🔄 #BNB BNB Chain announced that they will activate the Fermi hardfork on the BSC core network on January 14, 2026. This update will reduce the block interval from 750 milliseconds to 450 milliseconds to improve network throughput and transaction processing efficiency.

📊👀 #HYPE ASXN Data:
- Hyperliquid's total transaction volume in 2025 is $2.95 trillion;
- The average daily transaction volume is about $8.34 billion;
- The number of transactions reached 198.9 billion;
- The number of new users amounted to approximately 609,700;
- Total platform revenue for the year was ~$843 million.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
Bitcoin ETFs:
1D NetFlow: -309 $BTC (-$26.9M)
7D NetFlow: -7,015 $BTC (-$610.43M)

Ethereum ETFs:
1D NetFlow: 0
7D NetFlow: -34,679 $ETH (-$100.6M)

Solana ETFs:
1D NetFlow: 0
7D NetFlow: +169,556 $SOL (+$20.69M)

🕵️‍♂️ Trader '0x94d3' has had some good trading lately.

After selling 255 $BTC ($21.77M) to short $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL, he booked $3.85M in profits.

He's now short $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL again, already sitting on over $1.77M in unrealized PnL. link

🤑 Trader simonbanza earned more than $1.9 million on Polymarket in just two weeks. He closed 108 bets, winning 64 of them (59% win rate).
Most of his profits came from betting correctly on sporting events.

🇪🇺🤬 #ETH Vitalik Buterin criticized the EU’s “zero-space” approach under the Digital Services Act, arguing that eliminating certain speech or products reflects an anti-pluralistic impulse. He stated that a free society should not aim to erase controversial content but rather prevent it from being algorithmically amplified and dominating public discourse. link

✅👀 #MNDE Approved proposal to furlough MNDE buyback program and accumulate mSOL in Treasury to increase liquidity available for MNDE trading pairs on DEX.

💳🙋‍♂ #APE Yuga Labs acquired the Unreal Engine developer platform that supports Otherside from Improbable.

🇮🇳👀 #COIN According to Bloomberg, Coinbase Global Inc. CEO Brian Armstrong stated that a former Coinbase customer service contractor has been arrested in India related to a hacking incident. In May, Coinbase revealed that hackers bribed contractors or employees outside the U.S. to access sensitive customer data and demanded a $20 million ransom, estimating remediation costs could reach up to $400 million. link

💵 250,000,000 #USDC minted at USDC Treasury link

🕵 After months of accumulation, Bitmine has staked 74,880 $ETH, worth $219.18M.

On the other hand, SharpLink has unstaked 35,627 $ETH, worth $104.4M, from liquid staking. link link

🐳 A whale has spent 1,086 $ETH ($3.17M) to buy 20,375 $AAVE.

In the past 4 days, the whale has spent 1,586 $ETH ($4.7M) to buy 30,003 $AAVE at a price of $156.65.

In total, the whale holds 59,955 $AAVE ($9.24M), facing a loss of $4.26M.

Address:
- 0xddc4eab490469f073ab8cd5937b1a0f585687931
- 0xc1ae9aa84fdaa2511139a6bc65fdd2c6dc5ccbd3

🕵 Smart trader pension-usdt.eth, with over $25M in total profits, has flipped from long to short. He closed his $ETH long for a $278K gain, then opened a 3× short on 20,000 $ETH ($58.44M). link

🇮🇳👮‍♂️ Coinbase CEO said a former Coinbase support employee was arrested in India in a case in which hackers bribed support staff to access customer information. bloomberg

🎊 #ETH #RWA Tom Lee, co-founder and head of research at Fundstrat, said the price of ETH could rise to $7000-9000 by early 2026 as Wall Street accelerates efforts to tokenize assets and move financial activity to blockchain. cointelegraph

🔍 Bitmine staked 74,880 #ETH ($219.2 million) 5 hours ago.

🤔 Bitmain, the largest ASIC maker, has sharply cut prices on several generations of mining hardware amid industry-wide instability in the mining industry. cointelegraph #mining

👍 #ETH CEO Sharplink: Ethereum's TVL could grow 10x in 2026 as it expands its use in various scenarios and attracts institutional investors. cointelegraph

🕵️‍♂️ SharpLink Gaming withdrew 35,627 #ETH ($104.4M) from Liquid Collective.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. pension-usdt.eth with a total profit of >$25m moved from long to short. He closed the long on #ETH for a profit of $278k and then shorted 3x on 20,000 #ETH ($58.44m);
2. 0xDDC4 spent 1,086 #ETH ($3.13M) to buy 20,375 #AAVE. Since Dec 3, 2024, it has bought 59,588 #AAVEs ($13.47M) at an average price of $226 and currently has an unrealized loss of ~$4.3M.

🤔 #XRP #ADA Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz warned that XRP and Cardano risk losing relevance if they fail to demonstrate real-world utility. He argued that the crypto market is shifting from narrative-driven tokens to business-driven tokens with measurable value and profits, expecting a 1–3 year structural transformation during which wallets and exchanges may evolve into neobank-like platforms. link

🙋‍♂👀 #MET Meteora: Market capitalization based trading fees are now available in the DAMM V2 version. This feature will gradually reduce transaction fees as the project grows to support long-term sustainability and prevent snipers.

📊🔮 Pantera Capital researcher Jay Yu released 12 predictions for the crypto market in 2026:
- Capital-efficient consumer credit will become the next frontier in crypto lending.
- Agent-based business using endpoints like x402 will expand into more service areas.
- #AI-driven trading processes will gradually become mainstream.
- A quantum panic may occur in 2026, prompting institutions holding large amounts of #BTC to discuss quantum emergency plans.