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Ethereum trades in a tight range after rebounding from sharp losses near the $1,800 level. The 1-hour chart shows a corrective bounce from the Fibonacci base around $1,801. Price reclaimed short-term moving averages, yet the broader trend still reflects lower highs from the $2,100 zone. Consequently, sellers maintain medium-term control despite the recent recovery.

The Cardano (ADA) network is preparing to launch the USDCx stablecoin before the end of February 2025. In a bid to improve liquidity of DeFi protocols and compete with its peers, the Cardano network will soon have a regulatory-compliant stablecoin dubbed USDCx, which mirrors USDC by Circle Internet Group.

Cypherpunk Technologies, a Nasdaq-listed firm, has purchased an additional 56,418 ZEC for $29 million at an average price of approximately $514 per token. The acquisition brings the company’s holdings to roughly 1.76% of the Zcash network supply as of December 30, 2025.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded its investigation into DeFi protocol Aave, bringing an end to a regulatory process that lasted nearly four years, according to Aave founder Stani Kulechov.

The cold war between decentralized finance (DeFi) and Wall Street incumbents turned hot Tuesday, with Uniswap Labs founder Hayden Adams accusing Citadel Securities of engineering a regulatory kill-switch for the industry. Adams alleges the market-making giant is pressuring the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to legally reclassify software developers as “centralized intermediaries,” a designation that would impose impossible compliance burdens on permissionless protocols.

The cryptocurrency sector suffered a catastrophic security regression in November, with total losses from exploits and hacks surging nearly 1,000% month-over-month.

Polygon’s growing bet on zero knowledge technology has started to show concrete results as co-founder Sandeep Nailwal drew fresh attention to Katana, a DeFi focused Layer 2 that is now one of the largest ZK rollups in the Polygon environment.

Decentralized exchange and liquidity protocol Balancer has suffered a major security breach, with attackers stealing over $120 million in digital assets.

As of October 28, 2025, CryptoRank data showed Risk Curator Protocols nearing $10 billion in total value locked. Capital moved toward products that target predictable, rules-based yield instead of direct high-beta exposure. Such a shift marks a broader turn in crypto’s investment story from speculative bursts to institutional-style allocation.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Scallop (SCA) has emerged as one of the leading projects on the Sui blockchain, to a recent report from crypto research firm Messari.

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) price today trades near $3,805, struggling to recover after losing key support from its rising channel structure. The sharp rejection near $4,800 triggered heavy selling, driving ETH below its 20-day and 50-day exponential moving averages (EMAs) and straight into the $3,700–$3,750 support zone. This area now aligns with Ethereum’s bull market support band, making it the critical line buyers must defend.

Polymarket, the blockchain-based prediction-market platform, secured a $2 billion strategic investment from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent of the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction, announced October 7 2025, lifted Polymarket’s valuation to roughly $9 billion, making it one of the highest-valued decentralized-finance (DeFi) companies to date.

ECB President Christine Lagarde reignited criticism of Bitcoin, stating it has no “underlying value”, again positioning it as a speculative technology rather than real money.

Global cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has the listing of Falcon Finance (FF). This project is building the first universal collateralization infrastructure for digital and real-world assets.

A survey by the shows that 42% of Americans say they would try decentralized finance (DeFi) if proposed legislation is passed into law. That 42% breaks down into about 9% who are “extremely or very likely” and about 33% who are “somewhat likely” to use DeFi under a clearer legal framework.

The Federal Reserve delivered its first rate cut of 2025, lowering the federal funds rate by 25 basis points. The move pushed the U.S. dollar to its weakest level in more than three years while risk assets, from equities to commodities to crypto, surged on the shift.