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December 26th — Per Onchain Lens data, a whale deposited 3 million TRUMP tokens (valued at $14.88 million) into Binance after holding them for roughly 50 days, incurring a $7.8 million loss. The whale originally withdrew the same TRUMP tokens when their value stood at $22.68 million.

Bitcoin is set to mark the largest options expiry in its history at 4:00 PM ET on December 26. Some 300,000 BTC options contracts—with a notional value of roughly $23.7 billion—will expire today. Combined BTC and ETH options expiring today total $28.5 billion, double the figure from the same period last year. Previously, many analysts have forecast that market volatility will spike sharply after this expiry. Looking back at past years’ "epic" options expiry trends, the market has often seen accelerated one-sided price moves post-expiry.

December 26th: Per analyst Specter’s data, the wallet hit hardest in this morning’s Trust Wallet hack lost roughly $3.5 million in assets — the address had been dormant for a year. The second-hardest hit wallet lost $1.4 million in assets, having lain dormant for over two years prior to the attack. Earlier reports stated the Trust Wallet hacker stole more than $6 million in crypto this morning and has already transferred over $4 million to a centralized exchange (CEX).

December 26th — Per HyperInsight monitoring, whale long positions on BTC and ETH have seen a sharp reduction on Hyperliquid recently. Currently, BTC whale long/short strength is evenly matched, with ~122 long positions vs. ~116 short positions. For ETH, short positions are twice the number of longs: ~58 longs vs. ~113 shorts. Compared to October 14th data, BTC whale long positions have dropped nearly 50% in roughly two months (from 234 to current levels). BTC short positions at that time were ~125, with relatively limited change. Key whale details from monitoring: - Largest BTC short whale (address 0x50b): Avg entry ~$88,200, liquidation ~$94,100, position size ~$76.44M. - Largest ETH short whale (dubbed the "20 Million Range Hunter"): Avg entry ~$3,129, liquidation ~$3,796, position size ~$70.23M.

Dec. 26: QCP Capital has deposited 400 BTC and 200 ETH into Binance, per Onchain Lens monitoring.

**Caroline Ellison Scheduled for 2026 Prison Release; SEC Confirms Bankman-Fried Remains Incarcerated** Federal Bureau of Prisons records dated December 26 show former Alameda Research co-CEO Caroline Ellison is set to be released from federal prison on January 21, 2026. Ellison was transferred from a Connecticut prison to home confinement in October. On December 20, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a litigation notice stating former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried remains in federal prison on fraud charges. Executives including Ellison (who led Alameda under Bankman-Fried’s oversight) have agreed to a settlement, which is pending court approval. Other signatories to the settlement are FTX Trading’s former CTO Zixiao Wang and former FTX co-head of engineering Nishad Singh. (Source: The Block)