According to Akinyele, 2026 is set to be an incredible year with key features including privacy, programmability, interoperability via zero knowledge proofs and DeFi (on-chain lending) coming to XRP Ledger. 🤯
Kraken cryptocurrency exchange internal support panel access is reportedly being offered on a dark web forum 🕵️♂️. The listing claims users can view profiles, transaction histories, and KYC documents 📊.
Peter Schiff cries foul over the Bitcoin-heavy MicroStrategy plan, citing a 47.5% decline in 2025 that he contends destroyed shareholder value. 🤦♂️
The put/call ratio, that delicate dance between optimists and pessimists, stands at 0.48, a number so modest it might blush. Max pain hovers near $88,000, a figure so tantalizingly close to current prices that one wonders if the market is merely playing coy. Open interest at $100,000? A mere trifle, really, with $1.3 billion at stake-though I daresay it’s more than most of us have tucked away for a rainy day.
Global crypto exchange Binance outlined a bullish outlook for digital assets in 2026 in its year-end message titled “From Frontier to Everyone: A Letter to the 300 Million Walking With Us.” The letter, shared on Dec. 31 by Binance Co-CEOs Richard Teng and Yi He, focused on easing policy, regulatory clarity, and accelerating on-chain adoption. 📜
As the new year dawns, the cryptosphere buzzes with whispers of whale accumulation, the dance of price, and the capricious whims of market forces-each a character in this grand, chaotic play.
The four-year cycle, that cherished rhythm tied to Bitcoin’s halving events, has long been the darling of market prognosticators. Yet, 2025 dared to defy tradition, ending with a 6% decline-a scandalous red candle in a year that once promised grandeur. Bitcoin, my dear reader, has stumbled in its own quadrille. 🕯️🔴
Open interest, for those who forgot their derivatives etiquette, is merely the total number of unsettled positions. A surge, one suspects, suggests either a influx of new money or a particularly dramatic liquidity party. Perhaps both? After all, who doesn’t enjoy a good liquidity shindig?
MicroStrategy’s stock has taken a nose dive, plunging 66% in six months-because nothing says “stability” like betting the farm on a cryptocurrency that’s more volatile than a caffeine-fueled squirrel. 🐿️
Now, Tether-them folks behind the steady hand of USDT ($1.00, solid as a rock, or at least tryin’ to be)-they saw an opportunity. While others were fretin’ about the fall from $88,000, Tether went and picked up another 8,889 BTC, a cool $778.7 million worth. Straight from the Bitfinex exchange, too. Seems they figure somethin’s brewin’. 🧐