Author: Oguz Ozdemir
Key points:Bitcoin is bearish in the short term and could plunge to $50,000 if the $74,508 level is breached.The short-term trend is likely to turn bullish above $100,000, opening the doors for a rally to $126,199.Bitcoin (BTC) began 2025 near $93,000, before plunging to $74,500 in April and then rallying to $126,199 in October before falling to about $87,000 on Dec. 31.Analysts are divided on BTC’s future prospects. Some say that BTC has topped out and a bear market is likely, while others expect limited downside and a rally to a new all-time high in 2026.Another interesting thing to watch…
On the first edition of 2025, we shared what analysts thought would happen in crypto this year. Big numbers. Bold calls. Maximum confidence. Now that 2025 is officially in the rearview mirror, we’re looking back at what they said… and comparing it to what actually happened. Spoiler: some takes aged like fine wine… and others aged like milk. 1/ Bitcoin Many forecasts expected BTC to reach new all-time highs well above $150K in 2025. Bitcoin did reach a record high around $126K… but then dropped, and we ended the year at around $87K. The verdict: ❌ Bullish energy was right……
On the last day of 2025, while most traders were half watching fireworks and half pretending they were not checking charts, the quietest corner of the financial system started making a lot of noise.Banks pulled a record amount of cash from the Federal Reserve’s SRF, about $74.6 billion, on December 31. That number matters because the Standing Repo Facility is the Fed’s pressure valve, banks swap high-quality collateral for overnight cash, and they usually tap it hardest when private funding markets get tight. Related ReadingA $74B emergency overnight bank loan on NYE just revived a dark 2019 secret bailout theoryWall…
A well-known finance coach in the XRP community has urged patience, calling the cryptocurrency’s price sliding under $2 a rare long-term chance to buy. According to his public posts, he described XRP trading below $2 as “one of the greatest blessings of our lifetime” and said he remains actively accumulating at current levels. Related Reading XRP Below $2 Seen As Entry Point Coach JV’s portfolio centers on a mix of major coins and infrastructure tokens. His top crypto holdings include XRP, Bitcoin, WLFI, Solana, XLM, HBAR, and VET. On the equities side, he highlighted American Bitcoin Corp (ABTC) and Twenty…
In a move that could shape corporate Bitcoin adoption, index provider MSCI is set to decide whether to exclude companies holding significant Bitcoin reserves from its global benchmarks. The outcome, due January 15, may influence billions in forced selling and set precedents for how Wall Street views Bitcoin as a treasury asset. MSCI Inc., a New York-based publicly traded company listed on the NYSE with a market capitalization of $43.76 billion and a stock price of $565.68 as of January 2, is a key player in the investment world. It curates over 246,000 equity indexes daily, with more than $18.3…
Fedi will release its full software stack as open source on Jan. 3, completing a pledge made at launch in 2024. The company said all Fedi software has now transitioned to the Affero General Public License (AGPL), following an interim period under a business source license. The change makes Fedi’s codebase publicly available under a copyleft license that requires derivative works to remain open, according to a spokesperson from Fedi. The date carries weight in Bitcoin history. Jan. 3 marks the anniversary of the Bitcoin genesis block, mined in 2009. Fedi said the timing reflects its focus on community ownership…
In brief Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has said that the exchange is aiming to scale up its offerings in stablecoins and payments in 2026. Armstrong also declared that Coinbase is aiming to become the biggest financial app in the world, and that it wants to expand blockchain adoption globally. Industry commentators suggest that such aims may be unrealistic within a single year, but that Coinbase has a key role to play in onboarding newcomers to crypto. Crypto exchange Coinbase is aiming to scale up its stablecoin offerings and increase onchain adoption worldwide in 2026, according to CEO and founder Brian…
Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin has called on the network to accelerate its push toward becoming a true “world computer.” He warned that recent progress is not enough to meet Ethereum’s long-stated mission. In a post shared on X on January 1, 2026, Buterin reflected on Ethereum’s technical wins in 2025. However, he stressed that the ecosystem must now focus less on short-term trends and more on long-term infrastructure. According to Buterin, Ethereum made major advances last year. Gas limits were increased, blob capacity expanded, node software became more reliable, and zero-knowledge EVMs crossed key performance milestones. He said upgrades such…
Bitcoin traded in the $80,000s on Dec. 31 just as U.S. inflation cooled and investors priced Federal Reserve rate cuts.The lack of follow-through has left traders leaning less on macro headlines and more on a mix of real yields, money-market plumbing, and spot ETF flows. That shift is keeping price action pinned to defined levels even when “cuts are coming” dominates the narrative.Macro without the Boom: Why “Good News” isn’t moving BitcoinThe latest inflation data reinforced that narrative on paper.Headline CPI rose 2.7% from a year earlier in November, and core CPI rose 2.6%.But the print also arrived with a…
In brief Ethereum insiders say 2026 could finally spark major ETH value growth as institutions pile in. Tokenization is expected to shift toward yield-bearing, DeFi-integrated assets, bringing substantial new capital on-chain. ETH may begin its path toward store-of-value status, though the token would still be well behind Bitcoin’s trajectory. It’s never easy being an Ethereum maxi. True, ETH did hit a new all-time high this year; but relative to the Ethereum network’s numerous recent technical and economic triumphs, such price action still seems rather insufficient to many.Ethereum has always been an anomaly, sitting somewhere between Bitcoin’s golden store-of-value legitimacy and…