On 27 December, Zcash surged about 15% to trade near $510, with trading volume up 45% to $665 million. Large holders increased exposure over the past month and derivatives positioning skewed long, while a breakout from an ascending triangle makes a daily close above $490 key to keep a move toward $615 in play.

Indian police in Hyderabad have arrested a former Coinbase customer support agent over an alleged role in the crypto exchange's data breach that began in December 2024 and exposed information for 69,461 users. Coinbase declined to pay a $20 million ransom, instead incurring $307 million in related costs and offering bounties while also facing a shareholder lawsuit over its handling of the incident.

In 2025, Bitcoin saw the launch of a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve under President Donald Trump, rising institutional ETF flows and a new all-time high above $126,000 before a sharp October reversal. After a $19 billion liquidation event, BTC slipped below key psychological price levels and hovered near $90,000 as indicators pointed toward the start of a bear cycle and investors increasingly rotated into traditional assets such as gold.

On-chain figures from TradeFi.Network show that tokenized real-world assets on the XDC Network have reached $717 million, with $345.3 million now deployed via VERT Capital in USDC-based private credit pools. This concentration suggests institutional capital is favoring larger, targeted allocations on XDC, where low-cost, permission-aware infrastructure supports private credit markets that Moody's estimates exceed $1.6 trillion globally.

On Dec. 28, Uniswap carried out a burn of 100 million UNI tokens, valued at about $596 million, after its UNIfication fee-burning proposal received 99.9% approval. The transaction, confirmed onchain, permanently cut UNI’s supply and was followed by fee changes on Uniswap v2, selected v3 pools and Unichain. UNI's price gained over 5% in the following 24 hours, while the Uniswap Foundation outlined plans for a 20 million UNI Growth Budget to support ecosystem development.

On-chain analyst Specter claims that a crypto wallet linked to influencer Andrew Tate moved $30 million into privacy protocol Railgun over a two-year span. The traced funds allegedly show laundering-style patterns tied to a Texas "pig butchering" fraud case, while Railgun's RAIL token recorded a 4.03% price move amid scrutiny. Tate has not been named as a defendant and no formal enforcement actions were reported at the time.

On December 28, the Flow Foundation’s Mainnet-28 protocol fix was approved and deployed by validators, placing the blockchain into an idle, read-only state with transactions halted. This security-focused posture follows a reported $3.9 million exploit that impacted user assets and has temporarily disrupted DeFi and cross-chain activity on the network. On the same date, FLOW traded at $0.12 with a market cap of $193.10 million, registering a 31.54% daily price drop alongside a sharp rise in trading volume.

On 27 December, BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. staked 154,176 ETH, valued at about $451 million, as part of a revised Ethereum strategy. The firm already controls roughly 3.369% of ETH’s circulating supply and aims to lift its share toward 5%, while other institutional holders have recently reduced or unstaked positions. Institutional assets under management in Ethereum remain significant despite recent outflows.