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Over the past years, the institutional knock against Solana was simple: the network broke under pressure. This week, the network quietly absorbed a distributed denial-of-service attack peaking at about 6 terabits per second, according to data from delivery network Pipe. This

For two years, decentralized finance operated on the concept that purely crypto-native assets could serve as the monetary base for a parallel financial system. Ethereum staked through Lido anchored billions in DeFi loans, wrapped Bitcoin backed perpetual swaps, and algorithmic stablecoins

Bitcoin is trading near $86,000 as losses build across ETFs, treasury companies, and miners. According to Checkonchain’s Dec. 15 “System Stress” note, investors are carrying about $100 billion in unrealized losses. Bitcoin system stress (Source: Checkonchain) Miners are pulling back hashrate, many treasury-company

Crypto and stock performance since January 2024 suggests that the new “altcoin trading” is just stock trading. The S&P 500 returned roughly 25% in 2024 and 17.5% in 2025, compounding to approximately 47% over two years. The Nasdaq-100 delivered 25.9% and

Cardano has made a significant integration this week that fundamentally alters its approach to market infrastructure. Under the network’s newly operational Pentad and Intersect governance structure, the steering committee authorized the implementation of Pyth Network’s low-latency oracle stack. While the decision may

After three years of development, Firedancer went live on Solana mainnet in December 2024, having already produced 50,000 blocks across 100 days of testing on a handful of validators. The milestone, announced Dec. 12 by Solana's official account, marks more than

Bitcoin’s year is usually narrated through the dollar chart, a familiar frame that captured a chaotic fourth quarter where BTC whipsawed through a violent two-month range. Price climbed to roughly $124,700 in late October before breaking down toward the mid-$80,000s in

Bitcoin’s options market is large, liquid, and (at the moment) unusually concentrated. Total open interest stands near $55.76 billion, with Deribit carrying $46.24 billion of that stack, far ahead of CME at $4.50 billion, OKX at $3.17 billion, Bybit at

The most unusual trend in the crypto market this month is not Bitcoin’s price action, but the mechanics of XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows. For 18 consecutive trading sessions, the four products have absorbed steady demand, accumulating roughly $954 million in

Polymarket just resolved “YES” on a $16 million market asking whether the Trump administration would declassify UFO files in 2025… even though no documents have been released. The outcome arrived after late-session buying near 99 to 99.9 cents, and a resolution

Stablecoins were once a minor appendage of crypto markets, a functional parking spot for traders cycling between Bitcoin and Ethereum. However, framing no longer fits. With a circulating supply above $300 billion and annual trading volumes exceeding $23 trillion in 2024,

The US equity market is valued at roughly $68 trillion, yet only about $670 million of that value currently exists on-chain in tokenized form. The scale of that gap has become a focal point for policymakers and market participants as regulators

Bitcoin’s price action continues to drift into the Federal Reserve’s final policy decision of the year with little outward volatility, yet the underlying market structure reflects a very different reality. What appears to be a stable range is concealing a period

The number didn’t look dramatic at first glance ($13.5 billion in overnight repos on Dec. 1), but for anyone who watches the Federal Reserve’s plumbing, it was a noticeable spike. These operations rarely break into headlines, yet they drive the liquidity

The “infinite money glitch” of the corporate Bitcoin treasury has stalled. For much of this market cycle, the trade was simple: stock in companies holding Bitcoin traded at a massive premium to the underlying Net Asset Value (NAV). This allowed firms to

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs gave back nearly all of their 2025 gains after hitting a cycle high in early October, with total net assets sliding to $120.68 billion as of Dec. 4, down $48.86 billion from the Oct. 6 peak. The

XRP is showing one of the clearest splits in crypto this quarter between what people say and what they do with their money. Social data tracking bullish and bearish commentary indicates that the mood around the asset has entered a new

Bitcoin’s market structure has entered a new phase as US spot exchange-traded funds now account for more than 5% of cumulative net inflows into the asset. According to Glassnode, the 12 funds have allowed institutions to become a marginal source of