01.01.2026 EU crypto tax transparency directive DAC8 takes effect, requiring crypto-asset service providers to report user data to national tax authorities.
01.01.2026 MiCA comes into force in Spain.
31.12.2025 Ethereum smart contract deployments hit a record high in Q4.
2026 OUTLOOK Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly Capital): Big Tech crypto wallets, perp DEX consolidation and equity perps, stablecoin-backed cards.
28.12.2025 Pump.fun cashes out ICO proceeds.
28.12.2025 Uniswap burns $591M worth (~10%) of UNI supply.
27.12.2025 DeFi app Flow token plunges following a security incident.
2026 OUTLOOK Jay Yu (Pantera Capital): Prediction market bifurcation, agentic commerce via x402, tokenized gold, equity tokens, Hyperliquid growth, stablecoins in cross-border payouts.
2026 OUTLOOK Galaxy Digital: No Solana inflation cut, rise of corporate L1s, stablecoin consolidation, volumes surpass ACH, higher app revenue, equity token relief from US SEC, card networks integrate public blockchains, DEX share grows 17%→25%, futarchy in DAOs, DATs struggle, x402 for agentic transactions.
27.12.2025 Bitmine Ethereum DAT reports 4.11M ETH, enters staking.
26.12.2025 Sberbank issues crypto-backed loan to local miner, uses in-house app for collateral custody.
26.12.2025 Japan proposes 2026 tax reform to classify crypto as financial products.
26.12.2025 ZachXBT reports unauthorized fund outflows from some Trust Wallet user addresses.
24.12.2025 Bitcoin developers discuss Ordinals and Stamps UTXO cleanup via a potential soft fork.
24.12.2025 Gnosis Chain executes chain-level hard fork to recover funds linked to the 2024 Balancer hack.
24.12.2025 Ethena’s USDe stablecoin sees $8B in redemptions, halving market cap.
23.12.2025 Chinese-language crypto black-market ecosystem thrives on Telegram, facilitating billions worth in monthly transactions.
23.12.2025 Bank of Russia releases crypto regulation concept framework, effective July 2027.
23.12.2025 Crypto.com hires market-making team to trade against users on its sports prediction market.
22.12.2025 Coinbase acquires prediction markets startup The Clearing Company.
22.12.2025 Ghana legalizes widespread cryptocurrency use.
21.12.2025 Swedish BNPL giant Klarna partners with Coinbase to accept institutional capital in stablecoins.
21.12.2025 Ethereum Foundation outlines 2026 roadmap: unified security assessments (early 2026), 100-bit security (mid-2026), and full 128-bit security with smaller proofs by year-end.
20.12.2025 Memento Research reports 85% of 118 token generation events in 2025 trade below sale price.
20.12.2025 Tether hires Lead Software Engineer to spearhead development of a mobile crypto and AI-powered wallet.
20.12.2025 Blockchain Association argues stablecoin reward mechanisms resemble credit card cashback and should not be restricted under the GENIUS Act.
2026 OUTLOOK Coinbase: DAT 2.0, x402, equity perps, prediction-market aggregators, stablecoins for payroll and cross-border settlements.
19.12.2025 Caroline Ellison and other former FTX executives agree to SEC-proposed injunctions.
19.12.2025 Ethereum developers name the post-Glamsterdam 2026 upgrade “Hegota,” merging execution-layer Bogota and consensus-layer Heze.
19.12.2025 Aptos proposes post-quantum signature enhancements.
19.12.2025 Terraform Labs bankruptcy administrator sues Jump Trading for $4B, alleging profit from and contribution to the Terra collapse.
19.12.2025 CLARITY Act expected to enter Senate markup in January ahead of a full Senate vote.
19.12.2025 Intercontinental Exchange in talks to invest in crypto payments firm MoonPay.
09.12.2025 Circle partners with privacy blockchain Aleo to launch USDCx, a privacy-enhanced stablecoin.
09.12.2025 US CFTC issues tokenized collateral guidance and approves a pilot collateral program using BTC, ETH, and USDC.
09.12.2025 Tether and Circle enter Abu Dhabi as the UAE accelerates crypto regulation.
09.12.2025 BMW automates FX processes using JPMorgan’s Kinexys DLT platform.
09.12.2025 Tether Investments backs Generative Bionics, a humanoid robotics platform.
08.12.2025 Paradigm invests in Brazilian real–pegged BRLV stablecoin issuer Crown.
08.12.2025 US SEC closes its two-year investigation into tokenization project Ondo Finance with no charges.
08.12.2025 Brevis launches ProverNet mainnet beta, the first decentralized marketplace for zero-knowledge proof generation.
08.12.2025 Argentina’s central bank plans to allow banks to offer Bitcoin services.
08.12.2025 Pakistan to launch its first national stablecoin, PVARA.
08.12.2025 UAE Islamic bank Ruya partners with Fuze to launch in-app Bitcoin trading.
08.12.2025 ZachXBT criticizes InfoFi projects Kaito Yaps, Galxe, Layer3, Cookie, and Wallchain for incentivizing AI-generated low-quality content.
07.12.2025 Binance to shift its global operations from the Cayman Islands to Abu Dhabi under a globally recognized regulatory framework.
07.12.2025 Bybit forms strategic partnership with Circle to promote USDC across spot, derivatives, and payment products.
07.12.2025 Robinhood enters the Indonesian market by acquiring a local brokerage and licensed crypto trader.
07.12.2025 Farcaster pivots from its “social-first” model, which failed to reach product-market fit, to a “wallet-driven” growth strategy.
07.12.2025 Euro-denominated stablecoins double in market cap after MiCAR takes effect, led by EURS, EURC, and EURCV.
07.12.2025 Western Union developing a prepaid stablecoin card for high-inflation markets.
07.12.2025 UK HMRC’s latest DeFi guidance marks a major shift: depositing assets like USDC or USDT into DeFi is not treated as a disposal, with tax due only on actual sales or swaps.
06.12.2025 Texas community bank Monet Bank enters crypto lending and digital-asset banking, following Erebor Bank (OCC conditional charter) and N3XT (Wyoming SPDI) founded by ex-Signature executives.
06.12.2025 US prosecutors seek 12-year prison sentence for Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon.
06.12.2025 Polish President vetoes the national digital-assets bill, calling it overly burdensome beyond EU-wide MiCAR.
06.12.2025 France’s second-largest bank BPCE rolls out in-app crypto trading to millions of users.
06.12.2025 Netflix in talks with MetaMask to integrate Ethereum payments for subscriptions.
05.12.2025 A Canadian commercial bank purchases shares of Strategy.
05.12.2025 South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit deletes all user deposit addresses amid wallet maintenance, asks them to create new ones.
05.12.2025 MiCAR transition period in Italy ends 31 December 2025.
04.12.2025 IMF warns stablecoins may cause “currency substitution” and weaken central bank control, especially in cross-border and non-custodial use.
04.12.2025 Nasdaq-listed TON treasury firm AlphaTON Capital (ATON) prepares $421M investment into the Cocoon AI network and other TON/Telegram digital businesses.
04.12.2025 Connecticut issues cease-and-desist orders to Kalshi, Robinhood, and Crypto.com for offering unlicensed sports-betting–style event contracts.
04.12.2025 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says unnamed sovereign funds are reportedly buying Bitcoin during the price drop.
04.12.2025 Justin Sun insists on FDT’s involvement in the mismanagement of US$456M Techteryx funds.
04.12.2025 Ethereum finalizes the “Fusaka” upgrade, a key milestone on its roadmap.
04.12.2025 Ex-Signature Bank executives launch blockchain-powered narrow bank backed by Paradigm and the Winklevoss twins.
04.12.2025 South Africa puts its retail CBDC project on hold.
04.12.2025 Jeffy Yu (AI Zerebro, fake suicide, Legacoin) unveils AI-penned manifesto and a related Solana memecoin PLOI.
04.12.2025 Deutsche Börse partners with Kraken to connect traditional markets and digital assets.
04.12.2025 Malaysia to shut down Bitcoin mining rigs amid $1B electricity theft case.
04.12.2025 Coinbase to list Solana DEX Jupiter’s JUP token.
04.12.2025 Lamborghini launches branded Bitcoin wallet.
04.12.2025 Uniswap founder criticizes Citadel for urging SEC to regulate DeFi like Wall Street.
03.12.2025 Binance announces Binance Junior, a parent-controlled sub-account for children aged 6 to 17.
03.12.2025 UK passes bill adding digital assets to the property category.
03.12.2025 PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD reaches $3.8B market cap, up over 300% since September.
03.12.2025 Sony’s blockchain partner Startale launches USDSC stablecoin on Soneium in partnership with M0.
03.12.2025 US House Financial Services Committee reviews GENIUS Act stablecoin provisions, including interest-ban loopholes and bank-run safeguards.
03.12.2025 Tokenized RWA perpetuals startup Ostium raises $20M in Series A led by Jump Crypto and General Catalyst
02.12.2025 US FDIC plans implementation of new GENIUS Act stablecoin rules.
02.12.2025 Binance-owned Trust Wallet launches built-in prediction market hub.
02.12.2025 Kraken acquires Backed Finance, the world’s second-largest tokenized asset platform.
02.12.2025 Ten European banks form new company, Qivalis, to launch a euro-denominated stablecoin.
01.12.2025 Telegram’s Pavel Durov announces Cocoon, a decentralized confidential AI compute network.
01.12.2025 SushiSwap CEO steps down as Synthesis invests $3.3M in the struggling DEX.
01.12.2025 Grayscale to launch the first Chainlink ETF in the US.
01.12.2025 Germany and Switzerland shut down Cryptomixer, a Bitcoin mixing service.
01.12.2025 Sony Bank to issue a US dollar-pegged stablecoin in the United States in 2026.