On Monday, silver briefly hit an all‑time high near $84/oz before sliding to around $75.72, while CME set $25,000 margins for precious metals. Over the past 30 days, tokenized SLV transfers rose about 1,200%, alongside sharp gains in holders and NAV. China's refined‑silver exports will require licenses from January 1, and analysts flagged widening gaps between physical and paper pricing across Shanghai, Dubai, and COMEX.

According to Cryptopolitan, LandSpace launched its reusable Zhuque-3 from Jiuquan earlier this month, achieving orbit but failing to recover the first stage after a landing burn did not ignite around 3 kilometers altitude. The company completed Shanghai STAR Market IPO tutoring on December 23, 2025, and targets at least 20 reuses with up to 18 tonnes to low Earth orbit.

Smart contract deployments on Ethereum reached an all-time high of 8.7 million in Q4 2025. The quarter also brought increased on-chain activity and a near 27.6% drop in ETH price, while active addresses rose year-to-date. Market flows and developer momentum continued to expand across DeFi and Layer 2 ecosystems.

Over the weekend, Ubisoft suspended Rainbow Six Siege's live services after attackers allegedly exploited a vulnerability to distribute around 2 billion R6 Credits and rare items, valued at roughly $13.33 million, to player accounts. The company initiated a rollback of all affected transactions after 11:00 AM UTC on December 27, has reopened servers following live tests, and says players will not be banned for spending the unauthorized credits while the in-game Marketplace remains closed during ongoing investigations.

On December 29, Coupang announced a compensation program worth over $1.17 billion in shopping vouchers for about 37.7 million current and former customers affected by a recent personal data breach. The payout, starting January 15, 2026, will provide four types of coupons per user, while the company stressed that payment and login details were not exposed and a former employee has been identified as the main suspect.

Hyperliquid closed out 2025 with $844 million in revenue, $2.95 trillion in trading volume, and more than 600,000 new users. Perpetuals generated $848.33 million in fees, while Bitcoin led activity at $1.16 trillion. The exchange also reported $3.87 billion in net inflows and expanded HIP-3 listings to global equities.

On December 28, 2025, Uniswap executed its UNIfication fee-burning upgrade on mainnet and removed 100 million UNI, valued at $635 million, from its treasury. The move followed a governance proposal that secured over 125 million supporting votes and activated protocol fees on selected v2 and v3 pools, contributing to a 5.4% rebound in UNI's price over 24 hours to $6.34.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan and ReserveOne CIO Sebastian Bea expect Bitcoin to post solid but not exceptional returns over the next ten years. Hougan argues that post‑2024 ETF flows, regulation, tokenization and stablecoins are reshaping the market into a lower‑volatility ten‑year grind and eroding the traditional four‑year cycle. Bea and other analysts say it is still unclear whether that historic pattern is finished, while a planned $99 trillion DTCC tokenization push may help define a new phase in Bitcoin's ownership and price behavior.

On December 17, Cardano released a 2030 roadmap repositioning the blockchain from a research-focused network to a commercially driven "World's Operating System" anchored on clear KPIs. The plan targets 1 million monthly active wallets, $3 billion in TVL and 324 million annual transactions by 2030, supported by upgrades like Hydra and Ouroboros Leios. The framework also reforms treasury funding, introduces batched grant rounds and sets revenue goals of at least 16 million ADA, based on an assumed ADA price of $5.