Major venture capital firms invested a total of $49.75 billion in the cryptocurrency industry this year, a more than fourfold increase from the previous year, according to data from Wu Blockchain. The...

Major venture capital firms invested a total of $49.75 billion in the cryptocurrency industry this year, a more than fourfold increase from the previous year, according to data from Wu Blockchain. The bulk of this investment stemmed from mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings involving centralized exchanges, with the largest single deal being the Dunamu merger at $10.3 billion. While the total investment amount surged, the number of individual deals fell by 42.1% year-over-year to 898.

Crypto VC investment quadrupled to $49.75B this year

Author: Yuanshan Insights
Data Source: Farside Investors, SoSoValue, Fed H.4.1 Report, CryptoQuant

On the first trading day of 2026, BTC ETF saw a net inflow of $471 million.

What does this figure mean?

In November and December, the combined net outflow of spot BTC ETFs was approximately $4.57 billion; with a net outflow of approximately $1.09 billion in December alone.

Many people frantically sold at a loss above 93K, and institutions bought back about one-tenth of that amount on January 2nd alone.

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After a long period of weakness, the meme coin has finally seen an encouraging rebound.
Since mid-September last year, the total market capitalization of Meme Coin gradually declined from approximately $80 billion to a low of only $35 billion, with virtually no significant rebound along the way. However, in the first week of 2026, the total market capitalization of Meme Coin finally rebounded, returning to nearly $50 billion.
During the same period, the market capitalization of Meme coin as a percentage of the overall Altcoin reached its lowest point since July 2022, almost reaching its lowest level since then...

Besides $114,514, what other projects should I keep an eye on?

Source: A16z

Original Title: Privacy Trends for 2026
Compiled and Organized by: BitpushNews

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1. Privacy will become the most important moat in the crypto space this year

Privacy is a key feature for the global financial migration to on-chain. However, almost all existing blockchains lack this feature...