PANews reported on December 14 that according to Business Insider, Gracy Chen, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Bitget, said that the speculative trading inherent in the former cryptocurrency market is becoming a thing of the past, and institutions are increasingly interested in building reserves based on Bitcoin. However, for companies trying to copy MicroStrategy's Bitcoin investment strategy model, caution is necessary because new entrants face Bitcoin prices that are much higher than when MicroStrategy initially purchased it.

PANews reported on December 14 that according to Aastocks, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange said that the Hong Kong ETP (Exchange Traded Products, including ETFs and Leveraged and Inverse Products) market entered its 25th anniversary in November this year, covering 195 products, with a market value of HK$463 billion at the end of November. The Hong Kong ETF market has grown in the past five years, with an average daily turnover compound annual growth rate of 30%. In the first 11 months of this year, the average daily turnover reached HK$18.7 billion.

On-chain analyst Ember monitored that a whale deposited 5 million USDT to Binance 18 hours ago, and then withdrew 2,500 ETH (9.81 million USD) from Binance 20 minutes ago. In the past day and a half, this whale has accumulated 7,661 ETH (29.87 million USD) through Binance, with an average price of 3,899 USD.

According to Jin Shi, citing CCTV News, the South Korean National Assembly held a plenary session at 16:00 local time on the 14th to vote on the second impeachment of President Yoon Seok-yeol proposed by the opposition camp. According to the voting results, 204 members of the South Korean National Assembly voted in favor of impeaching President Yoon Seok-yeol, and the impeachment case was finally passed. Yoon Seok-yeol's presidency was immediately terminated, and South Korean Prime Minister Han Deok-soo was appointed as acting president.

Token Terminal data shows that daily active crypto users reached 18.7 million in December, up 143% from 7.7 million at the beginning of the year.

According to the monitoring of on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, eight hours ago, the address 0x1E7...861ae borrowed 85,000 BNB from Venus and deposited it into Binance, worth 61.74 million US dollars. This is the transaction with the highest value of single BNB deposit in the past 24 hours (personal address).

Yesterday, Grayscale ETF GBTC had a net outflow of $106 million in a single day, and the current historical net outflow of GBTC is $21.045 billion. Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF BTC had a net inflow of $4.508 million in a single day, and the current historical total net inflow of Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust BTC is $1.032 billion. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the largest net inflow in a single day yesterday was BlackRock ETF IBIT, with a net inflow of $393 million in a single day, and the current historical total net inflow of IBIT is $35.883 billion. The second is Fidelity ETF FBTC, with a net inflow of $59.9571 million in a single day, and the current historical total net inflow of FBTC is $12.315 billion.

Yesterday, Grayscale's Ethereum Trust ETF ETHE had a single-day net inflow of $7.2362 million, and the current historical net outflow of ETHE is $3.517 billion. Grayscale's Ethereum Mini Trust ETF ETH had a single-day net outflow of $0.00, and the current historical total net inflow of Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETH is $604 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the largest single-day net inflow yesterday was BlackRock's ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of $9.5069 million, and the current historical total net inflow of ETHA is $3.199 billion. The second is Grayscale's ETF ETHE, with a single-day net inflow of $7.2362 million, and the current historical total net outflow of ETHE is $3.517 billion.

On-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitored that suspected VIRTUAL project parties/early participants recharged 7 million tokens to Bybit in the past 17 hours, worth 17.09 million US dollars. In the past two months, a total of 11.97 million tokens have been recharged to the exchange, worth up to 25.74 million US dollars.

According to Spot On Chain monitoring, in the past 29 hours, a whale spent 1,458 WSTETH ($6.7 million) to buy 189.55 million BEAM at an average price of $0.03515. Overall, the whale has spent $35.7 million in ETH to buy 4 tokens since December 1.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, a whale who built a position of 19,992 ETH at an average price of $2,550 since January 2024 deposited 2,700 ETH (about $10.56 million) into Binance three hours ago. If sold, it will make a profit of $3.67 million. Currently, the whale still holds 13,162 ETH.

Suchir Balaji worked as a researcher on the technical staff of OpenAI from November 2020 to August 2024. He said in an interview with The New York Times that he helped OpenAI train ChatGPT without permission using large amounts of data collected from the internet until its public release in November 2022. Among other allegations, The New York Times reported that the company created its own transcription software and ran it on YouTube to collect data.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a PEPE whale that had been silent for 600 days transferred all 2.1 trillion PEPE (52 million U.S. dollars) to a new address. The whale initially spent only 0.0135 ETH (27 U.S. dollars) to buy 2.1 trillion PEPE and has held it until now. From 27 U.S. dollars to 52 million U.S. dollars, the return is 1.9 million times.

Bitcoin has repeatedly set new all-time highs, leading the overall market rally, while Layer 1 has performed strongly and the Layer 2 landscape continues to evolve.

According to on-chain analyst Ember, a whale/institution has purchased 10 million USDC worth of VIRTUAL in the past 20 hours. He withdrew 10 million USDC from Coinbase through 2 newly created addresses, and then purchased 4.251 million VIRTUAL on the chain at an average price of $2.35.