🚀 10 Best Crypto Staking Platforms For 2025

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OpenLedger has officially activated its OPEN Mainnet 🎉

The AI-powered blockchain built to bring real trust to intelligence data is now fully live 🤖✨

Backed by major investors and boosted by a rapidly growing AI narrative, many holders feel this could be a prime moment to stay positioned 📈💎
Community confidence keeps climbing, and trader sentiment is getting more bullish by the day 🔥📊

If this energy holds, a new ATH attempt for $OPEN might be closer than anyone expects 🚀👀

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BlackRock is creating a staked Ethereum ETF

BlackRock has registered a new staked Ethereum ETF.

This is an initial step required before submitting a full application to launch the fund.

BlackRock already has the iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA), but it does not include staking

Trader earned $150,000 in 30 minutes

An unknown investor bought 28.2 million Vulgar Penguin tokens for 53.8 BNB (~$46,300), and just 30 minutes later sold most of them — 27.2 million — receiving about $148,000.

He kept another 1 million tokens, valued at roughly $7,500.

🚨Breaking: SEC Chair Reveals Innovation Exemption for Crypto Firms Could Start in January

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Chainalysis and Binance dispute methods of criminal-risk analysis.

After the crypto exchange Binance stated that no more than 0.023% of trading volume on major crypto exchanges is linked to illicit wallets—citing data from Chainalysis and TRM Labs—Chainalysis challenged these figures.

The company said that the analysis was not conducted by its team and did not include key categories of crime tracked in its datasets.

Binance’s analysis did not account for cases where illegal entities attempt to hide the origin of funds by moving them through intermediate wallets. Ignoring these factors significantly understates the numbers.

XRP drops to deepest fear levels since October

According to Santiment, XRP has entered the “fear zone” after falling more than 30% from its October peak.

Social data shows that negative sentiment around the token is now at its highest point in the past two months. The last time similar fear levels were recorded was on November 21 — after that, XRP jumped 22% within three days.

Despite the launch of several spot XRP ETFs from Bitwise, Grayscale, Franklin Templeton and others, investor expectations have not been met — no significant rally has followed.

WORLD'S FIRST CRYPTO INDEX FUND GOES LIVE!

Bitwise 10 Crypto Index ETF $BITW has begun trading on NYSE Arca as an ETP!

BITW is the world's largest crypto index fund with $$1.25B AUM, tracking $BTC, $ETH, $XRP, $SOL, $ADA, $LINK, $LTC, $SUI, $AVAX, and $DOT.

🚨 Crypto Bill Talks Stall as Senate Democrats Push Back on Stablecoin Yield Provisions

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Fidelity leads Bitcoin ETF inflows

Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $152 million in net inflows over the past 24 hours, with Fidelity’s FBTC driving the surge by attracting $199 million — the largest inflow in the market. Total inflows into FBTC since launch have now reached $12.3 billion.

Other issuers, including Grayscale, Bitwise, ARK Invest, Invesco, Franklin Templeton, and WisdomTree, also saw positive flows. Meanwhile, BlackRock’s IBIT faced $135 million in net outflows.

Ethereum ETFs also picked up momentum, bringing in $178 million — their strongest single-day inflow since October. Fidelity’s fund led the group, followed by Grayscale and BlackRock.

Q4 reality check — no Santa rally this time

Eric Trump wasn’t exaggerating when he spoke in September about an “incredible” fourth quarter — just not in the way many expected

Markets are moving with such confidence to the downside that even a classic Santa Rally can’t save this quarter. So far, Q4 is shaping up to be the second-weakest on record, down around -23%, second only to 2018’s brutal -42%.

U.S. Senate confirms crypto-friendly CFTC and FDIC chairs

The U.S. Senate confirmed Mike Selig as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Travis Hill as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) — both are seen as crypto-friendly.

Their confirmation could reduce regulatory uncertainty and pave the way for new policy initiatives in 2026–27.

Matador receives approval to raise $58M for Bitcoin reserve

Matador Technologies has received approval from the Canadian regulator to issue shares and other securities worth up to $58 million, in order to accelerate the build-up of its Bitcoin reserve. The company plans to increase its holdings to 1,000 BTC by 2026, using the proceeds both for Bitcoin purchases and general corporate purposes.

Matador currently holds around 175 BTC (≈ $15.3 million). In December 2024, the company launched a Bitcoin-focused strategy with a $4.5 million BTC purchase, after which its Bitcoin reserve grew by more than 700%. The regulatory approval does not require the company to raise capital immediately, allowing it to do so flexibly depending on market conditions.

With more than 190 public companies now holding Bitcoin on their balance sheets, the Matador case highlights sustained institutional interest in BTC while also intensifying the debate over the risks and long-term sustainability of such corporate strategies.

Trust Wallet users lost over $6M in a browser extension incident

On-chain investigator ZachXBT estimated initial user losses at over $6 million following an incident involving the Trust Wallet browser extension.

Reminder: Trust Wallet previously acknowledged an issue affecting the extension and advised users to update to the latest version or temporarily disable the extension.

Ethereum is back in demand

In Q4 2025, the number of deployed smart contracts on Ethereum hit a new all-time high — 8.7 million

This surge in activity likely follows the recent Fusaka upgrade and the rollout of PeerDAS, which significantly simplified development and improved network efficiency for builders.

More contracts = more real usage, not just hype. Looks like Ethereum is quietly regaining momentum on the fundamentals

Hackers stole $76 million in crypto in December

In December 2025, losses across the crypto industry from hacks totaled $76 million, according to PeckShield.

This is 60% less than in November, when damages reached $194.2 million.

A total of 26 incidents were recorded during the month, with the largest theft amounting to $50 million.