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😢 A $50 million mistake A crypto user decided to transfer funds from one of his wallets to another. To avoid copying the address directly, he took the address of his second wallet from the transaction history and sent a $50 test transfer, which successfully arrived. At the same moment, a scammer created a fake wallet with the same first and last 4 characters and carried out an address poisoning attack by sending an incoming transaction to the victim’s wallet. The victim then copied the wrong address and transferred $50 million to the scammer. NEVER COPY ADDRESSES FROM TRANSACTION HISTORY. ALWAYS COPY THEM DIRECTLY FROM THE WALLET ITSELF!

📊 crypto prices: • BTC: ~$88,281 • ETH: ~$2,984 • SOL: ~$126 • Market cap: ~$3.0T • Fear & Greed Index: ~20 (“Extreme fear”) • Altseason Index: ~15

🐻Tom Lee expects a correction in the first half of 2026. In his latest client report, Fundstrat predicts a significant market pullback during that period: ▪️ BTC: $60,000–65,000 ▪️ ETH: $1,800–2,000 ▪️ SOL: $50–75 Recently at Binance Week, Lee stated that Ethereum looked extremely undervalued at $3,000. It seems his previous forecast (ETH at $15,000 by the end of 2025) should be taken with skepticism, as with most pseudo-expert predictions.

📊CryptoQuant believes a bearish market for BTC has already begun. A move toward $70,000 could happen within the next few months, while a drop to $56,000 is possible in the second half of 2026, if it comes to that.

☠️ 12 years ago, Michael Saylor buried Bitcoin, saying that “its days are numbered” Now, Strategy — the company he owns — holds 671,268 BTC on its balance sheet, making it the largest public holder of cryptocurrency in the world. Everyone is changing their tune. Now we’re waiting for purchases from Buffett.

⚖️🔮 Coinbase has filed a lawsuit against the states of Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut over alleged regulatory violations related to the prediction markets sector.

❗️CryptoQuant: Yesterday evening, BTC sell volume on the futures market exceeded $7,300,000,000 in just 6 hours.

🥱 Cryptocurrency prices: BTC ≈$86,700 ETH ≈$2,921 SOL ≈$122 BNB ≈$838 XRP ≈$1,83 Market cap ≈$3T Fear & Greed Index: 16 (Extreme fear) Altseason Index: 15

🇵🇱 625 copies of Saifedean Ammous’ book The Bitcoin Standard have been delivered to the Polish parliament. The books are intended for distribution among the 560 members of the Sejm, while the remaining copies will be given to media outlets (and any leftovers may go to public libraries).

📈 Yesterday’s drop reached the $84,500 level but did not continue, and Bitcoin has slightly recovered. Altcoins are showing mixed dynamics. Some assets are up, others are down, with movements mostly within 10%. The Fear and Greed Index is at 21.

🪙 Tether announced the launch of PearPass — a peer-to-peer password manager The app does not use cloud servers: all credentials are stored locally on users’ devices and synchronized across gadgets via encrypted peer-to-peer connections. PearPass is open source and has passed an independent third-party security audit.

🔶 Binance is exploring strategies to return to the U.S. market, including reducing CZ’s stake in the company — media Binance is seeking to strengthen ties with BlackRock. The exchange aims to re-enter the U.S. market ahead of a potential political shift toward the Democrats.

🔥 Hyper Foundation prepares to burn repurchased HYPE tokens Hyper Foundation has launched a vote on burning tokens. Technically, Hyper Foundation already has no access to the wallet where repurchased tokens are sent. The funds cannot be recovered without a hard fork. Through voting, the organization wants to officially recognize that the HYPE tokens in this wallet are burned. Such a decision would permanently prohibit any future access to the wallet.

💰Visa launches USDC stablecoin settlements for U.S. banks Visa has, for the first time, allowed the use of the USDC stablecoin for settlements between participants in its U.S. payment network. Banks can now transfer funds to each other not through traditional banking infrastructure, but directly in USDC on the Solana blockchain. Cross River Bank and Lead Bank were the first to begin using the new option. The initiative concerns final interbank settlements (clearing) between issuing and acquiring banks after card transactions. Traditionally, such settlements within the Visa network can take up to three business days, while blockchain technology enables them to be processed almost instantly and around the clock, including weekends. Visa plans to later integrate the Arc blockchain as well, which is being developed by Circle, the issuer of USDC. Cross River Bank noted strong interest in such solutions from fintech and crypto companies. According to a bank representative, these mechanisms are expected to become an “obvious” industry standard in the future. The annual volume of USDC settlements through Visa outside the United States has already exceeded $3.5 billion. A day earlier, the company also launched a global consulting program focused on stablecoins for banks, fintech firms, and trading platforms.

🧐 Trump says he will consider pardoning the founder of Samourai Wallet U.S. President Donald Trump said he is ready to consider the possibility of pardoning Keonne Rodriguez, a developer of the Bitcoin wallet Samourai Wallet. Speaking to journalists, he instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to review the case materials, noting that he is not yet familiar with the details. Samourai Wallet offered the built-in Whirlpool mixer and other privacy features that made transaction tracking more difficult. According to prosecutors, the wallet was used to launder more than $237 million. Rodriguez and a second Samourai developer, 67-year-old William Hill, were arrested in 2024. In November, Rodriguez was sentenced to five years in prison for launching Samourai Wallet, while Hill received a four-year sentence. Both were charged with money laundering and operating without a financial license. Previously, Trump had already pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Their supporters are now calling for similar measures to be applied to the developers of Samourai Wallet and the Tornado Cash mixer.

👀 BlackRock has deposited 47,463 ETH ($140M) into Coinbase Prime

🐰 PancakeSwap will take part in the development of Probable — a prediction market protocol on BNB Chain The project will support forecasting and betting on sports, politics, cryptocurrencies, and major global events. Users will be able to deposit any assets, which will be automatically converted into USDT for placing bets, while price data will be provided via UMA oracles.

🦊 MetaMask adds Bitcoin support Users can buy crypto with fiat, send transfers, and swap BTC for EVM assets or Solana. Support for SegWit address formats has been added initially, with Taproot addresses planned in the near future. Previously, MetaMask already supported Bitcoin and other non-EVM networks via plugins called Snaps.

📊 The most popular blockchain ecosystems in 2025 Solana remains the most popular blockchain ecosystem for the second year in a row.

💰JPMorgan Launches Tokenized Money Market Fund on Ethereum JPMorgan, the largest bank in the United States, has introduced its first tokenized money market fund on the Ethereum blockchain. The fund, called My OnChain Net Yield Fund (MONY), will be available to qualified investors with a minimum entry of $1 million. At the initial stage, the bank will invest $100 million of its own capital into the fund. Investors will be able to contribute funds in U.S. dollars or in the USDC stablecoin and receive digital tokens representing their share in the fund. Like traditional money market funds, MONY invests in short-term, low-risk instruments and accrues returns on a daily basis. The bank noted strong client interest in tokenization. Total assets in money market funds have grown to $7.7 trillion. Tokenized versions of such funds allow crypto investors to earn yield on assets fully held on-chain and can be used as collateral on exchanges. The largest tokenized money market fund remains BlackRock’s BUIDL, with $1.8 billion in assets.