🇮🇱🤖 #AI Elon Musk holds call with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss developing artificial intelligence technology in Israel.

🗣 #BTC A Bloomberg analyst believes that BTC volatility is driven by tax deals that have nothing to do with actual market sentiment.

📊 #BTC #ETH Santiment: Following the conclusion of Christmas weekend, Bitcoin surged back above $90K and then fell below $87K. The rise came while FUD was becoming very high, as usual. Now that prices have dropped back, traders are being cautious again.

🤔 #BTC long-term holders have stopped selling for the first time since July. link

🧑‍💻 Top 10 privacy coin projects by development. #DASH #NYM #HOPR

🇺🇸🙋‍♂ SEC Corporation Finance Deputy Director Cicely LaMothe to retire after shaping crypto guidance - #regulation link

📊 Sentora: DeFi TVL was highly volatile this year, climbing to multi year highs in October. Although it has since pulled back meaningfully, the baseline remains well above last year’s levels, suggesting a more mature DeFi market with several major protocols consolidating and strengthening their positions. #defi

📈 Real-world asset protocols have surpassed DEXs to become the fifth-largest DeFi category by TVL, hitting $17B as tokenized Treasurys, private credit and commodities rapidly move into the core of onchain finance. #rwa #defi

🐳 The "255 BTC Sold" whale has further increased its $BTC (10x) short position and has also opened new short positions on $ETH (10x) and $SOL (20x).

The current position is valued at $169M:
- $36,281 $ETH ($106.5M)
- 552.25 $BTC ($48.16M)
- 114,677.21 $SOL ($14.13M) link

📝🔮 Dragonfly partner Haseeb Qureshi published his 2026 crypto and AI outlook, forecasting $BTC could top $150,000 by year-end while its dominance declines.

He expects $ETH and $SOL to remain strong, predicts several “fintech L1s” will underdeliver, and anticipates at least one Big Tech firm will launch or acquire a crypto wallet as more Fortune 100 companies adopt blockchain technology.

In #DeFi, he sees perpetual DEXs consolidating into roughly three leaders, stock perps exceeding 20% market share, and a potential insider-trading scandal.

He also projects stablecoin supply could grow 60%, with $USDT share falling to approximately 55%, and stablecoin cards expanding sharply.

🇺🇸 Trump called Fed Chairman Powell a "fool."

🔮 #BTC Partner Dragonfly predicts that BTC could exceed $150,000 by the end of 2026, while its dominance will decline. He also predicts that the supply of stablecoins could grow by 60%, with the share of #USDT dropping to ~55%.

🎮 Delphi Digital stated that #GameFi performed worse in 2025, with funding down more than 55% year-over-year and several long-awaited launches failing to materialize, dampening market sentiment.
Some native Web3 games have generated six- to seven-figure profits this year, but the player base remains small due to high bot activity and pressure to retain players as incentives fade.

📈 #RWA The combined market capitalization of tokenized stocks reached a record $1.2 billion. cointelegraph

👍 #BTC CZ: BTC and other cryptocurrencies will be fine.

📉 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net outflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$19.3 million.

Total net outflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$9.6 mln.

🎁 #LIT Lighter started token distribution.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. 011short with a $749M long in #BTC, #ETH and #SOL just transferred 112,894 #ETH ($332M) to Binance again;
2. A wallet associated with Indexed Finance and Kyber Network Exploiter has resumed activity after 1 year of inactivity, selling: 226,961 #UNI ($1.36 million), 33,215 #LINK ($410k), 845,806 #CRV ($328k), 5.25 #YFI ($17.5k);
3. Two wallets accumulated 2.15 billion #PUMP ($3.87 million) in the last 24 hours.

🇯🇵 Metaplanet buys another 4,279 #BTC worth $375 million They own 35,102 BTC worth $3 billion.

📊 #BTC Santiment: as BTC price continues to hold around $87.2k, there is some optimism from the crowd. Over the last 3 months we have seen short-term fluctuations in opposite directions: crowd fear - prices usually bounce; crowd optimism - prices usually rise.

👍 BlackRock's #RWA BUIDL has paid $100 million in dividends and surpassed $2 billion in assets since launch, becoming one of the largest tokenized products on the market. coindesk.com