Robinhood has released its Q3 financial report, with cryptocurrency revenue surging 300% to $2.68 billion.

On December 25, OnchainLens data reveals a Bitcoin whale address dormant for 8 years deposited 400 BTC (worth roughly $34.92 million at current prices) to OKX, netting an estimated $30.4 million profit.

December 25 — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently released over 100 pages of fully redacted documents related to the Epstein case, per the Global Times. U.S. outlets like the Daily Beast report that social media users who reviewed the filings made a striking discovery: some redacted sections can be recovered directly via image tools (e.g., Photoshop) or simply by selecting the text and pasting it into a word processor. As cited by the Daily Beast, X user Nissan posted that the Epstein case documents on the DOJ website only require highlighting the redacted text and copying it to another document to reveal the covered content.

December 25: Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov announced the official launch of stablecoin KGST—pegged to the national fiat currency som—on Binance, marking a key milestone in the Central Asian nation’s national crypto infrastructure development. In a post, Japarov noted the KGST launch will boost cross-border payments and deepen Kyrgyzstan’s ties to the global crypto ecosystem. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) later stated there will be “more government-backed stablecoins” launching on Binance going forward. This April, Zhao began offering technical and policy guidance to the Kyrgyzstan government. The landlocked Central Asian nation (population ~7 million) has drastically shifted its stance on digital assets over the past year. In September, Kyrgyzstan advanced legislation to create a national crypto reserve and grow its digital asset sector. Alongside KGST, Kyrgyzstan recently launched USDKG—a USD-pegged stablecoin backed by physical gold. The token initially launched on th

On December 25, following a year of gradual regulatory clarity and divergent market performance, top venture capitalists are reevaluating the 2025 crypto industry’s value proposition. Three VCs—Pantera Capital’s Mason Nystrom, Hash3 co-founder Hootie Rashidifard, and Variant’s Alana Levin—unanimously named stablecoins, prediction markets, and traditional finance/internet incumbents as this year’s biggest winners in a recent podcast. Nystrom noted established firms like Robinhood acted fast post-regulatory clarity, ramping up their 2025 crypto strategy significantly—“well anticipating where the puck is going to go.” Rashidifard said stablecoin trading volume and profitability have surged: “Tether has become one of the most profitable companies per capita.” He stressed stablecoins not only generate revenue today but deliver tangible fundamental financial value to end users. Levin flagged prediction markets as 2025’s fastest-growing track, with Kalshi and Polymarket dispelling do

CNBC reported on December 25th that David Davis—CEO of high-performance AI accelerator chip designer Groq and head of Disruptive Company—revealed NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Groq for $20 billion in cash. Davis’s firm has invested over $500 million in Groq since the chipmaker’s 2016 founding, and he noted the deal was struck quickly. Groq plans to inform its investors about the transaction later Wednesday. The acquisition covers all of Groq’s assets, though its early-stage Groq Cloud business is excluded. This marks NVIDIA’s largest acquisition to date, topping its 2019 purchase of Israeli chip designer Mellanox for nearly $7 billion. Driven by skyrocketing demand for AI accelerator chips to power large language model inference, Groq is targeting $500 million in revenue this year.

December 25 The European Union’s latest Digital Assets Tax Transparency Directive will go into effect on January 1, officially bringing cryptocurrency activities into the EU’s tax reporting framework. Known as DAC8, the directive requires crypto service providers to collect and report detailed user and transaction information to national tax authorities, which will then share the data across EU member states. This reform closes a longstanding loophole that had left parts of the crypto economy subject to less regulatory oversight than traditional financial accounts. Under DAC8, tax agencies can now oversee crypto holdings, trading, and transfers with the same level of transparency as bank accounts. Exchanges, brokers, and other crypto service providers must now treat tax reporting as a core operational requirement—not a secondary compliance task. While the directive takes effect January 1, businesses have a short transition period to update their systems before enforcement begin