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The reported gains don’t fully reflect the strength of the recent recovery. We saw a solid foundation forming, with prices making higher lows instead of continuing to fall. For the first time since July 2025, buying pressure consistently outweighed selling pressure across all major exchanges, and investors started shifting their money into a wider range of alternative cryptocurrencies. This wasn’t just a temporary price spike driven by short covering; it was a sustained increase fueled by confidence from institutional investors and a healthier market environment.

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The popular decentralized exchange is now letting users bet on real-world events, not just cryptocurrency prices. This built-in prediction market allows people to trade contracts based on things like inflation rates and interest rate changes, all within the same account they use for regular crypto trading.

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Over the last 24 hours, Zcash (ZEC) experienced a 5.2% price decrease, falling to $619. This was the largest drop among the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, though it remains up 8.2% over the past week, according to CoinDesk. Monero (XMR) also saw a decline, falling 4% to $378.

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Arkham Intelligence, a company specializing in blockchain analysis, recently discovered it had identified the parties behind over half of all Zcash transactions. This accounts for around $420 billion worth of ZEC. Their findings, released in December 2025, sparked a discussion about how private Zcash actually is, given its design allows users to choose whether or not to hide their transactions.

Shiba Inu’s Futile Plunge: A Canine Comedy in Crypto

CoinGlass, ever the sentinel of financial whimsy, tracks SHIB futures netflow dropping 306%, with tokens fleeing derivatives exchange wallets like guests from a tedious dinner party. This metric, a beacon of trader sentiment, suggests a collective shrug of indifference rather than a bullish charge.