Most L1 tokens are ending 2025 in the red, with #TON, #AVAX, #SUI, and #SOL particularly hard hit. Even #ETH and #HYPE are down, with only #BNB and #TRX in the black.
👍 The crypto industry will see 267 deals in 2025, up 18% from 2024. The total deal value of $8.6 billion is nearly 300% higher than last year's $2.17 billion, and growth is expected to continue in 2026.
📉Analyst: Altcoins Fall in Price Amid Rising Leverage
😳Aave Founder Accused of Token Acquisition to Control DAO
👨💻Santiment Analysts Warn of Record-Level Fear Around Strategy and Its Founder Michael Saylor
🇵🇭The Philippines Blocked Access to Coinbase and Gemini
🚀CoinCare Researchers Note: The Bitcoin (BTC) Market Continues to Be Bearish, However, the Current Structure is Increasingly Seen as a Preparatory Stage for Future Growth.
🤷♂️Polymarket reported user accounts were hacked
💰Trend Research plans to invest $1 billion in Ethereum
🤨CryptoQuant analyst warns of increased risk for Bitcoin as sentiment turns red
📊AI-focused crypto miner stocks outperform the market
👥Glassnode: Institutional crypto holders are leaving the market
🔴 Bitcoin lost ground in 2025, but is poised to rise in 2026.
Gold - new all-time high. Silver - new all-time high. S&P 500 - close to all-time high. NASDAQ - close to all-time high. Dow Jones - new all-time high.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin has fallen 28% from its peak, posting its worst fourth-quarter performance in seven years, without any negative news, misinformation, or scandals.
There's no explanation for this other than pure manipulation.
🔁 The Gnosis Chain team conducted a hard fork to recover funds associated with the Balancer hack in November 2024 (>$116 million). The team stated that the assets are now "out of the hackers' control," but did not specify a recovery rate.
💰 Architect Financial Technologies, founded by the former president of FTX US, raised $35 million to build an institutional trading platform covering cryptocurrencies, stocks, and futures.
🇨🇦 #BTC Matador Technologies received approval to sell up to $58.4 million in shares, which it plans to use to purchase BTC.
📉Crypto market buying activity is declining - CryptoQuant
💸Justin Sun lost $60 million on a Trump family project
👨💼Michael Selig confirmed as CFTC chairman in connection with the advancement of a bill on the crypto market structure
👨💻Kalshi integrates BNB Smart Chain for cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals
📊Aster will use up to 80% of the platform's daily fees for the buyback of ASTER tokens.
😳Bitcoin lost over 22% in the fourth quarter of this year, which could be its worst performance in seven years, according to the analytics platform CoinGlass.
🪙Peter Thiel-backed DAT company ETHZilla sold 24,291 ETH worth $74.5 million to pay off debt.
📊Analyst: Dogecoin's recovery at $0.128 could be the perfect time to open long positions
📉BTC and ETH inflows to exchanges are declining as prices stabilize
🎅 Investors are currently actively promoting the "Santa Claus Rally" theme...
A "Santa Claus Rally" is an upward trend traditionally observed in the stock market during Christmas (the last five trading days of the year + the first five trading days of the new year).
1. Bitmine bought another 29,462 #ETH ($88.1 million); 2. The founder of Aave bought 32,660 #AAVE ($5.15 million) at a price of $158. Over the past week, he bought a total of 84,033 #AAVE ($12.6 million) at an average price of $176, and currently has an unrealized loss of $2.2 million; 3. 0xa339 sold 5,306 #ETH ($15.76 million) at a price of $2,970, fully repaying all his loans. He then withdrew the remaining 24,700 ETH ($74.41 million) from his Aave account.
🕵️ Stani Kuleshov spent $1,699 ETH ($5.15 million) to buy 32,660 AAVE at $157.78. He currently owns 84,033 AAVE worth $12.6 million, with a potential loss of $2.29 million.
🔥VanEck says #Bitcoin miner capitulation signal may indicate a bottom is near, with hashrate down 4% as of December 15th, a historically bullish countersignal.