ChainCatcher news, DeFiance Capital founder Arthur Cheong stated that 2025 could be the year of DeFi revival, with key factors including a supportive U.S. government for crypto, the growth of core DeFi primitives, and the development of chain abstraction protocols.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Aya Kantorovich, co-founder of the institutional crypto platform August, stated that many people "are basing their expectations on a more favorable U.S. government (regulatory environment) for crypto." She added that this optimism is reflected in the demand for exchange-traded funds investing in digital assets.As of last Sunday, Bitcoin has consolidated a seven-week winning streak, the longest since 2021. However, the recent momentum has slowed, which may indicate that "a pullback could be imminent," wrote IG Australia Pty market analyst Tony Sycamore in a report.Since Trump won the presidential election on November 5, U.S. ETFs directly investing in Bitcoin have attracted a net inflow of $12.2 billion. During the same period, similar products for Ethereum saw a net inflow of $2.8 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, after U.S. Senator Lummis proposed the U.S. government to acquire 5% of the Bitcoin supply, Ben Simpson, founder and CEO of Collective Shift, analyzed that if the strategic Bitcoin reserve is approved, the market is expected to become unstable, Bitcoin will rise, and then may pull back.As for the current market conditions, Ben Simpson believes that Bitcoin's dominance (a measure of Bitcoin's share in the total value of the cryptocurrency market) will "start to decline," and as Bitcoin begins to consolidate around $100,000 and altcoins start to "rise," the trend of the market "rotating" to altcoins has actually begun, but it should not directly enter the so-called altcoin season.

ChainCatcher news, economist and gold advocate Peter Schiff posted on the X platform that one good thing Biden could do before leaving office as President of the United States is to sell all the Bitcoin currently held by the U.S. government. The funds raised could not only reduce the budget deficit for 2024 but also put an end to all the nonsense about "strategic Bitcoin reserves." He added, "Biden could sell everything before Trump takes office, so Trump wouldn't have to go back on his campaign promises."

According to ChainCatcher news and reported by CoinGape, MicroStrategy founder and chairman Michael Saylor made key suggestions regarding the U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve issue in a recent Yahoo Finance interview. He urged the U.S. government to sell all its gold reserves to buy Bitcoin instead, and suggested holding 20-25% of the current Bitcoin circulation.Saylor analyzed that this move would bring three strategic advantages: first, it could strengthen the U.S. global reserve currency status; second, a large-scale sell-off by the U.S. would lead to a plummet in gold prices, creating economic difficulties for competitors holding large gold reserves (such as Russia and China); third, these countries might be forced to sell assets and turn to Bitcoin, ultimately leading to capital flowing back to the U.S., with the total value of Bitcoin reserves potentially reaching $100 trillion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Arkham data, the U.S. government address has transferred part of the seized FTX/Alameda funds to two new wallets in the past 4 hours, including: 5024 ETH (approximately 18.17 million USD), 13.58 million BUSD, 54.89 billion SHIB (approximately 1.55 million USD), as well as AERGO, POWR, AXS, YFI, WBTC, NMR, COMP, SRM, and RLC.

ChainCatcher message, on-chain analyst Ai Yi reviews the incident of the U.S. government transferring Bitcoin last night, the specific process is as follows:At 00:34, the U.S. government deposited 10,000 BTC into Coinbase.At 00:47, this portion of BTC was credited to Coinbase hot wallet 3MqUP.From 00:47 to 05:38, 10,000 BTC were distributed to 21 new addresses, with each address receiving 498.445 BTC. Currently, the tokens in these addresses have not been further transferred.Comparing with the trading volume during the corresponding time period on TradingView for Coinbase, the average trading volume during the spike was only 300 BTC over 15 minutes, and the trading volume during the rebound was similar—indicating that Coinbase did not have matching trades for the 10,000 BTC dump. Ai Yi speculates that the possible scenarios for this operation are as follows: not yet sold, planning to gradually offload through subsequent wallet distributions; already taken by an institution through OTC, and not flowing into the secondary market.

ChainCatcher news, according to CryptoBriefing, Nasdaq-listed company and video sharing and cloud services platform Rumble announced it will invest up to $20 million to purchase Bitcoin as an important part of the company's financial diversification strategy. The company's board has approved this resolution, positioning Bitcoin as a strategic asset and an inflation hedge.Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski stated that Bitcoin is still in the early adoption phase, and the crypto-friendly policies of the U.S. government and the increase in institutional investors are accelerating this process. The company plans to integrate cryptocurrency into its ecosystem, creating a leading video and cloud services platform for the crypto community. The specific timing of purchases will be determined by management based on market conditions, Bitcoin prices, and the company's cash flow needs.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, former Vice President of Global Marketing and Communications at Binance, Steve Milton, stated that Trump may reduce the U.S. government's regulation of the cryptocurrency industry. Trump has been outspoken about the need to reduce government intervention in people's lives and has consistently supported cryptocurrencies... Trump's victory, along with the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate, is a "historic achievement" for cryptocurrency regulation in the United States.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, the hackers who previously attacked the U.S. government wallet are suspected to have started returning funds. Data shows that the U.S. government wallet has received 13.19 million aUSDC and 2,408 ETH, worth approximately 6.1 million dollars, all of which came from hacker addresses.

ChainCatcher news reports that, according to Arkham monitoring, a cryptocurrency wallet associated with the U.S. government has allegedly been hacked, resulting in approximately $20 million in assets being stolen. The stolen funds originated from a portion of the assets seized by the U.S. government during the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack.The attackers transferred the stolen funds to a wallet address starting with "0x348". The stolen assets include various cryptocurrencies such as USDC, USDT, aUSDC, and ETH. Arkham reports that the hackers have begun converting stablecoins into Ethereum and laundering the funds through addresses suspected to be linked to money laundering services.Specifically, the attacked U.S. government address is 0xc9E6E51C7dA9FF1198fdC5b3369EfeDA9b19C34c, which previously received funds related to the Bitfinex hack from 9 different government seizure addresses. This includes the address 0xE2F699AB099e97Db1CF0b13993c31C7ee42FB2ac, which was named in the court documents of the Bitfinex case.Previous news reported that the U.S. government address withdrew $6.57 million in stablecoins from Aave, which were then exchanged for 2,135 ETH.

ChainCatcher news, GSR analysts point out that Bitcoin's unpredictable price fluctuations are still primarily driven by market sentiment rather than fundamental factors. The monetary policies of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan are worth noting, and the upcoming economic data or market information from the U.S. is also worth paying attention to, as the U.S. is moving towards a soft landing, which GSR believes is a positive catalyst for cryptocurrencies.Another factor that may put pressure on Bitcoin is the potential sale of nearly 69,000 Bitcoins (worth about $4.2 billion) by the U.S. government, which were seized from the Silk Road market.GSR analyst Brian Rudick warns investors not to overlook the potential impact. "This could create some downward pressure on the market." Additionally, market observers are now focusing on four key factors that could influence Bitcoin's price: the U.S. elections, central bank monetary policies, the U.S. economy, and the U.S. government's potential sale of Bitcoins seized in the Silk Road case.

ChainCatcher news, according to a post by Arkham on the X platform, a U.S. government-associated address starting with bc1ql transferred 10,000 BTC to a Coinbase Prime wallet 1 hour ago, worth approximately $593.5 million.It is reported that bc1ql received 10,000 BTC from a known U.S. government wallet two weeks ago, which belongs to funds seized during the Silk Road enforcement action.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham data, 15 minutes ago, the U.S. government address transferred 299.95 ETH again.