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When a country's fiat currency collapses, people will find their own way out. In Venezuela and Iran, this way out is the stablecoin USDT. However, the same tool is also being used by sanctioned entities to circumvent international restrictions, highlighting the contradictory role of stablecoins in the global financial system.

The situation is nearing the end. Based on ETF capital flows, futures market positions, and overall risk sentiment changes, the risk-off behavior that dominated the market at the end of last year has shown clear signs of slowing down. The market is gradually entering a consolidation and stabilization phase rather than embarking on a new downward trend.
Risk-off intensifies at year-end, ETF funds clearly withdraw
JPMorgan Chase pointed out that during Q4 2025, the cryptocurrency market experienced significant selling pressure. Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs saw large outflows of funds in Decemb

Experts: Large Institutions Still Not Fully Entering the Market
Ferraioli further pointed out that currently, ETF funds mainly come from financial advisors and some institutional investors, while pension funds and large conservative asset management firms are still on the sidelines. As long as the regulatory environment becomes clearer, the potential incremental capital scale still has room for imagination.
On the other hand, Gerry O’Shea, Head of Global Market Analysis at Hashdex, believes that if there is a shift in U.S. monetary policy (such as a rate cut expectation) or progress in cryptoc

Market narratives often jump directly to "everyone will issue their own stablecoin." But this outcome is not reasonable. A world with dozens of widely used stablecoins is still manageable, but if there are thousands, chaos will ensue. Users do not want their US dollars ( to be, yes, US dollars, with a dominance exceeding 99%), dispersed across a long tail of numerous branded tokens, each on its own chain, with different liquidity, fees, and exchange paths. Market makers profit from spreads, and cross-chain bridges charge fees—this layered "taking a share" of the middlemen is precisely the prob

Compared to the previous bull market, project teams have significantly reduced their budget investments in market makers. "Data shows that this year, some projects have even cut their Token budgets by 50% compared to the last cycle," said Vicent, Chief Information Officer of Kronos Labs.
But this is not just a matter of "budget cuts"; a deeper driving force comes from the evolution of the (project team) mindset.
Project teams have greatly improved their understanding of market-making business. They are beginning to understand the profit margins of market makers, no longer satisfied with vague

The activity of derivative positions significantly amplified this price increase. In the past 24 hours, the total liquidation exceeded $260 million. Among them, short positions accounted for approximately $200 million, indicating that as the price was driven up, short sellers were forced to liquidate. In just 4 hours, over $121 million of short positions were forcibly liquidated.

India Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College Business School Scholar S. Muruganandan published in the Colombo Business Journal, using the India Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex index as the research subject. The study collected historical data from February 2000 to May 2018, covering multiple bull markets, bear markets, and consolidation periods, to examine the actual profitability of two of the most common technical indicators: Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD).
RSI performance is completely overshadowed, unable to create stable advantages in

Internal disagreements within the Federal Reserve, rate policy still uncertain
The latest meeting minutes released by the Federal Reserve show that even though officials have decided to cut interest rates, there are still clear divisions within the Fed regarding whether to continue adjusting rates afterward. Some decision-makers believe that after the December adjustment, interest rates may need to remain unchanged for a period to observe changes in economic data.
At the same time, according to the CME FedWatch tool, investors currently expect an over 80% probability that the Federal Reserve w

Bitcoin reached a historic high of over $125,000 in early October 2025, and has since fallen more than 30%. Due to the continued price slump in recent weeks, market speculation about a new "crypto winter" has been triggered.
Since 2011, the Bitcoin market has experienced four downturns where it fell from all-time highs to cycle lows.
The team at financial services giant Cantor pointed out this week: "Due to fears of the 'four-year cycle' and macroeconomic influences, the cryptocurrency market seems to be entering its first year of decline since 2022."
While the Cantor team remains optimistic a

As Bitcoin faces downward pressure within the year and company stock prices decline in tandem, Bitcoin giant Strategy (MSTR-US) led by Michael Saylor has once again chosen to increase its holdings against the trend. According to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Strategy purchased 1,229 Bitcoins between December 22 and 28, with a total amount of approximately $108.8 million, at an average purchase price of $88,568 per Bitcoin.

In 2025, Bitcoin underperformed compared to gold and US stocks, drawing market attention. Crypto KOL XinGPT analyzed that the explosion of AI generative artificial intelligence has抢夺 the global electricity and computing resources, with the marginal收益 of each kilowatt-hour used for AI training temporarily surpassing Bitcoin mining; gold, on the other hand, provides "atomic-level certainty" due to geopolitical uncertainties; and the widespread adoption of Bitcoin ETFs has also led to its volatility being smoothed out. He believes that when AI's marginal efficiency declines and capital liquidity

Digital Decay: Even Veterans Can Be Betrayed by Time
Facing seasoned traders who have experienced multiple bull and bear markets, Howells issues a warning about "Digital Decay." He points out that wallets created between 2013 and 2015, if not regularly tested for recovery, could have assets permanently locked due to hard drive aging or software format updates. He recommends investors follow the "3-2-1 Backup" rule—three copies, two types of media, one offline—and regularly verify whether the mnemonic phrase can fully restore the assets.
This warning is not unfounded. Howells' 8,000 Bitcoins, b

As Bitcoin (BTC) continues to consolidate within a narrow range during the Christmas holiday period, market speculation about the direction of the breakout is intensifying. Cryptocurrency trend analyst Murphy (@Murphychen888) posted the latest on-chain data analysis on social platform X, pointing out that Bitcoin has established solid support at $87,000, and the market tilt is beginning to favor the bulls.
Murphy noted that there has been intense chip turnover between $87,000 and $84,500, with $87,000 emerging as the strongest support zone.

Looking ahead to 2025, Bitcoin's technological evolution exhibits three core characteristics, which are also the key to understanding the following 10 major events:
Defense Forward: The defense roadmap against quantum threats has become clearer and more practical for the first time, extending security thinking from the "present" to the "post-quantum era."
Functional Layering: The high-density discussions on soft fork proposals and the "hot-swappable" evolution of the Lightning Network demonstrate that Bitcoin is achieving its architectural goal of "bottom-layer stability and top-layer flexibil

Why are retail investors especially prone to "water reversal"?
Compared to institutional and professional traders, retail investors often have the following characteristics:
Almost all are active orders
Order sizes are concentrated
Pace is not discreet, no order splitting
No hedging mechanisms
In highly liquid mainstream coins, these effects may be offset by other trading pairs; but in small altcoins, your orders are often the main market signals in a short period.
In other words, in small coin markets, you are very likely to directly become the counterparty to market makers.

Almost all mainstream institutions have set year-end target prices above $150,000 by early 2025, with an average expectation reaching $170,000, implying an annual increase of over 200%. For example, Tom Lee (Fundstrat) publicly discussed a potential target of $250,000, HCWainwright forecasted a year-end target of $225,000, and VanEck also provided a target of $180,000. The average deviation among these aggressive forecasts exceeds 80%.
Consensus trap.
When 90% of analysts are talking about "ETF inflows," this bullish factor has actually been fully recognized by the market and already reflected

Ray Dalio said:
"Making money your goal is meaningless because money has no intrinsic value. The value of money comes from what it can buy, but money cannot buy everything. A smarter approach is to first determine what you truly want, what your real goals are, and then think about what you need to do to achieve those goals."
"Money is just one thing you need, but when you have the money necessary to achieve what you truly want, it is no longer the only thing you need, and it certainly isn't the most important thing."

Jameson Lopp, co-founder of Casa, recently proposed that upgrading Bitcoin to meet the standards capable of resisting quantum attacks in the "post-quantum era" may take 5 to 10 years. He emphasized that Bitcoin is facing a typical collective action problem.
"Making thorough modifications to the agreement and completing an unprecedented capital migration would easily require 5 to 10 years of time."
The lack of quick updates from the CEO means that every change to Bitcoin must go through consensus voting by global miners, node operators, and developers. This deliberately slowed mechanism constit

Michael Saylor once proposed the "Bitcoin Quantum Leap" perspective on the X platform, emphasizing that quantum computing does not necessarily lead to the collapse of Bitcoin, but may instead become an important turning point in driving the evolution of the Bitcoin network.
In his view, through the necessary technological upgrades, Bitcoin can not only enhance the overall security level but also potentially reshape its actual circulation and supply structure.
In a conversation with Alex Thorn, Saylor pointed out that the nature of quantum threats is not merely a cryptographic issue, but a test

Despite Bitcoin experiencing a decline of over 30% in the past 10 weeks, causing many investors to feel anxious, on-chain data shows that the spark of a bullish trend does not seem to have been extinguished.
According to Glassnode data, Bitcoin's "Realized Cap" currently remains firmly at a historical high of $1.125 trillion, indicating that there has not been a large-scale withdrawal of funds from the market, and suggesting that the bull market structure remains solid.
Unlike the commonly watched "Market Cap" (current price x total circulating supply), this on-chain indicator is more valuable