The Dypto Times - Can Ethereum Become the World's Computer?

For most of 2025, crypto took a two steps forward, one step back approach. While that can be frustrating, it doesn’t bother the Dypto Crypto Team. 

We spent two years going through Crypto Winter, where every single day was zero steps forward and 17 steps back. So we’ll take all the forward steps we can get. Sure, Trust Wallet was compromised, and it looks like an inside job on top of that. But plenty of good things happened, too. Let’s get after it.

From the Dypto Crypto Newsroom

Trust Wallet Hack: $7 Million Stolen in Christmas Exploit

TLDR

• Trust Wallet was hacked on Christmas Day

• The malicious actor walked away with around $7 million.

• All signs point toward an inside job.

• Trust Wallet has already developed a compensation plan for victims.

On Christmas Day, as the world unwrapped gifts and celebrated with family, a nightmare scenario unfolded for hundreds of cryptocurrency investors. Trust Wallet, a major player in the digital asset storage space with over 70 million users, confirmed a security breach affecting its browser extension. The attack resulted in the theft of approximately $7 million in digital assets.

What can new users take away from the latest major breach.

First, don’t be afraid of crypto. Trust Wallet may be trustworthy for the most part, but it’s still a hot wallet. And it’s never a good idea to keep your whole bag in a hot wallet.

For storing significant amounts of value, Dypto Crypto recommends “cold storage” or hardware wallets (like Trezor or Ledger). These devices keep your seed phrase offline, making it impossible for a remote browser exploit to harvest your keys.

While this specific incident was triggered by a malicious update, in 99% of cases, keeping software outdated is a bigger risk. Generally, users should update their apps to benefit from the latest security patches. In this unique instance, Trust Wallet urged users to immediately upgrade to version 2.69 or higher to remove the compromised code.

Read the full article at Dypto Crypto

This Week in Corporate Crypto Treasury News

TLDR

• This week in corporate crypto treasury news, the whales are loading up on BTC.

• Bitmine continues accumulating and staking ETH.

• Many companies took advantage of market dips to buy tokens.

With the market sliding or crabbing for the last six weeks, we haven’t had much to say on what was becoming our favorite weekly segment. But why not bring 2026 in with a bang? After all, the companies we’re going to mention today did.

While the rest of us were finalizing our New Year’s resolutions or recovering from holiday festivities, some of the biggest players in the corporate world were busy doing something else entirely: shopping. But they weren’t hitting the post-holiday sales at the mall. They were buying cryptocurrency — and lots of it.

Why were they buying so many tokens?

Strategy bought nearly 23k BTC in December. Tether picked up nearly 9k BTC on New Year’s Eve. MetaPlanet bought 4k BTC. Bitmine Immersion bought so much ETH last month that we would need a calculator to add it all up (see the article's screenshot).

According to Tom Lee, it’s about being smart when others are selling.

The end of the year usually sees “tax-loss selling”. Investors sell their losing assets to lower their tax bills. Selling pressure can temporarily push prices down. BitMine saw this as a discount window. They stepped in as the “fresh money”, buying up cheap ETH while others were selling to please the tax man.

It is a classic investment strategy: buy when others are selling. Or as Warren Buffett famously said, “Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.”

Read the full article at Dypto Crypto

Question of the Week

From a YouTube comment - “Do you guys think what happened with Venezuela will have a big impact on the market?”

Meme of the Week

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By the Numbers - The Dypto Crypto Portfolio

Here’s a screenshot of our portfolio, which we started in late December 2024.

Original portfolio valuation - 3 ETH ($9,670)

2025 portfolio valuation - $8,049 YTD - (-)15%

2026 start - $8,813

It’s 2026. While we aren’t starting the year where we hoped, we’re not unhappy given market sentiment in Q4. But the new year is off to a green start. We’ll take it. 

As far as portfolio adjustments, there are none. We’re going to keep riding this train for the time being. We have high hopes for ETH, especially with Bitmine Immersion going full Strategy-mode and Vitalik pumping X with his big dreams of mass decentralization.

Deep Dive - Vitalik Buterin Outlines a New Vision for Ethereum

Few voices carry as much weight as Vitalik Buterin. As the co-founder of Ethereum, he often offers insights into where the industry is heading next. In a recent post on X, Buterin addressed the community with a rallying cry that looks far beyond current market trends or price speculation. 

His message? Ethereum needs to return to its roots and fulfill its original mission of becoming a “world computer”.

We’re living in a time when the fragility of the traditional internet is becoming increasingly apparent. Following massive service outages from centralized giants such as Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services (AWS) late last year, the conversation around decentralized infrastructure has moved from theoretical debates to a practical necessity.

In the crypto world, “meta” often refers to the current flavor of the month — whether that is tokenized assets, political memecoins, or other fleeting trends. While these bring attention and activity to the network, Buterin emphasized that they are not the end goal.

Instead, he pointed back to the core mission: “To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.”

Buterin’s comments on infrastructure stability were likely fueled by recent events. In November, a software failure at Cloudflare caused an outage that took down approximately 20% of the platform’s websites. 

The outage was caused by a glitch in a system designed to stop cyberattacks, but the ripple effect was massive. Because so much of the modern web relies on a handful of centralized providers (like Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services), a single point of failure can cripple the internet.

As Buterin, along with researchers Yoav Weiss and Marissa Posner, noted in a manifesto released shortly after the outage: 

“Decentralization erodes not through capture, but through convenience. It drifts — automatically, continually — toward dependence on trust.”

Read the full article at Dypto Crypto

Question of the Week Answer

It’s hard to say. And the reason we find it so challenging is due to how the market has changed, especially over the last year. When stocks went up, crypto went down. Crypto up, stocks down. It got to the point where it was pretty easy to predict and profit from that game.

But over the last year, with regulatory clarity in several countries and institutional interest in both CeFi and DeFi, the game is different. Whales and financial institutions are playing both sides. They’re betting on volatility for both crypto and stocks.

So now crypto moves with stocks. Sometimes. And sometimes it doesn’t. The volatility is still present, but the predictability has become the wild card. As an example, at the time of this writing, US stocks and crypto are having a green day. But tomorrow? Could be a completely different story.