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According to a new Grayscale report, crypto market momentum cooled in the fourth quarter of 2025 as investors digested earlier gains and positioned for the year ahead.
What Happened: In its latest Crypto Sector Quarterly report, Grayscale points out that all major crypto sectors posted negative returns in Q4 as investor caution increased amid regulatory uncertainty and evolving technology risks.
Defensive positioning emerged during the quarter, with the currencies sector outperforming others, driven largely by privacy-focused tokens.
Application-layer assets underperformed, while the AI crypto sector recorded the weakest performance, reflecting higher risk sensitivity and the early-stage…
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Leading cryptocurrencies rose on Tuesday, while the stock market slipped as the Federal Reserve released minutes from its December meeting.
CryptocurrencyGains +/-Price (Recorded at 8:35 p.m. ET)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)+1.78%$88,600.81Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) +1.88%$2,978.98XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) +1.78%$1.88Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) +2.39%$125.71Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) +0.76%$0.1235Bitcoin, Ethereum On Track For Worst Q4 Since 2018
Bitcoin rose but failed to break past the $89,000 barrier, while trading volume for the apex…
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Mike Novogratz predicts Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) will have a breakout 2026 after crypto sentiment hit near all-time lows in 2025, comparing the year to an Apollo 13 mission where the command module barely made it back intact.
Why 2026 Could Be Crypto’s Year
In the latest “All Things Markets” podcast by Anthony Scaramucci, Novogratz said Bitcoin’s 2025 underperformance against gold and silver created a setup for a major reversal, with retail sentiment dead and Google searches for Bitcoin near all-time lows.
The year started with moonshot predictions but Bitcoin stalled at the launchpad.
“We were set up super bowled up at the beginning of 2025. We’re going to the moon, and it…
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The bitcoin price hovered below $90,000 near $80,000 today as traders made another late push to recover year-end losses during thin holiday trading, but the market again lacked the conviction needed for a sustained breakout.
The bitcoin price stood at $88,063 at the time of writing, up about 1% over the past 24 hours, according to market data. Trading volume totaled roughly $40 billion, reflecting muted participation as December draws to a close.
Bitcoin is now about 1% below its seven-day high of $89,201 and roughly 1% above its seven-day low of $86,855.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency has a circulating supply of 19,969,296 BTC, with a hard cap of 21 million coins….
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Async Payjoin is the best hope for strong privacy in Bitcoin. Modeled after HTTPS, which enabled secure payments for the web, the Payjoin foundation has been quietly building up this privacy toolkit, which must be adopted by a large number of Bitcoin wallets, to deliver privacy at scale.
Modeled after the Bitcoin and Lightning dev kits — which have become quite popular among wallet developers — and built with the same cryptographic primitives already in Bitcoin core, such that it can be easily integrated into the main Bitcoin implementation, Async Payjoin is designed from the bottom up for mass adoption.
Following in the footsteps of Let’s Encrypt, which in the 2010s…
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The headline in crypto today is Lighter’s LIT token finally going live, marking a key moment in the ongoing battle for perps market share. In today’s coverage, we break down one of the most overlooked beneficiaries of perps growth (Pendle via Boros), and take a closer look at the evolving dynamics within the Solana liquid-staking landscape.
Indices
Markets kicked off the final week of the year on a softer note. Bitcoin (-0.81%) underperformed its US equity benchmarks, with the Nasdaq (-0.59%) and S&P 500 (-0.39%) posting modest pullbacks after tech stocks drove the S&P 500 to all-time…
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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is approaching a critical point in its current market structure, and several cycle‑based indicators suggest a new all‑time high could form as early as April — but only if one key support level holds in the near term.
Cycle Timing Points Toward an April Peak
Historically, Bitcoin tends to make a major move within the 12–18 weeks following a halving event, a window that aligns directly with early‑to‑mid April. This pattern has repeated across multiple cycles and remains one of the strongest structural signals analysts monitor. If this cycle continues to follow that rhythm, Bitcoin’s next major peak would fall squarely inside that April window.
BTC Dominance…
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