ZEC Long vs Short Showdown Upgrade: "ZEC Whale Short" Increased Losses to $20 Million, Leading Bull Longs Already Profited $6.5 Million

December 30 – Per Lianhe Zaobao, Howard Tam, son of "King of Songs" Alan Tam, has turned in standout performance in crypto and tech in recent years. He currently serves as a senior software engineer at a Web3 startup, focusing on building digital wallets and cryptographic protocols. The outlet notes that while at Canadian gaming firm Axiom Zen, Howard Tam led the development of *CryptoKitties*—the world’s first Ethereum-based NFT game. Post-launch, the game once made up over 16% of transaction volume on the Ethereum network.

December 30th: Per HTX market data, Bitcoin briefly rebounded above $88,000 and is currently trading at $87,928, up nearly 0.55% in the past hour. Ethereum briefly climbed above $3,000 and is now trading at $3,000.29, with a nearly 1.49% gain over the past hour.

On December 30th, Grayscale’s research arm released its 2026 Cryptocurrency Market Outlook report, noting that demand for store-of-value assets and clearer regulation are fueling the next crypto bull market in 2026. Escalating government debt, persistent fiscal deficits, and concerns over fiat currency devaluation are pushing investors to diversify beyond traditional assets. Additionally, Grayscale predicts the U.S. crypto market structure bill—delayed by political gridlock and government shutdowns—will gain bipartisan support and advance in early 2026. While the bill failed to pass in 2025 amid political headwinds, lawmakers from both parties now seek to establish clearer federal rules for digital assets. Thus, Grayscale projects a valuation surge in 2026, with the so-called "four-year cycle" concluding. Bitcoin’s price is likely to hit a new all-time high in the first half of 2026.

December 30 — Binance Alpha has listed OOOO, with the token currently trading at $0.083, per market data.

On December 30th, data from Coinbob Popular Address Monitor (via its Telegram channel at https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN) indicates that the wallet address starting with 0x721 has amassed roughly $50,000 in principal since January this year, posting a profit of $272,000. Over this period, it has completed 82 round-trip trades, with monthly and overall win rates both exceeding 80%, a 100% weekly win rate, and a mere 1% drawdown. Currently, the address holds a 20x leveraged short position on BTC, with an average entry price of $89,300 and an unrealized profit of 44%. In the past hour, it has placed around 100 dense buy orders, narrowing the range to $80,000–$87,000, and plans to close the short and go long when BTC dips to $86,383 (triggering its 11th buy order). It also previously set 100 sell orders in the $90,200–$94,200 range, 4 of which have been filled. The address’s trading style leans toward a pyramiding hedged grid strategy: layering long and short orders within a defined

Per Onchain Lens monitoring on December 30: - Whale address 0x47e deposited 2M USDC and opened a 3x leveraged short position on LIT. - Whale address 0xd6b deposited 1.5M USDC and opened a 3x leveraged short position on LIT.