Author: Oguz Ozdemir

The idea of the XRP price reaching a four-figure valuation continues to circulate across crypto market discussions, but analysts argue that such expectations are misaligned with realistic timelines. While long-term upside is not dismissed outright, a renowned crypto trader says 2026 is not the inflection window for a $1,000 XRP price, emphasizing patience, structural market maturation, and a longer investment horizon. XRP Price’s Near-Term Expectations Reset The debate around XRP’s long-term valuation has resurfaced following renewed community discussion sparked by a widely circulated price forecast highlighted by Uphold. This forecast suggested that the XRP price could eventually reach $1,000 in…

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…

South Koreans moved more than 160 trillion won ($110 billion) from local crypto exchanges to foreign platforms last year due regulatory restrictions in the country, one of Asia’s most active digital asset markets, a joint Coingecko and Tiger Research report revealed Friday.The regulatory framework has been slow to evolve. In December, the long-awaited Digital Asset Basic Act (DABA), a sweeping framework meant to govern crypto trading and issuance, was delayed because of disagreements among regulators over stablecoin issuance. The Virtual Asset User Protection Act, which came into force in 2024, does not address market structure issues such as leverage or…

An unidentified exploit is draining wallets across multiple EVM chains. A silent attack is unfolding across EVM networks as hundreds of unsuspecting crypto users are losing funds, prominent on-chain investigator ZachXBT revealed. But investigators are struggling to identify the exploiter behind it. Mysterious Wallet Drainer According to ZachXBT’s latest findings, the attack is targeting a large number of wallets for relatively small amounts. Losses have been mostly below $2,000 per victim. While the individual thefts are limited in size, the cumulative losses are steadily increasing. As of the most recent update shared by the investigator, approximately $107,000 has been…

A crypto trader, Vida, realized more than $1.5 million in gains after spotting an anomalous wall of buy orders on Binance for the little-known token BROCCOLI714 on New Year’s Day.Vida, who shared detailed logs of the trade on social media platform X, said they initially treated the move as a likely hacked account or market-making bug.Due to this, he revealed that he traded around the anomaly in two phases, first by exiting a large spot and futures exposure into the pump and later by shorting the token.Binance has not publicly commented on the incident and has yet to respond to CryptoSlate’s…

Turkmenistan just legalized crypto mining and exchanges this year, marking a sharp policy shift for one of the world’s most closed economies and fulfilling legislation that was accepted in November, 2025.  President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed the Law on Virtual Assets, bringing digital assets under civil law for the first time. The legislation creates a licensing regime for miners, exchanges, and custodial services overseen by the Central Bank of Turkmenistan. Cryptocurrencies will not yet be recognized as legal tender, currency, or securities. They cannot be used to pay for goods or services. The law defines virtual assets strictly as “property or…

Trade-offs between local institutions are expected to shape the digital euro’s final form, as debates continue over holding limits and privacy features.The EU Council recently announced that it is backing the European Central Bank’s digital euro design, which includes both online and offline functions.According to Apostolos Thomadakis, head of the financial markets and institutions unit at the European Policy Studies think tank, “cash-like privacy” with anti-money laundering rules is among the digital euro’s “hardest political tradeoffs.”He told Cointelegraph that he expects the European lawmakers and the ECB to find a middle ground. “Parliament will likely need to accept some form…

This year is already shaping up to be a killer one when it comes to games, and not just because that one game we’ve all been waiting for is probably going to come out, finally.There’s a ton of other stuff already on the docket for 2026, and this list, for obvious reasons, doesn’t even cover the stuff we don’t know about yet. If we get even two-thirds of this list in our hands by the end of the year, then we have a lot to look forward to.Editor’s note: All of the games on this list are traditional “Web2” games without…

Prediction markets and analyst desks are sending different signals about Bitcoin’s near-term path. Traders on Polymarket appear cautious, while some big-name firms keep calling for big gains in 2026. Related Reading Market Odds And Trader Caution According to Polymarket prices, Bitcoin has just a 23% chance of reaching $150,000 before 2027. The odds are higher at lower targets: 47% for $120,000, 35% for $130,000 and 29% for $140,000. Traders are most comfortable with $100,000, which carries about an 80% chance. That spread shows bettors are pricing risk tightly as the clock runs toward the new year. Bitcoin closed 2025 in…

Very few times of the year are truly dead for games anymore, with former doldrum months like July and August, or February and March, now often being filled with killer games. This year, though, January actually earns the label. It’s not empty, but the release slate is light enough that you can be selective, or finally chip away at that ever-growing backlog without feeling like you’re missing out. And if you stocked up on holiday deals the last couple months, now’s the time to turn your attention to those.Two of the biggest releases this month are simply the same game we…