On Jan. 1, 2025, trader Vida claimed to have earned about $1 million by switching from long to short positions on BROCCOLI714 after detecting abnormal market maker behavior on Binance. The activity involved large spot buy orders on the low-liquidity BNB Chain memecoin, while Binance stated that system checks showed no indication of a security breach. BNB Chain later saw a sharp rise in active addresses through 2025, supported in part by a memecoin trading surge.

On Dec. 28, Uniswap carried out a burn of 100 million UNI tokens, valued at about $596 million, after its UNIfication fee-burning proposal received 99.9% approval. The transaction, confirmed onchain, permanently cut UNI’s supply and was followed by fee changes on Uniswap v2, selected v3 pools and Unichain. UNI's price gained over 5% in the following 24 hours, while the Uniswap Foundation outlined plans for a 20 million UNI Growth Budget to support ecosystem development.

10x Research's Markus Thielen said on The Wolf Of All Streets Podcast that Bitcoin's four-year rhythm remains intact but is increasingly shaped by politics, liquidity and election cycles rather than the halving. He added that Q4 peaks in 2013, 2017 and 2021, muted reaction to the latest Fed rate cut, and slower inflows suggest a consolidation phase.