🇮🇳👮♂️ 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
🤔 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
🔍🐳 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.
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.
- 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.
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🗣 #BTC CNBC: Strategy's fundraising will prioritize paying dividends and interest on debt over buying more BTC, indicating a strategic shift toward a defensive approach.
🏴☠️🍿 #FLOW Flow: The Flow Foundation is currently investigating a potential security incident affecting the Flow network.
Our developers are actively working with network partners to remediate the issue.
Our developers are actively working with network partners to remediate the issue.
📊 #ETH’s last line of defense is being tested. Three key on-chain metrics — MVRV Z-Score, Market Cap Growth Rate, and Delta Growth Rate — are all at critical support levels. If these supports break, it would indicate speculative capital leaving the market, raising the likelihood of ETH trading below $2,000 amid increasing supply and weakening demand into 2025. The on-chain structure remains fragile, necessitating close monitoring.
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🕵️♂️ #ETH Bitmine has started staking $ETH, depositing $219M into Ethereum’s PoS system. link
🏴☠️⚠️ Private keys of users associated with DeBot have been stolen. Hackers stole assets worth >$255,000.
📊👀 #BTC is still trading below the Short-Term Holder Realized Price of $101,263, indicating that recent buyers are, on average, at a loss.
🕵 #AAVE Bubblemaps: ParaFi transferred ~$30M worth of AAVE to Coinbase.
🧯 100 million #UNI (592,211,129 USD) transferred from Uniswap to Burn Address link