Weekly Highlights |

This PANews weekly highlights compilation provides a curated overview of key developments and analyses across the crypto and tech landscape, organized into thematic sections.

  • 2025 Retrospective & 2026 Outlook: Features annual data reviews, predictions for 2026 (including bullish sentiment on Bitcoin and AI/stablecoin trends), and lists of influential industry figures and major market events like a $154.6 billion liquidation season.

  • Macro Perspective: Discusses the evolution of the metaverse, crypto market cycles, the role of stablecoins in the financial system, Binance re-entering the stablecoin arena, and the impact of global monetary policy (e.g., Bank of Japan) on risk assets.

  • AI Craze: Highlights major AI shifts in 2025 (RLVR training, Vibe Coding), the geopolitical distribution struggle for AI, its massive economic impact, and its potential paradigm-shifting role in decentralized networks.

  • Web3 Matters: Covers urgent issues like quantum computing threats to Bitcoin, regulatory challenges ("kill lines"), DeFi governance conflicts (Aave), and trends in meme coins, black market activity, influencer marketing, and real-world crypto payments (e.g., travel bookings with USDT).

  • Key Information: Lists crucial updates: positive US jobless claims, Ethereum's planned 2026 upgrades, Vitalik's prediction on bug-free code, regulatory actions in Hong Kong, a major fundraise by HashKey Capital, developments in digital yuan cross-border use, and market forecasts from industry leaders anticipating a new institutional cycle and a potential 2026 bull market.

Summary

PANews Editor's Note: PANews has selected the best content of the week to help you catch up on anything you might have missed over the weekend. Click on the title to read.

2025 Retrospective and 2026 Outlook

PANews 2025 Annual Public Blockchain Data Review: A Moment of "Naked Swimming," Who Is Growing Against the Trend?

PANews Crypto Year-End Review: A Visual Guide to Asset Returns from 2015 to 2025!

IOSG founder: Bitcoin has undergone a historic major reshuffle; bullish on the first half of 2026.

With an accuracy rate exceeding 70%! Theory Ventures' 12 ultimate predictions for 2026: AI, IPOs, and stablecoins.

Messari 2026 Crypto Trends Report Highlights: From the Monetary Narrative to "Disruptive Factors"

Looking Back at 2025: The Top 10 Most Influential Figures in the Crypto Industry

2025 Coinglass Derivatives Report: Instead of the altcoin season, a $154.6 billion liquidation season arrived.

For more related content, please visit the special topic— Seeing Through the Fog: 2025 Retrospective and 2026 Outlook

Macro perspective

What has become of the once-dominant metaverse?

Don't waste a single loss: the Sisyphus lesson of the crypto market.

Stablecoins are merely a "catfish" for banks, not a "terminator."

The trillion-dollar stablecoin war: Binance decides to rejoin the fray.

With the Bank of Japan issuing increasingly hawkish signals, where will risk assets go?

The Transformation of the US Crypto Industry One Year After the Trump Administration Took Office

AI Craze

Six major AI paradigm shifts in 2025: From RLVR training and Vibe Coding to Nano Banana

Lighthouses guide the way, torches vie for sovereignty: a hidden war over the distribution of AI.

A $3 trillion gamble and global diffusion: The bipolar narrative of AI in 2026

The AI ​​Era: When the "Difference Between Humans and Dogs" Shrinks to the "Difference Between Humans"

Reinforcement Learning: A Paradigm Shift in Decentralized AI Networks

Web3 Matters

Over 1.7 million BTC at risk of direct attack? Bitcoin embroiled in quantum controversy again, public blockchains launch defensive battle.

The US "kill line" shatters dreams; the encrypted "kill line" reduces everything to zero.

Cryptocurrency prices plummet, whales dump their holdings and exit; the power struggle on Aave reveals the governance dilemma in DeFi.

Snowball's 20x return in 2 days: A meme coin experiment that prevents developers from absconding.

Telegram condones it, Tether remains silent: the biggest black market frenzy in history.

A single Pokémon card can fetch tens of millions of US dollars? The influencer marketing effect and Pokémon's 30-year fan economy.

An entrepreneur's account: From beginning to end, why I stopped developing Web3 payments.

Save 18% on hotel bookings with USDT; Ctrip's overseas version strongly promotes stablecoin payments.

In this bubble of incentives, who will pay for the false prosperity of Lighters?

From random auctions to forward contracts, how does ETHGas transform block space into a priced resource?

Key Information

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time last week was 214,000, lower than market expectations.

Ethereum will see the Glamsterdam and Hegota forks in 2026, potentially increasing the gas limit to 200 million.

Vitalik predicts that bug-free code will be available in the 2030s.

Caixin: Overseas U-card advertisements attract users to pay for ChatGPT and other services with USDT, but applying for and using them domestically faces legal risks.

HashKey Capital's fourth fund completes $250 million in initial funding round.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has added "Keying Cola" and "Globiance X/Globiance HK" to its list of suspicious virtual asset trading platforms.

The People's Bank of China and eight other departments announced plans to promote the cross-border application of the digital yuan and explore new payment cooperation scenarios with Singapore and other regions.

Hong Kong police: 15 arrested in 1 billion yen cryptocurrency exchange robbery case.

Gate founder Dr. Han: The crypto market will enter a new cycle of institutionalization and structural maturity in 2025.

Hong Kong brokerage firm Victory Securities restricts mainland IP accounts from purchasing virtual assets.

Caixin: Overseas U-card advertisements attract users to pay for ChatGPT and other services with USDT, but applying for and using them domestically faces legal risks.

Nano Labs founder: Bitcoin bear market bottoms often appear around Christmas.

Yi Lihua: A major bull market is expected in 2026; $1 billion will be invested to continue buying ETH on dips.

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