Bitcoin price today fell below $90,000, wiping nearly $170 billion from the crypto market in just one day. But this crash is only the beginning of a bigger problem. Weak liquidity, negative on-chain signals, and the Federal Reserve’s latest decision are all adding more pressure. All these signs together raise concerns about whether the market …
XRP price risked a 15% drop to as low as $1.73, fuelled by collapsing transaction fees, reduced speculator appetite and a weakening technical structure.
Oracle shares tanked after the firm revealed an earnings miss.
The FCA recently opened a regulatory sandbox, inviting issuers to experiment with their stablecoin solutions.
Norway has officially decided that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) isn’t an immediate necessity, despite years of dedicated research and global momentum around digital currencies. In a fresh update, Norges Bank said the current payment system still works efficiently for consumers, banks, and merchants, meaning there’s no urgent push to introduce a digital krone …
Bybit CEO Ben Zhou talks about the challenges of building the exchange from a derivatives-first startup into a full-stack CEX.
Norway rules that a digital krone is unnecessary for now, highlighting its strong payment rails and the uncertain benefits of both retail and wholesale CBDCs.
The Federal Reserve has delivered the quarter-point rate cut markets demanded, and Ethereum is responding exactly as the “smart money” anticipated. While Bitcoin effectively shrugs off the news near $92,000, Ethereum is holding its pre-meeting gains above $3,300, validating the sharp rotation seen in the 24 hours leading up to the decision. This cut itself […]
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Bhutan has introduced TER, a new gold-backed token built on the Solana network, aiming to offer secure digital access to real gold. The project marks another major step in Bhutan’s growing digital strategy, driven by trust, transparency, and long-term value. Bhutan Launches TER, Gold-Backed Token According to the announcement issued on December 10, Bhutan’s Gelephu …
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood says Bitcoin’s long-running four-year pattern may be losing its grip as big financial players buy and hold more of the supply, a shift that could tame price swings and change how investors plan ahead. Related Reading: Institutions Scoop Up 9,000 Ether, Fueling Bullish Signals Institutional Buying Is Changing Markets According to Wood, large firms and spot ETFs are slowly locking up coins that used to flow in and out of retail hands. The most recent halving, on April 20, 2024, cut the miner reward to 3.125 BTC. On a daily basis, that reduction translated to about a 450 Bitcoin drop in supply each day, a figure some analysts call small compared with the trillions attributed to the market’s value and the billions moving into ETFs. Ark has been active too, buying shares in Coinbase, Circle and its own Ark 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), a signal that institutional demand is more than a rumor. Cycle Rules Are Being Questioned Based on reports from banks and crypto firms, the familiar cycle—rises tied to halvings followed by deep crashes of 75–90%—is under debate. Standard Chartered cut its 2025 price forecast from $200,000 to $100,000, arguing ETF inflows weaken the halving’s price punch. Bitwise’s Matt Hougan and CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju have said institutional flows have changed or even erased the classic rhythm. Markets hit a peak near $122,000 in July, and some analysts now say future drawdowns may be shallower, in the 25% to 40% range rather than the extreme collapses seen earlier. Market Structure Still Shows Old Patterns Not all evidence points to a finished cycle. Reports published by on-chain analytics firms such as Glassnode show behaviors among long-term holders that look like past up-and-down swings. Demand from late-cycle buyers has softened in ways that mirror prior years, according to that research. It is being argued that halvings remain meaningful interruptions inside a longer trend, not irrelevant events. Macro observers add that broader economic forces—rates, fiat liquidity, and institutional appetite—are increasingly important in the price story. Related Reading: Shiba Inu Declared ‘Dead’—Unless This Game-Changer Arrives, Expert Says Investors should expect longer moves more often, with rallies stretching over more months and volatility generally lower, analysts say. Wood suggested volatility is falling and that markets may already have hit a low a couple of weeks earlier. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
Sungmo Park, former APAC lead at Monad Foundation and Polygon Labs, has been named to head a16z's efforts in the region.
State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management are launching a tokenized private liquidity fund on Solana, with Ondo expected to invest $200 million.
Lee claimed that the ISM Index moving back above 50 is a positive signal and has "historically been associated with super cycle moves in Bitcoin and Ethereum."
Bitcoin was expected to kick off a strong rally following the fresh Fed rate cuts, as the price was seen stabilizing above $92,000. Interestingly, the price dropped hard to $89,400 during early trading hours, sending shockwaves through the markets and confusing seasoned traders. This could show a disconnect between these bullish factors and BTC price, …
Gemini Titan, the Winklevoss twins’ affiliate, secured CFTC Designated Contract Market approval on December 10, 2025, five years after applying in March 2020. U.S. users can soon trade binary yes/no contracts on Gemini’s site, like “Will Bitcoin top $200K?”, with mobile rollout next and crypto futures, options, perpetuals planned. CEO Tyler Winklevoss thanked President Trump …
XRP ETF momentum continues to grow as Cboe approves 21Shares’ spot XRP fund for listing under the ticker TOXR, making it the fifth XRP ETF in the U.S. and pushing total inflows close to the $1 billion mark. Despite the strong demand, XRP’s price remains stuck below the $2.09–$2.10 resistance level with limited movement. Even …
Crypto markets lurched lower after the Federal Reserve delivered exactly what everyone said they wanted: the third straight 25bps cut to close out 2025. Santiment’s latest deep dive makes a simple, slightly uncomfortable point: retail treated it as a green light, whales treated it as exit liquidity. Bitcoin shortly rallied to $94,044, Ether surged to $3,433, XRP hit $2.10 and Solana managed to reach $142, but the momentum was short-lived. The BTC price fell by more than 5% at one point, ETH even fell by more than 8.5%. What Caused The Crypto Market Plunge? On 11 December, the FOMC confirmed another quarter-point reduction, completing what Santiment calls the “trifecta of cuts at the end of 2025.” Lower rates mean cheaper borrowing, more risk-taking, and—on paper—a friendlier backdrop for crypto. The Fed still describes an economy growing at a “moderate” pace with inflation above target, and in both the October and December meetings it cut because “the balance of risks (like slowing job growth) supported easing policy.” Related Reading: Will The Crypto Market Benefit From The Trump Fed Takeover? The key shift is liquidity. On 29 October, the Fed decided to slow the reduction of its securities holdings from 1 December, easing the pace of balance-sheet runoff. By 10 December, it went further, saying bank reserves had fallen “too much” and announcing renewed purchases of short-term Treasury bills to keep reserves “ample.” That is a move from shrinking the balance sheet to quietly adding money back into the system. As Santiment notes, the Fed is still data-dependent but clearly more willing to lean dovish to protect financial conditions. Markets, however, front-ran the story. Prediction platform Polymarket showed an “overwhelming amount of optimism” in the hours before Jerome Powell spoke. At the same time, on-chain data flagged abnormal activity: @DeFiTracer spotted a whale selling roughly 100 million dollars’ worth of Bitcoin within an hour, triggering “a healthy mix of sensationalized panic.” The expected outcome—another cut—arrived, but positioning around it was anything but balanced. Bitcoin’s price reaction looked bullish at first. BTC spiked to about $94,044 after the announcement. Yet Santiment’s social data shows that the positive-versus-negative commentary ratio for Bitcoin had already peaked well before Powell’s remarks. The crowd’s emotional high came in anticipation; when the actual rally hit, traders were “quite modestly reactive” despite the move to 94K. Sentiment was spent. Ethereum was worse. Over the same 24-hour window, ETH surged to around $3,433, and the positive comment ratio “was a LOT more interesting.” Santiment describes “a lot of FOMO after a mini surge immediately after Powell spoke,” with many traders who bought the breakout “eventually [getting] burned when ETH fell back down to 3,170.” It is the textbook “buy the rumor, sell the news” pattern: bullish macro headline, short-term bearish price action, retail buying the spike while larger holders “gladly” offload into the mini-rally. Related Reading: Crypto Market Structure Talks: Senator Lummis Addresses Latest Legislation Plans Structurally, though, the report is not outright bearish. Year-to-date, Santiment notes, Bitcoin is down about 3.6%, versus a 17.6% gain for the S&P 500 and a striking 61.1% for gold. “It’s quite the dramatic difference,” the team writes, arguing that “a regression to the mean for BTC would be justified.” With three cuts now locked in and reserves being topped up via T-bill purchases, the “catch-up” case for crypto versus equities and metals “becomes even stronger.” Historically, crypto “has reacted later than equities or commodities when macro trends shift.” On-chain, so-called smart money appears to be acting as if that delayed reaction is coming. Wallets holding 10–10,000 BTC have added 42,565 Bitcoin since 30 November. What is “still [remaining],” Santiment says, is “a notable dump from retail, which would be indicative of the perfect recipe for a major bull run.” For now, they expect smaller traders to “run on fumes from this positive news of rates getting cut, for at least a couple of days.” The bottom line of the report is deliberately sober. The final FOMC decision of 2025 “reinforces a narrative of gradual easing, improving liquidity, and a cautiously supportive environment for risk assets.” After a rough year, “ending the year with three consecutive rate cuts from the Fed is a strong sign.” If inflation drifts toward target and economic data stays stable, Santiment argues, 2026 could finally give digital assets “the breathing room they’ve been waiting for.” Just do not confuse that with an invitation to chase the first post-Fed spike—because, as this week just reminded everyone, that is still where crypto tourists go to get burned. At press time, the total crypto market cap was at $3.04 trillion. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
Gemini said its affiliate Gemini Titan won CFTC approval to operate a Designated Contract Market, allowing the firm to offer regulated prediction markets in the U.S.
a16z crypto has opened its first Asia office in Seoul, appointing Sungmo Park, former APAC Lead at Monad Foundation and Polygon Labs, as Head of APAC go-to-market. Park, fluent in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English, will help portfolio founders build partnerships, expand distribution, and grow communities across the region. The move targets South Korea’s status …
The growth of Bitcoin since its launch in early 2009 has shattered all perceptions of what is possible in investing. BTC, which was trading below $0.10 in 2010, has reached prices well below $100,000, creating plenty of millionaires and even some billionaires in the process. This leads to the obvious question: Is Bitcoin about to …
The pullback followed Tuesday's brief spike above $94,500, a move that triggered a minor short squeeze but failed to break the resistance that has capped bitcoin for most of the past three weeks.
December 11, 2025 07:14:17 UTC Bitcoin Price Prediction Bitcoin price is approaching a key breakout level, and the recent volatility appears to be a series of shakeouts. A clear move above $96,000 would give bulls full control of the market. For now, the entire range shows signs of manipulation, with weak buyers pushed out and …
The Senate’s push to finish a crypto market-structure bill is falling apart. Party disagreements, White House resistance, and a rapidly closing timeline have turned what looked like a nearly completed bipartisan deal into a last-minute scramble. This comes even as the House has already passed its own Digital Asset Market Clarity Act and is urging …
Midnight Network’s NIGHT token, the governance asset for Cardano’s privacy-focused sidechain has seen a heavy price drop in recent days. Following the launch of midnight NIGHT token saw a 89% drop, currently trading around $0.050, seeing a 6% drop in the past 24 hours. So, what’s fueling the price to drop below? Airdrop Selling Pressure …
State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Digital are launching the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP) on Solana in early 2026, targeting institutional cash management needs. The private tokenized fund will let Qualified Purchasers move money in and out using PYUSD, PayPal’s regulated stablecoin issued by Paxos, enabling near 24/7 liquidity instead of …
Binance, Hyperliquid, and Bybit were the most affected exchanges, comprising 72% of all forced unwinds.
There are five other Satoshi statues made by Valentina Picozzi located around the world, in Switzerland, El Salvador, Japan, Vietnam and Miami, in the US state of Florida.
The CFTC license will let Gemini offer event contracts in the U.S., joining Kalshi and Polymarket in a booming market.
On-chain data shows the Bitcoin Realized Cap Growth indicator has continued to decline recently, a sign new capital inflows lack momentum. Bitcoin Realized Cap Growth Has Been Heading Down Recently As explained by CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn in a new post on X, the Bitcoin Realized Cap Growth has been trending lower recently. The “Realized Cap” is an on-chain capitalization model for BTC that calculates its total value by assuming the value of each individual token is equal to the spot price at which it was last transacted on the blockchain. Related Reading: Solana Enters Bear Territory: Realized Loss Now Outweighs Profit This is unlike the usual market cap, which simply calculates the total valuation of the asset by multiplying the number of tokens in circulation with the current spot price, considering the latest value of the cryptocurrency to be the one value for all coins. In short, what the Realized Cap represents is the amount of capital that the Bitcoin investors as a whole used to purchase the asset’s supply. On the other hand, the market cap is the value that the investors are carrying in the present. The Realized Cap itself isn’t the indicator of interest in the current discussion, but rather the Realized Cap Growth, measuring the 365-day changes occurring in the Realized Cap. Changes in the indicator naturally reflect the amount of capital exiting or entering the cryptocurrency. In other words, the Realized Cap Growth contains information about the asset’s netflow. Now, here is the chart shared by Maartunn that shows the trend in the 7-day and 59-day moving averages (MAs) of the Bitcoin Realized Cap Growth over the last few years: As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin Realized Cap Growth has witnessed both its 7-day and 59-day MAs reverse down recently, with the former line crossing under the latter. The trend indicates that growth in the Realized Cap has been slowing down during the recent market downturn. “This suggests Bitcoin is lacking momentum from new cost basis inflows,” noted the analyst. With the 7-day MA falling below the 59-day MA, the indicator is now flagging the current market to be in a “bear phase.” The last time this signal maintained for an extended duration was alongside BTC’s decline over the first few months of 2025. It now remains to be seen how long momentum from new capital inflows will stay weak for Bitcoin this time around. Related Reading: Bitcoin In An Opportunity Zone? Hash Ribbons Flash New Buy Signal In some other news, the Bitcoin short-term holders are still under a notable amount of stress, as CryptoQuant author IT Tech has pointed out in an X post. Short-term holders (STHs) are defined as the Bitcoin buyers who got into the market during the past 155 days. Despite the rebound BTC has seen since its November low, STHs are still in a loss of 10%. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin is floating around $92,400, down 1.5% over the last 24 hours. Featured image from Dall-E, CryptoQuant.com, chart from TradingView.com
Bhutan has launched TER, its sovereign gold-backed digital token on the Solana blockchain through Gelephu Mindfulness City. Each TER represents physical gold held securely, offering stability and blockchain speed for global transfers. DK Bank, Bhutan’s first digital bank, handles distribution and custody in the initial phase. This move boosts Bhutan’s blockchain push, including BTC mining …