🏦 #BTC #ETH Senate Crypto Bill Nears Crunch Time as Amendments Pile Up, Lobbying Intensifies Ahead of Senate Banking Committee Hearing - link

🤔 #BTC Glassnode: Looking ahead to the first quarter, the overall situation is becoming more favorable.

With selling pressure easing and volatility risk being postponed rather than eliminated, a relatively modest inflow of funds could trigger a sharp price reaction once again.

If spot accumulations and institutional demand based on #ETF's continue to recover, the current consolidation phase could serve as a foundation for a resumption of the upward trend.

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💸 $689 MILLION Bitcoin and crypto SHORTS liquidated over the past 24 hours as BTC surges to $97,000 link

🚀 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Coinbase "can't support" the crypto market structure legislation as currently written.

"We'd rather have no bill than a bad bill."

🔮 #BTC JPMorgan Expects Crypto Inflows to Rise Further in 2026 After Record $130 Billion in 2025 - The Block

📊 Bitnomial, a Chicago-based derivatives exchange, has launched the first U.S.-regulated Aptos futures for institutional traders, with plans to open to retail users via its Botanical platform in the coming weeks. The contracts are monthly-settled in either U.S. dollars or APT, depending on position direction, and allow margin in cryptocurrency or dollars through Bitnomial’s clearinghouse. The exchange also plans to roll out APT perpetual futures and options later. link

🗣 #BTC "Bitcoin is developing into the STRONGEST near-term trend."

- Joe Terranova link

📉 #BTC TD Cowen Cuts Strategy Price Target to $440, Cites Lower Bitcoin Yield Outlook link

📈 #ICP Internet Computer has led large cap assets over the past week by increasing its market cap by +39%.

🕵️ Bitmine has further staked 154,304 $ETH, worth $519.76M.

In total, they have staked 1,685,088 $ETH, valued at $5.65B. link

📊 #POL CryptoRank: As Polygon shifted its focus to payment solutions with the recent acquisitions of Coinme and Sequence, key on-chain metrics improved, average daily fees nearly tripled, and the POL token rallied about 300% over the week.

🕵️ James has fully closed his long positions in $ETH and $PEPE:

- $ETH with a loss of $169,133
- $PEPE with a profit of $110,387 link

🐳 This whale has been trading actively with frequent shifts lately and has now opened long positions worth $466M:

2,536.55 $BTC ($245.5M)
45,124 $ETH ($150M)
479,601 $SOL ($70.7M) link link

🗣 #BTC Jeff Walton stated that individuals can sell Bitcoin whenever they want, noting that Bitcoin trades around $60 billion a day. He emphasized that if someone needed to sell $100 million in Bitcoin, it could be accomplished in just two hours. link link

📈 #ETH Sentora: The number of daily Ethereum transactions hit a new all-time high of 2.3 million.

🕵️ Trader 0x913c sold 2.57M $ASTER ($1.85M) at $0.72 four hours ago.

He bought these $ASTER about 2 months ago at $1.03, resulting in a loss of approximately $797K (−30%). link

💰 #BTC As the market continues to rise, the Bitcoin OG (10/11) is now experiencing a floating profit of over $51.05M but is losing $6.64M in funding. link

🕵️ ONDO's Multisign wallet deposited 25M $ONDO ($10.33M) into multiple CEXs.

Of this, 5M $ONDO worth $2.05M was sent to Arthur Hayes' Bybit wallet. link

🗣 President Trump says he has no plan to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell. #macro

🥷 #S Sonic Labs has issued a partial recovery of over $500,000 to victims of a November exploit on Beets due to the Balancer incident.

These 5,829,196 S tokens have been recovered and distributed proportionally to all affected users. #hack link