🍿 Caroline Ellison, the former head of Alameda Research, Sam's girlfriend and a key figure in the FTX collapse, will be released on January 21, 2026.

🎲 The year 2025 became a turning pointfor the crypto derivatives market — it shifted from retail speculation to an institutional model with ETFs, regulated infrastructure, and on-chain solutions.

Institutional capital became the main driver of growth, and Bitcoin increasingly behaved like a high-risk asset, leading to the largest wave of liquidations in October — more than $19 billion in a single day.

With a total trading volume of $85.7 trillion, the market became more mature, but the high concentration of leverage and liquidity still poses systemic risks for 2026.

✔️ Sber conducted a pilot for issuing a corporate loan secured by crypto.

🧠 In its annual report, analysts from Messari note a shift from the illusions of past cycles to hard economic logic. Key theses:

1️⃣ BTC remains the only "money" asset of crypto — it's to BTC that the market returns in moments of fear.
2️⃣ Most L1 altcoins will be weaker than BTC: speed and cheap transactions ≠ trust as money.
3️⃣ ETH seems institutionally understandable, but in terms of dynamics, it often remains an "enhanced version of BTC".
4️⃣ Stablecoins are the main mass use case: payments and settlements, not "revolutionary" narratives.
5️⃣ The market punishes tokens without a clear economy — promises no longer work.
6️⃣ DeFi is maturing: fewer fairy tales about APY, more income from commissions, spreads, and funding.

Messari's conclusion: crypto is becoming a financial infrastructure, not a story of eternal growth. In 2026, assets with trust, sustainable demand, and real value capture will survive — the market no longer gives credibility to the rest.

🖥 Bitmain sharply reduced prices on some of their ASIC miners amid worsening mining economics — with an almost record network hashrate and a simultaneous drop in BTC price, miner profitability has decreased, causing demand for new equipment to weaken noticeably.

This forces manufacturers to revise their pricing policy to support sales.

💰 The BitMine company, led by Tom Lee, has for the first time started staking its ETH — the market perceives this as a signal of a long-term storage strategy, not speculation.

In essence, BitMine is becoming a "Strategy for Ethereum": the company already controls more than 4% of the total ETH supply, and Lee believes that Ethereum has entered a supercycle for 10–15 years.

According to his forecast, against the backdrop of asset tokenization and the arrival of Wall Street, the price of Ethereum could rise to $7,000–9,000 by the beginning of 2026.

🪒 The Flow project, created by the Dapper Labs team, was one of the most ambitious blockchains of the last cycle and attracted about $700,000,000 in investments from major funds over the years.

At its peak in 2021, the token was trading above $40, but over five years, the price has dropped by more than 98%.

The Flow story is a clear example of how large-scale investments and high-profile partnerships do not guarantee the long-term sustainability of a token.

💰 Experts from Trust Wallet have identified 2596 affected wallets and promise users full compensation for losses resulting from the recent hack amounting to $7,000,000.

📊 Bitcoin has returned to levels above $90,000, Ethereum is trading at $3,000, altcoins are predominantly in the green zone, but there is no significant growth yet.

The Fear and Greed Index still remains in the zone of extreme fear — it is currently at level 24.

💎 Today, silver reached a historical high at $82.

💰 For the first time in six months, the queue for entering Ethereum staking has doubled the queue for exiting — there are currently 746,000 ETH waiting to be staked, compared to 361,000 ETH waiting to be withdrawn.

The last time the incoming queue exceeded the outgoing one, ETH soon doubled in price.

💰 Strategy bought additional 1229 BTC last week at $88,568 per 1 BTC.

The company owns 672,497 BTC, purchased for approximately $50.44 billion at an average price of $74,997 per coin.

🔮 On Polymarket, the probability that Bitcoin will reach $150,000 by 2027 is currently estimated at around 21%.

At the same time, a number of major analysts, including Standard Chartered and Bernstein, expect BTC to rise to $150,000 in 2026, while some predict a price range of $200,000–250,000.

💰 2025 was a turning point for Bitcoin: the usual four-year cycle no longer worked.

The classic model of "three years of growth - one year of fall" has lost its relevance, and the impact of halvings on price dynamics has significantly weakened.

The market is entering a phase where the old patterns no longer provide reliable guidance.

🎖️ The absolute leader in the number of transactions in 2025 was Solana — more than 121 billion operations per year.

The TON network entered the top 10 most active blockchains, processing about 839 million transactions.

🍿 The USA successfully conducted a large-scale operation against Venezuela and its leader Maduro, who was captured and taken out of the country together with his wife - Trump

💸 South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has identified about 2.6 million inactive accounts, whose owners have not used them for more than a year — these accounts hold approximately $201,800,000 of "sleeping" funds.

The largest balance reaches $2.84 million, and one of the accounts has been inactive for almost 12 years.

The company notes that many assets were purchased at early stages of the market, and the profit of some accounts reaches 60,000% — the exchange plans to help users regain access to forgotten funds.