Bitcoin, that sly fox, climbed 2.45% and kept its nose above $92,000, like a well-dressed gentleman at a party 🦊. Ethereum, ever the underdog, danced near $3,240 with a 1.68% leap, proving that even the stodgiest coins can shake a leg 🐲. 🎉
According to Solana’s announcement, Firedancer has survived 100 days of testing, producing 50,000 blocks without incident. One might call it a “success,” though “success” here means “no explosions.” Built in C++ (because Python was too… poetic?), Firedancer promises to handle workloads like a Russian peasant with a plow and a vendetta. The validators, now 20% more distributed than a government handout, have shifted allegiances as if swapping winter coats for summer flannels.
Biometric verification, once a tool of dystopia, now masquerades as salvation. Co-founders Sam Altman and Alex Blania, with their gleaming smiles, herald a new economic model. But what of the individual, crushed beneath the weight of web3’s utopian lies? “It’s hard to identify unique people,” Altman sighs, as if the problem were the people, not the system.
Klarna, that paragon of financial innovation, announced a research partnership with Privy on December 11, 2025, aimed at developing wallet solutions for its crypto products, including the recently launched USD stablecoin. The collaboration seeks to make cryptocurrency more accessible to everyday users, building on Klarna’s existing financial services platform. 🚀
According to the wise folks in the court, his scheme was basically the crypto version of a house of cards – collapsing faster than your hopes for Dogecoin to hit the moon. Thousands of investors are now more broke than a college student on pizza night, thanks to his shady dealings with TerraUSD and Luna, which, fun fact, were supposed to be stablecoins but turned out about as stable as a caffeinated cat. 🐱☕
As the calendar inching toward the end of Q4, Solana is having a bad year, worse even than Binance Coin [BNB], which just casually waltzed in with a 27% gain over the same period. In comparison, SOL’s 27% loss makes you wonder if it’s got a personal vendetta against green numbers.
Suddenly, SHIB, the stubborn dog that it is, stops its frantic downward dive and begins to squeeze into a neat little snug niche. It’s no longer throwing tantrums-no more aggressive selling, just a gentle, perhaps desperate, gathering of tiny higher lows-like someone nervously edging forward in line for a Grand Opening that might never happen. This, dear reader, indicates a tired seller-perhaps even a seller who has seen better days-and not some rediscovered confidence that could turn the tide. But don’t break out the champagne just yet.
Just this Thursday – presumably while sipping a very serious cup of very serious tea – Chistyukhin told RIA Novosti that the CBR, the Ministry of Finance, Rosfinmonitoring, and assorted other eagle-eyed bureaucratic beasts are finalizing a new crypto regime. And guess what? It’s not a party. It’s more like a state exam, with jail as the penalty for cheating. 😬
XLM, my pet, is currently perched in a rather critical range. The poor dear is nestled between $0.250 and $0.262-its lowest point since the days when the network was still finding its cocktail dress. 🍸
The Web3 gaming advocacy group-whose name perhaps served to console the already quivering spirits of market ancestors-has released their annual state of the industry report, disseminated with the usual efficacious solemnity on a Wednesday. Their proclamation declares the sector “moving beyond its mercurial, speculative infancy towards a future of operational discipline and product-led achievements.” How quaint!
