Gate News bot消息，鲸鱼"255 $BTC Sold"再次以10倍杠杆开设BTC空头仓位，当前价值3600万美元，持有409.58 BTC。

Against the backdrop of Bitcoin's price consolidation, Zcash (ZEC) unexpectedly became the market focus. Driven by speculative demand and privacy narratives, ZEC accumulated approximately 30% gains during the Christmas holiday period, and on December 27th, it surged by 17% in a single day, with the price reaching $515. The monthly rebound reached 43%, recovering nearly half of the losses from Q4 2025. From derivatives data, Zcash even surpassed Solana in this round of market activity. In the past 24 hours, the global perpetual contract trading volume for ZEC reached approximately $2.9 billion, accounting for about 7% of the total market, ranking third behind BTC and ETH, while SOL's trading volume during the same period was about $2.65 billion. This change indicates that, in the short term, the funds and activity involved in ZEC speculative trading are significantly higher than those for Solana.

Recently, Bitcoin price movement has entered a critical stage. Technical patterns indicate it is approaching the end of a symmetrical triangle, and the market is awaiting a directional choice. Data shows that after falling below $90,000 on December 22, Bitcoin's price dipped to a low of $86,740, then entered a consolidation range between $87,000 and $89,000, with short-term buying pressure gradually returning. From a capital perspective, spot Bitcoin ETFs continue to face pressure. According to SoSoValue data, 12 spot Bitcoin ETFs experienced net outflows of approximately $782 million from December 22 to 26. The total outflow in December has reached $1.08 billion, with November's outflows even higher at $3.48 billion. The continuous outflow of ETF funds reflects that some institutional investors remain cautious about Bitcoin's medium-term trend, which to some extent suppresses market sentiment.

A certain whale closed long positions in BTC, SOL, and ZEC on December 29 and started building short positions. Currently, they hold short positions worth $47.8 million in BTC, $32.56 million in ETH, and $10.68 million in SOL, with varying unrealized losses and gains.

Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, Bitcoin prices have experienced a significant surge. As the prospects for a Russia-Ukraine peace agreement weaken again and international oil prices rise, market risk aversion and inflation expectations have simultaneously increased, driving Bitcoin (BTC) to break through the $90,000 mark strongly on Monday, becoming an important market indicator in the crypto space. Data shows that Bitcoin's daily increase exceeded 2%, successfully surpassing the $90,000 threshold, significantly boosting market sentiment. Driven by Bitcoin, mainstream cryptocurrencies overall strengthened, with major altcoins such as Ethereum, XRP, and Solana generally recording gains of over 3%. The total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies also rebounded, and short-term risk appetite has improved.

A certain whale has increased its holdings in various cryptocurrencies, including BTC, ETH, and SOL, within 3 hours, with all positions currently in profit. Specifically, the floating profit from high-leverage operations is quite good, with a total floating profit exceeding $1.71 million.

Gate News Bot Message, December 29th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, BTC (Bitcoin) is trading at $89,162.45, up 1.62% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $90,501.93 and a low of $86,411.80. The 24-hour trading volume reached $20.098 billion. The current market capitalization is approximately $1.78 trillion, an increase of $28.329 billion compared to yesterday. ## Important recent news about BTC: 1️⃣ **Institutional allocation demand continues to support but liquidity weakens** Since the US Bitcoin ETP reached a historic high of $62 billion in October, cumulative inflows have only decreased by 9%, indicating relative stability in institutional allocations. However, on-chain data shows the opposite signal—Bitcoin ETF net outflows of nearly $1 billion over the past two weeks, and market inflows into cryptocurrencies continue to decline. The current rebound may be mainly driven by leverage rather than spot demand, which means the risk of further price decline still exists.

Gate News bot 消息，Gate 行情显示，BTC 突破 89000 USDT，现价 89050.8 USDT。

Gate News bot message, a whale deposited $1.8M $USDC into #HyperLiquid and opened a $LIT long position with 3x leverage. The whale also holds a $BTC short position on #Lighter, with 50x leverage valued at over $17M.

Sandy Carter of Unstoppable Domains pointed out that Bitcoin treasury companies should keep their asset allocation between 1% and 5%, and adopt dollar-cost averaging for investment. The current price of Bitcoin may indicate a bear market or a phase adjustment, and attention should be paid to changes in the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy.

Odaily星球日报讯 PlanB 在 X 平台发文表示，目前 8.75 万美元的 BTC 与 6900 美元的股票及 4500 美元的黄金的历史相关性脱节。此前 BTC 价格低于 1000 美元时曾出现类似情况，随后 BTC 价格上涨 10 倍。PlanB 指出相关性亦存在被打破的可能，目前情况是否有所不同仍需时间验证。

PANews 12月27日消息，据CNBC报道，最新分析指出目前比特币财库公司Strategy股价仍处于低位，比特币溢价指标也在下降，明年1月MSCI指数是否会剔除Strategy的关键决策即将到来。在这样的背景下，Strategy战略正在撰写“防御模式”，他们近期已建立约22亿美元的现金缓冲以应对比特币押注的考验，这笔资金预计将用于支付优先股股息和债务利息而不是购买更多比特币。

Address 0x50b…c9f20 has opened ETH long positions and BTC short positions, with holdings of 27,304 ETH (80.04 million USD, unrealized loss of 5,543 USD) and 250.36 BTC (21.91 million USD, unrealized loss of 46,000 USD). Since July of this year, the total profit has reached 3.638 million USD.

Gate News bot message, the whale known as "255 $BTC Sold" has closed short positions on $BTC, $AAVE, and $SOL, earning a profit of $1.13M. According to Onchain Lens, this trader had opened short positions on December 25, 2025, including 353.37 BTC ($30.84M) and 590.14 AAVE ($87.9K) with 10x leverage

Gate News bot message, the crypto market remains rangebound as $BTC briefly touched $85K before returning to current levels, with sentiment sliding back into Extreme Fear territory. Both $BTC and $ETH ETFs recorded two consecutive weeks of outflows. $BTC is trading at $88,593, up 0.9%, while $ETH s

Gate News bot message, according to the official Gate announcement on December 26, 2025 Gate Launchpool launches its 351st activity, featuring Midnight (NIGHT) token mining. Users can stake BTC, ETH, or NIGHT tokens to share 2,250,000 NIGHT tokens for free, with rewards distributed hourly. The mining period runs from December 26, 2025, 20:00 (UTC+8) to January 5, 2026, 20:00 (UTC+8), with 100% token unlock. The ETH staking pool's lock-up limit is determined by the user's total trading volume over 60 days, which includes spot trading volume, futures trading volume (weight 40%), and options trading volume (weight 5%). After redemption, BTC stakers can transfer assets into the YuBiBao 7-day fixed-term product to earn an additional 35% airdrop reward. Users must meet the minimum total trading volume requirement of $60,000 over 60 days to participate in BTC staking and receive hourly airdrops. Midnight is a privacy-first Layer 1 public chain launched by Charles Hoskinson, with the NIGHT token serving both network utility and governance functions. Gate Labs has not participated in the investment of this project.

On December 26th, Boxing Day, global financial markets gradually resumed trading activity after the Christmas holiday. Bitcoin prices regained upward momentum, making a push towards the critical $90,000 mark. Meanwhile, gold and silver prices simultaneously hit new all-time highs, with precious metals and cryptocurrencies jointly becoming the market's focus. According to TradingView data, BTC/USD increased by over 2% on that day, with the upward momentum continuing into the Asian trading session. As Wall Street prepares to open, traders are paying close attention to a key variable—the expiration of Bitcoin options worth nearly $24 billion. The market generally believes that this event will help release the hedging pressure that previously suppressed prices, "freeing" Bitcoin's price movement.

BlockBeats News, December 26 — Greeks live macro analyst @BTCoptions stated that today is the annual options expiration day, as well as the largest cryptocurrency options expiration in history, with a total notional value of approximately $28 billion. Among them, Bitcoin (BTC) has 267,000 options expiring, with a Put/Call ratio of 0.35, the maximum pain point at $95,000, and a notional value of about $23.6 billion; Ethereum (ETH) has 1.28 million options expiring, with a Put/Call ratio of 0.45, the maximum pain point at $3,100, and a notional value of approximately $3.71 billion. Over half of the options have been settled today. Before settlement, the volume and proportion of block trades increased continuously, mainly due to repositioning needs; after settlement, from March to

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Greeks.live macro researcher Adam posted on the X platform: 267,000 BTC options are expiring, with a Put Call Ratio of 0.35, the maximum pain point at $95,000, and a notional value of $23.6 billion. 1.28 million

Driven by the rebound in Bitcoin's trend, the market has begun to refocus on the follow-up performance of altcoins. In the past 24 hours, Aptos (APT) has increased by approximately 1.34%, with a cumulative gain of 15.8% over the past week. Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) has risen about 1.5% during the same period, approaching the important resistance level of $90,000. The upcoming expiration of Bitcoin options combined with technical rebound may support short-term market sentiment, but whether Aptos has the momentum to continue rising to $2 remains to be seen. From a medium- to long-term perspective, Aptos's trend remains relatively weak. In August 2024, APT experienced a strong rebound from a low of $4.32 and briefly reached a high of $15.33 by the end of the year. At that time, the market was generally optimistic that 2025 would be a significant phase for altcoin performance, but the actual trend fell well below expectations. During the sharp decline on October 10, the critical support at $4.32 was effectively broken, the bulls' defense line collapsed, and the price quickly retreated.

As market expectations for the "Christmas rally" heat up, the total cryptocurrency market capitalization has slightly rebounded to approximately $3 trillion. However, over $27 billion worth of Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana options are expiring today, quickly fueling market concerns about short-term volatility and even a potential pullback. Data shows that this is one of the largest options expiration dates in history. Among them, Bitcoin options are the largest in scale. Deribit data indicates that about 262,000 BTC options, with a notional value of up to $23.38 billion, will expire today, with a total put/call options ratio of 0.33. However, in the past 24 hours, put options trading volume has significantly exceeded call options, with the short-term put/call ratio rising to 1.72, reflecting traders' cautiousness in a low-liquidity environment.

BlockBeats News, December 26th, according to HyperInsight monitoring, recently the number of whale long positions on BTC and ETH on Hyperliquid has significantly contracted. Currently, the long and short forces for BTC whales are roughly equal, while the number of ETH short positions has doubled that of longs. Currently, there are approximately 122 BTC whale longs and 116 shorts; for ETH, about 58 whale longs and 113 shorts. Compared to data from October 14th this year, the number of BTC whale longs has decreased by nearly half from 234 in about two months, while the short positions at that time were around 125, with relatively limited change. According to further monitoring, currently on Hyperliquid, BTC

Odaily Planet Daily reports that crypto data analyst CyrilXBT posted on the X platform stating that Grayscale's BTC holdings have continued to decrease after the ETF approval due to outflows from GBTC. Investors are taking profits or rebalancing, causing BTC prices to fluctuate under supply pressure. In comparison, Grayscale's

Yield Basis (YB) reaches an important milestone. South Korea's leading domestic CEX recently announced the official launch of Yield Basis (YB), with related trading pairs already active as of December 26. This news quickly ignited market sentiment, causing YB's price to surge by double digits in a short period, making it one of the hottest new coins of the day. According to the exchange announcement, YB/BTC and YB/USDT trading pairs opened for trading at 15:00 KST on December 26, with deposits and withdrawals only supported on the Ethereum network. The platform also reminds users that if transfers are made through unsupported networks, assets will not be credited. Users should carefully verify the network type and contract address before transferring to avoid unnecessary losses.

Due to a 3% short-term increase in Bitcoin, the largest single liquidation on the entire network reached $14.14 million, involving a BTC long position opened with 40x leverage. This address was liquidated twice, and then opened a $7.1 million BTC short position with 40x leverage again.

Gate News Bot message, December 26th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, BTC (Bitcoin) is currently trading at $88,446.26, up 0.87% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $90,501.93 and a low of $86,411.80. The 24-hour trading volume reached $21.403 billion. The current market capitalization is approximately $1.77 trillion, an increase of $15.26 billion compared to yesterday. Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new form of currency. Operating through peer-to-peer technology, it does not rely on central authorities or banks, but is collectively managed by the network for transactions and Bitcoin issuance. Bitcoin is open-source, with its design publicly available; no one owns or controls Bitcoin, and everyone can participate. Bitcoin has several unique attributes, supporting fast peer-to-peer transactions, global payments, and low processing fees, enabling innovative use cases that were not possible with previous payment systems.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, Huang Licheng's address has added long positions, holding 40x BTC and 10x HYPE, valued at approximately $795,000 and $245,000 respectively. In addition, he also holds a 25x leveraged ETH long position, totaling 7,475 ETH, with a current unrealized loss of $120,000. The total portfolio value is approximately $23.16 million.

Recent data shows that there are fewer trading days for BTC in the $70,000 to $89,900 range, indicating insufficient support. The market may need more time to turn over and establish a solid foundation.

Pantera Capital Research Director Jay Yu released the 12 major predictions for the crypto industry in 2026, covering capital-efficient consumer credit, forecast market segmentation, AI applications in crypto, tokenized gold, quantum threats to BTC, privacy service unification, and more, offering insights into future market trends and technological innovations.

Against the backdrop of decreased liquidity during the holiday season, US spot Bitcoin ETFs have once again experienced significant outflows. Data shows a single-day net outflow of $175 million, marking the fifth consecutive trading day of net outflows, reflecting cautious attitudes among institutional investors regarding short-term Bitcoin price movements. According to Farside Investors data, this round of capital outflows is still led by BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which saw a net outflow of approximately $91.4 million on that day. Grayscale GBTC and Fidelity FBTC experienced outflows of about $24.6 million and $17.2 million, respectively. Spot Bitcoin ETFs from Bitwise, Ark 21Shares, VanEck, and Franklin Templeton also saw simultaneous capital withdrawals. As a result, the total net inflow of spot Bitcoin ETFs has fallen from $62.7 billion to approximately $56.8 billion.

U.S. leading CEX CEO Brian Armstrong recently publicly stated that Bitcoin is superior to gold as a currency and store of value. This view quickly sparked widespread discussion in the cryptocurrency market. As the helm of the world's largest compliant crypto trading platform, his statement is seen by many investors as a strong endorsement of Bitcoin's long-term value. Armstrong pointed out that in the digital age, Bitcoin has several structural advantages over gold. First, Bitcoin can be transferred quickly worldwide via the internet, whereas gold incurs high costs and low efficiency in storage, transportation, and cross-border circulation. Second, Bitcoin is highly divisible, with the smallest units precise to multiple decimal places, making it more suitable for daily transactions and asset allocation, whereas gold faces obvious limitations in practical division and circulation.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham data, at 15:01, 115 BTC (worth approximately $10.09 million) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with bc1q9czx6...) to two anonymous addresses, namely bc1qc8thg... (109.36 BTC) and

The cryptocurrency market has once again attracted attention due to the unusual activity of the "sleeping Bitcoin whale." A Bitcoin address that has been inactive for 8 years suddenly moved, transferring 400 BTC to a major exchange. Based on the current price, this amounts to an unrealized profit of approximately $30.4 million, raising market concerns about potential selling pressure. On-chain data shows that this whale originally purchased these 400 BTC about 8 years ago at a cost of around $4 million. At that time, the address received 200 BTC twice from another CEX, each time worth about $2 million. Since then, the wallet remained completely dormant until recently reappearing.

Foresight News 消息，此前高调抛售超 42.3 亿美元 BTC 换仓至 ETH 的巨鲸 Garrett Jin 发推表示，「随着铂、钯、银等贵金属大幅回调，比特币和以太坊开始反弹。这些金属的持仓已过度拥挤且短期极度超买，推高了风险敞口。这引发了获利了结，资金从过热交易转向相对被低估的资产。」

Garrett Jin posted on X platform that precious metal prices have fallen sharply, and Bitcoin and Ethereum are beginning to rebound. He believes the precious metal market is overcrowded, and the short-term gains are unsustainable, with funds shifting toward relatively undervalued digital assets.

December 25 News, the NFT sector rose by 2.33%, Audiera increased by 5.31%, APE and PENGU rose over 3%, but APENFT fell by 4.88%. BTC slightly increased to $87,000, ETH dipped slightly. The overall market trend is mixed, with AI, DeFi, and CeFi sectors experiencing slight gains.