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A suspected manipulation attempt in BROCCOLI(714) triggered extreme volatility that an experienced trader exploited for massive gains. Unusual trading activity in the low-liquidity meme coin BROCCOLI(714) on Binance was flagged on January 1 after the asset experienced an abrupt price surge followed by a sharp reversal. The volatility allowed pseudonymous trader “Vida” to generate around $1 million in profit by reacting quickly to abnormal market signals. Anomaly in BROCCOLI(714) Vida said he already held spot and derivatives positions in BROCCOLI(714) and had set automated alerts to flag quick price increases and large divergences between spot and perpetual futures prices. When…

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…

Asian equity markets roared into 2026 on Thursday, with semiconductor and AI stocks leading the charge, while bitcoin struggled to gain momentum amid broader risk-on sentiment.Shanghai Biren Technology, the first Chinese GPU startup to list in Hong Kong, more than doubled on its trading debut. Shares opened at HK$35.70, well above the IPO price of HK$19.60, and surged as much as 119% to HK$42.88.Sponsored Biren’s Hong Kong Debut Sparks AI Chip FrenzyThe offering drew extraordinary demand, with retail investors oversubscribing by 2,347 times and institutional orders reaching 26 times the available shares. The company raised HK$5.58 billion ($717 million), valuing…

Crypto investors across 48 countries will start to have their crypto wallet transaction data recorded for tax purposes this year, as the long-awaited Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework rolls out globally. CARF, an international tax transparency framework developed by the OECD, officially goes into effect in 2027. However, as of Jan. 1, crypto service providers in participating jurisdictions — including centralized and certain decentralized exchanges, crypto ATMs, and brokers and dealers — are already required to begin collecting the necessary transaction data.It’s a signal that countries are moving toward more transparency to fight tax evasion and money laundering.Many countries ready to collect tax data…

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 Korea’s Bithumb is launching its third annual dormant asset recovery campaign, revealing that unclaimed cryptocurrency holdings on its platform have fallen to 291.6 billion won ($201 million)—a 34% decrease from last year’s 443.5 billion won ($306 million).The decline follows a previous year’s campaign in which approximately 36,000 customers reclaimed a combined 70.6 billion won ($49 million) in forgotten assets. Market fluctuations also contributed to the year-over-year change.Sponsored The Largest Was Single Account With $2.8M Forgotten AssetThis year’s campaign targets 2.57 million accounts that have shown no login or trading activity for at least one year. Among them, the largest…

Head of research at on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has explained how demand makes the basis of a Bitcoin cycle, rather than price performance. Bitcoin Apparent Demand Has Been Declining Recently In a new post on X, CryptoQuant head of research Julio Moreno has talked about Bitcoin cycles from a different lens. “Most are focusing on price performance to define a cycle, when it is demand what they should be looking to,” noted Moreno. The analyst has gauged the “demand” for the cryptocurrency using the Apparent Demand indicator, which compares the daily miner issuance against the changes in the 1-year dormant…

A cryptocurrency analyst has explained how XRP could be at risk of a drop toward $0.80 based on the data of some on-chain indicators. XRP Has Seen Bearish Developments In On-Chain Data In a new thread on X, analyst Ali Martinez has talked about why XRP may be at risk of seeing a decline to the $0.80 level. “First, network activity has cooled sharply,” noted Martinez. There are many ways to gauge network activity, but the analyst has used the Active Addresses on-chain indicator. This metric keeps track of the total number of addresses that are taking part in some…

2025 was a big year for privacy onchain. Zcash, one of the original privacy coins, jumped more than 600%, and was one of the year’s biggest success stories. Ethereum and Solana announced major initiatives to bring privacy to their networks. And startups building privacy-preserving tech with zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) continued to gain traction.Influencers like Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana infrastructure firm Helius, said it was “Privacy Szn.” And many others said privacy was essential for institutional adoption, as companies generally don’t want to do business on public blockchains with fully transparent ledgers. So, what’s ahead…

Ethereum nears $4,800 resistance with $8,500 target in sight as traders monitor key patterns, whale accumulation, and declining short interest. Ethereum (ETH) is nearing key resistance levels as the market watches for a breakout. The price is trading around $2,970 at press time, showing little change over the past day. Over the past week, ETH has gained close to 2%. Technical charts and trading activity suggest a larger move may be forming. Market Watches $4,800 as a Decisive Level Analyst Javon Marks has pointed to $4,800 as a major resistance zone. His earlier price call from around $1,215 to this…