Main password: Japanese Metaplanet invests heavily in Bitcoin, main player trades $200 million to bet on this direction

[Three new addresses withdrew $4.3 million worth of LINK from Binance] According to monitoring by onchainschool.pro, over the past two days, three newly created addresses have cumulatively withdrawn $4.3 million worth of LINK from Binance.

[Minutes of the Federal Reserve's December Meeting to Be Released Tonight] At 3:00 AM Beijing time on Wednesday (UTC+8), the Federal Reserve will release the minutes of its December 9-10 policy meeting, revealing details of internal disagreements among decision-makers. The Fed's decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points in December triggered three dissenting votes, two of which came from regional Fed presidents, and the other from Fed Governor Milan, who has advocated for a significant 50 basis point rate cut three times since joining the Fed in September. Fed Chair Powell stated that policymakers have strong disagreements regarding the focus of policies on inflation and employment risks, with some decision-makers believing that refraining from cutting rates would be more appropriate.

Open interest data suggests the advance is likely short-covering, rather than fresh longs entering the market. What to know : Bitcoin was trading higher during U.S. market hours, marking a notable shift after a month in which BTC fell roughly 20 percent cumulatively while American stocks were open. Declining open interest suggests the move is driven by short-covering rather than fresh leveraged longs. Broader crypto markets remain fragile as ETF outflows, tax-related positioning, and light holiday liquidity pressure prices.

[Trust Wallet to Compensate Users Affected by Security Incident] From December 24 to 26, 2025, version 2.68 of the Trust Wallet Browser Extension was compromised due to an API key leak, resulting in malicious code being uploaded. This incident affected 2,520 wallet addresses, with approximately $8.5 million in assets stolen. Investigations revealed that the incident was linked to the Sha1-Hulud supply chain attack in November, where attackers gained access to the Chrome Web Store API using leaked GitHub credentials. Trust Wallet has decided to voluntarily compensate affected users and has begun coordinating with victims who have contacted the official team to finalize the compensation process and ownership verification. Affected users are required to transfer their funds to a new wallet and submit a claim application. Over 5,000 applications have been received so far, and the team is reviewing them one by one. Trust Wallet has released a patched version 2.69 and has disabled the related permissions and credentials.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said that if the government can print currency infinitely out of thin air, why do they still need to collect taxes. （Bitcoin Archive）