According to DB News, the DOJ is cleared to sell 69,370 $BTC($6.58B) confiscated from Silk Road.

SharpLink, Ethereum’s second-largest Decentralized Autonomous Treasury (DAT) firm, announced on December 30 that it earned 518 ETH in staking rewards last week. Since launching its staking strategy on June 2, 2025, total rewards have reached 10,219 ETH, and all of its ETH holdings are currently staked with institutional partners.

Per Bubblemaps data as of December 30: The total value of LIT tokens airdropped to early participants on Lighter’s launch day hit $675 million. Post-airdrop, roughly $30 million has been withdrawn from the Lighter platform.

On December 30, per monitoring from HyperInsight, notable whale position activity between 10:00 AM and 9:00 PM today is summarized below: **Bullish Positions** - The "BTC OG Insider Whale" has once again deposited 112,894 ETH (worth roughly $332 million) into Binance. - Huang Licheng (nicknamed "Brother Ma Ji") has continued to accumulate ETH and take profits at highs, placing a new take-profit order targeting a bullish move up to $2,980. This has boosted the size of his 25x-leveraged ETH long position to 8,500 coins. - The "Steadfast Long" whale has closed a 40x-leveraged long position on 150 BTC (worth approximately $13.18 million). **Bearish Positions** - The whale address beginning with 0x94d37 has closed out a $271 million short position, incurring a loss of $180,000. - A whale has deposited 4.35 million USDC into Hyperliquid to short LIT with 1x leverage, making it the largest on-chain short position for LIT.

Bloomberg reported on December 30 that Chinese AI startup MiniMax has secured Alibaba Group Holding Limited and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority as key backers for its planned Hong Kong IPO. Sources said MiniMax aims to raise more than $600 million through the offering, with investor share subscriptions set to begin as early as Wednesday and a listing scheduled for January.

OKX will list BREV (Brevis) Perpetual Swaps for trading ahead of its official opening on December 30. The pre-trading session for BREV/USDT is scheduled to kick off at 21:00 UTC+8 on December 30, 2025.

On December 30, Binance suspended Ukrainian users’ access to fiat payment processor Bifinity UAB for Visa and Mastercard withdrawals, citing regulatory policy changes. A Binance spokesperson confirmed the development, noting the payment method update only impacts Ukrainian users who previously used Bifinity’s services. While some fiat deposit and withdrawal options for Ukrainian users will be affected, core cryptocurrency functionalities—depositing, withdrawing, and trading—remain unchanged. Users can still use Visa/Mastercard for deposits and crypto purchases, Apple Pay and Google Pay for account funding, and SWIFT transfers for both deposits and withdrawals.