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  • Asia is quietly building a counterweight to the dollar stablecoin empire, and the West isn’t ready
    by Anurag Arjun on December 27, 2025 at 10:30 pm

    The following is a guest post and opinion from Anurag Arjun, Founder of Avail. The global stablecoin narrative is about to shift fast. What began as a US-dominated experiment in digital liquidity is morphing into a multipolar fight over who controls the rails of tomorrow’s monetary system. And the most consequential moves are unfolding in The post Asia is quietly building a counterweight to the dollar stablecoin empire, and the West isn’t […]

  • We mapped every major 2025 crypto regulation change to show you which rules actually protect your wallet
    by Andjela Radmilac on December 27, 2025 at 7:35 pm

    In 2025, crypto regulation stopped being mostly about courtroom theater and started focusing on actual infrastructure. Debates over how or whether to regulate crypto became less philosophical and more operational. Regulators spent the year answering the “boring” questions that decide whether a market can scale: who is allowed to issue a “digital dollar,” what backs The post We mapped every major 2025 crypto regulation change to show you […]

  • How browser extensions expose crypto to a fatal design flaw the industry ignored, bleeding $713M in 2025
    by Gino Matos on December 27, 2025 at 2:35 pm

    Trust Wallet’s Chrome extension shipped a malicious update in December, exfiltrating wallet data and draining roughly $7 million from hundreds of accounts before the company pushed a fix. The compromised version 2.68 was live for days, auto-updating in the background, the way browser extensions are designed to. Users who followed every standard self-custody rule, such The post How browser extensions expose crypto to a fatal design flaw the […]

  • Bitcoin ETF “record outflows” are deceptive as crypto products absorbed $46.7 billion in 2025
    by Gino Matos on December 27, 2025 at 10:23 am

    Bitcoin ETF headlines have turned into a scoreboard with “record inflows,” “largest outflows ever,” and “institutions dumping.” The problem is that most stories isolate a single day or a single fund. Without context on cumulative flows, fund cohorts, and custody plumbing, they say very little about how much spot Bitcoin is actually changing hands, or The post Bitcoin ETF “record outflows” are deceptive as crypto products […]

  • Bitcoin has 70% chance of a massive 2026 breakout, but only if this trend holds
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on December 26, 2025 at 9:05 pm

    On a cold ‘Betwixmas’ December morning, the mood around Bitcoin feels familiar and strange at the same time. Familiar, because the story still swings between euphoria and anxiety. Strange, because the people watching the chart now include a different crowd. Some are still the veterans who lived through 2017 and 2021, some are newer, the The post Bitcoin has 70% chance of a massive 2026 breakout, but only if this trend holds appeared first on […]

  • How $150 billion was liquidated from crypto market in 2025 driving Bitcoin crash
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on December 26, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    Forced liquidations in the crypto derivatives market reached about $150 billion in 2025, according to CoinGlass data. On its face, the figure looks like a year of persistent crisis. For many retail traders, watching price feeds turn red became shorthand for chaos. In practice, it captured something more mundane and structural: the notional value of The post How $150 billion was liquidated from crypto market in 2025 driving Bitcoin crash […]

  • Hidden script caught harvesting private keys as Trust Wallet issues emergency warning for Chrome users
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on December 26, 2025 at 3:05 pm

    Trust Wallet told users to disable its Chrome browser extension version 2.68 after the company acknowledged a security incident and pushed version 2.69 on Dec. 25, following reports of wallet drains tied to the Dec. 24 update. According to BleepingComputer, victims and researchers began flagging thefts soon after 2.68 rolled out. Early public tallies placed The post Hidden script caught harvesting private keys as Trust Wallet issues emergency […]

  • Bitcoin misses $95k Christmas price target revealing critical signal for traders
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on December 26, 2025 at 12:05 pm

    Every Boxing Day, I make the same cup of tea, check the same price chart, and ask the same question: What story is Bitcoin telling this year? Line up the December 26 close from the start of the exchange era to today, and a pattern appears. The holiday reveals the mood that carried us into The post Bitcoin misses $95k Christmas price target revealing critical signal for traders appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Gold hits $4,400 as Venezuela blockade bites, but a quiet ownership shift is changing how winners trade
    by Andjela Radmilac on December 26, 2025 at 8:25 am

    Earlier this month, the US began intercepting and seizing tankers carrying Venezuelan crude, with a first seizure reported around Dec. 10 and a second interception by Dec. 20. By Dec. 22, US officials said a third vessel was being pursued near Venezuelan waters. Caracas responded with an emergency law imposing prison terms of up to The post Gold hits $4,400 as Venezuela blockade bites, but a quiet ownership shift is changing how winners trade […]

  • XRPL flips to quantum-safe signatures; 2,420-byte proofs replace elliptic curves
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on December 25, 2025 at 11:30 pm

    The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is ending the year with major technological developments after a year that saw it gain significant adoption and milestones. On Dec. 24, Denis Angell, a lead software engineer at XRPL Labs, announced the integration of “post-quantum” cryptography and native smart contracts into AlphaNet, the project’s public developer network. The ‘Q-Day’ inevitability The post XRPL flips to quantum-safe signatures; 2,420-byte […]

  • Leaked Details Of Trump’s Plan To Control Dangerous Virus Research
    by Tyler Durden on December 28, 2025 at 3:10 am

    Leaked Details Of Trump’s Plan To Control Dangerous Virus Research Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, A few days back I took several calls from officials working on President Trump’s policy to limit and track dangerous, gain-of-function pathogen research, the very studies that likely created the COVID virus, which most American believe leaked from a Wuhan lab. Trump signed an Executive Order on May 5 to […]

  • North Korea Unveils First ‘Nuclear-Powered’ Sub As Kim Tells Putin Their Nations Are “Sharing Blood, Life & Death In Same Trench”
    by Tyler Durden on December 28, 2025 at 2:35 am

    North Korea Unveils First ‘Nuclear-Powered’ Sub As Kim Tells Putin Their Nations Are “Sharing Blood, Life & Death In Same Trench” One big geopolitical trend of the last year and beyond connected with the Ukraine war has been just how open North Korea and Russia have been about their deepening defense relations. At the start, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un taking the high risk and controversial step of sending thousands of his […]

  • Europe’s Farmer Protests Are A Warning America Can’t Ignore
    by Tyler Durden on December 28, 2025 at 2:00 am

    Europe’s Farmer Protests Are A Warning America Can’t Ignore Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, I want to be very clear. Yes, I am a regenerative farmer. Yes, I farm without chemicals. Yes, I speak publicly—on podcasts, from stages, and in print—about better ways to grow food. But I never villainize farmers. Not conventional farmers. Not farmers locked into systems they did not design. Not farmers working with […]

  • Key Bolsonaro Ally Caught In Neighboring Paraguay After Fleeing House Arrest
    by Tyler Durden on December 28, 2025 at 1:25 am

    Key Bolsonaro Ally Caught In Neighboring Paraguay After Fleeing House Arrest Brazilian authorities are really going after some of the loyalists of imprisoned ex-President Jair Bolsonaro. In the latest, a former Brazilian police chief who fled the country after being convicted for his role in an alleged “attempted coup” linked to Bolsonaro has been arrested in Paraguay. Silvinei Vasques was detained Friday at Silvio Pettirossi […]

  • Let Americans Choose Their Cars – Not The Government
    by Tyler Durden on December 28, 2025 at 12:50 am

    Let Americans Choose Their Cars – Not The Government Authored by James K. Glassman via RealClearEnergy, There’s a lot of crowing in certain quarters about the 2% decline in U.S. electric vehicle sales in 2025 compared to the year before. Francis Menton, the lawyer who writes the Manhattan Contrarian blog, for instance, claims vindication for his prediction in February 2023 that electric vehicles would not “sweep the country and […]

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  • 75 US Deportees To End Up On Tiny Island In Cash Deal With Local Rulers
    by Tyler Durden on December 28, 2025 at 12:15 am

    75 US Deportees To End Up On Tiny Island In Cash Deal With Local Rulers In the Trump administration’s latest display of creativity when it comes to unloading unwanted immigrants, the United States has made a deal with the rulers of the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau, which will take 75 rejected migrants off Uncle Sam’s hands in exchange for $100,000 per head. The deportees in question will be a diverse group, but they’ll likely […]

  • Wealthy Chinese Elites Use US Surrogacy System To Have Dozens Of Children
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 11:40 pm

    Wealthy Chinese Elites Use US Surrogacy System To Have Dozens Of Children Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Chinese billionaires and elites are increasingly using the United States’ permissive surrogacy system to have large numbers of children—sometimes dozens, or more—according to allegations made in Chinese media. Increasing numbers of wealthy Chinese couples are hiring the services of American […]

  • Mamdani Picks DEI Poster Child To Head FDNY
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 11:05 pm

    Mamdani Picks DEI Poster Child To Head FDNY New York City’s incoming mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has named retired EMS chief Lillian Bonsignore to run the FDNY, and the pick has generated some legitimate skepticism from those who believe that she wasn’t picked for her qualifications. The appointment makes Bonsignore only the second woman to serve as fire commissioner and the first openly gay person to hold the position. But critics […]

  • Coinbase CEO Says Reopening GENIUS Act Is ‘Red Line’, Slams Bank Lobbying
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 10:30 pm

    Coinbase CEO Says Reopening GENIUS Act Is ‘Red Line’, Slams Bank Lobbying Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said any attempt to reopen the GENIUS Act would cross a “red line,” accusing banks of using political pressure to block competition from stablecoins and fintech platforms. In a Sunday post on X, Armstrong said he was “impressed” banks could lobby Congress so openly […]

  • Does It Get Any More Cringe Than This?
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 9:20 pm

    Does It Get Any More Cringe Than This? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Just when you thought Gavin Newsom couldn’t get any more cringe, he drops a video with his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom wishing Californians a “joyful Kwanzaa” – a made-up holiday that’s about as authentic as his political posturing. In the awkward clip posted to his official X account, Newsom and his wife deliver a rehearsed message […]

  • JPMorgan Freezes Accounts Of Two Stablecoin Startups Over Sanctions Concerns: Report
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 8:10 pm

    JPMorgan Freezes Accounts Of Two Stablecoin Startups Over Sanctions Concerns: Report Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, JPMorgan Chase has reportedly frozen bank accounts linked to two venture-backed stablecoin startups after identifying exposure to sanctioned and high-risk jurisdictions. The accounts belonged to BlindPay and Kontigo, two stablecoin startups backed by Y Combinator that primarily operate across […]

  • Chevrolet’s Pro-Family Christmas Ad Reinforces Death Of Woke Marketing
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 7:35 pm

    Chevrolet’s Pro-Family Christmas Ad Reinforces Death Of Woke Marketing Chevrolet’s new pro-family, long-form Christmas advertisement clearly reinforces that the Overton Window has shifted back toward what made America – and much of the Western world – strong in the first place: the family unit. Credit goes to the executives at the US automaker for avoiding the kind of self-inflicted “Bud Light” moment that comes with pushing woke […]

  • Junk Food Bans For SNAP Users In Some States Starting 2026: What To Know
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 7:00 pm

    Junk Food Bans For SNAP Users In Some States Starting 2026: What To Know Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, Americans using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to purchase groceries may need to adjust their shopping habits in 2026 as some states will prohibit the use of SNAP funds to purchase certain “junk foods.” Also starting next year, states will have to shoulder a larger portion of the cost […]

  • Jimmy Kimmel Blasts Trump From UK, Where Free Speech No Longer Exists
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    Jimmy Kimmel Blasts Trump From UK, Where Free Speech No Longer Exists On Christmas Day, Jimmy Kimmel delivered a four-minute “Alternative Christmas Message” on the United Kingdom’s Channel 4, during which he positioned himself as a beacon against authoritarianism while warning British viewers that “tyranny is booming” in the United States.  Kimmel’s rant, which aired less than two hours after King Charles III’s […]

  • Politico Claims That The ‘Far-Right’ Has “Stolen” Christmas By Daring To Call It Christian
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 5:50 pm

    Politico Claims That The ‘Far-Right’ Has “Stolen” Christmas By Daring To Call It Christian Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Christmas Eve screed from Politico has ignited online mockery, with the outlet claiming ‘far-right’ leaders are weaponizing the holiday by emphasizing its Christian origins amid secular pressures and immigration debates. The article spotlights Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and […]

  • California’s Self-Destruction Accelerates As Anti-Trump Union Pushes Wealth Tax And More Billionaires Plot Exit
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 5:15 pm

    California’s Self-Destruction Accelerates As Anti-Trump Union Pushes Wealth Tax And More Billionaires Plot Exit “California is on a path to self-destruction. Hollywood is already toast and now the most productive entrepreneurs will leave taking their tax revenues and job creation elsewhere,” Bill Ackman wrote on X, citing a New York Times report that said several billionaires, including Peter Thiel and Larry Page, are preparing to […]

  • Trump’s Highway Enforcement Lays Groundwork For U.S. Trucking Revival
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 4:40 pm

    Trump’s Highway Enforcement Lays Groundwork For U.S. Trucking Revival Submitted by American Truckers United,  As 2025 draws to a close, America’s truck drivers—the unsung heroes keeping our economy rolling—have a good reason to celebrate. What began as a gritty grassroots uprising in Arkansas against wage-dumping and unsafe foreign competition has transformed into a national triumph, spearheaded by President Trump’s […]

  • Front Companies? Bombshell Report Exposes Network Of Somali-Linked “Empty” Daycares Across Minnesota
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 4:05 pm

    Front Companies? Bombshell Report Exposes Network Of Somali-Linked “Empty” Daycares Across Minnesota Left-wing Governor Tim Walz, under intensifying federal pressure, faces a widening Somali-linked fraud scandal in Minnesota. Federal prosecutors state that the scheme currently totals at least $9 billion, with the final figure potentially much higher. Recent reporting by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo alleges that some welfare […]

  • Rearmament Without Strategy: Why Europe Risks Another Bleak Year In 2026
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 3:30 pm

    Rearmament Without Strategy: Why Europe Risks Another Bleak Year In 2026 Via Middle East Eye Addressing his party on 14 December, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made headlines with remarks unprecedented in postwar Europe. “Dear friends, the decades of Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe, and for us in Germany as well. It no longer exists as we know it. And nostalgia won’t change that. The Americans are now […]

  • Russia Pummels Kiev, Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power, Ahead Of Trump-Zelensky Meeting
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 2:55 pm

    Russia Pummels Kiev, Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power, Ahead Of Trump-Zelensky Meeting Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukraine early Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring many others, and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. Already the electricity grid has long suffered under such crippling attacks, with barely any time or necessary parts for repair. The assault occurred just a day before anticipated […]

  • Female British Reverend Insists Mary, Not Jesus Is The ‘Main Character’ Of Christmas
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Female British Reverend Insists Mary, Not Jesus Is The ‘Main Character’ Of Christmas Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Church of England has sparked outrage with a video where a female reverend boldly declares that Mary, not Jesus, is the central figure in the Nativity story, with many suggesting it is an attempt to rewrite scripture through woke ideology, diminishing the divine role of Christ Himself. The video, […]

  • Don’t Travel To ‘Lawless’ Germany, Russia Tells Citizens
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 1:45 pm

    Don’t Travel To ‘Lawless’ Germany, Russia Tells Citizens Russia has taken the very rare step of warning its citizens from traveling to leading EU member Germany, describing that Russians have increasingly been targeted for persecution and harassment based on ethno-nationalism.  On Thursday Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova cited recent repeat instances of “unjustified harassment” by German state authorities, under the […]

  • Turkey Makes Another $9 Billion Bet On Russian Nuclear Power
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 1:10 pm

    Turkey Makes Another $9 Billion Bet On Russian Nuclear Power Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, Turkey just took another very large, very deliberate step deeper into Russia’s energy orbit — and this time it comes with a $9 billion price tag. Ankara says that Russia has provided $9 billion in new financing for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, Turkey’s first-ever nuclear facility, which is being built by Russia’s […]

  • “Common Sense” Is Back: UK Finally Scraps Non-Crime Hate Incident Laws Nationwide
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 12:35 pm

    “Common Sense” Is Back: UK Finally Scraps Non-Crime Hate Incident Laws Nationwide Police chiefs will reportedly seek to scrap non-crime hate incidents in plans they will present to the Home Secretary next month. The Telegraph reports that police leaders have decided that NCHIs are no longer “fit for purpose” after warnings that recording them undermines freedom of speech and diverts officers away from fighting crime. […]

  • Stockman: The Real Story Behind The Russia–Ukraine War… And What Happens Next
    by Tyler Durden on December 27, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Stockman: The Real Story Behind The Russia–Ukraine War… And What Happens Next Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com, Notwithstanding the historic fluidity of borders, there is no case whatsoever that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was “unprovoked” and unrelated to NATO’s own transparent provocations in the region. The details are arrayed below, but the larger issue needs be addressed […]

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