🎅🏼 Market in the moment

📈 #VIRTUAL DropsTab: The total revenue from the Virtuals protocol reached $45 million. Volume on DEX - $2 billion. Also, a total of 12,197 artificial intelligence agents #AI have been launched

🔮 Robert Kiyosaki declaredthat BlackRock is selling #BTC, but at the same time predicts that the price of BTC will reach $350 thousand in 2025.

🇺🇸🕹 US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released final rules requiring decentralized finance (DeFi) brokers to report revenue from digital asset transactions.

The rules apply to front-end service providers that interact directly with users, such as organizations offering access portals to decentralized protocols, but exclude the protocols themselves. The rules subject DeFi brokers to the same tax reporting obligations as traditional securities brokers and take effect on January 1, 2027.

🙋‍♂ Clover Finance DAO published offer on v2 and rebranding #CLV to #C

🥂 Digest for today and events for the weekend - https://t.iss.one/cryptoattack/20712

👀 #USTC #LUNA2 #LUNC The Daily: IRS Finalizes Tax Rule Requiring "DeFi Brokers" to Collect Users' Trading Information, Do Kwon's Extradition to the US, and More theblock.com

🇺🇸 #Volatility Shares has filed an application with the US SEC to create an exchange-traded open-end fund (ETF) based on Solana futures, covering leverage of 1x, 2x and -1x

👍 #AUCTION Bounce Brand: BounceX futures DEX launches next week.

📊 #BTC Michael Saylor: 60 companies own >590,000 BTC

🔮Galaxy Research published forecast for the cryptocurrency market for 2025:
- #BTC will cross $150,000 in the first half of 2025 and could reach $185,000 in Q4;
- #ETH will break the $5,500 mark in 2025;
- Spot BTC-ETPs in the US will collectively exceed $250 billion AUM in 2025 and more.

📊 Santiment: over the last week there was -64% less trading compared to the previous week. The last week of December is often one of the least active periods of the year. If whales continue to demonstrate their strong accumulation tendency, the lack of retailer participation could lead to at least one final big surprise pump in 2024.

📊 C.Q.: Binance's #USDT and #USDC reserves reached $29 billion. This significant accumulation of stablecoins highlights Binance's key role in providing liquidity and market stability during the bull market phase.

📊 Santiment: Key active Chainlink whales who hold between 1M and 10M #LINK have accumulated 3.58M tokens (worth $76.9M) in just the last 3 days.

📊 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, the total net outflow of spot BTC-ETFs was ~$297.75 million.

Total net inflows of spot ETH-ETFs were ~$47.77 million.

🙋‍♂️ #ai16z HackMD Team initiated ai16z tokenomics update proposal and recommended the launch of Launchpad.

📊 C.Q.: When the price of #TON rises, the TVL of staking falls. This correlation suggests that investors, noticing an increase in price, are withdrawing their tokens from staking for sale. Just recently, staking TVL reached low levels again, seemingly coinciding with a local TON price bottom.

🤑😱 #BTC The fear and greed index has dropped to 72, but is still in the greed zone.

🔍🐳 Whale transactions:

1. James Fickel in full extinguished their debts, having lost ~25 thousand #ETH ($83.6 million) from trading the ETH/BTC pair. Previously: exchange ETH for WBTC;
2. New wallet bought 1,055,183 #FARTCOIN and now has a floating loss of $87,000;
3. Whale has gained 60.03 million #MIRA in the last 2 days and currently has a floating loss of $1.38 million;
4. Whale contributed 250 thousand #LINK ($5.37 million) on Binance and OKX. From December 14 to 18, this whale withdrew 595 thousand LINK ($17.31 million) from Binance at an average price of $29.1. He is now losing ~$4.5 million on LINK;
5. Team/Early Member Wallet #VIRTUAL translated on Bybit for 2 million VIRTUAL (~$6.96 million). Over the past week, a total of 8.75 million tokens, ~$27.08 million, were transferred to exchanges; Currently, the three linked addresses still hold ~10.9% of the total token supply.

😲🚀 #OGN has surged +46% since yesterday evening, rising after Origin Protocol announced a liquidity pool with additional yield. OGN also got into top by activity on Twitter. Purchases