Last night was a full-on roller coaster for the crypto market. $BTC ( โฒ 10.61% ) suddenly dumped to ~$72.9K, the lowest since Nov 2024, then bounced back to nearly $76K in a few hours.
$ETH ( โฒ 10.79% ) followed the same path, dipped to $2.1K, now trading around $2.3K. Main drivers:
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Hereโs what we got for you today:
๐ A multi Billion dollar payday
โญ Vitalik Buterin sold 700+ ETH? ๐ค
โญ โCrypto Winterโ or another shakeout?
๐ฅ Burning hot takes for the road

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โ VITALIK SOLD 700+ $ETH DESPITE ETHโS RECOVER?
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, just sold around 705 $ETH ( โฒ 10.79% ), even as the market is bouncing back. But this wasnโt a panic sell or exit.
On-chain records show he didnโt do it for personal profit this is part of a long-term funding plan to support public goods and open-source infrastructure.

Some ETH went straight to Kanro, his public health-focused charity. Heโs done this before too, in Jan 2025, he sold 28 different meme coins (~$984K) and also donated the funds to Kanro.
Hereโs what happened this time:
The first batch: 211.84 ETH (~$500K) โ fully sent to Kanro
The second batch: 493 ETH โ also aligned with long-term use
He shared last week that he pulled 16,384 ETH out for projects spanning the next few years
Heโs funding: open-source tools, secure software/hardware, governance systems, and even biotech
In a post last week, Vitalik shared that he withdrew 16,384 ETH for upcoming long-term initiatives. He still holds 235,268 ETH (over $549M), so this isnโt even a dent in his bags.

Vitalik Buterin Portfolio
He said Ethereum Foundation will begin โsaving more over the next 5 years,โ and he personally wants to help fund important work that would otherwise rely on Foundation grants.
That includes:
Open-source software and hardware
Secure systems in finance, media, governance, OS, and even biotech
Privacy-preserving staking research to generate sustainable long-term yield
And despite all this ETH hitting the market, ETH price went down in the last 24 hours, now around $2,2K.

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โ CRYPTO WINTER? BURRY - YES. TIGER - NO. WHOโS RIGHT?
Cryptoโs been shaky lately. BTC is down 40% from its October peak of $126K. Altcoins are also down 20-40% since the Jan 2024 FOMC meeting. And now the big question flying around is: โAre we back in a crypto winter?โ

1. Burryโs Warning: BTC to $50K, and a Domino Effect
Michael Burry, the investor from โBig Shortโ, warned in a Substack post that Bitcoinโs decline triggered over $1B in gold and silver liquidations by institutions last month.
He believes if BTC drops to $50,000, it could cause:
Crypto mining firms to go bankrupt
Tokenized metals futures collapse (his words: โa black holeโ)
No one left buying
He also called out the recent ETF-driven pump as pure speculation, not real adoption. According to him, Bitcoin hasnโt proven itself as โdigital goldโ, or even a real safe haven.
Now hereโs where Burryโs warning starts hitting real companies.
a. Strategy (Michael Saylorโs firm):
Bought a ton of BTC at an average of $76K
Theyโre now sitting on $17.44B in unrealized losses (Q4 2024)
Their market cap shrank from $128B in July to $40B now
Their mNAV ratio fell from 2.0 โ 1.1 (1.0 is the danger zone)
If that drops below 1, they may have to sell BTC, even though Saylor always said theyโd โnever sell.โ
b. BitMine, backed by Peter Thiel and led by Tom Lee (Fundstrat) is even worse off
Holding 4.3M ETH bought at $3,826 avg
ETH now ~$2,300 โ over $6B in unrealized losses
Analysts are worried. If firms like this start selling, even a small amount could crash both token prices and stock prices way harder than what they gain from the sale. Basically, theyโre stuck.
2. Tiger: This Isn't a Winter, Itโs a New Phase
Tiger Research strongly disagrees with the โcrypto winterโ narrative.
They say past winters (Mt. Gox 2014, ICO collapse 2018, Terra-FTX 2022) were caused by internal failures, like fraud, hacks, and trust collapses.
And unlike before, thereโs no mass exit of talent. Builders are still here. Tiger breaks the market into 3 zones now:

Regulated zone - low volatility, safe-ish
Unregulated zone - still wild, high risk
Infra layer - like stablecoins, powering both sides
ETF money is mostly going into Bitcoin, not altcoins. So we donโt get those โeverything pumps togetherโ rallies anymore. The next big wave only comes when:
New breakout apps show up (probably in the wild west zone)
Macro conditions ease up (aka rates, liquidity, etc.)
Until then, itโs not winter. Itโs limbo. And limbo is when real builders start gaining ground while others freeze.

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๐ฅ BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD
Elon Musk just teased: โ$DOGE ( โฒ 6.91% ) to the moonโ next year. First it was CZ with his supercycle. Then Justin Sun said heโs โall in AI.โ Read more
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereumโs Layer 2 vision is outdated. Heโs rethinking the whole โrollup-firstโ future. L2s may never decentralize. Read more
Tether earned $10B profit in 2025, despite a 23% drop from 2024. Itโs becoming cryptoโs central bank behind $USDT ( โฒ 0.07% ). Read more
Trumpโs White House held a secretive crypto x banking meeting on stablecoin yields. Still no verdict, but Coinbase & DeFi rules are on the table. Read more
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