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Welcome to The Block’s 2025 Digital Assets Outlook Report, a comprehensive analysis of the past year’s developments in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. This report leverages insights across the 25 analysts on our research team and is designed to provide insights to stakeholders across the digital asset ecosystem, from institutional investors and developers to policymakers and enthusiasts. To access the full report in PDF format, please click HERE. The report is organized into thematic sections, each focusing on key areas of the industry: Macroeconomic Backdrop: Contextualizing crypto asset class performance within broader economic trends. Bitcoin Mining: Reviewing the performances of Bitcoin mining companies and onchain data. Blockchain Networks (Layer 1s and 2s): Examining advancements in scalability and comparing user adoption. End-User Applications (DeFi and NFTs): Highlighting new innovations and competitive dynamics. Institutional Involvement and Regulation: Analyzing milestones and key adoption trends. For a quick grasp of the year in review, we’ve compiled a few highlights: Top Takeaways from 2025 Mass Adoption and Market Surge But Not Everyone Felt It: The global cryptocurrency market capitalization reached an all-time high of $4.3 trillion fueled by the most crypto-positive administration in history but positive price performance was not evenly distributed. L1 Usage Split Between Speculation and Settlement: Solana, BNB Chain, and Hyperliquid stood out as ideal venues for continued speculative activity, while Ethereum solidified its role as a settlement and data availability hub in line with its rollup-centric roadmap. Specialization Reshaped The Base Layer: New L1s organized around a set of core differentiators, leaving the landscape more specialized but increasingly fragmented and reliant on interoperability. Layer 2 Consolidation Accelerates: Base emerged as the clear leader across TVL, users, and activity in 2025, while most new L2s saw usage collapse after incentive cycles, underscoring the concentration of meaningful activity around a small set of ecosystems. Enterprise L2 Adoption Expands the Rollup Model: Institutional and consumer platforms increasingly launched or integrated Layer 2 infrastructure in 2025, highlighting how distribution and strategic partnerships, not technical differentiation, are becoming the primary drivers of L2 growth. Institutions Commit to RWAs at Scale: Market cap of tokenized public-market RWAs tripled to $16.7 billion as institutions adopted blockchains for issuance and distribution, with BlackRock’s BUIDL emerging as the reserve asset underpinning a new class of onchain cash products. Perps and Prediction Markets Drive Onchain Volume Growth: Perp DEXs set all-time highs in volume as execution improved and incentives drew traders, while prediction market activity reignited through broader distribution and a wider range of event contracts. Together, they became the strongest engines of onchain trading activity in 2025. NFT's K-Shaped Landscape: The NFT gaming sectors have settled into a "K-shaped", highly selected market, where a small set of IPs and verticals with real products, revenues, or communities still matter, while the long tail of collections and culture tokens continues to fade into irrelevance. Emergence of Digital Asset Treasuries: DAT companies raised $29 billion in 2025, with over 100 publicly traded entities deploying capital into cryptocurrency holdings and controlling a significant % of major assets. ETF Expansion: The ETF landscape expanded dramatically with the approval of Solana staking ETFs, which accumulated $1 billion in AUM within their first month. The SEC introduced generic listing standards, drastically reducing approval timelines as a myriad of long-tail assets filed for ETFs Regulatory Environment Shifts from Enforcement to Enablement Paul Atkins' appointment as SEC Chair and the passage of the GENIUS Act transitioned the United States from a regime of regulation by enforcement to purpose-built legislative frameworks, providing clear compliance pathways Disclaimer: The Block is an independent media outlet that delivers news, research, and data. As of November 2023, Foresight Ventures is a majority investor of The Block. Foresight Ventures invests in other companies in the crypto space. Crypto exchange Bitget is an anchor LP for Foresight Ventures. The Block continues to operate independently to deliver objective, impactful, and timely information about the crypto industry. Here are our current financial disclosures. © 2025 The Block. All Rights Reserved. This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.

As COINOTAG News reported on December 18, citing MLM Monitor, a high‑profile crypto whale recently executed a partial liquidation after maintaining a sizeable long exposure. The liquidated assets included 431,000 HYPE tokens (about $11.1 million) and 1,960 ETH (about $5.6 million). The wallet retains substantial risk on hand, holding 1.726 million HYPE (~$44.6 million) and 7,841 ETH (~$22.3 million). Evidence of diversified exposure appears across another account linked to the same entity, which carries long positions in XRP and ETH with a notional value near $230 million, underscoring active hedging and multi‑asset risk management. Market participants should monitor HYPE liquidity and ETH price dynamics as data from MLM Monitor highlight evolving sentiment among large holders. Share News:

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Market update on #ETHEREUM  $ETH remains bearish below $3,660. A clean break and hold above this level would mark a structural shift, putting $10K–$15K back on the table. Until then, every major dip signals long-term accumulation.

BlockBeats News, December 18th, according to MLM Monitor, a certain whale address, after holding a heavy long position of tens of millions of dollars earlier, recently experienced partial liquidation. The liquidated assets include 431,000 HYPE tokens (about $11.1 million) and 1,960 ETH (about $5.6 million). Currently, the wallet still holds long positions of 1.726 million HYPE tokens (about $44.6 million) and 7,841 ETH (about $22.3 million); additionally, it also holds long positions in XRP and ETH with a notional value of about $230 million in another account.