🗣 #WLFI ALT5 Sigma announced a plan to buy back $100 million worth of shares.

They also stated that they will continue to buy WLFI tokens and signed a $15 million credit agreement with World Liberty Financial. link

🎁 USA - Initial Jobless Claims = 209k (exp 206k / prev 200k)

USA - Continuing Jobless Claims = 1.827M (exp 1.860M / prev 1.849M)

🇺🇸📝 USA - trade balance (Nov) = -$56.8 billion
(expected -$43.4 billion / previously -$29.4 billion)

📊 Robinhood invests in the cryptocurrency trading platform Talos, which is now valued at $1.5 billion. link

🆕 $RENDER listed on Robinhood spot link

🐳 Whale 0x8709 isn't just buying spot gold — he's also long silver and gold, while shorting $NVDA.

He spent 5.6M $USDC to buy 1,066 $XAUT at $5,261, then deposited 3.5M $USDC into Hyperliquid to open 53,528 $SILVER ($6.48M) and 158.36 $GOLD ($876K) longs, while shorting 4,229 $NVDA ($809K).

Address:
0x8709ac3CeaAe2a7A70c1D8e39DF9804def7cAC54

🇺🇸💰 SEC and CFTC to hold joint event today "to discuss their efforts to deliver on President Trump’s promise to make the United States the crypto capital of the world." #regulation

📊 According to GreeksLive, tomorrow marks the first monthly options expiry of 2026, with over 25% of positions set to expire.

With the Fed leaving rates unchanged and a lack of major market-moving events, price action remains stable, and Implied Volatility (IV) continues to trend lower.

Bitcoin has returned to a consolidation range, facing strong resistance at $90,000 and support at $86,000, as volatility expectations decline. #macro link

📊 The ETHMegaBear (0x20c2) has racked up over $80.9M in profits by shorting $ETH.

This trader has been shorting $ETH on Hyperliquid since 2024, consistently using max leverage (previously 50x, now 25x).

He currently holds a 30,582 $ETH ($88.9M) short. link

🇺🇸📝 USA - Factory Orders (Nov) = +2.7% m/m (exp +1.7% / prev -1.3%)

📊 Long-Term Holders (LTHs) have been spending over 12,000 #BTC per day on average over the past 30 days, which is equivalent to approximately 370,000 #BTC per month. This indicates a significant level of gross distribution activity that is not fully captured by net metrics alone.

💸 $140,000,000 worth of crypto longs liquidated in the past 60 minutes.

💰 $1.72 trillion European fund services platform Universal Investment Group increased its position in Bitcoin treasury company Strategy $MSTR to 134,967 shares ($21.2 million) link

🇺🇸🗽 #BTC SEC Chair Paul Atkins to speak at the world's largest Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas this April.

He will be the first SEC Chair to speak at The Bitcoin Conference in history. #regulation

📉 Bitcoin has dropped below $86,000.

💸 $210M longs REKT as $BTC dipped below $86K.

🕵️ The market just crashed, and BitcoinOG (1011short) is taking heavy losses on his massive long positions.

In just 2 weeks, he has lost $138M, with total profits dropping from over $142M to just $3.86M. link

🇺🇸📊 Trader "mmmcleve" bet 4 days ago that the U.S. government would not shut down Saturday.

However, 30 minutes ago, he abruptly flipped his position and is now betting that the government will shut down. link

🗽 #ETH Ethereum Foundation will create a $220 million security fund, funded by "TheDAO".

💸 As the market crashed, Machi lost another $2M in a single day. It seems like no matter how much he deposits into HyperLiquid, it just gets wiped out. link

📊 USDT on TRON is used beyond trading.

Transfers under $1K make up approximately 60–74% during Asia and Americas hours, aligning with P2P payments and remittances.

Larger flows peak in EMEA hours, indicating OTC and institutional activity, which together highlight broad, real-world USDT adoption. link