If you survive 2025 without being hacked, liquidated, or experiencing any other problems, you'll be ahead of 99% of your competitors 👀 - January: BitMEX was fined $100 million for violating the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. - February: Bybit was hacked by North Korean hackers, resulting in a loss of $1.5 billion (the largest single crypto hack in history). The FBI confirmed this was the largest hack, accounting for a significant portion of North Korea's total loss of $2 billion this year. - March: FDUSD (First Digital USD) sharply depreciated, touching a low of approximately $0.76 (due to rumors about liquidation and allegations from Justin Sun, then recovered but caused market turmoil). - April: sUSD depreciated, trading at its lowest point of approximately $0.68; UPCX was exploited, resulting in the loss of 18.4 million UPCs (equivalent to approximately $70 million). - May: Cetus (on Sui) was exploited, draining $223 million (one of the biggest DeFi incidents this year). - June: Nobitex (Iran) was hacked, $90 million was destroyed/irrecoverable due to geopolitical attack. - July: Several exchanges were hacked (e.g., CoinDCX lost approximately $44 million, BigONE lost approximately $27 million), contributing to ongoing security concerns. - August: BtcTurk suspected of a hot-wallet breach, losing approximately $48 million; aggregate reports showed a total loss of $163 million across 16 exploits. - September: Bunni (based on Uniswap v4) was hacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $8.4 million. - October: Record liquidation cacade (10–11/10): over $19 billion liquidated; Ethena USDe depreciated to ~$0.65 on Binance. - November: Bitcoin experienced its sharpest monthly drop since mid-2021 (~17-18%); market cap wiped out most 2025 gains; Crypto ETPs (ETF-like) saw outflows of approximately $2 billion in a week (highest since February). - December: Trustwallet hacked for over $7M; BTC faces its first annual price drop since 2022 (by the end of the month, the market remained highly volatile). ➡️ If you're still in the group and chatting nonsense, it means you're in the top 1%, the richest and luckiest 😄