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）

Binance IP's current price is $1.53, with a drop of 6.13% over 24 hours. 24-hour transaction volume of 65.05 million US dollars, a decrease of 18.21%, for reference only

[He Yi Talks About the Original Intention and Significance of Binance Alpha] In an exclusive interview on December 30, Binance Co-CEO He Yi stated that the original intention of Binance Alpha is to provide more opportunities and resources to those willing to help others and to share returns with users. She believes that every era has its unique needs, and the need of this era might be Binance Alpha.