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Cryptocurrency losses from hacks, exploits, and scams reached $3.35 billion in 2025, according to blockchain security firm CertiK, marking a significant increase from the previous year and highlighting ongoing security challenges as the digital asset ecosystem continues expanding despite improved defensive measures and heightened awareness of vulnerabilities affecting decentralized finance protocols, cross-chain bridges, centralized exchanges, and individual users.

Approximately 300,000 Bitcoin options contracts valued at $23.7 billion and 446,000 iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) option contracts are scheduled to expire this Friday, December 27, 2025, creating potential for significant price volatility as traders close positions, hedge exposures, and market makers adjust inventories in one of the largest quarterly derivatives expirations in cryptocurrency market history that could influence Bitcoin's price trajectory heading into year-end and early 2026.

Offchain Labs, the development company behind the Arbitrum Layer 2 scaling solution, has purchased additional ARB tokens under a previously approved token buyback plan, coinciding with Arbitrum surpassing $20 billion in total value locked (TVL) and reinforcing the company's commitment to ecosystem growth as competition intensifies among Ethereum Layer 2 networks for market share, developer activity, and liquidity.

Ondo Finance plans to launch tokenized U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds on the Solana blockchain in early 2026, marking a significant expansion of the company's real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform beyond its current focus on Treasury bonds and money market funds into equity markets with custody-backed structures enabling round-the-clock on-chain transfers and trading.

The acquisition represents substantial capital deployment into Ethereum at a time when institutional cryptocurrency adoption continues accelerating across both public and private companies seeking digital asset exposure beyond Bitcoin, which has traditionally dominated corporate treasury strategies.

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