Currency Forecast

The UK is entering the final furlong of its cryptoasset regime design, with full rules expected to be finalised this year and implemented by 2027. Because nothing says “urgency” like a timeline that makes a sloth look speedy. HM Treasury’s draft statutory instrument, laid before Parliament in December 2025 (yes, they’re really leaning into this whole “future” thing), creates new regulated activities under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. The FCA is getting broad powers over trading platforms, intermediaries, lending, staking, and decentralised finance-basically, everything except your grandma’s knitting circle.

Our dear analyst has graciously laid before us the most splendid of revelations: the time-honored four-year cycle of Bitcoin insists that we are but mere players in a grand performance yet to conclude. His revealing chart-an artistic endeavor reminiscent of a Monet-compares previous cycles following the halvings of 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024, and unveils a delightful consistency that would make even the most seasoned clockmaker blush with envy. Each historical act has seen Bitcoin’s price sink after prolonged declines, followed by an obligatory intermission of consolidation, and only then does the curtain rise on the final act of recovery.

According to a recent analysis by the CEA, banning stablecoins that offer interest would only lead to a small increase – about $2.1 billion, or 0.02% – in overall bank lending. The study also found that consumers would collectively miss out on around $800 million in potential earnings each year.

This is the final sprint, a time when the Premier League calendar seems to have borrowed a caffeine habit from a caffeinated octopus. Participants are not merely spectators; they accumulate points by predicting match outcomes with the precision of a librarian counting dust motes, all within the fair arena Zoomex claims to provide.

Hyperbridge, a system that allows open and unrestricted transactions, announced that a security flaw caused approximately $237,000 in losses on the Ethereum network when someone took advantage of its Token Gateway.

To put it simply, there are fewer tokens lounging on sale-at least for the moment-evidence enough in data that parades large-scale withdrawals of 30 billion, 133 billion, and even deeper negative netflows, suggesting that holders are quietly removing supply from exchanges rather than thrusting it forward.

Last week, crypto investment funds dusted off their cobwebs and stumbled upon a stunning $1.1 billion in fresh capital. According to the latest weekly data from CoinShares, it appears that the big boys-BlackRock, Fidelity, and Bitwise-were responsible for much of this newfound wealth, likely while enjoying a fine cup of coffee.

Now, let’s talk numbers. Their entire treasure chest-which also includes a little bitcoin, some cash, and whatever ‘moonshots’ are (don’t ask, it sounds risky)-is now worth a jaw-dropping $11.8 billion. Yes, billion with a B! Who knew playing digital Monopoly could be this lucrative?

Foundry Digital, the heavyweight champion of Bitcoin mining pools, has decided to dip its toes into the Zcash (ZEC) waters. They’ve launched a mining pool that now controls a whopping 30% of the network’s hashrate, according to their fancy new block explorer. You’d think they were giving away free lattes with those numbers!

This has given birth to one of the most volatile, almost comically tragic, oil theaters in living memory.