1. 🔬 Opportunities to watch

  • Dolomite will launch the DOLO token on Berachain, with 20% airdropped to community members

  • Aevo: weETH is now accepted as collateral

  • Bio Protocol: BIO holders can participate in BioDAO governance and Launchpad to earn rewards

  • ZKsync Ignite incentive program will launch tonight, distributing 325 million ZK over 9 months

  • sanctum: Governance token CLOUD is expected to support staking this month

2. ❇️ DeFi

a. New projects in the past day

  • dTRINITY dUSD --- Partially Algorithmic Stablecoin (Fraxtal, 620,000)

  • YieldFi --- Yield Aggregator (Multi-Chain, 800,000)

  • SatLayer --- Restaked BTC (Multi-Chain, 32.31 million)

  • Omega --- Leveraged Farming (Mantle, 1.06 million)

  • Astrol --- Lending (Eclipse, 2.75 million)

  • Mantra AMM --- Dexes (Mantra, 3.92 million)

b. Project list

Project list: TVL > 5m & (7 days new | 24h TVL change > 10%)

c. Related projects

  • Aerodrome: Slipstream V2 will launch this month

  • Tron's USDD 2.0 Beta decentralized stablecoin project officially launched on the Tron chain

  • mETH Vaults have gone live on the lending protocol Fluid

3. 🌏 Macro

  • The US dollar index DXY fell 1.00% today, now reported at 107.84

  • Federal Reserve Governor Cook: More cautious measures can be taken regarding interest rate cuts

  • On Deribit, a large purchase of BTC options was made for a January 10 call option at 97,000 USD, totaling 150 BTC

  • Goldman Sachs: Currently expects the Federal Reserve to cut rates by 75 basis points this year

  • Polymarket again predicts ahead of traditional media that Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau will resign

  • The total open interest for BTC options across the network is 26.78 billion USD, and for ETH options is 7.25 billion USD

  • BlackRock's Ethereum ETF holdings have surpassed 1.08 million ETH, with a market value exceeding 3.9 billion USD

  • BlackRock's IBIT pre-market trading volume reached 66 million USD today, with 51% being active buy orders

4. 🐳 Whale movements

a. Exchange capital inflow and outflow situation

  • An address associated with Abraxas Capital has cumulatively recharged the exchange with 42,300 ETH in the past six hours, worth approximately 155 million USD

  • 100 million $gmt transferred to Binance, worth 16.4 million USD

  • Today, two new wallets withdrew 261 BTC from Binance, worth approximately 25.9 million USD

  • A certain address deposited 19,000 AAVE to Binance, worth approximately 6.48 million USD

  • GSR deposited 10.7 million RARE and 132.68 million RSR to Binance 3 hours ago, worth approximately 3.5 million USD

  • 1,194 BTC were transferred out from Coinbase, valued at over 118 million USD

  • An address associated with Abraxas Capital recharged the exchange with 42,300 ETH, with a total floating profit of 13.76 million USD

b. Staking, DeFi, NFT related activities

  • Liquidity staking platforms have reduced their ETH holdings by 70,000 since the end of last November, with Lido reducing by 160,000

c. Institutional investment trends

  • MicroStrategy invested 101 million USD to increase its Bitcoin holdings by 1,070 BTC, bringing its current holdings to 447,470 BTC

  • MicroStrategy increased its holdings by 1,070 BTC, bringing its current holdings to 447,470 BTC

  • Metaplanet plans to increase Bitcoin holdings to 10,000 BTC by 2025

  • Statistics: In the past week, 11 listed companies have increased their Bitcoin holdings

  • A certain smart money spent 76 ETH to buy 137,133 ORA

  • New York Stock Exchange-listed company KULR announced an increase in Bitcoin holdings by 213.43 BTC, bringing its holdings to 430.61 BTC

  • El Salvador has increased its Bitcoin holdings by 5 BTC since the beginning of the year, with current holdings of about 6,009 BTC

d. Large transfer activities

  • Tether transferred 125 million USDT to an unknown address

e. Options market trends

f. Market observation data

  • This week's token unlock data: APT, MOVE, and ENA will see significant unlocks

  • Over 80 million USD in liquidations occurred across the network in the past 12 hours

  • Over 30 million USD in liquidations occurred across the network in the past hour, mainly in short positions

  • Sky: USDC supplied to the Sky Savings Rate has exceeded 1 billion

  • Analysis: In the past 30 days, 5 million new addresses were added to Sei EVM, with a total of over 10 million Sei addresses

g. Other whale movements

  • With a swing win rate of 82%, a whale's short position has increased to 23,616 ETH, currently facing a floating loss of 4.568 million USD

  • Four major addresses have cumulatively opened positions worth 2.258 million USD SWARMS in the past 4 hours

  • A certain whale bought an additional 1.845 million SWARMS in the past 45 minutes

  • A certain ai16z whale is selling tokens worth over 10 million USD through limit orders

  • A certain whale deposited 5.3 million ai16z tokens worth over 10 million USD into Jupiter for sale through limit orders in the past 4 hours

6. 📃 Industry

a. NFT & GameFi & SocialFi & DID & DAO & Content creation

  • Sonic SVM: Alpha Vault deposits are now open

  • Arbitrum's 225 million ARB gaming catalyst program is ready, aiming to fund 100 projects over three years

b. Exchanges/Wallets

  • swarms is about to launch a new feature: agents can be bought and sold using swarms tokens

  • Bitget will launch the Launchpool project Sonic SVM (SONIC), locking BGB to earn 7.8 million SONIC

c. Public chains/L2

  • Cookie3 co-founder: cookie.fun v0.4 version will be launched next week

  • MAP Protocol releases 2025 roadmap: Includes cross-chain services for BTC, Dogecoin, XRP launching in Q1

  • Nansen partners with HypurrCollective to promote Hyperliquid ecosystem innovation and governance

  • The cross-chain BTC re-staking network Pell Network launches new version Pell Ignite Testnet

d. Investment and financing

  • Weekly financing update | 6 projects received investment, with a disclosed total financing amount of approximately 47.3 million USD (12.30-1.5)

  • The ZKsync-based game L2 blockchain ZKcandy has completed a 4 million USD private placement financing

e. Regulation

  • Dutch regulators have issued EU MiCA crypto asset licenses to four companies: MoonPay, BitStaete, ZBD, and Hidden Road

  • Hong Kong licensed exchange HKVAX signs memorandum of understanding with Victory Securities

  • GSR has been approved by the UK's FCA to expand its crypto asset trading and liquidity services business

  • Bit Digital: has officially changed to a domestic reporting entity under US securities regulations

  • Biden: Will gather tomorrow to certify a free and fair presidential election result to ensure a peaceful transfer of power

f. Security

  • Scam Sniffer: A user lost 155,256 USD worth of EIGEN after signing a phishing transaction to increase allowance

g. Others

7. 🔧 Tools

8. 💡 Opinions

  • Placeholder partner: Regardless of the time frame, BTC, ETH, and SOL look strong

  • Bitwise CEO: The transformative power of tokenization may come from enabling a large number of small businesses to enter capital markets

  • From DeFi to DeFAI: The future of intelligence, simplification, and popularization

  • This week's insights: 8 major states and 6 major trends in the crypto market

  • Analysis: Technical indicators like RSI and whale movements may indicate that ETH is pushing towards 4000 USD

  • The father of PUBG: Has not considered including NFTs in the metaverse 'Artemis', but may integrate blockchain technology

  • Selling pressure shrinks, liquidity recovers, BTC may return to an upward trend (12.30~01.05)

  • In the past 7 days, the stablecoin growth on the Ethereum network exceeded 1.1 billion USD

  • Analyst: X Money may change the game for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

  • SignalPlus Macro Analysis Special Edition: Happy New Year

  • Bernstein: Expects Ethereum to become the next 'institution darling' by 2025

  • Survey of 42 important figures in the Solana ecosystem: What do they think about the crypto industry?

  • Bybit real-time data incorporated into AICoin trading information platform

  • QCP: Bitcoin is approaching the 100,000 USD mark again, but facing 'huge' selling pressure

  • Trader T: Coinbase BTCUSD premium is about to turn positive

  • Prediction market shows that crypto-friendly Pierre Poilievre has a 92% chance of being elected as the next Prime Minister of Canada

  • DePIN report: Expected to see 100-1000 times growth in DePIN field in emerging markets by 2025

  • DIN: Will launch an AI Agent blockchain aimed at solving issues like data and execution environments

  • Murad: The goal of meme coins is to establish emotional connections with others

  • In 2024, net inflows of global digital asset investment products reached a historic high of 44.2 billion USD

  • SendAI head: Due to speculation suppression considerations, this Solana AI hackathon will cancel demo day

  • AI agent token supply distribution revealed: Who are the controllers behind the scenes?