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Finance

Brazil’s Gen Z drives crypto boom as stablecoins, income tokens surge

Digital fixed-income products are experiencing rapid growth, with $325 million distributed on Mercado Bitcoin's platform in 2025.

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Markets

Fidelity's Jurrien Timmer: Expect lame 2026 as four-year bitcoin cycle appears intact

The director of global macro at the asset management giant remains a secular bull on bitcoin, but isn't optimistic about the next year.

Crypto winter has surely arrived. (MARCO BOTTIGELLI_/Getty images)

Tech

Bitcoin’s quantum debate is resurfacing, and markets are starting to notice

Quantum computing is not currently an existential threat to Bitcoin, but as capital becomes more institutional and long-term, even distant risks require clearer answers.

Quantum Computing Optics (Ben Wicks/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF a true rarity: massive inflows even with negative performance

"If you can do $25 billion in bad year, imagine the flow potential in good year," said Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas

U.S. sport XRP ETFs have recorded only inflows since their launch.
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Markets

Gold wins the debasement trade in 2025, but it is not the full story

U.S. bitcoin ETF AUM fell less than 4% despite a 36% price correction from the October high.

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Policy

The UK’s crypto rulebook is finally taking shape

A long-awaited crypto regime in the U.K. is moving from theory to execution, even if firms must wait until 2027 for full clarity.

Big Ben in the UK (Heidi Fin/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto's closest ally in Congress, Sen. Lummis, is retiring next year

The most tireless advocate of digital assets issues in the U.S. Senate said she's grown too tired to keep at it, leaving her Republican seat in play next year.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

SBF's cohorts at FTX take last SEC hit, Ellison banned from company roles for decade

Three of Sam Bankman-Fried's top lieutenants atop the former FTX empire — Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang and Nishad Singh — agreed to consent judgments.

Caroline Ellison exits a Manhattan courthouse after being sentenced to two years in prison on Sept. 24, 2024. (Victor Chen/CoinDesk)
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Markets

Bitcoin gets 'base case' price target of $143,000 at Citigroup

The Wall Street bank said its bitcoin forecast relies on further crypto ETF inflows and a continued rally in traditional equity markets.

Bitcoin (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin battles $89,000 price ceiling as bulls try to break U.S. sell pattern

Bitcoin bulls are putting up a fight on Friday to break this week's choppy action that has capped all advances at around $90,000.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on Dec. 19 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Foundation behind restaking protocol EigenLayer plans bigger rewards for active users

An Incentives Committee would direct programmatic token emissions, focusing allocations on participants that secure AVSs and contribute to the EigenCloud ecosystem.

EigenLayer CEO Sreeram Kannan (University of Michigan, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Polkadot's DOT holds steady with token unchanged over 24 hours

DOT has support in the $1.72-$1.74 zone.

Polkadot (DOT) Rises 2.89% to $1.86 Amid Institutional Volume Surge and Crypto Rally
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Policy

Federal Reserve moves toward narrower, crypto-driven take on master accounts

The U.S. central bank has been mulling the idea of a "skinny" version of master accounts for firms that want payments access without the deeper Fed demands.

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller at DC Fintech Week (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Citi is still a believer in crypto stocks despite bitcoin being rocked to end the year

Circle remains the bank's top pick in the sector, with Bullish and Coinbase following.

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Finance

Most Influential 2025's Honorable Mentions

The crypto industry is ever-growing and ever-changing. It would be difficult to summarize it in 50 names. Here are a few final individuals and entities we wanted to make note of this year.

The Honorable Mentions

Tech

Most Influential: Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz K. Stańczak

The Ethereum Foundation’s new leaders hope to bring in a new era for the second-largest cryptocurrency.

Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz K. Stańczak
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