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Crypto exchange-traded products recorded $446 million in net outflows last week, extending a cautious trend persisting since October’s sharp market correction. According to asset manager CoinShares, the latest withdrawals bring total outflows since Oct. 10 to $3.2 billion, signaling that investor confidence has yet to recover as the year ends. The weekly outflows contrast with year-to-date (YTD) inflows of $46.3 billion, a figure broadly consistent with 2024 levels. CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill, said that total assets under management (AUM) have risen by just 10% YTD. He said this indicated that “the average investor has not seen a positive outcome this…

According to market commentators, a sharp split has opened between backers of Bitcoin and supporters of precious metals after a year of big moves in both camps. Bitcoin’s long-run gains are being held up as proof it remains the top performing asset, while gold and silver have staged a dramatic rally that has surprised some investors. Opinions are divided and the debate is loud. Related Reading Bitcoin’s Big Lead Since 2015 Bitcoin has climbed about 27,700% since 2015, a figure cited by analyst Adam Livingston. That figure dwarfs the gains recorded for silver and gold over the same stretch, which…

Bitcoin is heading into New Year’s Eve on the verge of printing a red yearly candle, an awkward setup after a year packed with pro-crypto policy and institutional headlines. Galaxy Digital head of research Alex Thorn said BTC is down 6.3% year-to-date and 8.25% year-over-year, and would need a daily close above $93,389 on New Year’s Eve to finish 2025 positive. The late-year mood has been defined by a soft Q4 tape and a deeper drawdown than many bulls expected this late in the cycle. Thorn noted BTC traded as low as roughly 36% below its Oct. 6, 2025 all-time…

Real-world asset (RWA) protocols are one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi’s) winners in 2025, overtaking decentralized exchanges (DEXs) to become the fifth-largest category by total value locked (TVL), according to DefiLlama. RWAs now account for about $17 billion in TVL, up from $12 billion in Q4 2024, highlighting how quickly tokenized Treasurys, private credit and other real-world claims have moved from niche experiments to core DeFi plumbing. As DefiLlama noted, “At the start of this year, they weren’t even in the top 10 categories.” Vincent Liu, chief investment officer at Kronos Research, told Cointelegraph that RWA growth is being driven by “balance-sheet incentives…

>>>> gd2md-html alert: inline image link in generated source and store images to your server. NOTE: Images in exported zip file from Google Docs may not appear in the same order as they do in your doc. Please check the images!—–>If you used AI seriously in 2025, you probably noticed the shift. One chatbot stopped being enough. Different platforms started outperforming each other in wildly different ways—research here, video generation there, code scaffolding somewhere else. It forced everyone to rethink their setup.Last year, the AI community wanted to know which model was the king of AI. Now, companies are betting…

People have been debating the meaning of the term “indie game” for years. What is an indie game? On paper, Hades 2 and Hollow Knight Silksong are both indie games, as they’re games self-published by developers that are not connected to a larger publisher.But they’re also both huge sequels to huge games—essentially guaranteed success, to some degree, unless things go spectacularly wrong. (They didn’t.) Compare that to something like Blue Prince, an original puzzle game that barely anyone had heard of before it hit storefronts this spring.There are other games that seem to better fit the indie designation, like Clair…

Uniswap Labs’ and Uniswap Foundation’s “UNIfication” proposal to activate protocol fees for the largest decentralized exchange in crypto and burn millions of UNI received overwhelming support from voters, transforming the token from a purely governance mechanism into a value-accruing asset.The proposal received more than 125 million votes in support over the five days of voting with just 742 dissenting.Uniswap sees an average of about $2 billion a day in trading volume and generates an annualized $600 million in fees, according to DeFillama data. Until now, it has routed all the fees to liquidity providers, leaving UNI as a governance-only token…

[PRESS RELEASE – Riga, Latvia, December 26th, 2025] The funding represents a significant step in Crouton Digital’s transition from a validator-focused operator into a full-spectrum Web3 infrastructure provider serving protocols, funds, and institutional participants across more than 45 blockchain ecosystems. Engineering-First Infrastructure Built for Reliability As part of its growth strategy, Crouton Digital is expanding its product suite to include public and private RPC endpoints, archive nodes, and Node-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions. These services are designed to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads required by decentralized applications, governance systems, and protocol teams. All infrastructure is monitored through internal: Dashboards Telemetry systems Performance tracking…

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…

XRP continues to be deep in the red yearly. With 2025 almost in the history books, it’s time to reflect on certain market behavior, and Ripple’s XRP is quite a curious case. The company behind it is about to notch its perhaps best year to date. It concluded the lawsuit against the US SEC, which had lasted since the end of 2020, announced numerous partnerships with some big names, and completed several significant acquisitions, including the prime broker Hidden Road for well over $1 billion. Its native token also had a highly impressive year, until July, that is. It surged…