🔥 Bybit in 2025: 80M Users, $9.1B Daily Spot Volume, and $2.88B in Institutional Inflows
For Bybit, 2025 wasn’t a year of smooth markets or easy wins. It was a year defined by pressure—and how the exchange responded to it.
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For Bybit, 2025 wasn’t a year of smooth markets or easy wins. It was a year defined by pressure—and how the exchange responded to it.
Here at Blockster, we are celebrating what may be one of the most decisive geopolitical power moves of our lifetime — President Donald Trump arresting Nicolás Maduro and taking temporary control over Venezuela. This alone deserves a medal of honor.
Crypto markets opened 2026 slightly up after months of stagnation. Bitcoin rose about 2% to $89,400, approaching the $90,000 level it hasn’t reliably held since early December. Ethereum climbed 2% back above $3,000, while Solana outperformed with a 3% gain. XRP and Dogecoin also moved higher.
Bitcoin slipped again this week, extending a stretch of subdued price action that has kept the market range-bound for weeks. On the surface, the move looks uneventful—another small dip in an already quiet market. But as Barron’s recently noted, this period of stagnation may be less about weakness and more about transition.
After a historic and structurally different 2025, the crypto market is entering a new phase—one shaped less by retail speculation and more by institutional capital, regulation, and geopolitical strategy.
Bhutan is making one of the boldest sovereign bets on Bitcoin to date — not as speculation, but as long-term national infrastructure.
Dubai — As the year comes to a close, Bybit is inviting its global community to unlock a personalized snapshot of their 2025 trading journey.
Roxom, the Bitcoin capital-markets platform backed by Draper Associates has unveiled a milestone for Bitcoin-native finance: the world’s first global stock exchange where everything — pricing, settlement, and performance — is denominated entirely in BTC.
Mahe, Seychelles — BitMEX has launched a major upgrade to its user experience: a native fiat-to-crypto on-ramp powered by Mercuryo, the global payment infrastructure provider trusted by MetaMask, Ledger, Trust Wallet, PancakeSwap, 1inch, and other leading Web3 platforms.
Axis — a fully onchain quantitative fund managing $100 million in live capital — has raised $5 million in a round led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from OKX Ventures, FalconX, GSR, Maven 11, CMS Holdings, CMT Digital, and Aave’s Marc Zeller. The round was 4× oversubscribed, reflecting accelerating demand for transparent, real-yield infrastructure built directly on public blockchains.
Nolcha Shows is back at Miami Art Week, and this year, it’s bigger, bolder, and louder than ever! Beyond being one of the most influential network hubs for the Web3 industry, Nolcha Shows has become the gathering point where founders, collectors, innovators, and global VIPs collide. (Cover art: Charity Dos Santos)
KuCoin Pay is taking another major step toward real-world crypto adoption. The company has launched KuCoin Pay Travel, a global crypto-powered travel platform built in partnership with Entravel, the world’s leading AI-driven, crypto-native travel booking service.