on-chain analyst Ali wrote in an article on X that despite the market's volatility, Ethereum is still maintaining strong growth within a parallel channel, pointing towards $6,000.

as monitored by Onchain Lens, 5 hours ago Vitalik Buterin sold 340 billion LDOG (DOG) for 5.2 ETH, worth $18,937.

today's panic and greed index rose to 76 (yesterday was 72), and the level changed from greed to extreme greed.

 US President Biden said, "Tomorrow is January 6th. We are gathered here to certify a free and fair presidential election result to ensure a peaceful transfer of power." 

the market shows that AAVE has broken through $330 and is currently reported at $330.04, with a 24-hour increase of 6.07%. The market is volatile, so please be prepared for risk control.

10x Research posted on X platform recently, emphasizing that MicroStrategy's valuation has been too high in the past few weeks. Investors are severely overpaying for indirect exposure to Bitcoin, rather than using it as a true leveraged investment in Bitcoin. Despite acquiring a large amount of Bitcoin, the stock's performance has been poor, indicating that investors are no longer willing to purchase Bitcoin through MicroStrategy at an implied price of $200,000 or higher, but can buy it directly at a lower price. This indicates that stock investors are no longer willing to support MicroStrategy with inflated NAV. This shift highlights investors' increasingly rational attitude, who previously accepted MicroStrategy as an unofficial term for "Bitcoin leveraged investment".

Paola Tocchetti is a VP, Head of Regulatory Affairs at Aptuit, an EVOTEC company. She attended the University of Milan.

 global stocks rose 17% in 2024, while gold prices also rose 27.2%. Bitcoin surged more than 1.2 times. In Hong Kong, the approval of 11 Bitcoin spot ETFs by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in early 2023 was seen as a milestone, providing institutional investors with investment opportunities. Among them, Bitcoin spot ETFs have risen by up to 40% since their listing at the end of April last year. However, Ethereum spot ETFs have generally only risen by about 1%, which is not as good as the rise in ETH prices. Analysis believes that last year was an important year of transformation in the industry, and this year's industry keywords are expected to include compliance landing, institutional layout, policy benefits, and innovation breakthroughs.

Gaingels represents the LGBT community and allies investing in VC-backed companies with diverse and inclusive leadership teams.

On January 2nd, it was reported that cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius had appealed the rejection of its revised $444 million claim against FTX. Celsius claimed that defamatory statements made by FTX executives, employees, and affiliated companies had a negative impact on the company's reputation and financial health, accelerating its bankruptcy in July 2022. Court documents show that Celsius initially filed a $2 billion claim based on "unsubstantiated defamatory statements" spread by FTX insiders. In December of last year, Celsius revised its application, reducing the claim amount to $444 million. The revised claim focused on priority transfers, but the judge dismissed both the original and revised claims on procedural grounds.

Onchain Lens monitoring showed that yesterday a whale named "rektdolphin.eth" sold 620 billion $PEPE tokens (worth $1.23 million) and instead purchased 4.22 million $KEKIUS tokens. Currently, the market value of these $KEKIUS tokens is only $353,000, causing the whale to lose about $880,000.

in December, the US spot Bitcoin ETF bought about 49,591 BTC, while the mining output during the same period was only about 13,500 BTC, indicating that demand still exceeds supply.

On December 30th, according to the German business newspaper Handelsblatt, "Former Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner said that the European Central Bank and the German Central Bank should encourage the inclusion of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin in their reserves."

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong responded to Travis Bloom's proposal to add the ability to send USDC via the Base network on the X platform. He stated that this would be a great feature and suggested discussing this with the X team. Jesse Pollak, the head of the Base protocol, also retweeted the post.

Onchain Lens monitoring shows that a whale address received 5 billion FLOKI worth $1.18 million 35 days ago, and exchanged it for 253 ETH worth $856,000 5 hours ago, resulting in a loss of approximately $326,000.

10x Research stated that "the biggest surprise would be if this bull market suddenly peaks, and at this time, everyone is confident that Bitcoin will rebound by +50% to +150% in 2025." Some even predict that Bitcoin will follow a parabolic trend with precise timing before Trump's inauguration ceremony, but will then experience a significant pullback. Our view is different. Although we advised caution and emphasized various risk factors in our report on December 23, there are now several key data points that traders must carefully evaluate and monitor, as we expect volatility to increase soon."

On December 30th, Zerebro co-founder Jeffy Yu wrote on X that the team is building a consumer-oriented proxy launch platform called ZENTIENTS. Jeffy Yu stated that ZEREBRO's unique feature is that all tokens are circulating, creating a value accumulation framework driven by the Zerebro stack, with the goal of creating a seamless UI/UX for launching and developing proxies while giving value back to ZEREBRO.

On December 30th, Bio Protocol founder Paul Kohlhaas tweeted that his proudest achievements for DeSci in 2024 were the birth of BIO Protocol, DeSci's listing on Binance and Pump Science, the launch of the second IPT VitaRNA, the help in the birth of PsyDAO, Cerebrum DAO, and Quantum Biology DAO, and the promotion of a 70% cost reduction and 5000% growth in IP portfolio through the restructuring of VitaDAO.