📊 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

🎁 Tokenless projects with potential airdrops that raised over $100M in 2025 - link

🏦 Sweeping crypto legislation hits major snag as Senate Banking Committee postpones markup - link

🕵️ #LIT Lighter Introduces Mandatory LIT Staking for Liquidity Pool Access - link

🇨🇳👮 #ETH Yao Qian, founder of China's CBDC and one of Coindesk's 2017 Top 10 Most Influential People, is accused by the Chinese government of assisting in the listing of an ICO in 2018, raising 20,000 ETH, and accepting a bribe of 2,000 ETH. He is currently under investigation and sold some ETH when the price was around $4,000 in 2021. link

🕵️ #LIT Lighter launches staking for LIT. Users now need to stake LIT to make deposits in LLP. The Block link

📈 The crypto market is neutral

BTC Dominance - 58.52%

Market Cap - $3.27T
BTC - $96,101 (+0.65%)
ETH - $3,293 (-1.54%)
BNB - $933 (-1.68%)
SOL - $143 (-1.42%)
DASH - $76 (+28.27%)