The numbers are dizzying, the actions are striking: T3 FCU turns USDT into a nightmare for international fraudsters.
In 2025, venture capital in the crypto sector will continue to grow. According to experts, venture capital investors will focus on three burgeoning areas in the cryptocurrency industry, likely attracting nearly 18 billion dollars in investments.
Victims of the FTX bankruptcy are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. The crypto exchange platform officially activated its reimbursement plan on January 3, 2024, paving the way for the return of funds to millions of affected users.
Cryptos continue to captivate the attention of the financial world, but the true players in this market often lurk in the shadows: the whales. These investors with colossal resources influence trends and open new paths. This time, it is in the realm of AI-based tokens that an anonymous whale has struck hard, raking in 11.5 million dollars in less than three weeks.
The Bitcoin network has just reached a historic milestone, achieving a record hashrate of 1,000 exahashes per second (EH/s) on January 3, 2025. This symbolic threshold represents an unprecedented acceleration of computing power mobilized to secure the blockchain, as the mining sector undergoes a phase of strategic expansion. Over the span of a year, the network's hashing capacity has doubled, increasing from 510 EH/s in January 2024 to this unprecedented level, illustrating the scale of investments in the industry.
Blockchain, like a Swiss watch, measures the economy to the thousandth. Goodbye artistic blur, hello fractional wealth and disruptive promises.
The Solana network is undergoing an unprecedented expansion phase, driven by massive adoption of memecoins and a significant rise in speculative activity. However, this dynamics raises questions within the community of project founders on the Blockchain. According to a survey conducted by Blockworks Research, 76% of them believe that memecoins play a beneficial role in the ecosystem, while 16% consider artificial intelligence (AI) agents to be an overrated technology. These results reflect an increasing gap between two major trends: on one side, the enthusiasm for highly volatile assets, and on the other, skepticism regarding new AI applications in Web3.
On Friday, January 3, 2025, Wall Street experienced a day of gains marked by a return of risk appetite among investors. After a period of volatility and uncertainty, the major stock indices saw significant gains, reflecting renewed confidence in the American economy.
For some time now, MicroStrategy has established itself as the leading company in Bitcoin. With a bold strategy that combines financial innovation and conviction, it is once again in the spotlight with an ambitious proposal: to raise 2 billion dollars to acquire more bitcoin.
Inflation in the eurozone continues to receive close attention as markets monitor the release of December's figures. According to FactSet estimates, consumer prices are expected to rise by 2.4% year-on-year, up from 2.2% in November. This increase, although moderate, raises questions about the path the European Central Bank (ECB) is set to take. On one hand, some investors are betting on a rapid monetary easing, convinced that inflation will gradually return to the ECB's target of 2%. On the other hand, the sustainability of underlying inflation at 2.7%, fueled by rising prices of services and food products, urges the central bank to exercise caution. As the ECB prepares for its first meeting of the year on January 30, the balance between supporting the economy and controlling prices looks particularly delicate.