I monitored the funding rates (Funding Rate) of major exchanges. After three days of consolidation and washouts, the rates have returned to a neutral range from the overheated levels seen during the New Year period. What does this mean? The logic is simple: the bubble of long-side leverage has been deflated. When prices remain relatively high but funding rates are declining, it indicates that spot market support has replaced the push from derivatives. This "spot-driven" consolidation is often a precursor to the next explosive rally. Don't get shaken off by temporary pullbacks—position structure matters more than candlestick colors
Vitalik claims that Ethereum has just solved the biggest problem of blockchain
After ten years of effort, Ethereum has finally solved the blockchain trilemma.
Vitalik announced that ZK-EVM has reached production-level performance (proof time reduced to a few seconds, costs reduced by 45 times) + PeerDAS is now live on the mainnet = decentralization + consensus + ultra-large bandwidth, all three are achieved.
Future roadmap:
2026: Significantly increase gas limits + first batch of ZK-EVM nodes 2026-2028: Repricing and state adjustments for secure scaling 2027-2030: Zero-knowledge proof validators become the primary validation method, significantly increasing throughput
The security goal is to achieve 128-bit provability by the end of 2026.
Ethereum is not chasing trends, but is building a resilient, trustless world computer.
The prediction market might be the most underestimated information system right now. In the past, to understand the macro situation, I had to browse news, read analyses, and filter out human noise myself, which was quite exhausting. It's different now. Before checking the news, I first take a look at Polymarket. I see where the money is being invested. Those who dare to wager 1 million US dollars are definitely thinking deeper than the average person. This is a consensus formed by real money, filtering out at least half of the noise. It's quite good to use it as an emotional thermometer. Polymarket may not always be accurate, but it's definitely credible. #加密市场观察
Merry Christmas. Although the holiday atmosphere is strong, the key word for today in trading is "vacuum."
Due to Western institutions and market makers collectively on holiday, CME and US stocks are closed, and the market has entered a phase of extreme liquidity shortage.
The logic is simple: in an order book as thin as a cicada's wing, a few hundred BTC in sell orders can create a large pit, and a few thousand ETH in buy orders can pull up a long green candle. Such fluctuations lack "sustainability" and are mostly a game between bots and retail investors.
I suggest everyone put down the market and spend more time with family. Today, without incremental funds entering the market, preserving the principal is more important than anything else.
I finally finished translating the tens of thousands of words analysis by @MessariCrypto on the 2026 track and organized some notes (typed by hand)
First part: Basic situation > Cryptocurrency - BTC, ZEC BTC is decoupling from altcoins and becoming a macro asset > DeFi Bank - Peak Money, Base App Web3 Apps replace traditional banks > Yield-bearing assets - USDai, syrupUSDC, sUSDe Yield stablecoins replace traditional stablecoins with 0 yield
Second part: Productivity infrastructure > Decentralized AI - Bittensor, Hyperliquid, EigenAI Agents become the main force in on-chain trading. > DePIN - Helium Mobile, Daylight, Hivemapper Tokenization of physical assets, annual revenue expected to exceed 100 million USD. > InfraFi - http://USD.AI, DayFi Hardware financing
Third part: Applications and distribution > Prediction markets - Polymarket, Kalshi, Allora Prediction = service, agents achieve 24/7 liquidity. > SocialFi - Zora, Farcaster, http://Pump.fun Content is assets. > RWA - Courtyard, Baxus, http://Rip.fun Includes cards, wine, luxury goods
2026 Insights: 1. Entry > Protocol: Wallets (like Phantom or Coinbase Wallet) will earn more fees than public chains. 2. Real revenue: In 2026, we will not discuss TVL, but focus more on On-chain Revenue. 3. Computing power finance: Solving the sustainability issues of DeFi.
According to the current monthly return rate, the P/E ratio, and the capital flow data from the exchange:
1. Trend aspect: The bear market has confirmed a continuous decline in Q4 2025 (especially the sharp drop of 17.67% in November), breaking the bull market logic, and its shape is highly consistent with the deep bear markets of 2018 and 2022. Statistically, this is a clear signal of the continuation of the downward trend.
2. Valuation aspect: Entering the undervalued zone, the P/E ratio has fallen to 0.83 (<1.0), indicating that the bubble has been squeezed out and assets have entered the 'undervalued range.' However, it should be noted that this value has not yet reached the historical extreme bottom of 0.5 (miner surrender line), which means there is theoretically still room for further decline.
3. Capital aspect: The existing game shows a general net outflow of funds from the exchange, with only the leading platforms maintaining their positions, and the market is in a risk-averse contraction period.
Don't blame yourself anymore; losing money is really not your fault.
I just pulled a set of real data from Binance (data source: Coinglass), and it's chilling to see:
Among the hundreds of tokens analyzed, a shocking 330 have fallen more than 80% from their peak! Even if we loosen the criteria to a 50% drop, there are still 382 tokens trapped in this situation.
Take a look at the current market cap distribution: 10-10 million: 18; 10 million-30 million: 115; 30 million-50 million: 61; even among the large tokens with a market cap over 100 million, 140 are struggling.
What does this mean? It means that if you rush in during FOMO, your chance of hitting a “zero-out pit” is close to 90%.
In this hellishly difficult market, just surviving is a stroke of luck. This is not trading; this is a battle royale.
The worst-performing asset in 2025 is cryptocurrency. This is not the first time BTC has been humiliated in its history. It's just that right now is a winter, and everyone is buying coal instead of sports cars. It doesn't mean that sports cars are worse than coal.
The new strategy tested on ETH shows that although the market has not been very good this month, the strategy only had losses for 6 days, and the rest of the time was profitable, performing quite excellently. Let's wait until the end of this month to see the situation.
The weekly line has just closed, and BTC is firmly positioned above key support. This closing is stronger than expected.
The early morning rally on Monday usually has a somewhat "trial" nature, and the buying power in the Asian market is returning, but the real directional indicator will depend on tonight's performance of net ETF inflows after the opening of the US stock market.
The logic is simple: as long as the weekly line does not break, any pullback is an opportunity for those who missed out on last week's chips to "buy tickets". Don't try to guess the top when the trend has just started to rise.
Believe me, a relatively independent market will come.
Currently, the funds in the cryptocurrency circle are divided into two parts: one part is on-site funds, and the other part is traditional funds. The characteristic of this cycle is that traditional funds have entered the market at a scale far exceeding that of the previous cycle, subsequently forming a correlation.
On-site funds have been continuously harvested in this process, until now...
As the harvestable space for on-site funds becomes smaller and smaller, off-site funds are starting to leave in a planned manner, to move to the next market with larger profit space...
If we talk about a landmark event, I think it is the issuance of the Trump coin. Before this, off-site funds were in an inflow state, and after this, the inflow of off-site funds gradually decreased...
However, if the cryptocurrency circle relies solely on on-site funds to gamble, it would be very difficult to reach the scale we see today. So everyone is both the object of harvesting and the beneficiary as a result.
If BTC continues to rise with the US stock market, maintaining a long-term stable high correlation, I ask you, would you still trade cryptocurrencies?
When it follows the decline but not the rise, and follows the rise but not the decline, that is when excess profits are generated.