🐳 In the past 24 hours, a whale withdrew 800 $BTC, worth $70.9M, from Bitfinex.

Currently, the whale holds 1,000 $BTC, worth $89.04M, accumulated over the past 6 days.

Address: bc1pckv9jvpnwgw67p02jfuxxcr0ycmlyk5xaj7atwsfu08u87t5srvqannw34

📉 In December, spot trading volume on the CEX fell to its lowest level since September 2024 at $1.13 trillion, down 32% from November ($1.66 trillion) and 49% from October ($2.23 trillion).

On the DEX, total trading volume fell to $245 billion in December - down 20% from $306 billion in November and 46% from $451.2 billion in October. theblock.co

👀 $ACA, $D, $DATA, $FLOW flagged as monitored for delisting on Binance spot link

🇸🇻🤖 El Salvador's National Bitcoin Authority announced plans to actively invest in #BTC and #AI in 2026.

🕵️ BlackRock deposited 1,134 $BTC worth $101.37M and 7,255 $ETH worth $22.1M into Coinbase, with plans to deposit more. link

🐳 An unknown whale, who lost $18.8M on $ETH in just two weeks, has abandoned $ETH and rotated into gold. The whale has spent $14.58M to buy 3,299 $XAUT at $4,421 over the past seven hours. link

🔮📊 #BTC Most Polymarket users are betting that Bitcoin will rise to $100K or fall to $75K in 2026.

The probability of BTC rising to $130K and beating ATH in 2026 is estimated by players at only 35%.

🔝 Top projects scheduled to launch mainnet in Q1 2026

🙋‍♂️ Bitfarms announced it will fully exit Latin America by selling its 70 MW Paso Pe Bitcoin mining site in Paraguay to Sympatheia Power Fund for up to $30 million. This move completes its strategic shift to 100% North American operations, with plans to reinvest the proceeds into HPC/AI energy infrastructure in 2026. link

📈 #PEPE and #BONK jumped double digits as memecoins added $3B in market cap, reviving talk of a potential meme season. link

🇺🇸⚖ Ilya Lichtenstein, the mastermind behind the Bitfinex 2016 hack, has been released early due to sentence reductions under the US First Step Act, signed by President Trump in 2018.

He was sentenced to five years in November 2024 for laundering nearly 120,000 BTC (~$4.5 billion at the time). link

🗣 #BTC Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl stated in a CNBC interview that 2026 could mark the beginning of crypto's "institutional era." He predicts that Bitcoin may reach a new all-time high in the first half of 2026, driven by increasing demand for alternative stores of value amid global macro uncertainty, expectations of a weaker dollar, potential Fed rate cuts, and advancements in bipartisan U.S. crypto market structure legislation. #macro link

🇺🇸⚠️ #macro University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment is near historic lows.

The index just hit its 2nd lowest level in history. This survey measures how U.S. consumers feel about:

• Personal finances
• Inflation
• Future economic conditions

It’s a leading indicator for consumer spending. When sentiment is this low, it usually means:

• Consumers are under financial stress
• Inflation expectations remain elevated
• Confidence in the economic outlook is deeply damaged
• Spending tends to slow down next

Historically, such extreme pessimism appears during:

• Recessions or pre-recession phases
• High inflation / tightening cycles
• Periods of elevated macro uncertainty

Consumers drive ~70% of the U.S. economy. When confidence collapses, growth risk rises sharply. Macro conditions remain fragile.

🤔 #BTC #MSTR Walter Bloomberg: Strategy is expected to report a multibillion-dollar fourth-quarter loss after BTC fell 24%, wiping out a $2.8 billion profit from the previous quarter. The company's corporate value is approaching parity with its BTC holdings, underscoring growing skepticism about the model's sustainability.

🐳 Whale 0x46DB bought another 5,104 $ETH for $16.09M approximately 30 minutes ago. Since December 3, the whale has acquired 51,374 $ETH for $159.76M at an average price of $3,110. link

🇰🇷📊 South Korean investors moved over KRW 160 trillion (~$110 billion) in crypto assets from domestic exchanges to overseas platforms in 2025 due to local regulatory limits that restrict CEXs largely to spot trading.

Korean users generated about KRW 4.77 trillion (~$3.36 billion) in fees for offshore exchanges, with Binance capturing ~57.7% of the total. link

🤔 BlackRock analysts in their report "Global Outlook 2026" indicated that stablecoins will challenge governments' control over fiat currencies: "Stablecoins are no longer a niche product and they will challenge the dominance of fiat currencies and change the structure of bank deposits". #stablecoin

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
Bitcoin ETFs:
1D NetFlow: -2,061 $BTC (-$183.86M)
7D NetFlow: -2,746 BTC (-$244.93M)

Ethereum ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +12,930 $ETH (+$39.82M)
7D NetFlow: -12,629 ETH (-$38.9M)

Solana ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +30,799 $SOL (+$3.97M)
7D NetFlow: +96,181 SOL (+$12.41M)

🔝Top 10 #AI & Big Data projects by development. $FIL $LINK $ICP

💸 $100,000,000 worth of crypto shorts liquidated in the past 60 minutes.

🕵 The Bitcoin OG (10/11), who was experiencing a floating loss of over $55M, is now almost back to breakeven.

OG continues to hold his $ETH, $BTC with 5x leverage, and $SOL with 10x leverage. link