Hakan Ateşler 
The belief of whales in DeFi coins, which have been silent this year in the rise of Bitcoin, continues. While the purchases of two whales since yesterday have not gone unnoticed, UNI and AAVE stand out.
Bitcoin exceeded $64,000 in the morning hours and reached the highest level of October. With the rise, Bitcoin dominance also rose above 58% again.
Blockchain tracking and analysis firm Arkham plans to launch a derivatives exchange next month. According to the news of Bloomberg from the US media, the company has completed preparations for the opening. The company will also move its headquarters from New York and London to the Dominican Republic.
While 2024 is almost the “year of the meme coin,” the most talked-about project of the last period was NEIRO, which is seen as the “New Dogecoin.” A trader who trusted the low value of one of the Neiro tokens issued on both the Solana and Ether networks announced that he bought 0.4% of the supply.
MicroStrategy chairman and founder Michael Saylor gave an interview in which he made very important statements and showed how much he trusts Bitcoin. Saylor stated that as MicroStrategy, they eventually want to become a Bitcoin bank, but they aim to provide services differently than traditional banks and reach a trillion-dollar value.
After the SEC paved the way for Bitcoin spot ETFs on 10 January, BlackRock, which received the most investment in this product, increased the total value of assets under management to $11.5 trillion in the Q3. The company’s fund investment of $221 billion last quarter was the highest level in its history.
While Bitcoin has been on a horizontal course since March, when it peaked at $73,000, the CryptoQuant analyst shared an interesting detail. Analyst Axel Adler stated that short-term investors sold Bitcoin, but long-term whales made large purchases in declines. In 6 months, big whales collected more than 1.5 million BTC.
An important press conference will be held tomorrow in China, which has announced successive economic support packages in recent weeks to meet its 2024 growth targets. The country’s finance minister is expected to announce a new economic stimulus package worth up to 2 trillion yuan. If expectations come true, it could also lift Chinese and US stocks along with cryptocurrencies.
A new one has been added to the phishing link attacks that have increased significantly especially in 2023, and an account lost $35 million. It is not known which person or company the account belongs to that allowed the hacker to take control of the wallet with a single click.
Ripple, which has received positive results in US lawsuits and started to see its way more clearly, announced that it has introduced advanced crypto custody features. The new features also cover real-world assets (RWAs), which are the hot area of the last period.