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EU Crypto Tax Reporting to Launch in January, Non-Compliance May Risk Asset Seizure

BlockBeats News, December 24th, according to CoinDesk, the European Union’s newly introduced Digital Asset Tax Transparency Regulation will officially take effect on January 1, 2026, marking a significant shift in the regulatory approach to crypto activities across the entire EU. Known as DAC8, this regulation expands the scope of the EU’s long-standing framework for administrative … Read more

A whale shorted BTC with a floating profit of $12.5 million, earning $9.6 million in funding fees over a 2-month holding period

BlockBeats News, December 24th, according to Arkham monitoring, a swing trader has accumulated realized and unrealized profits of $12.5 million from a BTC short position held for 2 months. Due to the extremely long holding period, the funding fee income from this single trade alone amounts to $9.6 million. Additionally, they hold $3.5 million worth … Read more

Crypto insiders stopped buying new tokens 2 years ago, creating a liquidity trap that’s crushing retail buyers

More than 80% of the tokens launched this year are trading underwater, marking a definitive shift in the market’s appetite for venture-backed cryptocurrency projects. Data from Memento Research showed that it tracked 118 major token generation events in 2025 and found that 100 of them, or 84.7%, are trading below their opening fully diluted valuations. … Read more

Metaplanet stopped buying Bitcoin for months, concealing a ruthless arbitrage strategy that puts retail to shame

Over the past quarter, the most notable market signal from Japan-based Metaplanet was not a single Bitcoin purchase, but a pause. The Tokyo-listed firm, which spent much of 2025 aggressively acquiring Bitcoin, has not issued a “Notice of Additional Purchase” since Oct. 1. Metaplanet’s Last Bitcoin Purchase. (Source: Metaplanet) While retail observers feared a loss … Read more

Base’s 2025 Report Card: Revenue Grows 30-Fold, Strengthens Leading Position in L2

Original Title: Are you Based? Base’s Outlook for 2026 Original Author: AJC, Messari Original Compilation: Tim, PANews In 2025, Base further solidified its leading position as an Ethereum L2 across numerous data metrics. Among these, revenue is the most indicative metric of its dominance within the entire L2 ecosystem. Although total L2 revenue has significantly … Read more

Token swaps power instant DeFi trades without banks or brokers

Token swaps let users trade crypto directly via DeFi smart contracts and AMMs, tapping liquidity pools for instant, permissionless access to assets and yields. Token swaps represent a decentralized finance (DeFi) mechanism that allows users to exchange one cryptocurrency token…