The banking industrys infatuation with blockchain technology is well known In the forefront of the development of distributed ledger solutions for the industry is the tech giant IBM which is currently working on a trade finance solution for leading European banking institutions

The current Bitcoin block size debate has dragged in everyone from all corners of the Bitcoin industry Miners and Mining pools have recently begun to have their say with nearly all of them supporting an increase in block size However with over 62 supporting the BIP100 variant the XT proposal has been left for dead At any rate XT sparked a needed debate in the Bitcoin community While all of this has been going on Bitmain again surprised everyone with the release of the Antminer S7

With exchanges controlling so much of the industry inflows and accounting for more than 40 of the jobs any review of the year has to start and end there An analysis of the dominant trends driving trading platforms serves as a proxy for measuring the cryptospheres overall health From initial exchange offerings to staking as a service 2025 was the year that crypto exchanges expanded and diversified

The banking industrys infatuation with blockchain technology is well known In the forefront of the development of distributed ledger solutions for the industry is the tech giant IBM which is currently working on a trade finance solution for leading European banking institutions