Silver rush in China — silver bars sold right on the street 👀 Silver up 4%: extra passengers were dropped off yesterday 😁

🆕 Binance Futures launches USDⓈ-Margined BREVUSDT perpetual contract. Pre-market trading begins on 2025-12-30. #BREV #Binance #Futures

☠️ The Unleash Protocol crypto project was hacked, with losses totaling about $3.9 million.

🏴‍☠️ Unleash Protocol hacked — $3.9 million stolen.

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😏 Today’s market mood #today #market

- Bitcoin looks set for a bearish year. Let’s hope the “broken 4-year cycle” promises turn out true ✊ - Gold and silver are trying to recover after yesterday’s sell-off. S&P 500 futures are moving up, and BTC remains in a sideways range around $85k–$90k 🥹 - The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation fines illegal mining at 1.5 million rubles (~$19k), with the harshest violators facing up to 5 years in prison 🤬 - Crypto detective ZachXBT found a scammer who posed as a Coinbase employee and swindled traders out of about $2 million. The proceeds were spent on alcohol and gambling—not on crypto trading 😁 - In 2025, GameFi funding fell by 55% year over year; no major launches on the horizon ☠️ - Metaplanet purchased an additional 4,279 BTC (~$374 million) 👍 - #cryptomorning

🇷🇺 Russia plans to submit bills regulating the crypto market to the State Duma in the first half of 2026.

💸 #BTC In the last 24 hours, roughly $2 million worth of contracts were liquidated, with about $368 million in longs and $202 million in shorts.

🇺🇦 Binance suspends card withdrawals for Ukrainian users.

The National Bank of Ukraine has tightened restrictions on Binance: withdrawals to bank cards have been suspended. 😡 First, we dodged Revolut’s market restrictions; now Binance is in the spotlight. What’s next? 😳

🤬 Another military escalation? The Saudi-led coalition says it carried out an airstrike on an arms shipment from the UAE at Yemen's Mukalla port, heightening tensions between the two Gulf allies amid Yemen's war. The attack underscores the widening rift between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who back rival factions in Yemen's civil war. (Bloomberg)

🤔 Coinbase’s Global Head of Investment Research says that in 2025 crypto derivatives activity surged as traders gravitated toward perpetual futures on the blockchain. The trend stems partly from the absence of a traditional altseason, pushing traders to seek higher returns through leverage. Cointelegraph

🎮 The GameFi sector had its worst results in 2025: funding dropped by more than 55% year over year, and many expected launches fell short of market expectations. Even so, a few projects posted six- or seven-figure profits. The overall audience remains small due to bot activity and retention problems after incentives were reduced.

👍 BlackRock's #RWA BUIDL has paid out $100M in dividends and grown to over $2B in assets since launch, becoming one of the market's largest tokenized products. Source: coindesk.com

🇯🇵 Metaplanet just purchased 4,279 BTC for $375 million, bringing its total to 35,102 BTC worth about $3 billion.

🎁 #LIT — Lighter launches LIT trading.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions — quick update: 1) A 1.01 short with $749M long across BTC, ETH and SOL just transferred 112,894 ETH ($332M) to Binance again. 2) A wallet linked to Indexed Finance and a Kyber Network exploiter resumed activity after a year of inactivity, selling: 226,961 UNI ($1.36M), 33,215 LINK ($410k), 845,806 CRV ($328k), 5.25 YFI ($17.5k). 3) Two wallets accumulated 2.15B PUMP ($3.87M) over the past 24 hours.

🇷🇺 The Russian Ministry of Justice is pushing for tougher penalties for illegal mining: fines up to 1.5 million rubles, forced labor, or imprisonment of up to 5 years in severe cases.

🍿 A ZachXBT analyst tracked down a Telegram scammer who stole about $2 million over the past year by posing as Coinbase support. The attacker spent the proceeds on rare usernames and gambling.