🆕 Former Coinbase Employee: Content tokens will only gain value if revenue can be distributed to holders, otherwise they are just memecoins. Creator tokens, in turn, should represent a share of all creator revenue, including sponsorships and media
#COIN #memecoins #crypto
✴️ Macro-analyst Alex Kruger: About 40% of the 100 largest companies holding Bitcoin as a treasury asset are trading below the net value of their BTC holdings, making the treasury expansion model unsustainable and creating consolidation risks in the sector
#BTC #crypto #blockchain
🐳 A large investor ("whale") who had been holding ETH for four years exchanged 14,145 ETH (~$44.3 million) for 492 WBTC. According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, the average purchase price of WBTC was $90,014
#ETH #whales #crypto
🆕 Bitmine restaked 82.6k ETH, bringing the total staked assets to 544k ETH
#ETH #crypto #blockchain
🆕 Aave Labs proposed distributing off-protocol revenue among token holders, as well as resolving issues related to intellectual property rights
#AAVE #crypto #blockchain
🆕 Cointelegraph: SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw is set to resign, leaving only Republicans at the agency
#crypto #blockchain #news
🆕 Cointelegraph: BitVentures takes its first step into crypto mining weeks after Nasdaq rebranding
#mining #crypto #blockchain
🇰🇷 CoinGecko and Tiger Research: in 2025, South Korean investors transferred over $110 billion from local to foreign crypto exchanges due to regulatory restrictions, paying approximately $3.36 billion in fees to platforms such as Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, and Huobi
#OKB #OKT #BNB #HTX
✴️ Grayscale Head of Research Zac Pandl stated in an interview with CNBC that 2026 could mark the beginning of an "institutional era" for cryptocurrencies, and Bitcoin is likely to reach a new all-time high in the first half of 2026
#BTC #crypto #blockchain
🆕 ZachXBT: hundreds of crypto wallets across various EVM networks have been compromised and are currently under attack
#hacks #crypto #blockchain
🇺🇸 The organizer of the 2016 Bitfinex hack, Ilya Lichtenstein, was released early from custody under the U.S. "First Step Act." In November 2024, he was sentenced to five years for laundering nearly 120,000 BTC (~$4.5 billion at the time)
#BTC #hacks #crypto
🇪🇺 Cointelegraph: Cash-like privacy is one of the "most difficult political compromises" for the digital euro
#crypto #blockchain #news
🇵🇾 Mining company Bitfarms will completely withdraw from Latin America, selling its facility in Paraguay for $30 million. The proceeds are planned to be reinvested in HPC/AI infrastructure in 2026, completing the transition to 100% operational activities in North America
#mining #crypto #blockchain
🇷🇺 Cointelegraph: Russian authorities are intensifying the fight against illegal crypto miners, while India is lobbying for the adoption of CBDC
#CBDC #mining #crypto
🆕 Binance has expanded its list of high-risk tracked tokens, adding Acala (ACA), DAR Open Network (D), Streamr (DATA), and Flow (FLOW). These assets will undergo enhanced scrutiny and may be subject to delisting
#BNB #crypto #blockchain
✴️ BlackRock transferred 1134 BTC (~$101.4 million) and 7255 ETH (~$22.1 million) to Binance
#BTC #ETH #BNB
🆕 Trading volumes on crypto exchanges fell to a 15-month low in December
#crypto #blockchain #news
🆕 According to available data, since mid-December, Dexter has gradually overtaken Coinbase, becoming the largest daily operator of x402 transactions, capturing about 50% of the market. Currently, there are four x402 operators that have processed over 10 million transactions: Coinbase, Dexter, PayAI, and DayDreams
#COIN #crypto #blockchain
🇰🇷 Cointelegraph: South Korea sees growing interest in Bitcoin ETFs amid lagging regulation
#BTC #crypto #blockchain
✴️ Today, BTC and ETH options worth a total of $2.2 billion will expire
#BTC #ETH #crypto
