MEXC has listed Hyperlane (HYPER) for pre-market trading

December 30 — Per Arkham Monitor, BlackRock transferred 657.962 BTC (valued at ~$57.83M) to Coinbase Prime roughly 20 minutes ago.

December 30 — According to a KBS report, South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has disclosed in a parliamentary report on the “Basic Digital Asset Law” that four domestic cryptocurrency exchanges (Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit) — which collectively serve 11 million users — have been designated as “core infrastructure” for virtual asset circulation. The FSC argues that a small number of founders and shareholders exert excessive control over the exchanges’ operations, and it is proposing to cap major shareholders’ ownership at 15% to 20%. Holding up to 30% of shares will only be permitted in special cases approved by the FSC or relevant mutual funds. If these rules are finalized, Dunamu — operator of Upbit, South Korea’s largest crypto platform — could be impacted, as the Dunamu chairman holds approximately 25% of Upbit’s shares. Bithumb also falls under the regulation’s scope, since Bithumb Holdings Limited owns a 73% stake in the exchange. South Korea’s crypt

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 Post-airdrop, roughly $30 million has been withdrawn from the Lighter platform.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.