Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Bitcoin traded mostly flat around $87,000 heading into the final weekend of 2025 as investors remained cautious amid thin liquidity and tax-driven selling. Cryptocurrency Ticker Price Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) $87,351.16 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) $2,923.07 Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) $122.01 XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) $1.84 Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) $0.1221 Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) $0.057119 Not ...

Christmas week was good for most people, but for hundreds of crypto investors, it ended with a court-ordered shutdown. An Australian court has shut down NGS Crypto, a digital asset company that marketed itself as a crypto-based retirement solution, after liquidators recovered just $4.4 million of an estimated $40 million invested by the public. The Federal Court order, issued during Christmas week, followed findings that the Gold Coast–linked group operated an unlicensed financial services business and ...

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz warned that XRP’s value will increasingly depend on whether it can keep its community narrative intact as markets shift toward tokens that behave more like real businesses. “The moment you're not money, Bitcoin is money, then you're just a business,” Novogratz said on Galaxy Brains. “The valuations are a lot lower.” He then pointed directly at XRP’s ecosystem durability. “The questions will be can Ripple hold it together? Can Cardona hold it together?” Novogratz said, ar ...

Coinbase Base. Photo by BeInCrypto Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong predicts US banks will reverse their stance on stablecoin regulation and eventually lobby Congress to permit interest payments on these digital assets. Armstrong’s forecast, posted December 27 on X, contradicts the banking sector’s current efforts to strip yield-generating features from the GENIUS Act. Armstrong Predicts Banks Will Reverse Course on Stablecoin Interest Bans He argued that lenders are currently protecting low-cost deposits ...

In 2026, new regulations will shape the U.K. stablecoin market. Credit: Rodrigo Santos via Pexels. Key Takeaways The U.K. is on course to finalize new regulations for stablecoins in 2026. New rules won’t affect access to USDT or USDC on crypto exchanges. However, they will affect Circle and Tether’s ability to expand more mainstream use cases in the country. As the government and financial authorities advance new rules for the sector, in 2026, stablecoins are poised to fall under the umbrella of U ...

Enhanced risk controls deployed mid-year canceled eligibility for accounts using automated scripts. Binance tightened criteria for counting valid transactions in point rankings to help eliminate wash trading.In June, Binance introduced two-phase airdrop distribution. High-scoring users claimed first, then thresholds decreased every five minutes so more participants could join on a first-come, first-served basis. This was done in an effort to balance rewarding loyalty with democratizing access, reducing whal ...

XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) is down 48% from its $3.65 peak in July peak, despite Ripple Labs spending $2.7 billion in 2025 on acquiring a prime brokerage, treasury management, and stablecoin infrastructure.SEC Settlement Ended Four-Year BattleRipple's transformation began after it settled its four-year legal battle with the U.S. SEC.In August, both sides dropped their appeals, reinforcing a 2023 ruling that separated institutional XRP sales from retail activity.The move lifted a long-standing regulatory overhang tha ...

The European Union (EU) is ready to implement DAC8 for crypto tax transparency. What is DAC8, you ask? The Directive on Administrative Cooperation is a comprehensive directive that will fundamentally change how crypto transactions are monitored and taxed. DAC8 was adopted by the council of EU in October 2023. Now, starting 1 January 2026, crypto exchanges will be required to collect and report detailed user and transaction data to national tax authorities. However, companies have been granted six months, ...

The digital asset market recorded an exceptional performance in 2025, broadly validating forecasts made the previous year, according to CoinShares. Bitcoin reached new all-time highs while crypto returned to daily institutional and media discourse—this time in a far more constructive light than during the downturn of 2022–2023. The year was not without turbulence. Periods of volatility and liquidation events served as reminders that crypto remains a young asset class. CoinShares argues that focusing exc ...

Crypto’s biggest wins are often tightly connected to the rise in asset prices, but Ripple’s 2025 successes extend far beyond the price of XRP—the Ripple-linked asset that sits inside the top five crypto assets by market capitalization.  Instead, most of the biggest headlines attached to the financial services organization were irrelevant to trading screens, most notably the conclusion to its years-long battle with the SEC, major acquisitions to propel its future growth, and the launch of a billion-dollar st ...