Gold has surged sharply, breaking above $5,000 and briefly topping $5,100 as investors rushed into a classic safe-haven asset amid rising geopolitical risk, policy uncertainty, and fiscal credibility concerns. The move follows a 64% gain in 2025 and is being reinforced by durable institutional demand, including ongoing central-bank buying and strong gold ETF inflows, alongside a weaker U.S. dollar.

XRP is closing 2025 in a paradoxical position: it is the best-performing institutional crypto asset by fund inflows while simultaneously showing one of the weakest spot price charts among the top 10 coins. CoinShares data shows XRP investment products attracted roughly $70.2 million in the final week of December and over $424 million for the month, even as the XRP price fell around 15% to about $1.87.

The REX-Osprey Solana Staking ETF, the first of its kind in the United States, debuted on the Cboe BZX Exchange and saw a strong start with$12 million in inflows and$33 million in trading volume on its first day.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala Investment Company, significantly increased its exposure to Bitcoin by acquiring over 8.2 million shares of BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), valued at approximately $437 million.

Franklin Templeton has filed for the Franklin Solana Trust in Delaware.

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A cryptocurrency exchange traded fund (ETF) is a fund consisting of cryptocurrencies. While most ETFs track an index or a basket of...

DeFi (decentralized finance) is the core of crypto’s fastest-growing projects right now. In essence, DeFi tokens allow investors to make extra income through their crypto holdings. In practice, the process is a lot more complex.