January 30, 2026
Crypto

On-chain neobanks eye $4.4t market as blockchain banking scales by 2034

Data suggests neobanks will expand from roughly $149b in 2024 to $4.4t by 2034 as more services run fully on-chain, replacing slow cross-border systems with software rails.​ Summary Market projections show neobanking scaling past $1t by 2029 and to $4.4t by 2034, with growth driven by digital, mobile-first and on-chain banking models.​ On-chain neobanks run

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Ethereum

Ethereum.org Translatathon Recap | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Ethereum.org is an educational website and portal to Ethereum – for many people, it is their first contact with Ethereum, the place where they find their first wallet or dapp to use, and their go-to resource to start learning or level up their knowledge. To best serve this purpose, we have been running the ethereum.org

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Bitcoin

Crypto News Today: Latest Updates for 25 Dec 2025, Bitcoin Hovers at $87.4k as Metaplanet Wins Approval for Ambitious BTC Accumulation Plan

As of 25 December 2025, Bitcoin remains stuck well below the $90k mark, trading at $87,472. Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded another day of net outflows and holiday trading conditions isn’t helping. To add to the chaos, roughly $30.3Bn in BTC options are expiring, with the 8:00 am UTC Friday. Most call options are struck far above spot,

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Crypto

Crypto markets heat up for Christmas; XRP on-chain fund movements make M DeFi a focus of year-end investment attention

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Christmas-season market activity is fueling renewed interest in on-chain participation, with unusual XRP fund flows bringing M DeFi into focus. Summary Unusual XRP whale movements ahead of Christmas highlight year-end fund reallocation trends. Rising

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Ethereum

Update – Advisory on recent events and potential travel considerations

Over the last weeks, we have been closely monitoring the security and safety in Istanbul. In particular, we have been focused on how events in Israel and the Gaza Strip may impact attendee safety. We try to assess risk whenever we host an event. In the case of Devconnect Istanbul, we have consulted with our

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin and ether ETFs see $200 million outflows ahead of Christmas

Spot bitcoin and ether ETFs saw another round of outflows on Dec. 24 as traders moved into the Christmas break with reduced liquidity and a weaker appetite for risk. SoSoValue data showed bitcoin spot ETFs posted $175 million in net outflows on Wednesday, while ether spot ETFs showed $57 million in outflows. The biggest single-day

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Crypto

Bitwise files for spot SUI ETF as institutional race heats up

Bitwise files for a spot SUI ETF with Coinbase Custody, extending the race to launch regulated exposure to the Sui Layer 1 token in U.S. markets. Summary Bitwise files for spot SUI ETF as institutional race heats up.​ Sui Layer 1 token in focus as Bitwise submits spot SUI ETF filing.​ Coinbase-backed SUI ETF bid

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Ethereum

Secured #6 – Writing Robust C – Best Practices for Finding and Preventing Vulnerabilities

For EIP-4844, Ethereum clients need the ability to compute and verify KZG commitments. Rather than each client rolling their own crypto, researchers and developers came together to write c-kzg-4844, a relatively small C library with bindings for higher-level languages. The idea was to create a robust and efficient cryptographic library that all clients could use.

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Bitcoin

Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès Reveals Details Of 2014 Collapse And Japanese Detention

In late 2025, Mark Karpelès, ex CEO of Mt. Gox, lives a quieter life in Japan, building a VPN and an AI automation platform. As Chief Protocol Officer at vp.net—a VPN that uses Intel’s SGX technology to let users verify exactly what code runs on servers—he works alongside Roger Ver and Andrew Lee, the founder

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Crypto

PENGU price bucks Christmas lull as it appears on the Las Vegas sphere

PENGU price bucked the crypto market lull and rallied against the market after the Pudgy Penguins brand made an appearance on the famous Las Vegas Sphere. Summary PENGU rallied over 7.5% from its December 24 low following Pudgy Penguins’ appearance on the Las Vegas Sphere. The ad campaign marks Pudgy Penguins as only the second

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