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Spot silver surged 10% intraday, hitting a new all-time high.
Spot silver rose 10% intraday, breaking through $79 per ounce, with a year-to-date gain of over 173%. Spot palladium continued its upward trend, last rising 15% to $1,937.64 per ounce.
Global M&A activity surges to $4.5 trillion this year, the second-highest on record.
Global M&A transaction value surpassed $4 trillion this year, reaching $4.5 trillion, the second-highest level on record. This year saw 68 deals with a single value of at least $10 billion, reshaping multiple industries from media to manufacturing. Companies leveraged favorable market conditions, ample financing channels, and a relatively relaxed regulatory environment in the United States to pursue strategic transactions that would have been difficult to achieve under other circumstances.
According to data from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), global M&A transaction value this year has increased by nearly 50% compared to 2024, reaching $4.5 trillion. This is the second highest level on record in more than 40 years, second only to the M&A boom of 2021. The surge in transactions has driven investment banking fees up to approximately $135 billion, a 9% year-on-year increase. More than half of these transactions are from the United States, with deals targeting U.S. companies reaching $2.3 trillion, the highest proportion since 1998.
Zcash's privacy usage remains stable at 23%, and its privacy narrative may continue until 2026 .
Zcash privacy transaction usage stabilized after a significant increase in 2025, with its shielded address supply share remaining at approximately 23%, up from about 8% at the beginning of the year. Despite a decline in ZEC token popularity, privacy feature adoption has not decreased, demonstrating continued user demand for privacy transactions.
The privacy sector is gaining traction on the blockchain, with projects like Monero seeing increased prices and attention. Multiple blockchain ecosystems are accelerating the development of privacy-enhancing features, further enriching application scenarios.
With the growth of stablecoin payments and mainstream on-chain transactions, the privacy concerns surrounding transparent blockchains in everyday payments are becoming increasingly prominent, raising concerns about the risk of exposing user wallet balances and historical records. Therefore, privacy solutions are expected to remain important in 2026, focusing on meeting practical application needs rather than relying on speculative narratives.
[2026 US Crypto Regulation Outlook: SEC Pushes for Reforms, CFTC Gains Influence]
As the Trump administration enters its second year, the landscape of cryptocurrency regulation in the United States is shifting. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are moving from a previous jurisdictional battle to closer collaboration in jointly advancing cryptocurrency regulation.
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins is pushing for a 'token taxonomy,' Project Crypto, and innovation exemptions, and has approved listing standards for multiple types of crypto ETFs, while also making asset tokenization a regulatory priority.
The CFTC is accelerating rule clarification through the 'Crypto Sprint' and is expected to play a more central role in the regulation of crypto commodities such as Bitcoin after the appointment of new chairman Michael Selig.
Industry insiders believe that US crypto regulation in 2026 will present a dual-track pattern of SEC institutional innovation and CFTC-led market expansion. Howard Fischer, a former senior SEC lawyer, points out that this is the first time in his memory that the two agencies have advanced crypto regulation in such a highly collaborative manner, and he predicts that this cooperation will dominate the regulatory agenda in 2026.
[ Glasnode Co-founder: Bitcoin Derivatives Suppression Removed, Price Discovery Mechanism Returns]
Glassnode co-founder Negentropic published an article stating that the current Bitcoin price structure is showing positive changes. Recent pullbacks have consistently received buying support, and previous lows remain intact, indicating a constructive trend in the overall market.
A key structural change is that the derivatives 'positioning effect' has largely dissipated. With the largest Bitcoin options expiration event in history, totaling approximately $23.6 billion, the price suppression dominated by hedging activity in the preceding weeks is coming to an end.
Negentropic states that before options expire, market rallies are often suppressed by mechanical hedging rather than by genuine supply and demand. As related funds flow out of the market, BTC is no longer 'pegged,' and the price structure is expected to be dominated by the market itself again. The price discovery mechanism is returning, and the upward bias is gradually strengthening.
From a macro perspective, he emphasized that the liquidity environment is still improving. The US M2 money supply grew by 4.3% year-on-year, reaching a record high of $22.3 trillion in November, marking 21 consecutive months of expansion and exceeding the 2022 peak by approximately $400 billion. Even after adjusting for inflation, real M2 still grew by 1.5% year-on-year, continuing its upward trend for 15 consecutive months. The long-term trend remains clear—fiat currency dilution has not stopped, and macroeconomic and structural factors are creating a new favorable environment for Bitcoin.
[Sharplink CEO: Stablecoins, RWA, and sovereign wealth funds will drive Ethereum TVL to grow 10 times by 2026]
Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom stated that the surge in stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and growing interest from sovereign wealth funds could drive Ethereum's TVL to grow tenfold by 2026.
Joseph Chalom predicts that the stablecoin market will reach $500 billion by the end of 2026. Tokenized RWA will reach $300 billion by 2026, with the assets under management of tokenized assets growing tenfold, expanding from tokenization of individual funds, stocks, and bonds to tokenization of entire fund portfolios. Sovereign wealth funds' holdings of ETH and the scale of tokenization will grow five to tenfold. On-chain AI agents and prediction markets will become mainstream, driving significant activity on Ethereum.
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