Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks Cleared Of Lawsuit Linked To Promotion Of Bankrupt Crypto Company

A lawsuit accusing billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and the NBA team Dallas Mavericks of defrauding investors by promoting a now-bankrupt cryptocurrency company was dismissed ahead of New Year’s Day.

Relief For Mark Cuban

The plaintiffs claimed that Cuban and his team had misled investors about Voyager Digital, a cryptocurrency lender that went bankrupt in 2022. The case was filed under various state securities laws and consumer fraud statutes.

In a Dec. 30 filing, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, under Judge Roy K. Altman, dismissed the case in its entirety, stating that the plaintiffs failed to establish the theory of “personal…

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Bitcoin, Ethereum Trade Flat On New Year’s Day—XRP, Dogecoin Climb: Analyst Bullish On BTC Reclaiming $100,000 Soon

Leading cryptocurrencies consolidated with thin liquidity on the first day of 2026, while stock futures rallied.

CryptocurrencyGains +/-Price (Recorded at 8:25 p.m. ET)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)+0.93%$88,601.49Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)               +0.67%$2,999.74XRP (CRYPTO: XRP)                         +1.78%$1.87Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)                         +0.72%$126.30Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE)                         +7.20%$0.1265Sentiment Improves From ‘Extreme Fear’ To ‘Fear’

Bitcoin wobbled between $87,000 and $88,000 as bulls await a decisive breakout above $90,000. Trading activity remained…

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Bitcoin Limps Into New Year At $87,000, Down 30% From ATH

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 reclaim $90,000 failing to attract sustained follow-through.

The muted year-end action stands in…

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Bitcoin Around $88,000 Closes In On Red Yearly Candle As ETH, XRP, Dogecoin Tread Water

Bitcoin continues to trade below $88,000 heading into 2026 even as ETF flows turned positive into year-end.

Notable Statistics:

Coinglass data shows 88,263 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $131.74 million.        

SoSoValue data shows net inflows of $355 million from spot Bitcoin ETFs on Tuesday. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw net inflows of $67.8 million.

In the past 24 hours, top gainers include Chiliz, Story and MemeCore.

Notable Developments:

Trader Notes: Crypto analyst Dami-Defi said Bitcoin is consolidating between $86,000 and $91,000 following the recent pullback.

However, the range sits below the 50-week exponential moving average and major resistance near…

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Why Even XRP Surging Beyond $3 Couldn’t Deliver A 2025 Altseason

Crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen says 2025 reinforced a hard truth for the market: macroeconomic forces, not hype-driven cycle narratives, continue to dominate crypto price action.

What Happened: In his 2025 “Reflections” video, Cowen argued that while the traditional four-year Bitcoin cycle still technically held, with a post-halving peak forming in Q4, the drawdown that followed looked far more like 2019 than the sharp crashes seen in prior cycles.

Instead of a blow-off top, the market experienced a slow, grinding decline driven by tightening liquidity and macro headwinds.

The Altseason That Never Arrived

Cowen addressed one of 2025’s biggest disappointments: the absence of a broad altcoin…

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Unregistered Bitcoin Mining In Russia May Soon Come With Up To Two Years Of Forced Labor

Russia is preparing to escalate its crackdown on unregistered cryptocurrency mining, proposing criminal penalties that include forced labor and prison sentences, little more than a year after formally legalizing the industry.

The Ministry of Justice on Monday published draft amendments to the Criminal Code that would reclassify many forms of illegal crypto mining from an administrative offense into a criminal one. 

The proposal comes amid widespread noncompliance with the regulatory framework that took effect in 2024, following President Vladimir Putin’s signing of mining legislation last summer.

Although mining was legalized to bring the fast-growing sector out of the shadows,…

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Riot Opens $500M Stock Offering As Bitcoin Production Falls

Riot Platforms opened a new $500 million at-the-market equity offering this week as the bitcoin miner reported lower November production and continued to sell a large portion of its monthly output to fund operations and expansion.

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, Riot said it entered into a definitive sales agreement allowing it to issue and sell up to $500 million of common stock at prevailing market prices through the Nasdaq Capital Market. 

The facility replaces a prior at-the-market program established in August 2024, which Riot terminated effective Tuesday.

Under the new agreement, Riot retains discretion over the timing and volume…

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