👍 Exodus Movement, a provider of self-storage wallets, partners with MoonPay and M0 to launch a USD-backed stablecoin. theblock

⚖️🍿 The SEC has sued cryptocurrency venture capital firm Shima Capital and its founder Gao, alleging that they implemented a scheme to defraud investors. Internal emails show that Gao has decided to resign and begin winding down the fund.
Founded in 2021, Shima Capital manages ~$200 million in assets and has invested in Berachain, Monad, Pudgy Penguins and others. x

🤔 #FTT Caroline Ellison of Alameda Research has been placed on what is known as "probation" - now either under house arrest or in a rehab center. businessinsider

✏️ #AAVE The founder of Aave laid out a "master plan" for 2026: the focus is on scaling through the Hub and Spoke version v4 architecture, raising $1 billion in real assets, and developing a new mobile app. cointelegraph

🔮 Bitwise researcher predicts that the number of cryptocurrency ETPs "will grow at an incredible rate" in 2026, and that >100 ETPs could be launched in no time. cointelegraph

🎰 Machi Big Brother transferred another $1.2M to Hyperliquid and opened a new long with 25x leverage at 4100 #ETH ($12.08M).
Liquidation price: $2698.71.

💰 RedotPay, a stackablecoin payments company, has raised $107 million in a Series B funding round, bringing the total raised to $194 million. cointelegraph

💸 #USDT Tether leads $8M in funding for Lightning, a startup focused on stablecoins. cointelegraph

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. Bitmine bought another 48,049 #ETH ($140.58 million);
2. pension-usdt.eth closed long on #BTC, making another $1.04M profit, and then went 2x short on 25,000 #ETH ($73.98M).
He has made 12 profitable trades in a row since Dec. 8, and his total profits on HyperLiquid have exceeded $25.2 million.

📉 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net outflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$277.2 million.

Total net outflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$224.2 mln.

🇧🇹 #BTC Bhutan says it will use 10,000 BTC from its reserves to build a special administrative area, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC). cointelegraph

👍 #ASTER Aster: we have completed the transfer of this month's community and ecosystem unlock tokens to 0x0A55c740703A11f42803fB1a05ca1F7F89981EA4 in accordance with the tokenomics release schedule.

🔍 Two Matrixport-related wallets contributed 4,000 #BTC ($347.56 million) on Binance today.

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

🙋‍♂️ #HYPE Hyper Foundation proposes a validator vote to officially recognize HYPE tokens stored at the Hyperliquid Protocol Relief Fund address as permanently inaccessible, removing them from circulation and general asset tokens. cointelegraph

🇳🇴🏦 #BTC Norway's sovereign wealth fund has backed Metaplanet's proposal for a Bitcoin treasury. This move signifies Norway's growing embrace of Bitcoin.

📉🤔 #BTC CQ: Crypto markets enter a slowdown phase. The number of active Bitcoin wallets has fallen to its lowest level in the past year, indicating that even when prices move, fewer participants are actually transacting.

📊👀 #BTC OG's are selling at one of the highest rates not seen in the last 5 years. This pattern is normally only seen when markets are nearing highs.

🔝 Top 15 #DeFi Protocols by Open Interest

Open Interest is the value of open derivative positions that have not yet been closed or settled. It shows how much active capital and leverage deployed in the market. #HYPE #ASTER #DRV

🤔 BitMine Chairman Tom Lee: #BTC and #ETH have likely bottomed out as traditional four-year cycles become a thing of the past.
ETH is key financial infrastructure and digital asset treasury companies will play a growing role in connecting traditional finance with cryptocurrency.

👍 #SOL Solana is testing quantum-resistant transactions as part of the Project Eleven pilot project. cointelegraph