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.

Tether announced the launch of QVAC Genesis II — a large open dataset for AI training.

It contains 148 billion tokens that can be used to train AI in chemistry, medicine, physics, mathematics, economics, and other sciences.

The project is aimed at developers and researchers worldwide.

ETHZilla is abandoning its ETH strategy.

The company backed by Peter Thiel sold 24,291 ETH ($74.5 million) to repay debt.

What this means:
▪️ ETHZilla is effectively moving away from its ETH accumulation strategy (DAT).
▪️ The focus is shifting toward real-world asset (RWA) tokenization: auto loans, real estate, and aviation equipment.
▪️ ETH is no longer a key valuation metric — revenue and cash flow now take priority.
▪️ ETHZilla is even shutting down its public mNAV dashboard, reducing transparency for crypto investors.

➕ Reminder: the company previously planned to purchase $10 billion worth of ETH.

Almost all top L1 assets showed negative performance in 2025; only BNB and TRX increased in price.

The queue to enter Ethereum staking has exceeded the exit queue by twofold for the first time in six months — currently, 746,000 ETH are awaiting staking versus 361,000 ETH waiting to exit.

The last time the incoming queue surpassed the outgoing one, ETH soon doubled in price.

GameFi sector saw the worst performance in 2025: Funding decreased by over 55% year-over-year, and a number of anticipated launches disappointed the market.

Despite individual projects with six and seven-figure returns, the audience remains small due to bot activity and challenges with retaining players after incentive reductions.