Tom Lee, Chairman of BitMine, stated in an article on the X platform that many institutional investors typically exit the market during the final holiday trading period of the year, shifting market dominance to algorithmic and bot trading programs. This, coupled with year-end selling driven by tax avoidance needs, contributes to the market dynamics in the last few days of December. Previously, when BitMine disclosed its purchase of 44,463 ETH last week, Lee also pointed out that as the year-end holidays approach, overall market activity tends to decline, and tax-avoidance selling can exert temporary downward pressure on cryptocurrency and related stock prices. This impact is typically most pronounced between December 26th and December 30th, and BitMine is adjusting its market strategy based on this seasonal characteristic.

Trader CBB posted on the X platform that people spent months promoting a certain token, but the token's valuation failed to break $3 billion within 24 hours of its launch after being fully diluted, and he called the token a pure junk coin.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Bitmine (@BitMNR) has staked an additional 118,944 ETH, worth $352.16 million. Currently, Bitmine has staked a total of 461,504 ETH, with a total value of $1.37 billion. In addition, a newly created wallet received 32,938 ETH from FalconX, worth $97.8 million; this address likely belongs to Bitmine.

For Web3 practitioners, don't just focus on Silicon Valley and Hong Kong. Nestled between the deserts and the sea in North Africa, Morocco, this undervalued piece of the puzzle, may just be the missing piece on the global map.

According to BlockBeats, analysis from The Kobeissi Letter reveals that approximately 94% of markets within the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) are currently operating above their 200-day moving average, nearing a five-year peak. Additionally, about 87% of ACWI countries are above their 50-day moving average, marking the highest level since July of this year.The ACWI index encompasses 23 developed markets and 24 emerging markets, representing roughly 85% of investable stocks worldwide. Year-to-date, the ACWI index has risen by 21.6%, on track to achieve its third consecutive annual increase. Meanwhile, the MSCI All Country World Index, excluding the United States, has outperformed the S&P 500 by 12 percentage points, the largest gap since 2009. Global stock markets are experiencing a significant investment surge.

According to ChainCatcher, the U.S. dollar index, which measures the dollar against six major currencies, increased by 0.21% to close at 98.241. In the New York foreign exchange market, the euro was exchanged at 1.1747 dollars, down from the previous day's 1.1767 dollars. The British pound traded at 1.3466 dollars, compared to 1.3507 dollars the day before. The dollar strengthened against the Japanese yen, trading at 156.49 yen, up from 156.03 yen. It also rose against the Swiss franc, with the exchange rate at 0.7917 francs, compared to 0.7896 francs previously. The dollar was exchanged at 1.3696 Canadian dollars, up from 1.3684 Canadian dollars, and at 9.1996 Swedish kronor, compared to 9.1802 kronor the previous day.

According to PANews, Strategy's Executive Vice President Andrew Kang emphasized in a recent interview that increasing Bitcoin holdings could benefit shareholders. Kang noted the company's focus on exploring untapped capital and areas that could drive growth in digital credit demand. He expressed optimism about Bitcoin's future, stating that it still has significant potential for development.

According to ChainCatcher, BitMine Chairman Tom Lee shared insights on the X platform regarding market trends during the final holiday trading period of the year. Lee noted that many institutional investors typically exit the market during this time, leading to a shift in market dynamics dominated by algorithmic and robotic trading programs. This period also sees increased selling activity driven by tax-related needs, influencing the market dynamics in the last days of December.Previously, when BitMine disclosed its acquisition of 44,463 ETH last week, Lee highlighted that as the year-end holidays approach, overall market activity tends to decrease. The tax-related selling exerts temporary pressure on cryptocurrency and related stock prices, with the impact being most pronounced between December 26 and December 30. BitMine is adjusting its market strategy based on these seasonal characteristics.

BNB Chain has released its 2026 technology roadmap. The official statement indicates that 2025 was a key milestone year for BNB Chain, with the network achieving zero downtime throughout the year under real-world high-load conditions, and continued growth in transaction activity, stablecoin size, and real-world assets (RWA). Based on the past year's experience in reliability, speed, cost efficiency, and fairness, BNB Chain has clarified its technological evolution direction for 2026. In 2025, through multiple hard forks including Pascal, Lorentz, Maxwell, and Fermi, BNB Chain reduced block time from 3 seconds to 0.45 seconds, final deterministic time to 1.125 seconds, and increased network bandwidth to 133 million Gas per second. The highest daily average Gas processing volume throughout the year was approximately 5 trillion, maintaining stable operation even during peak Meme coin trading periods and when BNB reached new highs. During the same period, network TVL increased by 40.5% year-on-year, with a peak daily transaction volume of 31 million transactions, a peak stablecoin market capitalization of approximately $14 billion, and RWA exceeding $1.8 billion. The roadmap shows that in 2026, BNB Chain will continue to use BSC as its highly optimized EVM transaction chain, advancing a dual-client strategy: using a Geth client to ensure stability and a Reth-based client as a high-performance engine. Core goals include achieving 20,000 TPS, sub-second finality, and further reducing gas costs through software layer optimization. Simultaneously, the network will introduce a higher-performance execution engine, parallel execution, and parallel storage capabilities to address the issue of continuously growing state size. At the infrastructure level, BNB Chain will continue to improve its scalable database architecture, using multi-layer sharding and distributed processing to alleviate state bloat; at the application level, it will launch a privacy framework and AI agent middleware to reduce the development complexity of high-level applications. In its longer-term plan, BNB Chain also disclosed that it is designing a next-generation transaction chain, aiming to achieve nearly one million TPS and millisecond-level confirmations between 2026 and 2028, and to improve overall decentralization and security through a hybrid on-chain/off-chain computing architecture. The official summary states that this roadmap is based on real-world production environment experience, with the core objective of ensuring long-term sustainability of performance, reliability, and fairness while the network continues to expand.

According to Odaily, the U.S. stock market closed with losses, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 0.2%, the S&P 500 Index decreased by 0.14%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped by 0.24%. The cryptocurrency sector also saw widespread declines.Msx.com, a decentralized RWA trading platform, has reportedly launched hundreds of RWA tokens. These tokens cover a range of U.S. stocks and ETF targets, including AAPL, AMZN, GOOGL, META, MSFT, NFLX, and NVDA.

According to ChainCatcher, Israeli financial daily Calcalist reported on Tuesday that Nvidia (NVDA.O) is in advanced negotiations to acquire Israeli AI startup AI21 Labs for a sum between $2 billion and $3 billion. A 2023 funding round valued AI21 Labs at $1.4 billion, with Nvidia and Google's parent company Alphabet (GOOG.O) participating in the investment.Founded in 2017 by Amnon Shashua and two others, AI21 Labs is among the startups benefiting from the surge in interest in artificial intelligence. Shashua is also the founder and CEO of Mobileye, a developer of autonomous vehicle technology. AI21 Labs has been seeking a sale for some time, and discussions with Nvidia have made significant progress in recent weeks.Nvidia's primary interest in AI21 Labs appears to be its team of approximately 200 employees, most of whom hold advanced degrees and possess rare expertise in AI development. The acquisition price translates to roughly $10 million to $15 million per employee.

In 2025, the global cryptocurrency market entered an unprecedented battle of liquidity harvesting and defense. As market liquidity dried up, the profit-making model shifted from the early post-listing selling model to the pre-listing harvesting model.

SoftBank has transferred a final $22 billion to OpenAI, completing its $41 billion investment and securing around 11% ownership in the AI company. The funding will support OpenAI’s massive infrastructure plans, including partnerships with Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and the $500 billion Stargate project with Oracle.

Binance has confirmed a temporary suspension of Visa and Mastercard withdrawals which would hit Ukraine users hard after the exchange discontinued its partnership with former fiat payment partner Bifinity UAB in 2026. While

Meta's acquisition of Manus may mark a new phase in the AI ​​competition, centered on ecosystem integration.

The investment environment in 2026 is optimistic, with the tail end of monetary easing remaining strong. However, history reminds us that easing cycles will eventually end, and adjustments will be inevitable at that time.

Prenetics has stopped buying Bitcoin and will no longer add to its crypto holdings, choosing instead to focus its capital on growing IM8, the nutrition brand co-founded by David Beckham. The company will keep its existing 510 Bitcoin but says IM8’s strong revenue growth offers a clearer path to long-term value.

Consumer trading apps are fiercely competing in terms of functionality, with each striving to become a cross-asset super app.

Looking back at the end of 2025, the crypto industry has undergone a silent yet dramatic "supply-side reform".

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