On-chain detective ZachXBT stated that UK attacker Danny was reportedly arrested in Dubai, and his address 0xb37d… holding over $18.58 million in assets has been frozen. He is suspected of involvement in multiple theft and fraud incidents, with the total amount involved exceeding $300 million.

The cryptocurrency market is experiencing a major event today—over $4 billion in options are set to expire, involving major assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple (XRP), and Solana (SOL). Traders generally expect another round of significant short-term volatility in the market, and before next week’s Federal Reserve FOMC interest rate decision, the total crypto market cap may fall below $3 trillion again. In the past 24 hours, there have been $270 million in liquidations in the crypto market. Coupled with rising US Treasury yields, Japanese bonds, and gold prices, Bitcoin and major assets have come under downward pressure. Although BTC, ETH, XRP, and SOL saw a brief rebound during today’s session, the overall technical structure remains weak.

Odaily Planet Daily news: According to official data, the world-leading crypto asset trading platform Gate has officially launched a new security product, Gate Safe, earlier. Since its launch, the product has attracted over 10,000 users to apply for use. Currently, "Gate Safe" is available for free for a limited time to VIP3 and above users, and is one of the important value-added services in the Gate VIP system. In addition to the Safe, VIP users can also enjoy multiple premium benefits such as private wealth management and exclusive VIP financial products, achieving a comprehensive upgrade in both asset security and management experience. It is reported that "Gate Safe" is based on Multi-Party Computation (MPC, Multi-Party

A federal district judge in New York has recently ruled that OpenAI must hand over approximately 20 million anonymized ChatGPT user logs to The New York Times and other plaintiffs, marking a significant development in the closely watched AI copyright lawsuit. The order rejects OpenAI's attempt to limit the scope of discovery and emphasizes that these logs are crucial for assessing whether ChatGPT has reproduced copyrighted content. The New York Times sued OpenAI in December 2023, alleging unauthorized use of news content to train its models, while OpenAI countersued in January this year, claiming the media outlet "did not tell the whole truth." This ruling further intensifies the conflict between the two parties over copyright, data governance, and the legality of AI training data.

According to a report by Jinse Finance, based on EigenPhi data, sandwich attacks on the Ethereum network in 2025 have resulted in user losses of nearly $40 million. Although the monthly trading volume on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) has surged from $65 billion to over $100 billion, the scale of profits from these attacks has dropped significantly. Monthly profits from sandwich attacks fell from around $10 million at the end of 2024 to just $2.5 million in October 2025, while the frequency of attacks remains high at 60,000 to 90,000 per month. Most notably, 38% of attacks target low-volatility liquidity pools such as stablecoins and wrapped assets, and 12% are aimed at stablecoin swap pools—these scenarios result in slippage beyond expectations, causing particularly severe losses. The average profit per sandwich attack is only $3, and for the full year of 2025

On December 5, monitoring shows that a whale is currently experiencing an unrealized loss of about $2.49 million in ETH trades, holding a position of $51.72 million at an average price of $3,005. This address previously opened a reverse position with $5 million and made a profit; the current total profit still stands at $2.8 million.

PANews, December 5—The Doubao Mobile Assistant team has released a statement regarding adjustments to its AI-powered mobile operation capabilities. The statement notes that in order to achieve a healthy balance between technological development, industry acceptance, and user experience, the team plans to implement standardized adjustments to AI mobile operation capabilities in certain scenarios over the coming period. Specifically, these adjustments include, but are not limited to, further restricting the use of financial applications: in banking, online payments, and other financial scenarios that are directly linked to users’ financial security. Although the mobile assistant currently requires user authorization for sensitive operations, out of an abundance of caution, Doubao Mobile Assistant will temporarily disable its ability to operate such apps. The team will also actively communicate with relevant vendors in hopes of jointly establishing clear and secure guidelines for AI operational behavior.

Gate News Bot message, December 5th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, LUNC (Terra Classic) is currently priced at $0.000031, up 10.00% in 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.000031 and a low of $0.000026. The current market capitalization is about $171 million, an increase of nearly $15.5 million from yesterday. Terra Classic is an open-source, decentralized blockchain protected by Tendermint consensus and built on Cosmos-SDK. It split from the original Terra network and now operates independently, maintained by a diverse set of validators and one of the most active grassroots communities in the crypto space. Blocks are finalized in about 6 seconds, fees remain below 1 cent, and the chain retains control over

Galaxy Digital announced the acquisition of Alluvial Finance, taking over technical development for Liquid Collective, a platform that supports institutional staking of ETH and SOL. Liquid Collective was launched in 2023, with a peak TVL reaching $1.75 billion. Galaxy plans to leverage this acquisition to build institutional-grade on-chain infrastructure.

According to Gate News Bot, as of December 5, citing CoinMarketCap data, DCR (Decred) is currently priced at $22.40, up 14.89% in 24 hours, reaching a high of $25.60 and a low of $18.25, with a 24-hour trading volume of $17.4 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $384 million, an increase of $49.8 million from yesterday. Decred is a cryptocurrency designed to upgrade and evolve over time based on the opinions of its holders. It adopts a hybrid Proof-of-Work/Proof-of-Stake (PoW/PoS) consensus mechanism, with a total supply of 21 million, and features self-funding. Key features of Decred include staking, voting, treasury, proposals, security, fungibility, Lightning Network, and decentralized exchange (DEX). The project

According to Jinse Finance, Kamino announced on the X platform that the tokenized lending pool deposit product PRIME has officially launched on Kamino. PRIME is jointly developed by Figure and Provenance Foundation, with HastraFi serving as the issuer, providing real estate-backed yield products with an annual percentage yield (APY) of up to 8%. Figure is the largest non-bank home equity line of credit (HELOC) originator in the United States, having released over $19 billion in home equity and is listed on Nasdaq. Figure has built the credit infrastructure behind PRIME, including licensed mortgage origination, loan servicing, and support.

Gate News bot message, a notable cryptocurrency whale executed multiple deposits to centralized exchanges (CEX), resulting in a substantial loss exceeding $4 million on previously held assets for over one year. The transactions included 3.43 million ONDO tokens valued at $1.69 million with a loss o

Thai authorities raided seven suspected hideouts supporting Myanmar-based transnational scam syndicates, seizing Bitcoin mining equipment and power supplies valued at $8.6 million. These devices were linked to financial transactions totaling over $143 million.

Jinse Finance reported that Meta Platforms (META.US) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to significantly reduce resource investment in building the metaverse, a strategy he once defined as the company’s future and which prompted the rebranding of Facebook. According to sources familiar with the matter, management has discussed cutting next year’s metaverse division budget by as much as 30%. This division covers virtual world product Meta Horizon Worlds and its Quest virtual reality business. If such a substantial reduction is implemented, layoffs could begin as early as January next year, though no final decision has been made yet. Sources said the proposed metaverse cuts are part of the company’s 2026 budget planning. They added that Zuckerberg has asked Meta executives to seek an overall 10% budget cut, a standard requirement in similar budget cycles over the past few years.

TrueNorth has completed a $3 million pre-seed funding round, focusing on AI development in the financial sector. The funds will be used to build a hallucination-free financial intelligent reasoning layer, aiming to address the issues of general models in financial decision-making. Over 40,000 users are already on the waiting list.

PANews, December 4—According to CoinDesk, Solana infrastructure company Solmate (ticker symbol SLMT), which focuses on the Abu Dhabi market, has signed a non-binding term sheet to acquire digital asset company RockawayX in an all-stock transaction. The acquisition will create an institutional crypto group with over $2 billion in assets under management and third-party interests. The merged company will integrate RockawayX’s infrastructure, liquidity, and asset management businesses into Solmate, which is transitioning from passive digital asset fund management to an operational crypto business, and will continue to trade under the ticker symbol SLMT. Solmate CEO Marco Santori will lead the group, while RockawayX CEO Viktor

BlockBeats News, December 4, DEX platform Reya stated in a post, "The Reya ICO attracted participation from over 4,000 users across more than 60 countries. This 2% token supply has been oversubscribed. The next steps are to complete distribution, launch the spot market, and list REYA on the Reya platform." Previously, it was reported that Reya would conduct its token sale on Coinlist from November 25 to December 2, selling 160 million tokens at a price of $0.01875 each, corresponding to a $150 million FDV. 50% will be

The recent price of Bitcoin has dropped about 36% from its all-time high, but this fluctuation is considered a regular occurrence in its history. The current price is around $93,000, down 26% from the peak. Historical data shows that such corrections are usually followed by a rebound. Analysts point out that this volatility is consistent with the long-term trend and is related to recent forced liquidation events.

PANews, December 4—According to Bloomberg, the EU executive body has announced plans to transfer more regulatory and enforcement powers to its market regulator, sparking debate over national regulators ceding authority to Brussels. The proposal released Thursday shows that the Paris-based European Securities and Markets Authority will have new powers over significant clearinghouses, central securities depositories, and trading venues. Less than a year after the EU introduced a national regulatory regime for cryptocurrency companies, these companies and pan-European market operators will now fall under the authority of this agency. The centralization of most EU market regulatory powers requires approval from the European Parliament and the Council of Member States, with some member states strongly opposed. The core of the proposal is to strengthen the European Securities and Markets Authority's powers and resources, establishing a board of directors composed of five independent members with terms of up to five years. Preparation costs will be covered by the EU budget, while trading venues, central securities depositories, and crypto asset service providers will bear the rest.

The US spot XRP ETF continues to attract capital, with net inflows for 12 consecutive days as of December 2, bringing total assets under management to $844.9 million—just one step away from the $1 billion AUM milestone. On December 1, there was an inflow of $89.65 million, followed by an additional $67.7 million the next day. Meanwhile, companies such as Invesco and Franklin Templeton have submitted applications to launch their own XRP ETFs. In comparison, the spot Solana ETF has an AUM of $651 million, while spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs have $57.7 billion and $12.8 billion, respectively. In the DeFi sector, XRP is seeing new staking opportunities. The Firelight protocol, incubated by Sentora and supported by Flare, has launched an on-chain insurance product based on staking, offering yield options for XRP holders and addressing the insurance gap for over $1 billion in annual losses from exploit attacks, bringing real economic value to investors.

This week, both Bitcoin and Ethereum saw significant rebounds, but XRP continued to fluctuate within a narrow range since mid-November. Despite an on-chain indicator—typically signaling a bullish trend—reaching a three-month high, the price has yet to break out. The key reason behind this lies in the divergence between long-term holder behavior and the overall on-chain structure. On-chain data shows that the number of spent tokens has dropped sharply over the past month, plunging 91% from 186.36 million XRP on November 15 to around 16.32 million currently, the lowest level in three months. The reduction of older supply means that market selling pressure has dropped significantly, which usually helps prices stabilize or even rebound. Therefore, the rise in dormancy to a three-month high should have been a positive sign.

Arbitrum (ARB) has surged over 11% in the past 24 hours, outperforming most altcoins. This rebound comes as the overall cryptocurrency market has recovered by about 7%, and also reflects a notable recent increase in Arbitrum network activity. With on-chain metrics improving, whether ARB is bottoming out has become a key focus for the market. On the 4-hour chart, ARB appears to have formed a double bottom pattern after the previous day’s decline. Bulls pushed the price from $0.19 to $0.24, but the $0.24 area now serves as a critical neckline. Only a decisive breakout above this level will confirm a structural reversal for ARB and open up room for a rally to $0.311.

Ethereum treasury giant BitMine has once again made a significant increase in its ETH holdings, attracting market attention. According to on-chain analytics platform Arkham, BitMine purchased 18,345 ETH via BitGo on Wednesday and acquired another 30,278 ETH through a certain CEX, totaling approximately $150 million in value. Although the transactions have not yet been officially confirmed, on-chain evidence shows that the fund movements have essentially been settled. Since the beginning of this year, BitMine has maintained a steady buying trend, even during the market downturn in November without any significant reduction. In just the last week of November alone, the company added 96,798 ETH, bringing its holdings to over 3% of Ethereum's circulating supply. The company has repeatedly stated its goal of holding 5% of ETH and has consistently emphasized Ethereum's core role in the future of financial infrastructure.

Since Trump's election, the price of XRP has soared from $0.50 to $2.15, a rise of about 330%, marking its strongest performance since 2017. As the regulatory environment gradually shifts from SEC pressure to being more favorable, Ripple has once again become a market focus. But beyond the hype, what investors really care about is: does XRP actually have practical use? Currently, Ripple's cross-border payment network is its most core application scenario. The company has established over 300 financial partners in 45 countries, with related annual payment volumes reaching $15 billion. XRP already has large-scale applications in high-frequency remittance markets such as Japan, East Asia, the Philippines, and Latin America. Compared to traditional cross-border payments, XRP's advantages lie in low cost, borderlessness, and high speed, which can reduce reliance on traditional financial infrastructure.

Bitcoin saw a strong rebound this week, with a single-day increase approaching 8%. The latest industry report points out that after experiencing intense deleveraging and sell-offs by short-term holders, Bitcoin is showing signs of "seller exhaustion," and the market is expected to enter a stabilization and rebound phase. The report shows that around $1.9 billion in leverage was unwound over the past few weeks, effectively "resetting" the market from high leverage risk. During this process, Bitcoin once dropped to around $82,000, but with risks cleared, the current leverage level is lower, market pressure has eased, and the threat of large-scale liquidations has significantly decreased.

PANews, December 4—According to monitoring, Digital Asset has withdrawn 15,000 $HYPE (approximately $525,000) from FalconX. This wallet now holds over $1 million worth of $HYPE.

The first Chainlink ETF (ticker GLNK) launched by Grayscale recorded over $41 million in inflows on its first day of trading, making it one of the most impressive new crypto asset products in the current market. Despite the overall downturn in the crypto market over the past two months, GLNK has still demonstrated strong capital-attracting ability, drawing significant interest from investors focused on data oracle ecosystems and tokenization infrastructure. According to Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart, GLNK's first-day performance was “exceptionally strong.” The product's assets under management once rose to $64 million, and first-day trading volume was also active, indicating that investor interest in Chainlink as a key infrastructure asset is growing rapidly. He further noted that given the current weakness in the crypto market, GLNK’s achievement is particularly impressive, highlighting both institutional and retail investors’ long-term recognition of the oracle sector.

Austrian police recently arrested two Ukrainian men suspected of torturing a 21-year-old university student, robbing him of his cryptocurrency, and ultimately killing and burning his body. The victim was identified as Danylo K., the son of the deputy mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine; his body was found burned in the back seat of a Mercedes. Police indicated that all the funds in the victim’s crypto wallet were withdrawn after the crime, with the motive strongly suspected to be crypto extortion. Vienna police stated that the two suspects, aged 19 and 45, fled to Austria three days after committing the crime and were subsequently arrested in Ukraine. The case has been handed over to Ukrainian authorities and no extradition will take place. Local media revealed that the incident began in the parking lot of the Sofitel Hotel, where the victim was ambushed and forced into a car. He was then brutally beaten in the Donaustadt district, his teeth knocked out, nearly suffocated to death, and ultimately doused with gasoline and set on fire. Police found a melted fuel can in the back seat of the car, confirming that the fire originated from gasoline.

Russian prosecutors are seeking to confiscate assets worth over 2.1 billion rubles from former Interior Ministry official Georgy Satyukov, due to his alleged acceptance of bribes and acquisition of large amounts of cryptocurrency. Satyukov, who worked on financial fraud and cybercrime investigations, is now a fugitive, and the trial is scheduled for 2025.

BlockBeats news, on December 4, according to Coinbob's popular address monitoring, crypto trader paulwei has raised the BTC long order range today. His long entry level has been raised from $83,500 to $91,100, with 75% of funds used for placing long orders. The short target range is set at $94,400 to $99,000, with 15% of funds used for placing short orders, and 10% of funds reserved. The current position is a 2x leveraged BTC long order, with a size of approximately $1,580 and an average price of $90,300. This trader previously grew 1.8 BTC to over 80 BTC within two years starting from May 1, 2020. Since November 16, he has been conducting public live trading on Hyperliquid, with initial funds still around 1 BTC.

After the U.S. passed its first stablecoin legislation, Wall Street is divided over whether stablecoins can boost demand for the dollar and short-term U.S. Treasuries. Although the U.S. Treasury Secretary estimates the market will grow to $3 trillion, some experts question whether stablecoins will actually generate new demand.

According to Gate News Bot, as of December 4, per CoinMarketCap data, SAPIEN (Sapien) is currently priced at $0.19, up 65.77% in 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.20 and a low of $0.11. The current market cap is approximately $47.5 million, an increase of $18.8 million from yesterday. Sapien is a decentralized data foundry that transforms collective human knowledge into enterprise-grade AI training data. The platform has 1.8 million global contributors from over 110 countries and has completed 187 million tasks. Sapien focuses on providing high-quality, vertically specialized training data for professional AI, including 3D/4D data annotation, data collection, and other services. Its marketplace also offers expert reasoning, image and video, audio, 3D/4D, and

Jinse Finance reports that OpenAI has reached a final agreement to acquire Neptune. Neptune is a startup focused on providing monitoring and debugging tools for AI companies’ model training processes. OpenAI has been using Neptune’s tools for over a year to conduct various experiments and compare different versions of its models. Neptune’s CEO stated that this acquisition will enable closer collaboration between the two parties. He also revealed that Neptune will gradually reduce its external services over the next few months. The specific terms of the deal were not disclosed. Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, said: “Neptune has built a fast and precise system that enables researchers to deeply analyze complex training workflows. We plan to work closely with them to deeply integrate their tools into our training tech stack, thereby gaining clearer insights into our models.”

According to a report by Jinse Finance, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) announced on Wednesday that the US services index rose slightly by 0.2 to a nine-month high of 52.6. A reading above 50 indicates the sector is in expansion. The ISM services and materials prices paid index showed the slowest growth rate in seven months. Although still at historically high levels, this figure suggests inflationary pressures have eased somewhat. The overall services index was supported by longer supplier delivery times and further improvement in business activity. The supplier deliveries index rose by 3.3 points, reaching its highest level in over a year. This increase may reflect challenges businesses face with tariffs as they seek product sources in a complex trade environment. The business activity index climbed to a three-month high of 54.5. Meanwhile, order growth slowed from a one-year high. Employment in the services sector showed further signs of stabilizing. The employment index rose to a six-month high of 48.9, indicating a slower pace of job declines. According to an ISM survey

PANews, December 3—According to DL News, Russian prosecutors are seeking to confiscate a large amount of luxury assets from fugitive secret service official Georgy Satyukov. He is accused of accepting bribes worth $184 million in Bitcoin and $30 million in Ethereum from operators of the now-defunct WEX cryptocurrency exchange. Investigators have identified assets worth $29.6 million allegedly linked to Satyukov's bribery case. Prosecutors claim Satyukov used illicit funds to purchase 13 Russian apartments, several non-residential properties in St. Petersburg, a villa in the UAE, and a million-dollar property in Saratov registered under his brother's name. The investigation also found two Porsche Cayenne Turbos registered to him, seven Patek Philippe watches, and other jewelry with a total value exceeding $1.3 million. His family’s bank accounts still hold over $15 million in cash and

Theoriq has established a strategic partnership with Turtle, focusing on the upcoming AI-driven product AlphaVault. This collaboration will leverage Turtle's liquidity network of over 400,000 wallets to enhance AlphaVault's exposure, adopting an innovative vault architecture to maximize yield efficiency.

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PANews, December 3—According to an official announcement, Gate US has announced a partnership with Checkout.com, a global leader in online payment services. Through this collaboration, Gate US will officially launch card payment processing infrastructure provided by Checkout.com, bringing users a safer, more compliant, and faster settlement experience when purchasing crypto, as well as offering comprehensive chargeback management capabilities. Currently, Checkout.com operates in over 150 countries and provides payment services to numerous international enterprises. This integration will further enhance the stability and security of card payments on the Gate US platform and provide users with a more efficient and reliable gateway to enter the digital asset market. Gate US has always adhered to a compliance-based and security-first operational philosophy, committed to creating a more reliable platform for its users.

BlockBeats News, December 3, Park Ki Hwal, a senior leader in South Korea's cultural industry and the president of the K-POP World Alliance, recently announced that he will be promoting the full integration of over 20,000 core members from his affiliated top-tier Hip-Hop community into MOVA.