Today, the Fear and Greed Index plunged to 15 — extreme fear.

Analysts from Chainalysis and TRM Labs report that the share of criminal activity on CEX exchanges has sharply declined, with Binance being one of the key drivers of this trend.

According to experts, in 2025, direct interaction between top platforms and “dirty” wallets accounts for only about 0.018–0.023% of total transaction volume.

For Binance, this figure is as low as 0.007–0.016% of the exchange’s daily turnover, which reaches $90 billion.

Yesterday, Bitcoin ETFs set a new record for daily volumes — $11.5 billion, with $8 billion provided by BlackRock’s IBIT.

The volume of margin trading in BTC over the past four months has hit an all-time high.

More and more people are piling into futures, hoping to get rich from just a couple of lucky trades — the level of risk appetite is now at its peak.

The BTC buy-to-sell ratio across all exchanges rose to 1.17 yesterday — the highest level since January 2023, indicating a clear dominance of buyers.

Historically, this suggests that the current bullish cycle is unlikely to be nearing its end, although risks still remain.

BlackRock’s CEO said that some sovereign wealth funds are already buying Bitcoin, and they purchased even more during the current correction with the goal of long-term accumulation

The Aster team launched a trading tournament featuring 70 people and 30 AI bots.

The developers gave each participant $10,000.

They will cover all losses themselves, while traders can keep any profits.

Do Kwon, the founder of the scam project Terra (Luna), has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud involving $40 billion through UST and LUNA.

15 years ago, on December 12, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto left his final message on the BitcoinTalk forum — in it, he discussed issues related to DoS attacks on the network.

After that, Satoshi continued to exchange a few private emails with individual developers, but never appeared on public forums again.

Bitcoin network activity has fallen to a yearly low.

The number of active addresses on the Bitcoin network has dropped to its lowest level of the year, The Block reported.

The average weekly number of active addresses has fallen to 660,000. This is the lowest level since December 2024, when the network saw a peak in activity driven by hype around Ordinals and Runes (Bitcoin-based NFT-like formats).

The average transaction fee in December declined to $0.48 (down from $3.70 a year earlier). Fee levels traditionally also serve as an indicator of blockchain demand and overall user activity.

The market capitalization of gold-backed stablecoins has exceeded $4 billion — since the beginning of 2025, the figure has tripled from $1.3 billion.

BNB Chain has announced the launch of its native stablecoin, U.