🤖 #AI Anthropic's latest research shows that AI agents now have significant capabilities in network exploits.
In simulations of real-world smart contract hacks in 2020-2025, Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 together reproduced an exploit cost of approximately $4.6 million. In scanning 2,849 recently deployed contracts without any known vulnerabilities, the models also discovered two new zero-day bugs and created profitable exploits.

😎 #ETH Ethereum researchers are working on a way to deploy the "ZK Secret Santa Protocol," which they first unveiled earlier this year and which could take privacy to the next level with zero-disclosure proofs.

💰 A wallet miner woke up after 15.7 years of inactivity and transferred the 50 #BTC ($4.33 million) he earned on March 18, 2010.

🎉 #BTC Grayscale Research expects BTC to set new all-time highs in 2026, contradicting the widely held view of a "four-year cycle." theblock

📊 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net inflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$8.5 million.

Total net outflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$79 mln.

🆕 #BNB Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined RLSUSDT Perpetual Contract (2025-12-02) binance #Binance #Futures

💰 #EDEN #RWA OpenEden has raised a round of funding backed by Ripple and major institutional investors to expand tokenized US Treasuries. cointelegraph

📊 DeFi's top protocols for commissions collected this fall.

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

📊 #BTC CQ: with a realized price of $113,692, cohorts of BTC onchain traders (held BTC for 1 to 3 months) are experiencing their largest percentage losses in this cycle. For two weeks now, this category has been recording losses in the 20% to 25% range, clearly reflecting capitulation.

In this cycle, such phases have often been associated with the formation of a bottom. However, this is only true if the bullish trend persists.

🔝 Top blockchains by Spot DEX volume growth in the last 30 days. #ICP #VRSC #XDC

🕵️‍♂️ Ethereum ICO participant "0x2eb0" has sold an additional 3,000 #ETH, amounting to $8.4 million.

🆕 $RLS has been listed on Bybit futures. link

🗽🏦 #BTC #ETF Bank of America is now advising a 1%–4% allocation in crypto for clients of Merrill and Merrill Edge. Starting January 5, 2026, the bank will also provide CIO coverage for four bitcoin ETFs: BITB, FBTC, Grayscale’s Mini Trust, and IBIT, marking a significant policy shift. link

📉👀 #RWA Sentora: BlackRock’s BUIDL fund has seen a notable TVL drop over the past 30 days.

While market conditions play a role, many other RWA assets grew in the same period, highlighting how rising competition in the RWA space is pressuring BUIDL.

📊 #BTC Glassnode: At similar price levels to 21 Nov, BTC 1W put IV spiked to 76%, reflecting aggressive downside hedging. Yesterday’s move saw only ~63%, showing a more muted risk premium. The market appears less worried, but any further downside could trigger a far sharper repricing.

💰 November VC Monthly Report: November 2025 saw 57 crypto VC deals, a decrease of 28% month-over-month, while total funding increased by 219% to USD 14.54 billion, primarily driven by Naver’s USD 10.3 billion acquisition of Upbit operator Dunamu.

Key deals included:
- Kalshi: USD 1B
- Ripple: USD 500M
- Kraken: USD 200M
- DRW–Liberty City Ventures: USD 540M.

🆕🔮 #TWT The Trust Wallet announced the launch of a prediction marketplace.

🇺🇸 #BTC SEC Chairman Atkins: Innovation exemption for crypto firms is set to be implemented in January.

🕵 BlackRock has deposited 1,634 #BTC, valued at $142.6 million, into Coinbase Prime. link

🗽👀 #LINK #ETF Grayscale Investments has launched the Grayscale Chainlink Trust ETF (#GLNK) on NYSE Arca.