A wallet that was suspected by the community to belong to Ansem(@blknoiz06) bought 2.04M $DIGIMON($50K) again 15 minutes ago.

On December 30, Bitcoin ecosystem decentralized protocol BLIFE Protocol announced it has merged with Web3 game interoperability project Portal, with post-merger operations unified under the Portal brand. Portal will retain its original cross-chain gaming and interoperability support while integrating BLIFE’s Bitcoin-based products and ecosystem. Benjamin Charbit, former game director of Ubisoft’s *Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag*, will serve as Portal’s CEO. Leading Web3 investment firm Animoca Brands will provide a new round of funding to back Portal’s reboot and share resources from its game investment portfolio. G-20 is also joining as an ecosystem and strategic partner. Over the past two years, BLIFE has advanced Bitcoin Web3 infrastructure development: it launched BLIFE.ID (the first on-chain identity protocol for Bitcoin), meme coin trading platform Odin.fun, and acquired Bitcoin L1 cross-chain bridge Beyond in mid-2025. The bridging protocol is set to launch on mainnet

On December 30, CoinGecko data shows Upbit’s trading volume surged 104.2% over the past 24 hours, totaling $14.18 billion. The ZBT/KRW trading pair led the KRW market with an 11.11% share of the exchange’s volume, followed by BTC, XRP, ETH and USDT.

December 30th – As 2025 winds down, the cryptocurrency market has nearly wiped out all its year-to-date gains. While Bitcoin hit a fresh all-time high of $126,000 on October 6th, the market quickly reversed course, erasing roughly $1 trillion in total digital asset market cap over the past few months. The turning point came in mid-October when former President Trump announced a trade war escalation, triggering a record $19 billion in crypto market liquidations within 24 hours. Ethereum then plunged ~40% over the next month, and Eric Trump’s crypto firm saw its December market value drop sharply. Analysts note that despite the Trump administration’s overall "crypto-friendly" stance, the bigger market impact stemmed from the trade conflict, tightening macro conditions, and highly leveraged positions being liquidated. In November, Bitcoin briefly fell below $81,000 — its largest monthly drop since 2021. It’s currently trading around $90,000. Industry warnings flag a potential new

**South Korea’s Supreme Court on December 30 sentenced a cryptocurrency exchange employee to four years in prison and banned them from working in the financial industry for four years.** The court ruled the employee—who received Bitcoin from North Korea—helped orchestrate a plot to induce a South Korean military officer to sell military secrets. North Korean hackers paid the employee roughly $487,000 in Bitcoin to recruit active-duty South Korean officers, the court found. An Army captain involved in the scheme received about $33,500 in Bitcoin. The judge noted the defendant knew their actions involved a hostile country, posed a threat to national security, and were motivated by personal financial gain. The captain was previously sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $35,000 for violating the Military Secrets Protection Act. The exchange employee was convicted under the National Security Act. The case revealed conspirators contacted the officer via a Telegram chat room,

On December 30, MLM Monitor reported that Lighter has withdrawn a total of 32.05 million USDC from its platform to a treasury address, with roughly $100,000 still remaining in the platform’s fee wallet. Of that $32.05 million, approximately $8.6 million has been re-deposited into Lighter since October 16—with around $7.5 million flowing to the LLP (a setup where generated fees are returned to holders, reflected in LLP earnings). This practice is unusual: it has never been publicly disclosed nor mentioned in official documents, and it accounts for roughly 25% of Lighter’s total revenue. The remaining ~$21.9 million USDC has been transferred to a Coinbase custody address. Lighter also disclosed that its treasury address is hard-coded in the contract as “account 0” (responsible for collecting platform fees) and can be modified via a contract mechanism.

As of December 30, Coinglass data indicates total liquidated value across the crypto market over the past 24 hours hit $299 million—with $160 million in long positions liquidated and $139 million in short positions. Globally, 96,590 traders were liquidated in the same period. The largest single liquidation occurred on the Hyperliquid platform for BTC-USD, totaling $5.2354 million.