「Whale」 Continuously Added to ETH Long Position for Nearly 2 Hours, Increasing Holdings to $8.8 Million

December 2nd, Web3 robotics firm XMAQUINA announced it has closed a new funding round. The round was led by Borderless, with participation from Waterdrip Capital, vVv, Clairvoyant Labs, and strategic angel investors from Arkstream Capital, LD Capital, and KuCoin Ventures. Its terms align with those of the third wave of the prior Genesis Auction. XMAQUINA added it will host a community presale with strategic partners ahead of its final Token Generation Event (TGE). Full details will be released in the coming weeks.

On December 2nd, renowned German financial journalist Holger Zsch?pitz noted that amid Japan’s rate hike, investors have started rethinking yen-funded arbitrage trades—with Bitcoin now nearly perfectly correlated to the yen.

On December 2, Franklin Templeton Digital Assets posted on X (formerly Twitter) that its Franklin Crypto Index ETF has added ADA, LINK, DOGE, SOL, XLM, and XRP tokens. Previously, the fund only held ETH and BTC.

December 2nd. On a Sunday episode of the *People by WTF* podcast, Elon Musk emphasized that AI and robotics technology will grow increasingly critical—with the goods and services output from these fields set to overshadow all other sectors. When asked which stock he’d still invest in at current prices, Musk named two "Big Seven" companies: Alphabet (GOOGL.O), Google’s parent firm, and NVIDIA (NVDA.O). He highlighted Alphabet’s massive foundation for AI value creation: last month, the company launched the well-received Gemini 3 AI model, and its chips have earned growing praise. For NVIDIA, Musk called it a "clear" choice, noting its leadership in the AI race and partnerships with nearly all major industry players. Beyond AI and robotics, Musk added that space travel-focused companies are worth considering as potential investments. His private firm SpaceX leads the launch industry, though public players like Rocket Lab are seeking to challenge its dominance.

December 2 — Per Coinbob Popular Address Monitor (link: https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN), the "ZEC&MON Largest Short" address has been steadily closing its ZEC short position for profits since it flipped from loss to gain yesterday. The position size has dropped from $23.21 million yesterday to $9.88 million, realizing over $5 million in profits. It still holds an unrealized profit of $2.43 million (125%) and has racked up $15.33 million in weekly profits. The address initially opened a ZEC short on October 10 at an entry price of roughly $184, then added to the position to average up, pushing its average entry to $419. On October 17, it hit a maximum floating loss of $21 million, with a realized loss of nearly $3 million at that point. Monitoring shows the address is currently short on ETH, ZEC, MON, and HYPE simultaneously. Its biggest profit driver is the ETH short: it has a floating profit of $9.52 million (643%), a position size of around $22.16 million, and an average entr

Franklin Templeton has officially updated its XRP spot ETF holdings data as of December 2. As of December 1, the firm’s XRP holdings total 53,219,913.35 tokens, with a market value of $107,079,530.05. Additionally, the ETF’s total net asset value (NAV) is $78.67 million, and it has 3,150,000 outstanding shares currently.