Author: Oguz Ozdemir

President Serdar Berdymukhamedov signed the legislation, and it comes into force on January 1, 2026, according to state media reports. The move signals a dramatic shift for a country long known for tight economic controls and heavy reliance on natural gas exports. Turkmenistan’s decision matters because it shows how even traditionally cautious nations are embracing digital finance. With a legal framework now in place, the era of uncertainty around digital assets in Turkmenistan may be coming to an end. What the New Law Means for Crypto in Turkmenistan Under the new legislation, Turkmenistan will establish clear rules for the creation,…

Crypto analyst Crypto Whale has explained why the Bitcoin price could still crash to as low as $25,000. The analyst also stated this would form the macro bottom for the leading crypto, as it recovers from this bear market.  Why The Bitcoin Price Could Drop To As Low As $25,000 In an X post, Crypto Whale stated that the monthly chart suggested that the Bitcoin price could form a macro bottom near $25,000 sometime in 2026. The analyst further remarked that if history rhymes, these deep retracements tend to mark long-term accumulation zones. He added that this doesn’t signify the…

In brief Total crypto hack losses reached $2.72 billion in 2025, surpassing last year’s record despite subdued market conditions. The Bybit breach in February marked the year’s largest exploit, with North Korean actors suspected of stealing up to $1.5 billion. Major exchanges and DeFi platforms, including Coinbase, Cetus Protocol, Nobitex, UPCX, BtcTurk, and Upbit, reported significant compromises across the year. This year was a record for hacks in the crypto sector, with over $2.72 billion stolen, according to data from TRM Labs.  Yes, with depressed crypto prices getting investors down, 2025 was a particularly bad year for exploits—even after 2024 broke…

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…

Bettors on a prediction market, Polymarket, currently give Bitcoin only a 26% chance of trading above $150,000 at any point in 2026. Other related markets are more optimistic on lower milestones, with odds near 80% that Bitcoin touches $100,000 before 2027. As we know, prediction markets are going mainstream just as everyone fights over what the next Bitcoin cycle will look like. (source – Polymarket) What Do Polymarket Bettors Really Say About Bitcoin Next? A prediction market is a betting exchange for real-world events. Instead of betting on a sports game, you buy “yes” or “no” shares on outcomes such…

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…

On the last trading days of the year, the kind of chart that almost nobody outside finance ever looks at started yelling again.Banks piled into the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility, borrowing a record $74.6 billion on Dec. 31 for 2025. Overnight funding rates popped, the benchmark SOFR briefly hit 3.77%, the general collateral repo rate touched 3.9%.Overnight REPO Chart (Source: NY Fed) Related ReadingBanks just demanded $26 billion in emergency cash but Bitcoin traders are missing a critical warning signalYear-end stress tested the central bank’s “ample” reserve theory, creating a binary scenario for risk assets in January. Dec 31, 2025…

At the start of 2025, crypto’s biggest names issued bold forecasts: Bitcoin to $200,000, Ethereum to $7,000, a US strategic reserve, and stablecoins going mainstream.Twelve months later, the scoreboard reveals a pattern. The price targets mostly crashed and burned, while the structural calls on regulation, ETFs, and payments infrastructure quietly came true.Here’s who nailed it, who missed the mark, and what the gap between hype and reality says about how this market actually works.Bitcoin $200,000, Ethereum $7,000, Solana $750Bitwise’s December 2024 outlook opened with blockbuster numbers: Bitcoin to $200,000, Ethereum to $7,000, Solana to $750, all riding ETF-driven adoption and…

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted about $1.29 billion in net outflows over the 12 sessions from Dec. 15 through Dec. 31.The quiet holiday stretch became one of the cleaner stress tests yet for how “sticky” the category is when trading desks are thinly staffed, and portfolios are being squared before the calendar flips.The moves were not evenly distributed. According to Farside, the period saw about $812 million in gross inflows across just two positive days, Dec. 17 and Dec. 30, versus about $2.10 billion in gross outflows across the rest of the window.Bitcoin flows (Source: Farside)The tape read like a…

Crypto executive Kain Warwick is set to pay up $50,000 after betting that Ether would hit $25,000 in 2025, joining one of many market participants who overestimated the speed of Ether’s recovery after its dip in October. Ether (ETH) ended Dec. 31 trading at roughly $2,980, around 13.7% lower than where it started at the beginning of the year, according to CoinMarketCap.Part of it was due to a $19 billion crypto market liquidation on Oct. 10 that triggered a downtrend, pushing Ether as low as $2,767 before it slowly crept upward again.The bet came from an exchange between Warwick and…