According to @CoinMarketCap, Clear Street’s Owen Lau told CNBC that the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decisions will be a key catalyst for the crypto market in 2026, source: CNBC via @CoinMarketCap tweet dated January 1, 2026. He added that both retail and institutional investors show greater excitement toward digital assets following rate cuts, indicating heightened sensitivity of crypto prices to monetary policy shifts, source: CNBC via @CoinMarketCap tweet dated January 1, 2026.

According to @CoinMarketCap, perpetual DEXs generated $7.9 trillion in trading volume during 2025, representing 65% of the sector's all-time total. According to @CoinMarketCap, Aster mounted a significant challenge to Hyperliquid's dominance in Q4 2025.

According to the source, BTC has declined about 20% since early November, while gold gained roughly 9% and the S&P 500 added around 1% over the same period. According to the source citing market intelligence firm Santiment, 2026 will offer opportunities for crypto to catch up following this relative underperformance.

According to @CoinMarketCap, 2025’s market structure was defined by falling or flat BTC and altcoin prices while the stablecoin market cap surged, with USDT and USDC reaching a record combined roughly $263B, source: @CoinMarketCap. According to @CoinMarketCap, the cited drivers were payments adoption and regulation, specifically the GENIUS Act, alongside inflows from large institutions and venture capital, source: @CoinMarketCap. According to @CoinMarketCap, this positions stablecoins as the dominant liquidity base for crypto, a key signal traders can watch via USDT and USDC share versus BTC and alt performance, source: @CoinMarketCap.

According to @CoinMarketCap, 2025 featured a violent distribution regime with the total crypto market cap declining 8.2% to about 2.99 trillion USD, source: @CoinMarketCap, Dec 31, 2025. Market sentiment swung from greed to extreme fear during the year, signaling unstable risk appetite, source: @CoinMarketCap, Dec 31, 2025. The market was resilient but prone to macro shocks, highlighting elevated sensitivity to event-driven volatility, source: @CoinMarketCap, Dec 31, 2025. CoinMarketCap described conditions as a choppy grind rather than a clear bull or bear trend, underscoring a range-bound environment vulnerable to macro headlines, source: @CoinMarketCap, Dec 31, 2025.

According to CoinMarketCap, CFTC Chair Michael Selig has appointed Amir Zaidi as chief of staff, noting that Zaidi oversaw the agency’s approval of Bitcoin BTC futures during his previous 2010–2019 tenure. According to the U.S. CFTC, CME and CFE self-certified Bitcoin futures in December 2017, placing Bitcoin derivatives under the commission’s oversight. According to CoinMarketCap and the U.S. CFTC, this links current CFTC leadership to the period when BTC futures were greenlit, a key reference point for crypto derivatives market structure.

According to @CoinMarketCap, decentralized exchange Lighter’s Tuesday airdrop distributed $675 million worth of LIT tokens to early participants (source: @CoinMarketCap). By Wednesday, $250 million had been withdrawn from the platform based on Bubblemaps’ on-chain analysis cited by @CoinMarketCap (source: Bubblemaps via @CoinMarketCap). The source did not provide additional details on LIT circulating supply, lockups, or exchange listings (source: @CoinMarketCap).

According to the source, the Ethereum mainnet processed 2.2 million transactions on Tuesday, marking a new single-day record for the layer-1 network; this highlights a surge in on-chain demand that traders should track for fee and liquidity conditions. Source: X post dated Dec 31, 2025. Higher demand raises the EIP-1559 base fee, which is burned, increasing ETH’s burn rate and tightening net supply when activity is elevated. Source: Ethereum.org (EIP-1559 fee mechanism and fee burn documentation). Rising utilization typically lifts average transaction costs and can impact on-chain execution timing for swaps and arbitrage, making gas price and base fee key indicators for intraday strategy. Source: Ethereum.org (fees increase with network demand under EIP-1559). Traders can monitor real-time gas, base fee, and burn metrics to assess whether fee pressure persists into upcoming sessions. Source: Etherscan Gas Tracker and Ultrasound.money burn dashboard.

According to @CoinMarketCap, Bitwise has filed with the U.S. SEC to launch 11 single-token, altcoin-focused strategy ETFs that would provide regulated exposure to Aave, Uniswap, Hyperliquid, Zcash, Bittensor and others; source: @CoinMarketCap on X, December 31, 2025. The post identifies these as single-token strategy ETFs offering regulated exposure to individual assets named, including Aave AAVE, Uniswap UNI, Zcash ZEC, and Bittensor TAO; source: @CoinMarketCap on X, December 31, 2025. No filing identifiers, proposed tickers, fees, timelines, or approval status were disclosed in the post; source: @CoinMarketCap on X, December 31, 2025.

According to @CoinMarketCap, CMC20 is a fully on-chain index that tracks the top 20 cryptocurrencies, is rebalanced monthly, and is designed to be transparent and tradable to provide broad market exposure. Source: @CoinMarketCap. @CoinMarketCap stated the index entered the market in November and is built for everyone, offering a tradable on-chain vehicle to access the market’s top-cap assets. Source: @CoinMarketCap.

According to CoinMarketCap, spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $355 million in net inflows on Tuesday. According to CoinMarketCap, this reversed a seven-day outflow streak during which $1.1 billion left the investment products.

According to the source, SOL fell about 3 percent and is barely holding the 120 dollar support level, which the source highlights as a key price area for traders. According to the source, the USX stablecoin briefly depegged before recovering. According to the source, Phantom prediction markets went live on Solana. According to the source, institutional inflows into Solana continued for a second consecutive week while BTC and ETH saw outflows. According to the source, the post also includes a 2026 preview and predictions.

According to CoinMarketCap, crypto ETFs recorded a net $423 million inflow on December 30 after nearly two weeks of outflows (source: CoinMarketCap on X, Dec 31, 2025). CoinMarketCap reported that BTC-linked ETFs took in about $355 million while ETH-linked ETFs added roughly $68 million on the day (source: CoinMarketCap on X, Dec 31, 2025). Based on CoinMarketCap’s figures, BTC captured approximately 84% of the net inflow and ETH around 16%, indicating the day’s ETF demand was concentrated in BTC products (source: CoinMarketCap on X, Dec 31, 2025).

According to Securities Times, over $188 million has flowed into companies involved with the digital yuan since the People’s Bank of China announced on Monday that CBDC wallets can accrue interest. Securities Times attributed the fresh allocations to firms connected to the e-CNY ecosystem following the People’s Bank of China’s interest-bearing wallet decision. For traders, the actionable datapoint is the post-announcement inflow magnitude and timing, with Securities Times explicitly linking the move to the People’s Bank of China policy catalyst.

According to @CoinMarketCap, US spot XRP ETFs recorded net inflows for 29 consecutive trading days, lifting cumulative inflows to 1.15 billion dollars since launch despite a broader market pullback. Source: @CoinMarketCap on X, Dec 31, 2025. For traders, persistent primary market creations typically support higher ETF AUM and tighter secondary market spreads, which can improve price discovery and liquidity for the underlying asset; monitor ETF AUM trends, NAV premiums or discounts, and secondary market volumes for confirmation. Source: US SEC Office of Investor Education, Exchange-Traded Funds investor guidance.

According to @CoinMarketCap, Grayscale Investments has filed with the U.S. SEC to launch the Grayscale Bittensor Trust, which would be the first U.S. exchange-traded product offering exposure to Bittensor’s TAO and is proposed to trade on NYSE Arca if approved (source: @CoinMarketCap). SEC approval requires an exchange rule change for NYSE Arca under Exchange Act Section 19(b) and an effective registration statement, with statutory deadlines that can extend up to 240 days from publication in the Federal Register (source: U.S. SEC). If approved, an NYSE Arca-listed ETP would provide regulated brokerage access to TAO exposure via exchange-traded shares, with listing eligibility and start-of-trading governed by SEC and exchange procedures (source: NYSE Arca; U.S. SEC).

According to @CoinMarketCap, David Beckham-backed Prenetics has abandoned its Bitcoin treasury strategy less than three months after raising $48M for it and will focus entirely on its IM8 brand, according to @CoinMarketCap. The update does not specify whether Prenetics purchased any BTC or whether any holdings will be sold, limiting visibility into near-term BTC supply dynamics, according to @CoinMarketCap. Traders should note this headline shift removes one planned corporate BTC treasury initiative from the pipeline, with no transaction details disclosed in the source, according to @CoinMarketCap.

According to @CoinMarketCap, citing Lookonchain data, a Bitcoin whale with an estimated net worth of $11 billion opened three leveraged long positions totaling about $748 million across BTC, ETH, and SOL (source: @CoinMarketCap; Lookonchain). According to @CoinMarketCap and Lookonchain, this move followed the liquidation of roughly $330 million in ETH, indicating newly established leveraged long exposure across the three assets (source: @CoinMarketCap; Lookonchain).

According to @CoinMarketCap, Tokyo-listed Metaplanet acquired 4,279 BTC in Q4 2025 for about USD 451 million, taking its total to 35,102 BTC, source: @CoinMarketCap. According to @CoinMarketCap, the reported figures imply an average execution near USD 105,000 per BTC for the Q4 buys and the company is aiming to hold 210,000 BTC by end 2027, source: @CoinMarketCap. According to @CoinMarketCap data, current holdings equal about 16.7 percent of the 210,000 BTC target, a concrete datapoint for traders tracking corporate Bitcoin accumulation, source: @CoinMarketCap.

According to @CoinMarketCap, Ethereum-based perpetual DEX Lighter has launched its LIT token. According to @CoinMarketCap, 50% of LIT supply is allocated to the team and investors, while 50% goes to the ecosystem. According to @CoinMarketCap, the ecosystem share includes a 25% airdrop to early participants.