ETH breaks $3,000

- North Korea enhances AI capabilities using smuggled NVIDIA GPUs, enabling advanced cyberattacks and military surveillance systems. - Smuggling networks bypass U.S. sanctions, allowing AI-driven cryptocurrency theft ($172M lost in 2025) and deepfake operations. - Kim Jong Un's AI-equipped drones and collaborations with Russia/China accelerate military modernization and surveillance automation. - Export controls paradoxically boost black-market GPU demand, complicating global efforts to curb North Korea's

- Yearn Finance lost $9 million in 2025 after a hacker exploited a legacy yETH pool vulnerability to mint infinite tokens and drain liquidity. - The attack used self-destructing contracts to obscure traces, stealing $3 million via Tornado Cash while $6 million remained in the attacker's wallet. - Yearn halted the affected pool and pledged to audit pre-2023 contracts, highlighting risks from outdated smart contract logic in DeFi protocols. - The breach occurred amid a $127 million sector-wide hacking trend

- Bitcoin fell below $87,000 as Japanese bond yields surged to 17-year highs, triggering a $150B market cap loss and exposing crypto liquidity vulnerabilities. - Weak order books and 31% Bitcoin volume drop exacerbated the selloff, with $637M in liquidations and 220,000 traders losing positions. - Ethereum's speculative overheating contrasted with Bitcoin's fragility, as funding rates spiked to 20.4% amid dormant network activity. - BOJ's potential rate hike signals end to ultra-low rates, tightening globa

- 2025 Santa Rally stalls despite 80% Fed rate cut odds, with markets hesitant to embrace risk assets amid macroeconomic uncertainty. - ProShares UltraPro QQQ and Bitcoin face volatility, with crypto struggling to break $93k-$108k resistance despite easing expectations. - Investors shift to defensive sectors like healthcare and fixed-supply crypto projects (e.g., Bitcoin Munari) for stability amid market fragmentation. - Fed's "hawkish" December cut signals caution, limiting rally potential as policymakers