ChainCatcher news, according to coinglass data, the total liquidation amount across the network in the past 24 hours was $559 million, with long position liquidations amounting to $504 million and short position liquidations amounting to $55.05 million. Among them, the liquidation amount for BTC was $104 million, for ETH it was $123 million, and for SOL it was $27.84 million. A total of 176,466 people were liquidated, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - ETHUSDT, valued at $17.7449 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Arkham monitoring, 88.638 BTC flowed from the Coinbase Prime hot wallet address into the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust this morning, worth 9.03 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, the P2E platform Nakamoto Games announced the completion of a $10 million financing, fully funded by the venture capital firm Make It based in Singapore and New Zealand.This $10 million investment will drive a series of plans, including: expanding the team, scaling operations, increasing liquidity, and acquiring Web2 game studios.It is reported that Nakamoto Games is a blockchain-based gaming platform where players can earn cryptocurrency while playing games. Their goal is to become a comprehensive crypto gaming ecosystem that attracts both players and game developers.

ChainCatcher news, the latest survey by the South Korean news site News1 shows that Bitcoin remains the top choice for cryptocurrency investors in South Korea, while Ripple (XRP) has surpassed Ethereum to become the second most popular digital asset.The survey results indicate that the top five cryptocurrencies are: Bitcoin (BTC), Ripple (XRP), Ethereum (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH).The survey was conducted from December 24 to 26, 2024, through the blockchain voting platform The POL, with a total of 5,225 investors participating.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Reddit Collectible Avatars project lead Bianca Wyler stated on LinkedIn: "My journey at Reddit has come to an end. While I am sad about this transition, I am incredibly proud of what I accomplished during that time." Reddit Collectible Avatars (RCA) NFT holders expressed concerns about the future prospects of the product upon hearing the news.Some Reddit users noticed that Wyler's recent comments on her Reddit account had been deleted, raising further concerns that her seemingly sudden departure might be a sign that the social platform will make adjustments to the avatar project. In an interview, Wyler revealed that her departure reflects a natural shift for social media companies as they explore new technologies and adjust priorities. Although uncertain about the direction of the RCA project, she believes Reddit will continue to work for the benefit of the community.RCA was launched in July 2022, marketed as limited-edition artwork created in collaboration with independent creators. According to Dune Analytics, the total number of NFT holders has now exceeded 33.5 million. Since peaking at the end of 2022, sales of these NFTs have struggled to keep up, with monthly secondary market trading volumes hovering around $100,000 in the last three months of 2024, and trading volumes have declined since their peak in 2022.

ChainCatcher news, The ETF Store President Nate Geraci stated on X: "Calamos will launch the first Bitcoin ETF CBOJ that offers 100% downside protection. If Bitcoin is held during the Outcome Period, full downside protection will be provided, but the upside is capped."It is reported that CBOJ is expected to be listed on CBOE on January 22, 2025. CBOJ will combine the use of U.S. Treasury bonds and options on the CBOE Bitcoin U.S. ETF Index. This actively managed ETF provides a regulated way to gain exposure to Bitcoin within a risk control framework.Previous news, asset management company Calamos submitted an application for a Bitcoin buffered ETF.

ChainCatcher news, according to DefiLlama data, Raydium's 24-hour trading volume surpassed Uniswap, ranking first at $2.286 billion, while Uniswap's 24-hour trading volume was $2.131 billion.

ChainCatcher news, based on data compiled by the financial tracker PitchBook for TechCrunch, shows that in 2024, global generative AI companies raised $56 billion from venture capital across 885 deals. This total cash amount sets a new record for the sector. This represents a 192% increase compared to 2023, when investors put $29.1 billion into generative AI startups across 691 deals.Among them, the deal value in the fourth quarter of 2024 soared to $31.1 billion, primarily due to the completion of several large financings, such as Databricks' $10 billion Series J funding, xAI's $6 billion Series C funding, Anthropic's $4 billion strategic investment from Amazon, and OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding.PitchBook's frontier technology analyst Ali Javaheri stated in an interview, "We are not seeing a slowdown in generative AI funding, as well-known companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI continue to secure significant financing and launch new competitive products."

ChainCatcher news, according to Phoenix News, the Hong Kong police recently dismantled a scam group that used deepfake technology to lure others into investing in virtual currencies through social media platforms, involving approximately 34 million HKD.The Hong Kong Police Commercial Crime Bureau arrested 31 individuals, aged between 20 and 34, some of whom claimed to be students and unemployed, based on intelligence last week in two industrial buildings in Kowloon Bay, related to the same scam group, and seized their pre-written "scripts." The group would recruit young people looking to "make quick money," training them to create accounts on dating platforms with fake identities, pretending to have good looks and a luxurious lifestyle, and getting to know individuals from overseas, including Taiwan and East Asia, chatting according to the "script." After understanding the other party's background, they would cater to their interests and develop into online lovers, even using deepfake technology for video calls, subsequently luring the other party to invest in virtual currencies, claiming substantial returns, and asking them to deposit into fake platforms. Once the group received the virtual currency, they would immediately transfer it away and cut off contact with the victims.Hong Kong Police Commercial Crime Bureau Acting Chief Superintendent Kong Hing-fun stated: "They rented two scam centers located next to each other in Kowloon Bay to disperse risks and increase confidentiality. Most importantly, we noticed that these two scam centers operated in two shifts, aiming to continuously attract more victims day and night. Never think that participating in some tasks of a criminal group is just a minor issue; even if you are only assigned to meet victims online without direct contact with virtual currency investment work, it is still illegal."The police stated that this scam group has been operating for at least a year, with criminal profits exceeding 34 million HKD. The mastermind of the scam group, the center's head, and key members, a total of five individuals, have been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering, and were brought to the Eastern Magistrates' Court on Monday.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy Digital's research director Alex Thorn shared an early perspective from Satoshi Nakamoto on the X platform. It is reported that this was a statement made by Nakamoto in January 2009, where he said: "It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on."

ChainCatcher message, according to the statistics from the security agency Slow Fog, in the Top 10 loss incidents of 2024, ZKasino, IBXtrade, and Essence Finance ranked the top 3 with involved amounts of 33 million USD, 21.8 million USD, and 20 million USD respectively.It is worth mentioning that Yuxian stated: "In the Top 10 exit incidents of 2024 (uncertain if there will be any returns later), most of them should not be domestic projects, and we do not need to completely deny domestic projects."

According to ChainCatcher news and coinglass data, the total liquidation amount across the network in the past 24 hours was 175 million USD, with long position liquidations amounting to 83.05 million USD and short position liquidations amounting to 92.22 million USD. Among these, the liquidation amount for BTC was 34.83 million USD, for ETH it was 21.42 million USD, and for SOL it was 9.16 million USD. A total of 72,962 people were liquidated, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - BTCUSDT, valued at 4.9066 million USD.

According to ChainCatcher news and reported by Blocworks, the latest compilation of internal stock sales from about 60 companies in the 2024 S&P 500 index shows that approximately 500 insiders, executives, investors, and other major shareholders reported selling a total of $36.9 billion in company stock.Among them, four crypto executives' sales amounts made it into the top 25.Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong ranks eighth with $636 million, while MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor ranks thirteenth with $410.8 million.Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam ranks 22nd with $203.8 million, which includes the COIN shares sold by his trust and the sales from the fund Paradigm. Following Ehrsam is Coinbase COO Emilie Choi, with a sales amount of $186.4 million. These amounts place Coinbase seventh on last year's internal sales leaderboard (at least among the analyzed companies).

ChainCatcher message, according to coinglass, the total liquidation amount across the network in the past 24 hours was $210 million, with long liquidations amounting to $69.82 million and short liquidations amounting to $140 million. Among these, the liquidation amount for BTC was $42.39 million, for ETH was $22.18 million, and for XRP was $13.68 million. A total of 76,668 people were liquidated, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - ETHUSDT, valued at $3.0571 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cryptoslam, the NFT sales data tracked by CryptoSlam across 23 blockchains shows that in December 2024, the total NFT sales amounted to approximately $889 million, a 58.35% increase from November's $561 million.Among these sales, NFT sales on the Ethereum chain accounted for 54.92%, approximately $488 million, ranking first. NFT sales on the Bitcoin chain accounted for 19.96%, approximately $178 million, ranking second. Following are Solana ($102 million), Immutable ($37.97 million), Mythos ($27.17 million), and Polygon ($19.96 million).

ChainCatcher news, according to HODL15Capital monitoring, BlackRock is the world's largest asset management company, with assets under management exceeding $11.5 trillion.BlackRock has 1,101 funds. Its Bitcoin ETF IBIT ranks 13th among all funds as of the end of 2024, with assets under management reaching $52 billion (achieving this level in less than 1 year).

ChainCatcher news, according to statistics from the Web3 asset data platform RootData, the total financing amount in the cryptocurrency market reached $10.112 billion in 2024, an increase of 8.3% compared to $9.337 billion in 2023. A total of 1,548 financing events occurred throughout the year, with 102 merger and acquisition events, a 34.2% increase from 76 in 2023, setting a historical high. The average financing amount was $9.1352 million, with a median financing amount of $4.1 million. In terms of financing scale, the most projects were in the $1-3 million range, totaling 408, followed by 244 in the $5-10 million range and 219 in the $3-5 million range; in terms of financing rounds, seed rounds dominated with 426 occurrences.From the perspective of sector distribution, the infrastructure sector was the most favored by capital, with a total financing amount of $3.995 billion in 2024, an 18.2% increase from $3.379 billion in 2023; the DeFi sector ranked second with $1.493 billion, nearly doubling from $759 million in 2023; the gaming sector's financing amount increased from $669 million in 2023 to $813 million. Notably, the CeFi sector's financing amount decreased from $990 million in 2023 to $679 million in 2024. The largest financing event of the year was Stripe's acquisition of the stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion, followed by Bitcoin mining company Iris Energy's $413 million financing, and Avalanche's $250 million OTC financing.In terms of the activity of investment institutions, Animoca Brands topped the list with 95 investments, followed by OKX Ventures with 72 and MH Ventures with 56. In terms of leading investments, Polychain was the most active, completing 30 lead investments throughout the year, with Hack VC in second place with 24, and both Lemniscap and Animoca Brands completing 17 lead investments, ranking third.

ChainCatcher news, according to Hyperliquid data, the total staked amount of HYPE has exceeded 373 million, currently at 373,056,690, approximately 900 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, Farside Investors disclosed data on platform X, the top three Bitcoin ETF inflows for 2024 (as of December 30) are: BlackRock ($37.2 billion), Fidelity ($11.7 billion), and Ark ($2.5 billion), with Bitwise ($2.2 billion) in fourth place.

ChainCatcher news, QCP Capital's latest analysis points out that BTC spot has shown a significant gap due to thin liquidity, with recent rebounds limited by persistent selling pressure.Since December 19, net outflows from spot ETFs have reached $1.8 billion, and MicroStrategy's BTC purchases have noticeably slowed down, reflecting the weak trend in the crypto market consistent with overall market sentiment, as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have fallen more than 1% for the third time in eight trading days. Despite a lackluster year-end performance, BTC has risen 120% by year-end, surpassing global stocks and gold.Looking ahead to 2025, despite an optimistic outlook on crypto-friendly policies after the Trump administration, adjustments in institutional asset allocation may become a key catalyst. The widespread adoption of BTC among various institutions is expected to strengthen its dominance, stabilize spot volatility, and drive an increase in demand for hedging and selling call options.