🚨 ETHEREUM FUTURES JUST PRINTED A NEW YEARLY RECORD
According to CryptoQuant’s Darkfost, ETH futures trading volume on Binance surpassed $6.74 TRILLION in 2025.
That’s nearly 2x higher than 2024.
Whether people like it or not, this confirms one thing very clearly:
Ethereum remains one of the most actively traded and financially relevant assets in crypto.
High leverage, high participation, high conviction.
Futures volume expanding at this scale usually doesn’t happen in a dead market. It happens when positioning, hedging, and speculation all accelerate at once.
ETH is still at the center of that activity.
$BTC Trade Update — Upside Still Active
Bitcoin long is moving as expected and holding demand well. Buyers are in control and price is slowly pushing higher.
Trade Recap
Entry zone: 87,300 – 86,300
Current price: 87,810 – 87,840
TP1: 88,500
TP2: 89,800
TP3: 91,500
Price is getting closer to TP1 at 88,500. Momentum remains healthy and structure is still bullish.
What’s Next
• Partial profit can be planned near 88,500
• After TP1, stop loss can be moved to entry to secure the trade
• A clean break above 88,500 opens the path toward 89,800
• As long as BTC holds above 87,300, the upside setup stays valid
Trade is progressing smoothly. Stay patient and manage risk properly.
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Bitcoin Retail Demand Drops Below $400M — What It Signals for Price Action
Bitcoin faced notable pullbacks in Q4 2025, briefly dipping toward $80,000, and recent on-chain data suggests a strong rebound may be hard to achieve in the near term.
Retail activity — measured by transactions in the $0–$10,000 range — has turned negative on a 30-day basis, showing that fresh retail money has largely stayed on the sidelines since mid-December. This cohort is widely used as a proxy for small investors, and negative readings typically reflect fading interest, not aggressive selling by large holders. Analysts note this weakness began around December 14, after a short period of stabilization.
At the same time, overall retail transfer volume has slipped to roughly $375M–$400M. This doesn’t point to panic or mass exits, but rather hesitation — traders appear to be watching price action unfold instead of rushing in or out. In short, there’s no surge of new capital, but also no major fear-driven selling.
This behavior supports the idea that Bitcoin remains in a consolidation phase. Since mid-December, price has been locked between $85,000 and $90,000, facing resistance on both sides. Without renewed retail participation, upside momentum remains capped. Historically, strong rallies tend to require retail buyers to complement institutional demand.
For now, downside pressure also looks limited, as selling remains muted. Unless a major catalyst emerges, Bitcoin is likely to continue ranging.
Looking ahead, optimism centers on a potential strong start to the new year, driven by expected interest rate cuts and possible capital rotation out of overheated commodities. Still, some analysts urge caution, warning that signs of capitulation could mean the corrective trend that began in October extends into Q1 2026.
As of now, Bitcoin trades around $87,401, up 0.3% in the past 24 hours.
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Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost about $782 million over Christmas week yeah, a big outflow, but it wasn’t some panic-driven stampede. It’s just that time of year. Every December, big investors shuffle things around: they clean up portfolios, lock in tax moves, and generally pull back before year-end numbers get locked in. Trading desks go quiet, lots of folks are out, and with the markets already up earlier in the year, there’s every reason to trim risk. Spot Bitcoin ETFs, being easy to trade in and out of, end up as the first stop for this sort of housekeeping.
And let’s be honest, there wasn’t much happening that week. No big economic news, no surprises from central banks just the usual holiday lull. If you’re an investor and you don’t see a reason to stick your neck out, you step aside, wait for January, and come back when things get interesting again.
What’s actually kind of surprising is that the Bitcoin price didn’t tank alongside the ETF outflows. It stayed pretty steady, especially compared to other times when selling like this triggered sharper drops. That tells you some of that selling got soaked up by long-term holders, overseas buyers, and maybe even folks dialing down leverage.
People watching the market point out that ETF flows have gotten more tactical lately. Big moves in and out aren’t always about belief in Bitcoin’s long-term future they’re often just short-term positioning, sometimes just because of the calendar. So, this December bleed? It says more about the time of year than anyone’s conviction.
With January around the corner, plenty of analysts expect things to settle down. Historically, money comes back in as the new year gets rolling. Bottom line: this Christmas-week dip looks like a breather, not a red flag for Bitcoin’s long game.