1. Glassnode: Almost all cryptocurrencies have underperformed BTC in average returns over the past three months; 2. Grayscale: Bitcoin is expected to reach a new high in the first half of 2026; 3. Magic Eden: Ordinals buyback is now live, allocating 15% of fees to permanent collections; 4. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins warns that cryptocurrencies could become a tool for financial surveillance; 5. Machi Dage's ETH long positions were all liquidated, leaving his account with only $15,919; 6. Cathie Wood's Ark Invest continues to buy stocks such as BitMine, totaling $56.44 million; 7. Moonrock founder comments on Circle's acquisition of the Axelar team: This is another disguised RUG; 8. Monad's on-chain transaction fee revenue has been below $5,000 for five consecutive days, reaching only $3,824 on December 15; 9. Bitwise CEO: Cryptocurrencies will be integrated into all aspects of financial services within 12 months; 10. Trump: Will review Samourai Wallet. The developer's case; 11. 6MV founder: Circle's vice president once bluntly told Axelar co-founder, "I don't care about your investors."

With 2026 fast approaching, the relationship between ETH price and fundamentals is clearer than at any time since the NFT craze. Judging from the MVRV metric and its dominance among tokenized assets, ETH appears to offer a long-term investment opportunity for allocators.

According to an official announcement, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb will list the EDEN token on the Korean won market.

According to on-chain analyst Ember, a whale purchased multiple AI Agent tokens for $31.12 million at the beginning of the year. However, as the market frenzy subsided, the whale liquidated these tokens today, selling back only $2.57 million, resulting in a loss of $28.54 million, or 92%. Specifically, AIXBT tokens suffered a 91% loss ($15.89 million), FAI tokens a 92% loss ($9.87 million), NFTXBT tokens a 99% loss ($690,000), BOTTO tokens an 84% loss ($930,000), MAICRO tokens a 90% loss ($380,000), and POLY tokens a 99% loss ($780,000). The sale of these AI Agent tokens caused a significant price drop.

Wall Street analyst Tom Lee predicted on Monday a bearish first half for financial markets in 2026, but expects it to “come back in force” eventually. source: https://www.benzinga.com/crypto/cryptocurrency/25/12/49411946/tom-lee-predicts-10-15-downside-for-stocks-in-early-2026-here-is-why-the-ethereum-bull-sees-cryptos-best-years-ahead?utm_source=cryptopanic.com&utm_campaign=partner_feed&utm_medium=referral

The recent heated debate between Aave DAO and Aave Labs, a dispute over governance power at the protocol and product levels, reflects a broader governance dilemma across the industry. This article analyzes the issue: Who truly owns Aave?

Texas is preparing for a major expansion in regulated crypto infrastructure as Bitcoin Bancorp announces plans to deploy more than 200 licensed Bitcoin ATMs beginning in early 2026, reflecting Texas’ growing appeal as a crypto-friendly state. source: https://cryptonews.com/news/texas-bitcoin-atm-expansion-2026/

According to the latest data from the Gate platform, the minting volume of GUSD has exceeded 201 million. Meanwhile, the total staked BTC has surpassed 2,505,000, the total staked ETH has reached 151,400, and the total on-chain staking and mining volume of SOL has increased to 450,700, indicating a significant increase in the popularity of multi-asset staking. Furthermore, the current annualized yields for major cryptocurrencies are as follows: GUSD up to 100%, BTC 9.99%, ETH 9.82%, and SOL 16.00%, providing users with diversified and high-potential on-chain yield options.

According to ChainCatcher, Arkham data reveals that between 12:52 and 13:00, the TON platform contract received four substantial TON transfers totaling 5,833,311.08 TON, all originating from anonymous addresses. At 13:00, 1,482,315.48 TON were transferred from an anonymous address starting with Ef-hGe5U to the TON platform contract. At 12:58, 1,394,347.16 TON were sent from an anonymous address beginning with Uf9dLxE to the same contract. Another transfer at 12:58 involved 1,562,072.3 TON from an anonymous address starting with Ef8uH1y. Lastly, at 12:52, 1,394,346.14 TON were moved from an anonymous address beginning with Uf95OR_ to the platform contract.

Nvidia acquired SchedMD to expand its open-source software suite and foster ingenuity among researchers. source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/nvidia-taps-slurm-maker/

Soulja Boy apologised for promoting numerous crypto and NFT projects that later failed or were scams. Critics and analysts remain concerned as he appears to be involved with new high-risk tokens on the Base platform.

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest increased its allocation to cryptocurrency-related stocks such as BitMine, Coinbase, Circle, Block, and Bullish on Monday, as these stocks all declined that day. According to transaction documents, Ark Invest purchased a total of $17 million worth of BitMine stock, $16.26 million worth of Coinbase stock, and $10.8 million worth of Circle Internet Group stock through its three ETFs—ARKK, ARKW, and ARKF. In addition, Ark also purchased $5.94 million worth of Block Inc. stock, $5.2 million worth of Bullish cryptocurrency exchange stock, and $1.24 million worth of Ark-21Shares Bitcoin ETF.

Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest bought millions of dollars worth of shares in BitMine, Circle, Coinbase, Block, and Bullish on Monday. source: https://www.theblock.co/post/382636/ark-invest-bitmine-coinbase-circle?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

The factors that drove the four-year cycles in the past—Bitcoin halvings, interest rate cycles, and cryptocurrency leveraged booms and busts—have become significantly weaker than in previous cycles.

Grayscale: The crypto asset class is in a sustained bull market, and 2026 will mark the end of the four-year cycle. Bitcoin's price may surpass its previous high in the first half of 2026.

Bitcoin’s network just suffered a sudden shock, experiencing a sharp 10% drop in Bitcoin hashrate within 24 hours. But more surprisingly, experts are pointing their fingers at China, claiming it was China who has caused the sudden dip.

MoonPay has launched a new shopping app for Solana Mobile’s Seeker phone, letting users browse stores and pay with crypto directly on the device. The app features curated merchants, rewards for purchases, and aims to make spending digital assets simple and secure.

For exchanges/protocols, if the purpose of the liquidation mechanism is to ensure fairness, then ADL is for survival.

At the Cryptocurrency Working Group's Financial Monitoring and Privacy Roundtable, U.S. SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins stated that discussions surrounding blockchain privacy and regulatory boundaries are becoming a core regulatory issue.

The AI ​​bubble has become the only pillar supporting the US macroeconomy, essentially the last line of defense on the balance sheets of the wealthy.