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December 30, 2025

Your Daily Digest of the 🔥Hottest News in Crypto

Today's top stories

👉 Is Ethereum building a rally?

🧐 6 Stablecoins predictions for 2026

👀 This company is cornering the Zcash supply

📰 Keep reading for all of today's biggest headlines & stories

Ethereum Sets a Record 8.7M New Contracts While Price Sleeps

Ethereum logged one of its strongest onchain quarters while its price looked half asleep. According to Token Terminal, developers deployed a record 8.7 million new contracts in Q4, driven by tokenized assets, stablecoins, and infrastructure projects that treat Ethereum as a settlement layer, not a trade.

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Six Stablecoin Bets for 2026 — and One Big Warning

Stablecoins have turned into core infrastructure in emerging markets and are gaining ground in developed ones, but the industry still cannot agree on what comes next. When we asked 20 crypto executives for their 2026 outlook, the answers split along a clear fault line. One camp expects decentralized stablecoins and open protocols to dominate. The other thinks tokenized bank deposits will pull the largest flows.

Underneath the optimism sits a stark warning. Several leaders flagged the risk that poorly designed stablecoins could amplify stress instead of dampening it, especially if they plug directly into traditional money markets. Will stablecoins end up re-wiring global payments, or will banks and regulators adapt in ways that blur the category beyond recognition?

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South Korea hits pause on its stablecoin bill

South Korea was supposed to be one of the next big test cases for domestic stablecoins. Instead, its flagship Digital Asset Basic Act is slipping into 2026. Yonhap reports that lawmakers are holding back the bill as disagreements flare over how to handle issuers and where to draw the line on risk.

For a region that has talked openly about Web3 and digital finance, this delay matters. It slows plans for won-pegged stablecoins and keeps local players in a gray area while other jurisdictions move ahead with clearer frameworks. The open question is whether Seoul uses the extra time to build a credible, bank-friendly regime, or if the delay signals deeper discomfort with letting private issuers into the core of the payments stack.

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The "vault-to-earn" mechanism allows users to reserve funds for unlocking IP rights or RWA purchases in a vault for upfront rewards.

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Cypherpunk Bought $29M of Zcash. Here's What That Really Means

While most treasuries are still debating how much Bitcoin they can stomach, Cypherpunk is loading up on Zcash. The Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury just bought 56,418 ZEC for about 29 million dollars at an average price of 514 per coin. That lifts its holdings to roughly 290,000 ZEC, or around 1.76% of circulating supply, and the company has been explicit about targeting 5%.

On paper, it is a high-conviction privacy bet in a market that is drifting toward compliance-first narratives. In practice, it concentrates treasury risk in a single, volatile asset that regulators watch closely. If Zcash finally catches the liquidity wave Arthur Hayes and others are predicting, Cypherpunk's treasury starts to look prescient. If it does not, the company will have chosen one of the most contested corners of crypto as its core reserve.

How Strategy keeps finding cash to buy Bitcoin

Strategy spent another 980.3 million dollars on Bitcoin in the middle of a drawdown. The mechanics behind that buy are more interesting than the headline number. The company has turned equity issuance and balance sheet reserves into a repeatable engine that funds BTC purchases even when the coin, and Strategy's own stock, are under pressure. At the same time, it has built a 1.44 billion dollar reserve to reassure investors that dividend and interest obligations will not force a sale at the worst moment.