ChainCatcher news, it is reported that the South Korean investigation department may attempt to arrest Yoon Suk-yeol again before the expiration of the arrest warrant, which is January 6. At that time, if Yoon Suk-yeol continues to instruct the security department to resist, it remains uncertain whether the arrest operation will still end in failure. After the expiration of the arrest warrant, the investigation agency may continue to apply for an arrest warrant and attempt to arrest Yoon Suk-yeol again after obtaining court permission. (Jinshi)

ChainCatcher news, Greeks.Live analyst Adam stated that 20,000 BTC options are expiring, with a Put Call Ratio of 0.69, a maximum pain point of $97,000, and a nominal value of $1.93 billion. 206,000 ETH options are expiring, with a Put Call Ratio of 0.81, a maximum pain point of $3,400, and a nominal value of $710 million.Today marks the first weekly options expiration of 2025, with a total of $2.6 billion in options expiring. European and American users are gradually returning from their holidays, and the overall market sentiment is recovering. However, the theme of this week remains adjustment, with a clear market divergence, and no sustained hotspots have emerged yet.Later this month, Trump is set to officially take office as the new president of the United States, and the entire market has very optimistic expectations for 2025. However, the recent significant pullback in U.S. stocks has also brought considerable uncertainty to the market. The upcoming interest rate meeting this month is highly likely to maintain the current interest rates, with no additional short-term positive news for the market.Nevertheless, whether it is the deeper integration of mainstream finance with cryptocurrency or the U.S. government and major corporations accumulating Bitcoin, these factors will bring a tremendous positive impact to the entire crypto market, and cryptocurrencies are expected to have many long-term benefits this year.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi Data reports, the South Korean presidential office has not taken a stance on the arrest warrant executed by the South Korean Senior Public Officials Crime Investigation Office (Public Investigation Office) against the suspended President Yoon Suk-yeol and has remained silent. The presidential office stated that the legal response issues of President Yoon Suk-yeol are "problems that the legal team should address." It is understood that the staff of the presidential office are also closely monitoring the situation through live broadcasts.

ChainCatcher news, OSL Chief Business Officer Guoliang Hao stated that a previous report by Chainalysis indicated that the digital asset usage rate in Hong Kong is 24%, which is considered moderate compared to other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Furthermore, there has been a significant increase in Hong Kong enterprises consulting or registering with OSL for virtual asset investment services in 2024, particularly from traditional companies in sectors such as listed companies, foreign trade, family offices, trust funds, and payments.Guoliang Hao mentioned that as virtual assets are gradually accepted by global investors and mainstream markets, the Hong Kong government continues to strengthen legislative regulation in the digital asset sector. It is expected that by 2025, institutional investors' interest and investment in deploying digital assets will continue to rise, and the demand for custody, over-the-counter trading platform services, and PayFi payment financial solutions will further increase in the future.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, cryptocurrency wallet provider Tangem has faced criticism from users for collecting their recovery phrases due to an application vulnerability. The company confirmed the issue on December 30, stating that the vulnerability stemmed from an error in application log handling, which resulted in users' private keys being recorded and potentially accessible by the support team.Although Tangem has promptly fixed the issue and deleted all related logs, users have expressed dissatisfaction with the company's response, feeling that it has not adequately addressed the situation. Tangem stated that this vulnerability only affected a small number of users and has proactively contacted those impacted. All users are advised to update the application immediately to avoid potential recovery phrase leaks.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Galaxy Ventures remains optimistic about the growth potential of stablecoins and tokenization in 2025. The company's general partner, Will Nuelle, stated that stablecoins (especially in the payments sector) continue to demonstrate strong product-market fit and remain a key focus area for capital deployment.Although tokenization still lags behind the adoption of stablecoins, Nuelle believes it has enormous potential. Galaxy Ventures plans to further explore these opportunities. However, Nuelle is less optimistic about metaverse-related projects, expecting that funding in 2025 will be delayed due to a lack of clear adoption signs.

ChainCatcher message, Truemarkets posted on platform X "Snapshot New Years Eve 2024", or implies that a snapshot will be taken for NFTs.

ChainCatcher news, QCP released its daily market observation stating that, as expected, we have seen typical quarter-end volatility sell-offs, with volatility dropping by 2-3 volatility points since last Friday's record options expiration.Although BTC has been consolidating near the bottom of the 1-month range and this month's returns have been flat, BTC and ETH have performed reasonably well in the fourth quarter: BTC is up 48%, while ETH is up 30%. However, it may still be too early to summarize this quarter. Just yesterday, Saylor released his BTC purchase tracker again, which may indicate another round of purchases is imminent, further supporting prices.Despite the possibility of another round of purchases, we do not have high expectations for the market during the New Year period, especially in terms of funding health. The average return in January (+3.3%) is relatively similar to December (+4.8%), and we expect spot prices to remain in this range in the short term until a recovery begins in February.Options flow also reflects similar sentiment, with front-end volatility gradually declining, and risk reversals mainly showing strong demand for call options in March, partly due to a large purchase of March options last Friday.

ChainCatcher message, Glassnode co-founder Negentropic posted on social media interpreting the Swissblock Bitcoin Fundamental Index (BFI) stating, "Current Bitcoin liquidity continues to weaken, but network growth remains stable. The period from December 2020 to February 2021 is similar to the current cycle phase and price trend.During that time, liquidity outflows were accompanied by price adjustments, but network growth continued. Similarly, when prices stabilized and new liquidity began to flow in, prices rebounded strongly. This indicates that once liquidity flows back into the market, we may see prices rise, and as long as network growth remains at bullish levels, prices will not drop to lower levels."

ChainCatcher news, Multicoin Capital co-founder Kyle Samani posted on X that currently Helium, Hivemapper, and io.net have generated over $50 million in total. By 2025, the revenue from these three projects will exceed $100 million.Along with many other DePIN projects on the Solana chain, 2025 will be remembered as the breakthrough year for DePIN.

ChainCatcher news, Greeks.Live analyst Adam stated that on December 27, the last options expiration of the year will take place, with a total of 150,000 BTC options expiring, a Put Call Ratio of 0.69, and a maximum pain point of $85,000, with a nominal value of $14.17 billion; at the same time, 1.12 million ETH options will expire, with a Put Call Ratio of 0.41, a maximum pain point of $3,000, and a nominal value of $3.74 billion. The total nominal value of this expiration is approximately $18 billion. Due to the overlap of Christmas and the annual expiration, the overall market enthusiasm is relatively low, and this week's theme remains focused on adjustments.In addition, Bitcoin's annual returns in 2024 are expected to more than double, especially with strong performance at the end of the year, and the market is optimistic about 2025. Analysts point out that after Trump takes office in January next year, he may become the most crypto-friendly president, while Musk's influence will further drive the development of the crypto industry. The integration of mainstream finance and crypto, along with factors such as the U.S. government's and corporations' Bitcoin reserves, is expected to bring positive impacts to the market, and a sector rotation bull market may be on the horizon in the coming months.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Base's trading volume has maintained strong momentum throughout the fourth quarter, processing over 8 million transactions in a single day. Since March, the network has experienced steady growth, with transaction volume increasing from about 500,000 per day to over 7.5 million in December. Additionally, the TVL of the Base network has grown to over $3.5 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, as Trump prepares to fulfill a long list of campaign promises, the elected president vows to ensure that all remaining bitcoins are "made in America," which may become one of his most difficult promises to achieve. Ethan Vera, COO of Luxor Technology based in Seattle, stated that this is a typical Trump-style comment, but it does not align with reality.Russian oligarchs and the Dubai royal family are some of the latest entrants into the competition. Their substantial funding and access to large amounts of electricity are driving them to join this lucrative yet energy-intensive process. It is expected that about 95% of the 21 million bitcoins that will eventually be created have already been minted; however, according to the hard cap, it is estimated that full production will take about 100 more years.Taras Kulyk, CEO of Synteq Digital, stated: "There are several different markets that will see tremendous growth, with increasing demand in Eastern European countries like Kazakhstan, while sales are also rising in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East."

ChainCatcher news, CryptoQuant analyst Joo Hyun Ryu stated, "The 'kimchi premium' has reached a local high of 5.12, indicating that the demand for Bitcoin among Korean investors is very strong."Ryu explained, "However, this sharp market correction seems to be attracting new investors, as data shows that the proportion of short-term holders (STH, holding period of less than three months) has increased by 3 percentage points in just one week."

ChainCatcher message, "on-chain detective" ZachXBT posted on platform X that Yat Siu (co-founder of Animoca Brands) may have fallen victim to a phishing email scam a few hours ago, and the fraudster may be the same person who hacked over 15 X accounts for meme coin scams a month ago, as the scam tokens were deployed at the same address as that of Kick & Vanar CEO ATO.

ChainCatcher news, Animoca Brands officially confirmed that the X account of co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu has been hacked. The attacker is using this account to publish false token information.Animoca Brands officially stated that the company currently has no plans for any new token or NFT issuance, and reminds users not to interact with any related suspicious contracts or tokens.

ChainCatcher news indicates in the BGA 2024 annual report that female Web3 gamers are more optimistic about the development of blockchain games in the coming year. 38.9% of female respondents expect that the adoption rate of blockchain in the gaming industry will exceed 40% in the next year, while only 25.1% of males share the same view.Almost half of the male respondents believe that the proportion of blockchain adoption in the gaming industry will be below 20% in the next 12 months, while only a quarter of female respondents hold the same pessimistic expectation.The survey collected 623 responses from participants in the global Web3 gaming industry, with participants from fields such as infrastructure and marketing, design, content, investment, media, and artificial intelligence.

ChainCatcher news, Material Indicators co-founder Keith Alan pointed out that the Bitcoin price is currently stuck between the 21-day and 50-day simple moving averages (SMA).The two moving averages are around $99,600 and $94,650, respectively. Before breaking below the 21-day moving average this week, Bitcoin had been using it as support since mid-October, while the 50-day moving average support remains intact.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, as various industries connect large data centers and facilities to the power grid, the demand for electricity in North America driven by cryptocurrency mining and artificial intelligence operations has reached new highs. The electricity consumption of crypto mining can vary, typically fluctuating with changes in market prices, which further complicates grid management and leads to sudden fluctuations in energy load demand during normal operations.NERC's latest long-term reliability assessment shows significant growth in areas such as Texas, with peak demand expected to grow at a rate of 4.6% per year by the summer of 2029, four times the previous forecast.