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⚡️ Key events this week
Mon, Dec 29
- Nothing major on the calendar
Tue, Dec 30
- 22:00 - Fed minutes from the last meeting
Wed, Dec 31
- 🎄 Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil, Argentina — no bidding (New Year)
- 🎄 Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Britain — early close (New Year)
- 🇨🇳 China (PRC) - Services/Composite PMI (Dec) at 04:30
- 🇺🇸 USA - Initial Jobless Claims at 16:30
- 🇺🇸 USA - Chicago PMI (Dec) at 17:45
Thu, Jan 1
- 🎄 Markets closed (New Year) in China, Kazakhstan, USA, Britain, most EU countries, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Turkey and many others
- 🇬🇧 Britain - CARF reporting to HMRC — mandatory due diligence and reporting for “Reporting Cryptoasset Service Providers” (not just exchanges)
- 🇪🇺 EU - DAC8: crypto services (exchanges, brokers and other intermediaries) must start collecting data on reportable crypto transactions of EU resident users
- 🇺🇸 USA - Brokers must file 1099‑DA with gross proceeds + cost basis for “covered” digital assets (crypto treated under securities-like reporting standards)
Fri, Jan 2
- 🎄 Markets closed (New Year) in China, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, New Zealand, Japan
- 🇪🇺 Eurozone - Manufacturing PMI (Dec) at 12:00
- 🇬🇧 Britain - Manufacturing PMI (Dec) at 12:30
- 🇺🇸 USA - S&P Manufacturing PMI (Dec) at 17:45
📊 Top DeFi protocols by TVL that launched in 2025.
🤑😱 #BTC Fear & Greed Index at 24, indicating Extreme Fear.
🪙 The Ethereum staking queue is now twice as long as the exit queue—the first time in six months. Currently, 746,000 ETH are waiting to stake, compared with 361,000 ETH waiting to exit. The last time inflows exceeded outflows, ETH’s price roughly doubled.
🇨🇳 China will allow banks to pay interest on the digital yuan to boost its adoption. Source: theblock.co
🛡 Trust Wallet specialists have identified 2,596 affected wallets and will compensate all losses from the recent hack, totaling $7,000,000.
💎 Silver hits a new all-time high today: $82.
📊 Bitcoin back above $90,000, Ethereum around $3,000. Altcoins are mostly in the green, but no strong growth yet. The Fear & Greed Index remains in Extreme Fear at 24.
🔍 Whale transactions — weekly snapshot:
1) After repaying all loans, whale 0xA339 sold the remaining 24,700 #ETH for 73 million #USDC over the past week, with an average sale price of $2,954.
2) A new wallet withdrew 7,714 #ZEC ($4.12 million) from Kraken.
3) 0xA71d placed 1.81 million #USDC in #HyperLiquid and opened a 3x long on 500,000 #LIT ($1.83 million).
Trust Wallet update: 2,596 wallets have been identified as affected. There are also many fraudulent requests for funds recovery.
"Our priority is accuracy, not speed." Please be patient — there will be an update today.
😱 CEO MoreMarkets: In 2026, most companies with #BTC treasuries will disappear along with the rest of DAT.Co-founder of Solv Protocol: The number of companies buying and storing BTC grew from 70 at the beginning of 2025 to more than 130 by mid-year.Many of them are unlikely to survive the next economic downturn.cointelegraph
🔼Bitcoin $90,000+
👀 FLOW [Trading] Notice: FLOW designated for trading on Upbit. FLOW/USDT: 0.101. #Upbit #Listing
🇰🇷 Mirae Asset is in talks to acquire Korbit, the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, for up to $100 million. Source: theblock.co
📉 BTC, ETH, ETF update: Last week (Dec 22–26) saw net outflows from spot BTC-ETFs of about $782 million and from spot ETH-ETFs of about $102.34 million. #BTC #ETH #ETF
📈 #macro Silver climbs to a new all-time high of $80.
✅ S&P 500, gold and silver received their Santa rally 🤑 BTC has been trading sideways for the fifth week - this time at minus 1%.Weekly digest: 💎 Cryptocurrencies 🔸 JPMorgan is going to open cryptocurrency trading for institutions 🔸 Bitmine has sent 79,296 ETH ($232 million) for staking 🔸 Research: In 2025, $150 billion worth of crypto traders were liquidated 🔪 🔸 Bitmain sharply reduced the price of everythingBTC miners due to collapse in demand 🔸 ETHZilla abandoned the Ethereum treasury priority strategy and sold another 24,291 ETH 🏦 Crypto exchanges 🔸 Binance listed the national stablecoin of Kyrgyzstan (KGST) 🔸 Coinbase bought startup The Clearing Company to promote in prediction markets 🔸 Gemini listedBNB 🪙 Financial news 🔸 US GDP grew by 3.8% in the third quarter of 2025 🔸 Nvidia buys the assets of AI chip developer Groq for $20 billion 🔸 China launches a state fund to support startups worth $14.3 billion 🔸 Ukraine completed the restructuring of GDP warrants, avoiding default on debt amounting to $6 billion 🔸 Googlebuys energy company Interect for $4.75 billion ⚖️ Regulation 🔸 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation will allow the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies to unqualified investors 🔸 From January 1, 2026, the EU directive on transparency in taxation of cryptocurrencies (DAC8) comes into force 😡 🔸 British neobank Revolut ceases operations in Ukraine due to problems with local legislation 🔸 Philippine authoritiescrypto exchanges Coinbase and Gemini were blocked 🚨 Hacks 🔸 Circle warned about a scam: the company did not launch an exchange of USDC for tokenized gold and silver 🔸 Trust Wallet admitted a $7 million hack and promised a full refund ☺ 🔸 The Flow token was down 40% after a $3.9 million hack 🔷 Rates: 🌐Bitcoin - $87,652 (↓0.20%)
📉 S&P 500 - 6,929 (↓0.03%)
🇷🇺 USD/RUB - 77.56 (↑0.58%)
🇺🇦 USD/UAH - 42.13 (↑0.41%)
🌕 Gold - $4,533 (↑1.12%)
⚫️ Oil Brent - $60.34 (↓2.44%) @Coin_Post
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan's central bank has approved several pilot projects in digital assets, including tokenizing gold reserves, testing crypto payments via QR codes, and developing a national stablecoin pegged to the tenge—KZTE. These initiatives aim to test new financial instruments in a regulated sandbox and bring blockchain tech into the economy.
