Meme Coins PEPE and BONK See Significant Surge in 2026’s First Week.
PEPE and BONK led the meme coin sector with explosive gains in the opening week of the year — PEPE up 78% and BONK up 92% since January 1 —…
Crypto Hacker Makes $1 Million Trading Bitcoin.
On-chain investigators revealed that a wallet cluster linked to a notorious crypto hacker — believed to be tied to the 2024 Ronin Bridge exploit — has realized over $1 million…
PeerDAS & ZKEVMs Mark Structural Changes in Ethereum, Says Vitalik.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a detailed blog post declaring that PeerDAS (Peer Data Availability Sampling) combined with maturing zkEVMs represent “the most profound structural changes to Ethereum’s architecture since…
XRP Breaks $2 Amid ETF Inflows and Shifting Regulatory Focus.
XRP shattered the $2 barrier for the first time since 2018, surging over 28% in 24 hours as massive inflows into newly approved spot XRP ETFs combined with a dramatic…
CZ Draws Fresh Backlash as Memecoin Losses Resurface.
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), former CEO of Binance and one of crypto’s most influential figures, found himself at the center of renewed controversy after old screenshots and on-chain records of massive…
Tether Supports SQRIL’s Push for Global QR Payment Interoperability – Major Step Toward Stablecoin Mainstream Adoption.
Tether announced its official support for the SQRIL initiative — a collaborative global effort to create a unified, open standard for QR code-based payments that enables seamless cross-border and cross-network…
Trump Media Plans 1:1 DJT Token Distribution for Shareholders – Rewards Via Crypto.com Partnership.
Trump Media and Technology Group (Nasdaq: DJT), the operator of Truth Social, Truth+, and Truth.Fi, announced plans to distribute a new digital token to its shareholders on a 1:1 basis…
South Korea Seeks to Cap Ownership Structure of Crypto Exchanges – Major Shake-Up for Upbit, Bithumb & Others.
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) proposed sweeping changes under the upcoming Phase Two Virtual Asset Law (also referred to as the Digital Asset Framework Act), classifying major crypto exchanges…
70% of Polymarket Traders Are Losing Money – Extreme Profit Concentration Revealed in New Data.
A bombshell on-chain analysis published on December 29, 2025, by blockchain researcher defioasis.eth exposed stark realities on Polymarket: out of over 1.7 million unique trading addresses, approximately 70% have realized…
Memecoins Are Financial Nihilism — And That’s the Point.
A provocative essay published on December 27, 2025, has reignited debate across the crypto community by arguing that memecoins represent “financial nihilism”—a deliberate rejection of traditional value narratives—and that this…