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Crypto in 2025: The Year in Review.

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GUEST: Christo de Wit, Country Manager at Luno

As 2025 draws to a close, the cryptocurrency industry is no longer asking whether it belongs in mainstream finance, but how deeply it is already embedded. This year marked a decisive shift as digital assets moved from the fringes into the financial system itself reshaping markets, regulation and investor behaviour along the way.

From Bitcoin crossing the R2 million mark to growing institutional participation that changed the nature of volatility, 2025 was a year of maturation rather than hype.
18 Dec 3PM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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