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A resident of Nanaimo, Canada, fell victim to a scam after receiving a text message promoting remote stock trading jobs and depositing about CAD 5,000 (approximately USD 3,600) through a cryptocurrency ATM at the end of last year. Earlier this year, the victim saw a message online disguised as an RCMP announcement encouraging fraud victims to report their cases.After submitting a form, a person claiming to be a lawyer called, stating that they had found two cryptocurrency accounts related to the victim and could help recover about USD 60,000 in so-called profits. Gary O'Brien, a media relations officer with the Nanaimo RCMP, stated that the RCMP does not contact individuals regarding discovered cryptocurrency accounts, does not collaborate with private companies to recover lost funds, and does not request any form of payment to investigate fraud.Andy Zhou, co-founder and CEO of blockchain security company BlockSec, stated that such tactics are known as "false recovery service scams" and have systematic characteristics. Scammers often possess victim information collected from the original scam, and organized fraud rings circulate lists of previously remitted victims, making these individuals targets for secondary scams.The effectiveness of impersonating law enforcement brands lies in exploiting the psychological mechanism of "authority bias." Canadian police have been conducting cryptocurrency investigation training since 2022.

According to Cointelegraph, the oracle service provider RedStone has deployed a price oracle on the Stellar network, following a $10 million oracle vulnerability attack incident.As the Stellar network expands its decentralized financial infrastructure and explores the fields of lending and tokenized assets, RedStone's price oracle will provide critical price data support for the network. This deployment aims to enhance the security and functionality of the Stellar ecosystem while providing developers with a reliable source of price information.

According to CCTV news reports, real-time data from the international tanker traffic monitoring system shows that the sailing speed of tankers in the waters around the Strait of Hormuz has generally dropped to zero, indicating that shipping in the region has come to a standstill.At the same time, several European governments have issued emergency directives to their flagged tankers en route, prohibiting passage through the Strait of Hormuz to avoid safety risks arising from the current escalation of the situation.

According to GoPlus monitoring, the account abstraction solution Holdstation suffered a supply chain attack, where the attacker stole developer session tokens, bypassed two-factor authentication, and injected malicious code into application updates, resulting in the theft of user funds.The attack resulted in a loss of 462,000 USDT, with the attacker's address being 0xcbfA60B39cfAeaE475f649fB6705bD477219bF8d. The Holdstation team has suspended services, committed to 100% compensation for affected users, and is working with security teams to investigate the incident, while also posting messages on-chain, hoping to encourage the attacker to return the funds through a bug bounty program.

Account abstraction wallet Holdstation has confirmed that a security incident occurred recently with its product. The extent and impact are still being assessed, and the team is actively investigating.The official team will notify affected users as soon as possible and asks everyone to remain calm and patiently await the latest updates and remedial steps. Meanwhile, Holdstation advises users to transfer their assets to a secure wallet to protect their funds.

According to Jinshi, Federal Reserve Governor Waller stated that the resolution of cryptocurrency regulatory issues seems to be stalled in Congress.

According to BlockSec monitoring, the account abstraction wallet Holdstation was hacked, with multi-chain assets stolen amounting to $100,000. The hacker has transferred the stolen funds to the Bitcoin network.The Holdstation team has released an on-chain message and is attempting to negotiate with the attacker.

According to market news, the oracle service provider RedStone has acquired the digital asset data platform Security Token Market (STM.co) and its flagship conference TokenizeThis, to accelerate the adoption of tokenization of real-world assets and expand its influence in the U.S. and institutional markets.Founded in 2018, STM operates the world's largest tokenized RWA database, tracking over 800 on-chain equities, real estate, debt instruments, and funds, with a total market capitalization exceeding $60 billion. Its annual conference TokenizeThis brings together banks, asset management institutions, regulators, issuers, and blockchain leaders to discuss asset tokenization in traditional finance and decentralized finance.

Fundstrat's Head of Cryptocurrency Strategy, Sean Farrell, responded on the X platform regarding the "discrepancy between his market views and those of Tom Lee," stating that the cautious outlook from the first half of the year reflects risk management rather than a completely bearish stance. The current market pricing is nearly perfect, but risks still exist, including government shutdowns, trade fluctuations, uncertainties in AI capital expenditures, and changes in the Federal Reserve chairmanship, along with tightening high-yield bond spreads and low cross-asset volatility.Recent capital flows have also shown divergence. Bitcoin is currently in a valuation "no man's land." In the long term, as major brokerages join in, ETF demand should improve, but in the short term, it still faces pressures from original holders selling, miner stress, the potential removal of MSTR by MSCI, and fund redemptions. Fundstrat has several analysts, each with independent research frameworks and different investment time horizons, aimed at meeting the diverse investment goals of clients.My research primarily targets portfolios with a high allocation to crypto assets and adopts a relatively more aggressive market operation strategy. Tom Lee's research mainly serves large asset management institutions and investors allocating 1% to 5% of their assets to BTC and ETH. Such strategies require a high degree of discipline and a long-term perspective to capture structural (long-term) trends in order to achieve excess returns over time.My goal is to assist clients and subscribers with a high allocation to crypto assets (around 20% or more) to consistently outperform the market through active rebalancing across different cycles. The current benchmark assessment suggests a potential rebound early in the year, followed by another pullback in the first half, providing more attractive opportunities for year-end positioning. If I am wrong in my judgment, I prefer to wait for confirmation signals.For investors focused on this outlook, I still expect Bitcoin and Ethereum to challenge new all-time highs before the end of the year, thereby concluding the traditional four-year cycle with a shorter and milder bear market.

Regarding the contradictory outlook on Bitcoin from Tom Lee and his Fundstrat analysts (Tom Lee is bullish, while Fundstrat is bearish), Fundstrat client Cassian posted that the interpretation of this debate is unfair and misleading. Tom Lee retweeted and replied, "Well said."Cassian stated: This interpretation is taken out of context; the actual situation involves collaboration among different teams, over different time periods, and with different responsibilities.Cassian mentioned that the three core figures at Fundstrat have clearly defined roles: Tom Lee is responsible for the macro and liquidity framework and is the most vocal, maintaining a long-term bullish view on crypto assets; Sean Farrell, as the head of digital asset strategy, is responsible for specific crypto portfolios and position adjustments. Assuming BTC pulls back to $60,000-$65,000, he would convert about 50% of the portfolio to cash/stablecoins, which is a risk management action rather than a long-term bearish stance; Mark Newton approaches from a technical perspective, believing that the October pullback disrupted the original upward trend. He expects a rebound first, followed by a period of consolidation, and after structural repair, there is still room for growth by the end of the year. The three have a high degree of consensus on macro risk: the overall environment will be very unstable in the first half of 2026, with differences in that Sean focuses on short-term defense, Mark looks at technical structure repair, and Tom maintains a structural bullish view from a longer-term and liquidity perspective.Cassian stated that he personally holds a large amount of BitMine stock and would not sell even if the price pulls back by 70%, because the risk of "missing out on a big rise" is greater than the reward of "trying to catch the bottom." He emphasized that understanding who is speaking, what their responsibilities are, and the time horizon is crucial. Once these pieces are put together, the claim that "Fundstrat is contradictory" falls apart.

TeraWulf Inc. (NASDAQ: WULF) announced on December 18, 2025, that it has successfully completed the financing pricing for a 168 megawatt high-performance computing (HPC) joint venture project located in the Abilene, Texas park with Fluidstack.The project will build a next-generation liquid-cooled artificial intelligence data center, with a total power capacity of 240 megawatts. The funds raised will be used for construction, establishing reserves, and completing facility delivery, with an expected operational start in the second half of 2026.

According to official news, Hut 8 has signed a 15-year lease agreement worth $7 billion with Fluidstack, leasing 245 megawatts (MW) of IT computing capacity from its River Bend data center campus.Under the agreement, Fluidstack also obtained a right of first offer (ROFO) for up to an additional 1,000 MW of IT capacity during future expansion phases of the campus, provided that the power supply scale of the campus is correspondingly expanded.According to market data, Bitcoin mining company Hut 8's stock rose over 18% in pre-market trading, with a market capitalization reaching $3.981 billion.

U.S. Senators Elissa Slotkin (Democrat) and Jerry Moran (Republican) introduced the Strengthening Agency Frameworks for Enforcement of Cryptocurrency Act (SAFE Act) this Monday. The bill aims to coordinate the actions of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, and the private sector to combat cryptocurrency fraud and scams.Gabriel Shapiro, Chief Legal Officer of Delphi Labs, stated on the X platform that if the bill is effectively implemented, cryptocurrency fraudsters and scammers may feel panic. He pointed out that senior officials, including the U.S. Attorney General, the director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and the director of the U.S. Secret Service, will be involved in pursuing cryptocurrency criminals. The FBI reported that in 2024, Americans lost $9.3 billion due to cryptocurrency-related investment scams, a 66% increase from 2023.

Cloud computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise about $700 million in a new funding round, which would value the company at $7 billion.The investment firm Situational Awareness, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, is expected to lead this funding round. Sources say that Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, is also considering participating in this investment, while Goldman Sachs is serving as the banking advisor for the financing.