Spot Silver Soars at Open, Breaks Above $83/oz in Violent Rally, Extending Year-to-Date Gains to $52

**ETH 2026 Outlook: Core Issue Tied to Underlying Fragmentation, $2700 Is Critical Support – On-Chain Analyst Murphy (Dec 29)** On December 29, on-chain data analyst Murphy released a report titled *Is ETH Still Worth Watching in 2026?* summarizing Ethereum’s year-end on-chain trends. The key takeaway: ETH’s current core challenge isn’t above-chain dynamics but its **underlying fragmented structure**. $2700 now acts as a critical consensus support level. A break below this zone would send ETH into a **vacuum with no price anchor**. Whale groups haven’t abandoned ETH but have grown more cautious—chip concentration is rising rapidly and becoming systematically aggregated. ### On-Chain Behavior - Around September 18, large funds built positions near $4500 and didn’t sell during the December 6 peak. As ETH slid lower, these positions began exiting gradually. - Significant **trapped volume** clusters near $3100: this stems from whales that accumulated between $2600–$2700 from M

On December 29, per Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring (link: https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN), the "BTC OG Insider Whale" (address: 0xb31) has adjusted its SOL long position leverage from 20x to 10x recently—this comes after it upped leverage to 20x following a SOL long position flattening on December 26. No further repositioning has been noted. The whale’s recent long position floating loss has narrowed, dropping from a peak of $76.15 million to $43.9 million. Its current total position size is ~$754 million, with a margin of $39.59 million. Key long positions include: - 5x ETH Long: $6.01 billion position size, average price $3,147, floating loss $38.7 million (-32%), liquidation price $2,131 - 5x BTC Long: $87.96 million position size, average price $91,500, floating loss $3.52 million (-20%) - 10x SOL Long: $64.67 million position size, average price $135, floating loss $1.91 million (-29%) Previously, on the night of Dec 7 through the morning of Dec 8, the address trans

December 29: SOL has broken above $130, per HTX market data, with a 4.2% 24-hour gain. Alternatively (more concise for quick updates): As of Dec. 29, SOL has topped $130—up 4.2% in the past 24 hours, per HTX market data.

On December 29, per LookOnChain monitoring, whale address 0xA71d deposited 1.81 million USDC into HyperLiquid this morning and opened a 3x leveraged long position on 500k LIT—valued at $1.83 million.

On December 29, Trust Wallet CEO Eowync.eth issued a security incident update, noting 2,596 affected wallet addresses and roughly 5,000 claim submissions from those addresses—with data still being finalized.

December 29. SlowMist founder Tang Chao has issued a security alert, warning users to stay vigilant for poisoning attacks when using AI tools—these attacks leverage trigger words like agents md, skills md, or mcp, as related incidents have been reported. Once an AI tool’s dangerous mode is enabled, the tool can fully control the user’s computer automatically with no confirmation required. If the dangerous mode is disabled, however, every operation needs user confirmation, which impacts usability efficiency.