UpToDay – Crypto

- 1. Over $2.2 Billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum Options Expire as 2026 Begins — https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-and-ethereum-options-expire-as-2026-begins/

- 2. MicroStrategy's Stock Slid Over 49% in 2025: Why 2026 Could Be Another Tough Year — https://beincrypto.com/strategy-stock-drop-msci-risk-bitcoin-exposure/

- 3. Ethereum daily transactions hit all-time high, surpassing 2021 NFT boom — https://www.theblock.co/post/384130/ethereum-daily-transactions-all-time-high?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 4. Hundreds of crypto wallets drained across EVM chains, root cause still unidentified: ZachXBT — https://www.theblock.co/post/384118/crypto-wallets-drained-zachxbt?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 5. Iran moves to accept crypto payments in weapon sales to evade sanctions: FT — https://www.theblock.co/post/384101/iran-accept-crypto-weapons?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 1. Berkshire Hathaway's $382 Billion Cash Pile Sparks Crypto Speculation as Buffett Retires — https://beincrypto.com/berkshire-hathaway-cash-record-greg-abel-succeeds-buffett/

- 2. From Bybit to GMX: The 10 biggest crypto hacks of 2025 — https://www.theblock.co/post/380992/biggest-crypto-hacks-2025?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 3. Crypto ETFs head into 2026 with regulatory tailwinds as issuers brace for a crowded year ahead — https://www.theblock.co/post/383361/crypto-etfs-2026-regulatory-tailwinds-issuers-brace-crowded-year?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 4. Japan, South Korea lead Asia's local stablecoin push in 2025 — https://www.theblock.co/post/383835/asias-stablecoin-focus-2025?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 5. Turkmenistan Legalizes Crypto Mining in Rare Economic Shift — https://beincrypto.com/turkmenistan-legalizes-crypto-mining/

- 6. All of Trump's Pardons of Prominent Crypto Figures—So Far — https://decrypt.co/348546/trump-crypto-pardons-2025

- 1. Pi Network disables payment requests after 4.4M Pi drained — https://beincrypto.com/pi-network-disables-payment-requests-after-4-million-pi-drained/

- 2. Fed injects $16B in repos; December repo purchases hit $40.32B — https://beincrypto.com/fed-liquidity-injection-global-record-2025/

- 3. Ethereum posts decade high daily transactions amid mixed price signals — https://beincrypto.com/ethereum-network-activity-surges-unusually/

- 4. Lighter (LIT) valuation climbs after 25% airdrop; revenue slumps — https://beincrypto.com/can-lighter-overtake-hyperliquid/

- 5. Spot Bitcoin ETFs see $355M net inflows, ending seven‑day outflow streak — https://www.theblock.co/post/384037/spot-bitcoin-etf-355-million-net-inflows?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 6. Bitwise files for 11 new crypto strategy ETFs — https://www.theblock.co/post/384026/bitwise-crypto-strategy-etfs?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 1. Semler and Strive move toward a Jan. 13 shareholder vote on an all-stock merger that would combine about 13,000 BTC. — https://beincrypto.com/semler-strive-bitcoin-merger-analysis/

- 2. Metaplanet bought $451 million of Bitcoin in Q4, lifting holdings to 35,102 BTC valued at about $3.06 billion. — https://www.theblock.co/post/383950/metaplanet-bitcoin-q4-2025?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 3. Bitmine stakes roughly $1.2 billion in ETH as it holds 4.11 million ETH and prepares MAVAN for early 2026. — https://beincrypto.com/ethereum-staked-by-bitmine-catalyse-price-breakout/

- 4. ViaBTC CEO Haipo Yang outlines x402 and AI Agent use cases, benefits, and limits for machine payments. — https://beincrypto.com/viabtc-ceo-haipo-yang-ai-agent-applications/

- 5. PeckShield flags HNUT on Solana after a 99% collapse, with on-chain evidence of bundled trades and low remaining liquidity. — https://beincrypto.com/solana-hnut-meme-coin-collapse/

- 6. South Korea's stablecoin bill is stalled as regulators dispute who should be eligible to issue stablecoins. — https://www.theblock.co/post/383938/south-koreas-stablecoin-framework-deadlock?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 1. Bitcoin tops $90,000 amid thin liquidity; remains range-bound in December — https://www.theblock.co/post/383826

- 2. 3 Token Unlocks to Watch This Week — https://beincrypto.com/?p=786089

- 3. FLOW Drops By Double Digits While Crypto Market Rallies—Here's Why — https://beincrypto.com/?p=786185

- 4. Ethereum Staking Entry Queue Surpasses Exit Queue After 3 Months — What's Next for ETH? — https://beincrypto.com/?p=786173

- 5. China to let banks pay interest on digital yuan to drive adoption — https://www.theblock.co/post/383824

- 1. On-chain probe links wallets tied to Andrew Tate to funds traced to a Texas investment scam and $30M routed into Railgun — https://beincrypto.com/andrew-tate-linked-to-crypto-money-laundering/

- 2. Market stuck as year-end liquidity dries up; Bitcoin range-bound and Canton jumps nearly 18% — https://beincrypto.com/why-is-the-crypto-market-down-today/

- 1. MicroStrategy's Bitcoin-heavy balance sheet could pose a systemic risk in 2026 — https://beincrypto.com/microstrategy-collapse-crypto-black-swan-2026-risk-analysis/

- 2. Crypto market slips as liquidity thins; Bitcoin stalls below key resistance — https://beincrypto.com/why-is-the-crypto-market-down-today/

- 3. Bitcoin's returns differ sharply under Biden and Trump; policy and politics drove 2025 volatility — https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-performance-trump-vs-biden-comparison/

- 1. Uniswap voters back token burn and protocol fee proposal overwhelmingly — https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/26/uniswap-s-token-burn-protocol-fee-proposal-backed-overwhelmingly-by-voters

- 2. Trust Wallet users lose more than $7M to hacked Chrome extension; Binance says it will reimburse losses — https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/26/trust-wallet-users-lose-more-than-usd7-million-to-hacked-chrome-extension

- 1. Historic $27 billion options expiry on Deribit could reshape early 2026 — https://beincrypto.com/27b-bitcoin-ethereum-options-expiry/

- 2. Lithuania to enforce MiCA from January 1; hundreds of firms at risk — https://beincrypto.com/lithuania-mica-crypto-deadline-europe/

- 3. Controversial Bitcoin BIP "The Cat" would mark many inscription outputs unspendable — https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-cat-bip-utxo-debate/

- 4. Trust Wallet browser extension incident linked to at least $6 million in losses — https://www.theblock.co/post/383735/trust-wallet-extension-incident?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 5. Uniswap governance passes 'UNIfication'; 100 million UNI burn expected — https://www.theblock.co/post/383742/uniswap-passes-unification-proposal?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 6. Report: U.S. considers crypto mining at disputed Ukrainian nuclear plant — https://www.theblock.co/post/383762/us-crypto-mining-znpp-russia-ukraine?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 1. Spot bitcoin ETFs see $188.6M outflows amid holiday derisking — https://www.theblock.co/post/383717/spot-bitcoin-ether-etfs-outflows-christmas?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 2. Options market pins Bitcoin between $85K and $90K ahead of $23.8B expiry — https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-stuck-gamma-exposure/

- 3. RWA sector hits new highs as broader crypto market slips — https://beincrypto.com/rwa-sector-bucks-downturn-2026-outlook/

- 4. Tokenized gold surges; tokenization market forecast to grow — https://beincrypto.com/rwa-sector-bucks-downturn-2026-outlook/

- 5. SEC charges three platforms and four clubs in $14M crypto scam — https://www.theblock.co/post/383702/us-sec-charges-14-million-crypto-scam?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 6. Polymarket points to third-party vulnerability after user hack — https://www.theblock.co/post/383711/polymarket-third-party-vulnerability-hack?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

- 7. Russia weighs relaxed rules to let non-qualified investors trade tokens — https://www.theblock.co/post/383696/russia-crypto-non-qualified-investors?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss