Category: Crypto Insights

The Grisliest Bitcoin and Crypto Wrench Attacks That Grabbed Headlines in 2025 Crypto’s march into the financial mainstream has brought with it a brutal downside: a surge in old‑fashioned, real‑world violence. While blockchains remain hard to hack, the humans who control private keys turned out to be far softer targets in 2025. As Bitcoin’s price…

Bitfinex hacker walks early, corporate treasuries pivot, and governments redraw the crypto map: this week’s crypto recap spans criminal justice reform, shareholder battles, and sweeping policy shifts from Asia to the Middle East. At the center of the week’s headlines was the Bitfinex exchange hacker, who obtained an early release from prison by leveraging criminal…

Crypto Crystal Ball 2026: Is Ethereum Finally Ready to Go Parabolic? It’s never been simple to be fully committed to Ethereum. On paper, the network has racked up a string of technical and economic milestones: major upgrades, reduced issuance, a thriving ecosystem of decentralized apps, and a commanding lead in smart contracts. Yet the price…

Ethereum spot ETFs snap outflow streak with $174M surge as ETHE dominates Ethereum exchange-traded funds kicked off the new year with a decisive reversal in sentiment. On January 2, spot Ethereum ETFs drew in $174.43 million in net inflows, abruptly ending a stretch of year-end redemptions and signaling a renewed wave of institutional interest in…

Bitcoin’s Unfinished Business: The Governance Problem It Still Hasn’t Solved When Bitcoin (BTC) appeared, it seemed to close a long-running debate in economics and computer science. At last, there was a monetary system that could function without trusting a central authority. Anyone could verify the ledger. The monetary rules were transparent and hard to change.…

A new, highly targeted phishing operation is zeroing in on Cardano users by abusing trust in the popular Eternl wallet. Attackers are distributing a fake Eternl Desktop installer via convincing emails, which secretly deploy remote access malware and open a hidden backdoor into victims’ systems. The campaign relies on professional-looking emails that promote a supposed…

13 WTF Moments of the Year: 2025 Crypto Edition If you thought crypto had finally “matured” in 2025, the market quickly reminded everyone that this industry’s default setting is chaos. Between meme coins made out of bodily functions, cops wrangling Bitcoin ATMs, and people tokenizing literally everything—from dance moves to dinner—this year delivered a new…

How Trump’s 2026 tariffs could shake Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP As 2026 opens, digital assets are more intertwined with global macroeconomics than ever before. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and XRP no longer trade purely on crypto-native narratives; they increasingly move in response to interest rates, inflation expectations, and geopolitical developments. Against this backdrop, President Donald…

Inside the DeFi Technologies lawsuit—and why more crypto companies could be next The federal securities class action facing DeFi Technologies Inc. is being seen inside boardrooms as more than just another crypto controversy. For many governance and risk professionals, it looks like the opening move in a broader legal offensive against companies that touch digital…

NFT market rebounds as Bitcoin NFTs dominate and $X@AI collection rewrites the leaderboard Global NFT trading is roaring back, with weekly sales volume jumping 37.4% to 88.29 million dollars, up from 65.58 million dollars just a week earlier. Activity is not only higher in dollar terms: the number of participants and transactions is also expanding,…