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The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, or CLARITY Act, is moving along the right pathway, despite the crypto industry’s growing impatience, according to a Coinbase executive.“I completely understand why this is taking longer,” Coinbase Institutional head of strategy John D’Agostino said during an interview on CNBC on Friday.“It’s the kind of bill that is quite frankly more foundational for the growth of crypto or any real asset class,” he said, emphasizing that it makes sense for the process to take some time. Source: Cynthia LummisHe said that the CLARITY Act is a lot more complex than the Genius Act, the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin closed 2025 with a modest annual loss, breaking the familiar pattern of strong year-end performance and reinforcing growing concerns that the market may be transitioning into a more challenging phase in 2026. As macro uncertainty, fading liquidity, and weak risk appetite weigh on sentiment, an increasing number of analysts are openly discussing the possibility of a prolonged bear market. Still, price action tells a more nuanced story. Bitcoin remains locked in consolidation, and the absence of aggressive downside continuation has opened the door to a potential…

Flow Foundation moves to phase two of $3.9M exploit recovery

The whole world is saying goodbye to 2025 and welcoming another year with hopes of starting a new chapter. As the CEO of 101 Blockchains, I, Aviv Lichtigstein, extend my best wishes to you for the New Year. Our primary goal here at 101 Blockchains has always been to create the best blockchain and web3 training and make it accessible to everyone. I would like to begin this year’s 101 Blockchains CEO Message with a note of gratitude to you, our beloved community. You have showered us with love and put your trust in our learning resources; that has made…

South Korea’s Bithumb is launching its third annual dormant asset recovery campaign, revealing that unclaimed cryptocurrency holdings on its platform have fallen to 291.6 billion won ($201 million)—a 34% decrease from last year’s 443.5 billion won ($306 million).The decline follows a previous year’s campaign in which approximately 36,000 customers reclaimed a combined 70.6 billion won ($49 million) in forgotten assets. Market fluctuations also contributed to the year-over-year change.Sponsored The Largest Was Single Account With $2.8M Forgotten AssetThis year’s campaign targets 2.57 million accounts that have shown no login or trading activity for at least one year. Among them, the largest…

Crypto investors across 48 countries will start to have their crypto wallet transaction data recorded for tax purposes this year, as the long-awaited Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework rolls out globally. CARF, an international tax transparency framework developed by the OECD, officially goes into effect in 2027. However, as of Jan. 1, crypto service providers in participating jurisdictions — including centralized and certain decentralized exchanges, crypto ATMs, and brokers and dealers — are already required to begin collecting the necessary transaction data.It’s a signal that countries are moving toward more transparency to fight tax evasion and money laundering.Many countries ready to collect tax data…

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has reportedly proposed limiting major shareholders of cryptocurrency exchanges to 15-20% ownership stakes, a regulatory bombshell dropped on December 30-31 that is now casting a long shadow over the industry’s outlook for 2026.The proposal would force the founders and controlling shareholders of Korea’s top five exchanges to divest significant portions of their holdings.Sponsored SponsoredA New Year Clouded by UncertaintyThe timing of the announcement—just days before the new year—has left industry participants scrambling to assess the implications. A local media outlet first broke the story on December 30, which was subsequently covered by major financial…

Base’s promotion of creator coins, largely through its close alignment with NFT marketplace Zora, is drawing mounting criticism from community members who say the strategy is alienating projects that helped bootstrap the network’s early momentum.In recent months, the layer 2 Base network has become the epicenter for “creator coins,” which are tokens tied to individual creators, posts or pieces of content, with Zora positioned at the center of that narrative. Base is a blockchain built by crypto exchange Coinbase, atop the Ethereum blockchain, using open-source OP Stack, a developer toolkit for the Optimism networkRead more: Coinbase Officially Launches Base Blockchain…

Web3 Foundation (W3F) is making a strategic shift away from its traditional open Grants Program and providing streamlined funding for a product-focused vision for Polkadot and its ecosystem.The Grants Program launched more than six years ago, before Polkadot went live, and played a critical role in bootstrapping the ecosystem. It helped attract thousands of applications and supported the delivery of hundreds of milestones across core infrastructure, tooling, and early ecosystem needs. Over the early years of Polkadot ecosystem development, the W3F-funded open grants program with transparent processes (tracked publicly via platforms like GitHub) proved to be the most effective way…

Bitcoin is closing out 2025 near $87,000, ending the year in a narrow trading range after months of fading momentum. Thin holiday liquidity and a lack of fresh catalysts left the market drifting into the final session of the year, capping a period marked less by explosive gains than by consolidation and unmet expectations. At the time of writing, bitcoin was trading just below $88,000, roughly flat over the past week and modestly lower than where it began the year. The price has spent much of December oscillating between the low $80,000s and the high $80,000s, with repeated attempts to…