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Jinse Finance reported that the market generally expects the Bank of Japan to raise its benchmark interest rate to the highest level in thirty years this Friday, indicating the bank's growing confidence in achieving a stable inflation target. Under the leadership of Governor Kazuo Ueda, the policy committee is expected to raise the overnight lending rate by 0.25 percentage points to 0.75% at the conclusion of its two-day meeting. This would be the first rate hike since January and is expected to be unanimously approved by all committee members. In the last two meetings, two members had already supported a rate hike. Earlier this month, Kazuo Ueda sent an unusually clear signal of a rate increase, and subsequent data showed that wage growth momentum remained stable and the impact of U.S. tariffs was less than expected, further fueling market expectations for a rate hike. This is also the first time since Kazuo Ueda took office that all Bank of Japan watchers surveyed by the media unanimously predicted a rate hike. (Zhitong)

BlockBeats News, December 18th, according to OnchainLens monitoring, as HYPE dropped below $25, a whale account holding a 5x leveraged long position on HYPE is currently facing over $19.6 million in unrealized losses. To avoid liquidation, the whale has deposited an additional $2 million USDC as collateral, and the liquidation price of this position is currently $20.65.

According to Odaily, citing monitoring by K33 Research and CryptoQuant, since Bitcoin surpassed its all-time high of $126,000, it has dropped nearly 30% within two months. On-chain data shows that the supply of Bitcoin held for at least two years has decreased by 1.6 million coins since early 2023, worth about $1.4 billion, indicating that early holders are cashing out at the fastest pace in recent years. Since the beginning of 2025, nearly $3 billion worth of Bitcoin that had been dormant for over a year has re-entered circulation. In the past 30 days, the distribution volume by long-term holders reached one of the highest levels in five years. K33 Research pointed out that about 20% of Bitcoin supply has been reactivated over the past two years. As institutional integration deepens, it is expected that the selling pressure from early holders will subside by 2026.