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Introduction The digital asset sector experienced a pivotal transformation throughout 2025, marked by significant security challenges, regulatory breakthroughs, and deeper integration with traditional financial systems. Rather than being driven by a single dominant narrative, the year was characterized by a succession of events spanning infrastructure breaches, legislative developments, technical market structure innovations, and accelerated convergence between conventional f

Bitcoin's headline cap of 21 million coins is real, but the actual usable supply tells a different story. When you account for coins still waiting to be mined, provably unspendable outputs, and the millions of bitcoins lost to forgotten keys and hardware failures, Bitcoin's effective circulating supply drops dramatically below that famous number. For investors and miners, this matters far more than the marketing headline.

The Christmas rally represents a recurring pattern where cryptocurrency and precious metal markets surge during December and early January. As investors debate which asset performs better during this festive season, understanding the differences between Bitcoin and gold becomes crucial for portfolio decisions.

US banks are not racing to issue speculative crypto products. Instead, they are methodically rebuilding core financial plumbing, including payments, deposits, custody and fund administration, so these services can operate on distributed ledgers. The work is incremental, technical and often invisible to retail customers, but it is already reshaping how large institutions think about money movement and settlement rather than embracing unregulated crypto assets.