🐳 With $PEPE showing bullish signs, a whale opened a $PEPE (3x) long position 2 days ago and now has a floating profit of over $2M.

Previously, this whale traded $ETH and closed with a loss of $488,069. link

🕵 James Wynn opened long #BTC and #PEPE

🇺🇸🇻🇪 #BTC Cointelegraph: Analyst says Bitcoin is unlikely to see a major correction after the US strike on Venezuela.

🕵️‍♂️ 3 wallets linked to a single entity spent $3.67M $USDC to buy 272,979 $LINK at $13.45, an hour ago.

Addresses:
- 0x1f4f5cf1cca885d831034127106c35ba36199850
- 0x482597d809753ebf8dc0103abe6a39466bf079c1
- 0x91957320ecf4fa9e5dd63c58dd2ac8d2842a55f6

📈 CryptoQuant: Stablecoin inflows show first signs of recovery. This serves as an important early indicator for market sentiment and potential demand.

Growth is still subdued, but the weekly inflow has risen from $51 billion to $81 billion. #stablecoin

📊 Ethereum proved very early that it could become a massive, system level asset. It hit a $500B valuation faster than any major company or asset in history. $BTC was close behind at 12 years.

But today, the market still values $ETH as only a small slice of the overall crypto market, even though it secures the majority of onchain value.

🆕 $ESIM featured on Binance alpha link

👀 #BTC #MSTR Michael Saylor posts the Saylor Bitcoin tracker again, hinting at buying more Bitcoin.

🗓👀 Major blockchain conferences scheduled for 2026, including Consensus Hong Kong, ETHDenver, Paris Blockchain Week, TOKEN2049, Bitcoin 2026, Korea Blockchain Week, Japan’s WebX and more, highlighting key global gatherings for the crypto and Web3 industry next year.

🤔 #ETH Coindesk: Mike Silagadze, CEO of Ether Fi, told CoinDesk that Ethereum’s growth in 2026 will be driven by crypto-native neobanks rather than speculation, as institutional adoption in 2025 laid the groundwork. He expects user-friendly financial products combining stablecoins, yield, and self-custody to fuel mainstream usage.

💰📈 Financial Times: As the Trump administration welcomes digital assets, one of the "big four" accounting firms, PwC, which has remained cautious about cryptocurrencies for years, has decided to increase investment in the area.

📊🤔 Every time $ETH has had a red Q4, the following Q1 has been green.

So far, history is repeating itself

🐳📊 #BTC CQ: BTC inflows on Binance are becoming increasingly
"The average size of each deposit has increased 34 times. Large holders are now more active on Binance."

🕵️ Solana DATS and ETFs now hold 28.28M $SOL worth $3.8B.

😎 #BTC CSO Casa: 2025 saw a significant increase in Bitcoin Core development activity: mailing list attendance increased 60% over last year, 135 unique authors joined code development, and approximately 285,000 lines of code changed. theblock

🇺🇸🇮🇳 Trump threatens to raise tariffs on India if it doesn't stop buying Russian oil. #tradewars

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Also, Trump said the U.S. needs "full access" to oil and "other things" in Venezuela. #macro

👍 #ETH Vitalik highlighted the potential of the PeerDAS (peer data availability sampling) algorithm and zero-disclosure EVMs (ZK-EVMs), noting that these two enhancements transform Ethereum into a "fundamentally new and more powerful decentralized network combining decentralization, consensus and high bandwidth." cointelegraph

📈 #BTC #ETH #ETF Last week (Dec. 29 to Jan. 2), total net inflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$497.05 million;

Total net inflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$643.97 million.

📊 #SHIB Santiment: the price of Shiba Inu is up +32% since the start of 2026. According to the data, the top 10 wallets own almost 63% of the entire offering. The largest one owns about 41% and has a current asset value of ~$3.3 billion.

📈 Stablecoin's market capitalization has grown by about 50% in 2025, from $207 billion dollars on January 1, 2025 to $307 billion at the end of the year.

🔍🐳 Whale and Institutional Transactions:

1. pension-usdt.eth opened a 3 leveraged short on 20,000 #ETH ($64.14m), currently showing an unrealized loss of ~1m;
2. MARA miner transferred 288 #BTC ($26.3M) to Wintermute.