Coinbase Institutional’s 2026 Crypto Market Outlook frames the industry at a pivotal transition, with policy clarity, institutional participation, and infrastructure convergence positioning digital assets to integrate deeper into the financial core over the coming year.

Ether-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) experienced a year of dramatic expansion and painful corrections in 2025. Liquidity deepened, assets scaled rapidly, and investor behavior revealed a market still finding its long-term footing.

2025 was shaped by quieter structural shifts that rewired how crypto actually works, from stablecoins becoming financial infrastructure to traders abandoning old cycle myths and demanding real revenue instead of hype.

With gold and silver reaching record highs almost daily, leaving investment alternatives in the dust, analysts are scared about what this might mean for the wider economic ecosystem. Some believe this is not normal and might lead to a recession.

Donald Trump closed 2025 as the first sitting U.S. president to preside over a meme coin experiment that began in spectacle and ended in spreadsheets.

Bitcoin strutted into Dec. 26, 2025, wearing a shiny $88,630 price tag and a not-so-subtle smirk, but behind that swagger is a market that’s walking on eggshells. With a market cap brushing against $1.76 trillion and trading volume floating at $38.17 billion, the real story lies in the tense tango between consolidation and breakout tension—wrapped in a price band barely wider than a hopscotch square.

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Arthur Hayes recently argued that the altcoin season never actually stopped; instead, he said it has become “nuanced” and “decoupled.” Market data from much of 2025 supports this view, showing massive gains in certain niches while others stagnated.

Grayscale signals a sustained crypto bull market heading into 2026, forecasting rising valuations across sectors, a new bitcoin high, and accelerating institutional adoption driven by macro risk, regulatory clarity, and deeper ties to traditional finance.

Reports of a large-scale hack involving Trust Wallet, a popular multi-currency wallet, flooded social media on Thursday. Known blockchain security influencer ZachXBT stated that hundreds were affected, and that over $6 million was siphoned from victims’ wallets.

Martin Yeza, deputy of the new Congress, stated that stablecoins might fulfill a new pivotal role in the country’s payment structure. He considers that allowing the central bank to hold cryptocurrency and state companies to mine crypto would be positive. Local analysts also supported a so-called economic “tetherization.”

The year 2025 will be chronicled in financial history as the inflection point where digital assets achieved systemic integration into mainstream institutional finance.

In 2025, prediction markets stopped acting like a sideshow and started behaving like a real financial category.

The crypto market’s poster child decided to cozy up near the fireplace this Christmas, holding the line at $87,489 with less drama than a family holiday dinner. Despite the tinsel and lights, bitcoin spent the day flirting with the lower end of its intraday range, showing more caution than celebration.

Bitcoin ETFs recorded a fifth consecutive day of outflows, while ether ETFs also remained under pressure. XRP and solana ETFs continued to post modest inflows, signaling selective investor appetite amid broader caution.