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Visa-issued crypto cards saw a massive spike in usage in 2025, with the total net spend increasing by 525% last year.According to Dune Analytics data, the total net spend for six crypto cards issued by blockchain projects in partnership with Visa went from $14.6 million in January to $91.3 million at the end of December.The six cards tracked come from crypto payments platforms GnosisPay and Cypher, along with decentralized finance projects EtherFi, Avici Money, Exa App, and Moonwell. The crypto card from Visa-partnered EtherFi led all competitors by a fair margin, notching a total spend of $55.4 million, compared to second-placed…

Oil prices inched up on Monday as investors weighed whether political upheaval in OPEC member Venezuela would disrupt shipments. Feifei Cui-paoluzzo | Moment | Getty ImagesOil prices inched up Monday as investors weighed whether political upheaval in OPEC member Venezuela would disrupt shipments after U.S. President Donald Trump seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in a well supplied market.Brent crude futures rose 17 cents to $60.92 a barrel by 0024 GMT, paring earlier losses, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $57.43 a barrel, up 11 cents.The United States snatched Maduro from Caracas at the weekend. Trump said Washington would take control of the oil-producing nation and that…

The Pokemon TCG is gearing up to break a record that has stood for more than four years, with Ascended Heroes set to be the biggest expansion ever. The beloved trading card game based on the long-running monster-catching franchise comes into 2026 with tons of momentum from a successful 2025. The recent trading card boom saw the Pokemon TCG welcome some of the game’s most highly anticipated sets yet, with popular sets like Prismatic Evolutions and Destined Rivals debuting throughout the year. Now, Pokemon is getting fans ready to welcome the first new expansion of 2026 with Ascended Heroes. The…

Stablecoin transfer volume on Ethereum surpassed $8 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2025, marking a new all-time high, reported Token Terminal on Monday.The $8 trillion milestone is almost double the transfer volume figure for the second quarter, which was just over $4 trillion, according to the chart.Stablecoin issuance on Ethereum increased by around 43% in 2025 from $127 billion to $181 billion by year’s end, according to BlockWorks.  “This isn’t speculation. This is global payments happening on-chain,” commented “BMNR Bullz” on X. This is before SWIFT-style integrations, full RWA tokenization, and institutional rails going live. “The rails are already built.…

A Staten Island mom keeping a desperate vigil at her 6-year-old daughter’s hospital bedside was reeling after her death Sunday morning, 48 hours after the car crash that claimed the life of a 90-year-old man the little girl thought of as her grandfather. “Today, Sunday, I go back home, and I don’t have my princess with me,” said 39-year-old Marlene Trinidad, who hasn’t left her child’s side since little Anheli Vasquez was rushed to the hospital. “I feel really, really, really, really bad,” Trinidad said. “My heart is broken.” Anheli was riding in the car, a Honda SUV, with 90-year-old…

Co-owner John Mara met with the Giants’ player leaders a few weeks ago to discuss his cancer battle and said something that resonated. “That best treatment possible is wins,” wide receiver Darius Slayton recounted Mara telling the group. So it was obvious who deserved the game ball from Sunday’s 34-17 season finale win over the Dallas Cowboys: the leader of this organization, who was here in person at MetLife Stadium to support the team. “He’s been fighting a battle recently that nobody should have to go through,” Slayton said. “To see him have a chance to smile, get the game…

2025 is now officially over, and with that, total sales for manga series throughout the year have become more apparent. 2024, the year before, was the year of Jujutsu Kaisen. With JJK coming in its climax, its sales skyrocketed. But with the manga now done, an old series has retaken its spot as Japan’s best-selling manga, and it’s none other than One Piece. Related 8 Anime Better Than One Piece One Piece is a great manga, but it struggles in the anime department. These series have a superior anime adaptation. Fans know One Piece as the best-selling manga series of…

The CoinMarketCap “Crypto Fear and Greed Index,” a metric tracking crypto investor sentiment, flipped to “neutral” on Sunday, for the first time since October, signaling that investor sentiment is improving.The Index is at 40, signaling that investors are no longer fearful, but they are not bullish on the crypto market either. The Index recorded its lowest sentiment reading of 2025 in November, when it hit a 10, indicating “extreme fear,” according to CoinMarketCap.Crypto investor sentiment plunged in October, sparked by a historic market crash that derailed the crypto market bull run. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) hit an all-time high…

The mourning family of a 24-year-old man shot in front of a Queens deli feels like a “nuclear weapon” was dropped on them — seven years after the victim’s mom died of cancer when he was just a teen. Lawrence Turner was gunned down during an argument with his killer outside MB Convenience Deli & Grill on Beach 14th St. near New Haven Ave. in Far Rockaway at about 6:40 p.m. Tuesday, cops said. He was the last reported 2025 homicide victim in the city. “It’s like 2025 dropped a nuclear weapon on this family before it left,” the victim’s…

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will make his first appearance in a federal courtroom Monday in Manhattan, two days after the Trump administration seized him and his wife in a military operation critics have called a violation of international and U.S. law. After their capture, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown by the military to New York to face a Manhattan Federal Court superseding indictment on narcotics trafficking and terrorism charges. The deposed Venezuelan leader “sits atop a corrupt, illegitimate government that, for decades, has leveraged government power to protect and promote illegal activity, including drug trafficking,” according…