aven

Avenir Group, founded by Li Lin, disclosed its latest Bitcoin ETF holdings. As of the fourth quarter of 2025, Avenir Group's position in BlackRock IBIT remains unchanged: by the end of 2025, the number of shares held in BlackRock IBIT is 18,287,323, with only minor changes due to trading friction compared to the third quarter (a slight adjustment of approximately -0.053%).Since the second quarter of 2024, Avenir Group has maintained its position as the largest institutional holder of Bitcoin ETFs in Asia for seven consecutive quarters, and has consistently led the region for the past 21 months. This move reflects Avenir Group's long-term allocation strategy and its firm commitment to Bitcoin as a core component of future finance.

AI quantitative trading company Inference Research announced the completion of a $20 million seed round financing, led by Avenir Group. The funds will be used to expand the company's self-developed infrastructure to integrate traditional finance and digital assets, while accelerating talent recruitment. It is reported that the company is forming a team of quantitative analysts, engineers, and researchers.

Dovey Wan, founding partner of Primitive Ventures, posted on X regarding the rumor that "the market drop may be due to a Hong Kong hedge fund's liquidation from IBIT options trading." Being in the "Hong Kong fund" circle in Asia, I have to share a contrary opinion.About taxes: Hong Kong does not have capital gains tax (Cap Gains) at all, so the so-called "tax optimization harvesting" perspective is basically viewed from the American standpoint, which does not apply to us.About the rumors: We are conducting due diligence (DD) on Hong Kong's largest Bitcoin options strategy fund. From their performance in recent months and our communications with them, there has been no drama since October 11. The Hong Kong circle is small, and everyone loves gossip; if something really happened, it would be impossible to keep it under wraps. For example, when the Hong Kong-based 3AC-related market maker Taipingshan faced issues, we knew about it almost the next day.About capital flows: Long before the in-kind redemption mechanism appeared, many old-school Bitcoin whales in Asia had already swapped their assets one way into compliant channels like IBIT (at that time, only Galaxy could do this; those who understand know). This was mainly done to: ensure safer custody; reduce operational and counterparty risks; facilitate collateral flow within the traditional financial (TradFi) system; and allow for cleaner transitions to other traditional financial assets.About trading habits: Starting from the second half of 2025, Bitcoin trading activity will structurally lean more towards U.S. stock trading hours (especially the early morning session when New York opens), and the spot selling pressure across major exchanges reflects this. In recent days, Binance has also seen significant spot selling pressure during these times, which is actually a chain reaction caused by ETF redemptions.Additionally, why would a Bitcoin fund "blow up" just because of writing options? Unless they are naked shorting or engaging in leveraged basis trades, resulting in liquidation due to an unexpected widening of the price difference between IBIT and spot. Therefore, it is likely that this is a traditional financial (TradFi) fund with a cross-margin mechanism, rather than a purely "old-school Bitcoin believer" fund.

According to official news, to celebrate the comprehensive upgrade of the SUN brand, we are officially launching the "Monkey King Wreaks Havoc in Heaven" spot trading themed event. This feast will last from now until February 15, and users participating in the TRON chain trading challenge will have the chance to share a prize pool of 5,500 USDT. The event features four major challenge sections, including trading leaderboard, newcomer benefits, ecological token special, and invitation ranking, aimed at providing various trading participants with multi-level participation opportunities. We sincerely invite all users to actively participate and win generous rewards.

In the context of widespread anti-government protests in Iran and the government's implementation of internet blackouts, local residents are accelerating the transfer of Bitcoin into personal wallets. Blockchain analysis company Chainalysis points out that since the protests began and during the internet outages, there has been a significant increase in BTC withdrawal transactions from local exchanges to unknown personal wallets, indicating that the public is self-custodying Bitcoin with greater frequency during times of social unrest.Chainalysis believes that this behavior is closely related to the significant devaluation of the Iranian rial. Data shows that the exchange rate of the rial against the dollar dropped from about 420,000 to over 1,050,000 in a short period, leading to a rapid loss of purchasing power. Against this backdrop, Bitcoin is seen as an important tool to hedge against currency collapse and economic instability due to its decentralized, censorship-resistant, and cross-border transfer characteristics. The report also notes that this trend is consistent with other regions globally experiencing war, economic crises, or government repression. Additionally, Chainalysis revealed that addresses associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accounted for over 50% of the total crypto asset receipts in Iran in the fourth quarter of 2025, with an annual on-chain processing amount exceeding $3 billion.

RWA Fixed Income Market Haven announced the completion of its seed round financing with a valuation of $30 million, with participants including Candaq, Apus Capital, ZC Capital, and BlockPulse Digital Asset Management.Haven aims to build a transparent and programmable on-chain RWA fixed income market by bringing traditional low-volatility, predictable yield assets onto the blockchain, making fixed income the foundational layer of on-chain finance. Currently, Haven has launched U.S. Treasury products, allowing users to access on-chain Treasury yields using USDT, USDC, and USD1.

According to The Data Nerd monitoring, 20 minutes ago, a wallet suspected to be related to Maven11 Capital (0xB81F...15dE) deposited 10 million ENA into Binance, worth approximately 2.05 million USD.Last month, this address obtained 18.18 million ENA through token unlocking, worth approximately 4.48 million USD, and subsequently deposited 3.68 million ENA into Binance, worth approximately 1.06 million USD.

Frontera Labs, the developer of the Strata protocol, announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, led by Maven 11 Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Faction, Halo Capital, Heartcore Capital, Anchorage Digital Ventures, Nayt Technologies, Split Capital, and a group of angel investors.It is reported that Strata is a universal risk stratification protocol that can package on-chain and off-chain yield strategies into tokenized senior and junior tranches, each with different risk-return characteristics.

According to The Defiant, the satellite technology-based blockchain verification layer SpaceComputer has completed a $10 million seed round financing. This round was co-led by Maven11 and Lattice, with participation from Superscrypt, the Arbitrum Foundation, Nascent, Offchain Labs, Hashkey, and Chorus One. Individual investors include Marc Weinstein, Jason Yanowitz, and Ameen Soleimani.The funds will be used to build and launch the first batch of satellites and their onboard secure computing hardware. These satellite units, named SpaceTEE, will operate secure blockchain and cryptographic tasks from space, and develop network software, satellite coordination systems, as well as provide private computing and secure record services.

According to Arkham data, at 04:52, 295,900 LINK (worth approximately $3.86 million) was transferred from Maven 11 to an anonymous address (starting with 0x9410...). Five minutes later, that address transferred 295,900 LINK to Coinbase.

According to the SEC 13F filing, Avenir Group, the family office of Li Lin, held 18.297 million shares of BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) in the third quarter of 2025, with a position value of $1.189 billion, an increase of about 18% from the previous quarter, and has remained the largest institutional holder in Asia for five consecutive quarters.Over the past 15 months, the group has continuously increased its positions during multiple rounds of market adjustments, while also expanding its investment in crypto financial infrastructure, including participating in OSL Group's approximately HKD 2.355 billion financing, investing in Tiger Brokers, and leading the Metalpha PIPE. In addition, Avenir is advancing the expansion of the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana ecosystems, launching a $500 million collaborative fund, and participating in Sharps Technology's over $400 million financing.

According to Jin Shi reports, the foreign exchange market saw increased volatility on Friday as the stock market faced sell-offs, prompting investors to flock to safe-haven assets. The UK's budget proposal this month will not raise income tax, which has pressured the pound. Traders believe that the likelihood of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates in December is much lower than expectations a few weeks ago, leading to a sell-off of highly valued U.S. stocks and government bonds, with funds flowing into the Swiss franc and Japanese yen. The latest market data shows that the dollar has fallen 0.5% against the Swiss franc and 0.5% against the Japanese yen.

According to Ming Pao, Eric Trump, the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, stated in an interview with "Yahoo Finance Invest" that Bitcoin has become the strongest asset of this era, and he believes it has advantages over traditional hard assets like real estate.Eric Trump believes that Bitcoin offers advantages such as 24-hour trading and low fees, which traditional hard assets cannot match. He thinks that whether it's to hedge against inflation, combat corruption, or counter the chaos of global monetary policies, Bitcoin can serve as an important option for investors seeking safety.When asked why American Bitcoin, the Bitcoin mining company owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, can mine at such low costs, Eric Trump stated that the main reason is the decline in energy prices in the U.S. in recent years. The company operates in West Texas, taking advantage of the extremely low electricity costs to mine Bitcoin 24 hours a day, with costs being about half of the market price. He also pointed out that mining with domestic energy in the U.S. is the foundation of a company's global competitiveness.

AI infrastructure Mira announced the launch of the micro-agent Aven, which can automatically purchase items on-chain with a single reply. It is built on the x402 open standard and Mira Network's trust API. In the first public demonstration, Mira provided Aven with a managed wallet worth $2,000, and Aven will operate autonomously with these funds. After 24 hours, it will purchase Pokémon card packs through the x402 platform and airdrop NFT card packs worth a total of $2,000 to 40 lucky users.

ChainCatcher news, Metalpha Technology Holding Limited (NASDAQ: MATH) today announced that it has signed a final subscription agreement with Gortune International Investment Limited Partnership and Avenir Group to secure approximately $12 million in strategic investment through a private placement of common stock. The transaction is expected to be completed by November 30, 2025.Metalpha plans to use the proceeds to accelerate the company's business development, including expanding blockchain trading services, investing in innovative digital asset technologies, and supplementing operating funds.

ChainCatcher news, according to Crypto Briefing, IBM has announced the launch of a new digital asset platform, Digital Asset Haven, aimed at helping financial institutions and highly regulated enterprises securely enter the digital asset economy.The platform was developed in collaboration with Dfns and supports over 40 blockchain networks, providing secure custody, transaction lifecycle management, and policy-based governance features. The platform integrates compliance tools, quantum-safe encryption technology, and hardware-backed key security mechanisms, enabling institutions to participate in the blockchain ecosystem while meeting stringent regulatory requirements.

ChainCatcher news, according to PR Newswire, technology giant IBM has announced the launch of the digital asset operating platform IBM Digital Asset Haven.It is reported that this is a comprehensive platform for financial institutions, governments, and enterprises to securely manage and scale their digital asset operations, allowing banks and administrative agencies to manage their digital asset lifecycle through a single solution, including custody and settlement, among others.