In October, the US JOLTs Job Openings stood at 7.67 million, surpassing the expected 7.15 million.

On December 11th, data from Coinglass shows that funding rates across major centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) exchanges point to an overall bearish market sentiment for mainstream cryptocurrencies. Specific funding rates for these coins are detailed in the attached chart. BlockBeats Note: A funding rate is a mechanism set by crypto exchanges to align perpetual contract prices with the underlying asset’s spot price. It enables fund transfers between long and short traders—exchanges do not collect this fee themselves. The rate adjusts the cost or profit for traders holding contracts to keep contract prices close to the underlying asset’s value. Key context: A 0.01% funding rate acts as the baseline. Rates above 0.01% signal broad bullish sentiment, while rates below 0.005% indicate widespread bearishness.

On December 11, Bloomberg reported that deep inside Singapore’s so-called “Asian Fort Knox”—a vault housing top-tier wines and priceless artworks—rests a complete 69-million-year-old Triceratops skeleton, one of just 24 known worldwide. Among its collector-owners is Yoann Turpin, co-founder of crypto market maker Wintermute. The trading executive and his co-investors paid roughly $5 million for the 5-meter-long fossil earlier this year, shipping it from Wyoming to Singapore’s Le Freeport. All four owners invest in cryptocurrency, including Chaw Wei Yang, who runs collectibles-focused platform Co-Museum. This purchase underscores a taste shift among crypto elites. After the 2022 NFT boom, their interest in digital art has faded—now, crypto executives are increasingly turning to collectibles, precious metals, and sculptures.

On December 11, per Farside monitoring data, U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs saw a net inflow of $57.6 million yesterday, while Solana spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $4.9 million.

December 11 — Per Farside monitoring data, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $2.235 billion yesterday.

On December 11th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring (via https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN), the "12 Million USD Whale" (address 0x2d9) has logged a 20-win streak since October—with an average holding period of ~88 hours and a win rate of ~85%. Since opening its first position on September 25th, the address has generated roughly $6.44 million in profits. It has shown strong discipline in trading: stable returns via low leverage and margin ratios, plus consistent account balance maintenance at ~$12 million. Monitoring data reveals the address partially closed a BTC long position today that was held for ~37 days. Back on November 14th, it opened a long at ~$9,870/BTC, then lowered the average entry price to $8,610/BTC through multiple adjustments—still netting $170,000 in profits. Currently, its 3x-leveraged BTC long position totals ~$3.8 million, with an unrealized profit of $150,000 (11%).

On December 11, the Ethereum Foundation announced via social media that BPO-1 has been activated, raising each block’s blob capacity to 15. This change expands blob space for Ethereum’s Layer 2 (L2) scaling solutions—no hard fork required. BPO-2 is slated to launch in January next year to further boost capacity.