Erebor, the Cryptocurrency Bank, Completes $350 Million Funding Round with Lux Capital as Lead Investor

On December 23, prediction market Kalshi announced the launch of Kalshi Research—an initiative that will make the platform’s internal data accessible to researchers studying topics tied to prediction markets and forecasting. Its first report, *Kalshi Outperforms Wall Street Consensus Expectations in Inflation Prediction*, has been released. The full report is available via this link: [https://www.theblockbeats.info/flash/325406](https://www.theblockbeats.info/flash/325406)

On December 23, Binance Wallet announced the launch of its "Secure Auto Sign" (SAS) service via an official statement. The service now supports transactions on the Binance Wallet web version for wallets using mnemonic phrases or private keys. Users can enable SAS easily by connecting their wallets through the Binance Wallet App or browser extension. SAS enables automatic order signing and limit order functionality—with no asset migration required and no need to change wallet addresses.

December 23rd Per Coinbob Popular Address Monitor (https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN), the “BTC OG Insider Whale” who went long on ETH remains in a floating loss position and has taken no action in recent days. The “Ultimate Short” placed a BTC take-profit order at $76,200 yesterday. Details follow: - **“pension-usdt.eth”**: Holds a 3x leveraged ETH long position (~$90.57M), average entry $2,969, liquidation price $1,671, unrealized profit $1.41M. No adjustments in 4 days; address’s average holding period ~20 hours. - **“BTC OG Insider Whale”**: No further moves since adding ETH/SOL longs on the 18th. Overall floating loss ~$30.20M. Main holding: ETH long (~$610M, $25.37M loss / -20%, avg entry $3,147). Also holds BTC/SOL longs (both in loss). Total position ~$741M, currently #1 in ETH longs on Hyperliquid. - **“Ultimate Short”**: Closed a BTC short this morning (~$220k profit). Current BTC short: ~$49.36M, unrealized profit $12.45M (520%), liquidation $101k. Cumulative closed pos

**December 23** — Onchain Lens data reveals three crypto whales have accumulated a total of $27.03 million in HYPE tokens, with the following breakdown: - Wallet "0xDAe": Purchased 427,441 HYPE over the past 2 months, totaling $11.58 million. Average price: ~$27.09. - Wallet "0x23A": Bought 398,830 HYPE in the last 5 days, totaling $10 million. Average price: ~$25.22. - Wallets "nolimithodl.hl" & "0x330": Combined to accumulate 200,662 HYPE worth $5.45 million. Average price: ~$27. This rewrite uses concise, natural phrasing common in U.S. crypto news (e.g., "reveals" instead of literal "according to monitoring," "combined" for clarity, "~" for approximate values) and structures key details for quick scanning.

On December 23rd, on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reported that a whale withdrew 3,365.5 ETH (roughly $10.2 million) from both Bybit and OKX 7 hours ago—this withdrawal came 5 days after its last one. Between December 5th and 22nd, the same whale withdrew a total of 30,210 ETH at an average price of $3,167 per ETH, totaling $95.67 million. The whale’s main address (0xce9...57c69) has staked 29,103.1 ETH across Spark and Aave, and borrowed 41.12 million USDT in the process.

Nasdaq has issued a delisting warning to ZOOZ Strategy, a Bitcoin treasury firm, according to a December 23 report from Globenewswire. The exchange notified the company it has failed to meet the requirement of maintaining a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share. ZOOZ faces potential delisting if its common stock does not regain compliance—closing at or above $1.00 for at least 10 consecutive trading days—by June 15, 2026. The firm holds Bitcoin as a strategic asset, currently owning 1,036 coins.