rarely a bullish combination. The $2 zone has become the line in the sand: hold it, and XRP could try to squeeze higher; lose it decisively, and downside momentum may accelerate. Adding to the drama, major institutions like Standard Chartered are calling for a possible moonshot, with price targets ranging from $3 to $8, and some analysts even floating scenarios as high as $28 by 2026. Fo...

As the crypto markets limp toward the end of 2025, tonight’s tape reads like a strange mix of stress test and quiet conviction. Regulations are tightening, institutions are doubling down, and a few blockchains are being forced to answer the uncomfortable question: “What do we really stand for?” Let’s start with the country that prefers five‑year plans over vibes. China’s central bank has rolled out a fresh action plan that pushes the digital yuan into its next phase, with a big milestone set for 2026: interest‑bearing e-CNY. That may sound dry, but it’s a huge shift. Today, most central bank digital currencies are more like cash than a bank account. Start paying interest, and suddenly the digital yuan turns into a direct competitor to commercial bank deposits and even some savings products. Beijing is also tightening the management and infrastructure around the project, giving it a clearer strategic role both at home and in cross‑border finance. The message is subtle but firm: while t...

Ethereum’s to-do list for 2026 just got very real. Core developers have mapped out two big upgrades, Glamsterdam in mid‑2026 and Heze‑Bogota in late‑2026, aimed squarely at Ethereum’s long-standing pain points: speed, cost, and censorship resistance. The plan is to introduce more parallel processing so the network can handle more activity at once, raise gas limits up to 200 million, and optimize how fees are handled. On top of that, Ethereum will move to ePBS, a design that separates proposers and builders to make the network more resistant to censorship and MEV abuse. Just as important: these changes will roll out on a predictable twice‑yearly schedule, which is a relief for builders who are tired of guessing when the next big upgrade might hit. For anyone holding or building around Ethereum (ETH), 2026 is shaping up to be a year of scale, speed, and a cleaner user experience. While Ethereum is looking ahead, Uniswap is busy rewriting its present. The UNIfication proposal just passed...

Ethereum’s to-do list for 2026 just got very real. Core developers have mapped out two big upgrades, Glamsterdam in mid‑2026 and Heze‑Bogota in late‑2026, aimed squarely at Ethereum’s long-standing pain points: speed, cost, and censorship resistance. The plan is to introduce more parallel processing so the network can handle more activity at once, raise gas limits up to 200 million, and optimize how fees are handled. On top of that, Ethereum will move to ePBS, a design that separates proposers and builders to make the network more resistant to censorship and MEV abuse. Just as important: these changes will roll out on a predictable twice‑yearly schedule, which is a relief for builders who are tired of guessing when the next big upgrade might hit. For anyone holding or building around Ethereum (ETH), 2026 is shaping up to be a year of scale, speed, and a cleaner user experience. While Ethereum is looking ahead, Uniswap is busy rewriting its present. The UNIfication proposal just passed...

Ethereum’s to-do list for 2026 just got very real. Core developers have mapped out two big upgrades, Glamsterdam in mid‑2026 and Heze‑Bogota in late‑2026, aimed squarely at Ethereum’s long-standing pain points: speed, cost, and censorship resistance. The plan is to introduce more parallel processing so the network can handle more activity at once, raise gas limits up to 200 million, and optimize how fees are handled. On top of that, Ethereum will move to ePBS, a design that separates proposers and builders to make the network more resistant to censorship and MEV abuse. Just as important: these changes will roll out on a predictable twice‑yearly schedule, which is a relief for builders who are tired of guessing when the next big upgrade might hit. For anyone holding or building around Ethereum (ETH), 2026 is shaping up to be a year of scale, speed, and a cleaner user experience. While Ethereum is looking ahead, Uniswap is busy rewriting its present. The UNIfication proposal just passed...