🏴☠️ ZachXBT: Hundreds of cryptocurrency wallets on multiple EVM blockchains are under attack. Damages are rising as the attack continues, currently surpassing $107,000, with losses typically under $2,000 per victim. The cause has not yet been determined. Source: The Block.
👍 Coinbase CEO on 2026 priorities:
1) Build a global exchange that covers all trading types: cryptocurrencies, stocks, prediction markets, and commodities (spot, futures, and options).
2) Scale stablecoins and payment systems.
3) Grow our user base through the Coinbase developer platform, the Base network, and the Base App.
📊 Blockchains with the highest transaction counts in 2025.
📊🏴☠️ PeckShieldAlert: December 2025 saw about 26 major crypto hacks, totaling roughly $76 million in losses — about 60% less than in November.
☹️ This year, transaction data from crypto wallets of investors in 48 countries will start being reported for tax purposes. The OECD’s international tax transparency framework, CARF, will officially take effect in 2027. Cointelegraph #regulation
😐 BTC: Polymarket estimates the probability of BTC reaching $150,000 this year at 21%. Meanwhile, several analysts—Standard Chartered, Strategy, and Bernstein—expect BTC to hit $150,000 by 2026. More bullish voices, such as Tom Lee of Fundstrat, project $200,000–$250,000. Cointelegraph previously covered analysts' BTC price forecasts for 2025.
🇹🇲🕹 A new law in Turkmenistan has come into force, legalizing cryptocurrency mining and exchange, and clarifying that cryptocurrencies are not legal tender, currency, or securities. Cointelegraph #regulation
Today’s results — January 01 📊
- In 2025, the crypto market cap fell by $325B (−6%), while the US stock market grew by $9T. 🧠
- Vitalik Buterin published "Balance of Power," arguing that the main threat ahead is not technology but excessive concentration of power. 💰
- How a scammer helped ZachXBT reveal himself. ⛽️
- In 2025, Meteora, Jupiter, and Uniswap led DeFi in total commissions, each earning over $1B in a year. 🪙
- Despite some months of outflows, by the end of 2025 net inflows into the Bitcoin ETF were about $22B, signaling strong institutional demand. 🪙
- Tether withdrew 8,889 BTC from Bitfinex today — now 96,370 BTC (about $8.5B) are in the company’s wallets. 🐸
- The Official Trump meme (TRUMP) team withdrew roughly $100,000,000 USDC from liquidity pools in December and moved the funds to Coinbase. 🇮🇷
- Iran is actively inviting other states to purchase weapons — ballistic missiles, drones, and warships — with payments in cryptocurrency.
🔮 BTC outlook: Charles Schwab expects BTC to rise in 2026 despite the recent downturn. The macro environment should become more favorable for BTC, driven by quantitative easing, the Fed’s bond-purchase program, and weak demand for U.S. government bonds.
Forbes notes there isn’t a single target price yet, but forecasts cluster in the $120k–$170k range. This suggests BTC pricing is increasingly driven by structural factors like ETF fund flows and corporate treasury holdings. If macro conditions improve and institutional participation accelerates, upside could reach $250k or more.
Buffett also lost money on the market 👀 Today marks the first day Warren Buffett is officially retired. He’s known as a long-term investor, but his career also included some speculation. The best deal was the purchase of T-Mobile shares (+90%). The worst results came from HP (-23%), Snowflake (-40%), and Paramount Global (-72%). But it was his long-term investments that built most of his wealth: over 60 years of work lifted Berkshire Hathaway’s share price from $19 to $756,000 🤑
🇮🇷 Iran is actively inviting other countries to purchase weapons—including ballistic missiles, drones, and warships—paying with cryptocurrency.
⛽️ In 2025, Meteora, Jupiter, and Uniswap led DeFi protocols in commissions earned, with each bringing in over $1 billion that year.
🐸 The Official Trump meme token (TRUMP) team withdrew about $100 million in USDC from liquidity pools in December and moved the funds to Coinbase. On January 19, 2025, TRUMP reached a new all-time high above $77; since then it has declined steadily and is currently trading around $4.7.
👍 #JUP Jupiter announces Jupiter Mobile V3 — a mobile terminal with its own platform for professional trading.
Top DeFi protocols by total fees collected in 2025 📊
The S&P 500 just posted its third straight annual gain 🤑 Will we see five consecutive green annual candles again, or a correction in year four? 🤔
🧠 Vitalik Buterin's Balance of Power argues that the main future threat isn't technology itself, but the excessive concentration of power.
There are three forces people both want and fear: states (Big Government), large corporations (Big Business), and mass movements/crowds (Big Mob). Each can bring benefits—order, progress, social energy—but becomes dangerous when any one gains too much power.
In the past, balance arose naturally: large systems were slow, inefficient, and hard to scale. Today, technology, automation, and closed platforms let one actor grow with few limits, reinforcing a “winner takes all” dynamic.
So the key task of the 21st century is to maintain the balance of power, not crush strong players.
The state should be the “rules of the game,” not a player imposing its goals. Business should not become a monopoly that crushes culture, politics, and economics. Civil society must stay pluralistic, not merge into a single controlled crowd.
The solution is diffusion: open standards, interoperability, the ability to leave, fork, and connect without permission. Force may be used, but hegemony is not. Many strong actors are better than one super-powerful one. The core idea: build systems that empower people without giving anyone total control over others.
🐸 #BROCCOLI714 A trader reportedly earned around $1 million from the abnormal activity tied to BROCCOLI714. He says it started with a hack or error in the market-making bot. Relying on automated alerts to detect sharp price moves, he went long as spot buying pushed prices higher, then flipped to short when the pressure eased. Cointelegraph 📊 Chart 👈
