🙋‍♂🆕 #SYN Synapse announced about the launch of #CX, a Cortex Protocol token

📊🏴‍☠️ Total Value of Stolen Crypto & Number of Hacks

Stolen funds surged by 22%, reaching $2.2 billion, with hacking incidents rising from 282 in 2023 to 303 in 2024.

#DeFi dominated thefts in Q1, but centralized platforms became prime targets in Q2 and Q3. Major hacks included DMM Bitcoin ($305M, May) and WazirX ($234.9M, July).

🔝 Top Projects by Fully Diluted Valuation Launched Each Month of the Year. #ONDO #STRK #ETHFI

🇺🇸🗣 #BTC Donald Trump: Instead of attacking industries of the future, we will embrace them including making America the world capital for crypto and Bitcoin.

🇩🇪👀 #BTC Former Finance Minister says the ECB and the German Central Bank should consider including Bitcoin in their reserves.

📊👀 #BTC's price on-chain support may be around $80K, the trader's realized price (pink line). cq

This the level is were unrealized profits (purple area) become zero, and where there's not much more incentive for traders to sell.

💵 #USDC Circle Treasury minted ~400 million USDC on the Ethereum network 7 hours ago.

🏴‍☠️ #W Wormhole Foundation: The issue with #FEG has nothing to do with Wormhole, contracts are not affected.

PeckShield: The reason for the FEG hack is a compatibility issue with the underlying Wormhole bridge for transferring tokens between networks.

🏴‍☠️ Scam Sniffer: Superchain Eco account is suspected to have been hacked.

⛏️📈 #BTC As of December, even the latest generation ASICs are back in profit at current Bitcoin prices.

🕵️ #ai16z #ELIZA ai16z: Eliza V2 is in early development and will improve architecture, scalability, and optimize plugin management.

Eliza, a platform developed by ai16z, took #1 on GitHub's December trend list.

Researcher: CTO a16z is on the ai16z discord and Marc Andreessen retweeted ai16z.

Also, whales continue to buy ai16z:
one. Spent 18,044 #SOL ($3.43 million) for 2.04 million AI16Z at $1.68;
2. Spent $1,652,332 #USDC for 1.18 million AI16Z at $1.40;
3. Spent 7,631 SOL ($1.32 million) for 757,713 AI16Z at $1.75.

🐸 #HNT #HONEY #IO Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital: by the end of 2025, the combined revenue of Helium, Hivemapper, ionet will exceed $100 million (currently ~$50 million). 2025 will be considered DEPIN's breakthrough year.

📉 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, the total net outflow of spot BTC-ETFs was ~$415.1 million.

The total net outflow of spot ETH-ETFs was ~$55.5 million.

📖 Franklin Templeton published a forecast for cryptocurrencies for 2025:
1. increasing the number of cryptocurrency #ETFs, tokenized securities;
2. The USA will once again become the world center of cryptocurrency innovation;
3. The US will have a regulatory framework for stablecoins, which will open the door for large financial institutions to issue their own stablecoins;
4. #RWA and stablecoin adoption will continue to expand and become major growth drivers for DeFi worldwide. DePIN will experience increased demand;
5. #BTC will strengthen its position as a global financial asset;
6. Accelerating the convergence of #AI and cryptocurrencies, development of AI agents;
7. Transition from speculation to utility, etc.

📊💪 #BTC C.Q.: Drop in daily deposits to exchanges to a level not seen since 2016 suggests a large-scale trend of holding Bitcoin in personal wallets, while the Netflow-to-Reserve Ratio confirms a continued outflow of coins.

🤔 Fed's Daly: Cryptocurrency is complex and has not yet met the conditions to become a currency. This is not a competitor to the dollar, it is a competitor to gold.

⛄️ C.Q.: More and more traders are going long #ETH. The surge in financing rates suggests an influx of buyers that, if sustained, could lead to a rebound to $4,000.

🎅 Bitget completed the merger and exchange of #BWB and #BGB tokens.

Previously also burned 40% of BGB's total supply.

😱 #BTC #MSTR MicroStrategy shares are falling below $300, down 46% from their November peak. theblock.com