TLDR:
🍌 $92K in bot fees: fifth green week in a row, up 27%, even through the holidays.
🔷 ETH went nuclear: +84% WoW, ~$63K in fees and fully carried the week.
🟣 SOL steady: down 7% but consistent, quietly holding the line.
🛠️ No flashy releases: team is building the bigger 2026 features after the Base launch.
🌍 ETF flows mixed: $446M outflows this week, while XRP and SOL pulled inflows.
🎄 Holiday flex: crossed $90K in weekly fees for the first time since early November.
Bot Fees & Chain Breakdown
This past week (22nd December to 28th December), Banana Gun delivered $91,934 in total fees. Following last week's $72,104, we're up 27%.
Five green weeks in a row, and this one happened during the holidays. Turns out monkeys don't take Christmas off.
Chain Breakdown & Week-over-Week:
🔷 ETH: $62,726 (~68%) | Previous Week: $34,160
Ethereum went on an absolute tear with 84% growth and dominated the entire week. Started slow on the 22nd ($2,349), then progressively ramped up every single day, peaking at $17,528 on the 28th. The holiday gift that kept on giving. Santa's whales came through.
🟣 SOL: $13,362 (~15%) | Previous Week: $14,376
Solana slipped 7%, staying quietly consistent in the $1.5k-$2.3k range all week. Just steady presence while ETH stole the spotlight. Sometimes you're the main character, sometimes you're the reliable supporting cast.
🟡 BSC: $9,864 (~11%) | Previous Week: $13,721
BSC dropped 28%, continuing its cool-down from earlier weeks. The 27th delivered a decent $2,679, but otherwise the chain stayed muted. Retail apes were probably busy unwrapping presents instead of aping into coins.
🔵 BASE: $4,954 (~5%) | Previous Week: $9,023
BASE pulled back 45% after last week's explosion. The Pro launch hype settled down, and the L2 returned to more modest numbers. Still contributing, just not at breakout levels. Building momentum takes time.
🌐 Others: $1,028 (~1%) Virtual routers and misc chains wrapping up the week's totals.
Total fees: $91,934 (vs. $72,104 last week)
Five consecutive green weeks, and we just crossed $90k for the first time since early November. The fact that this happened during Christmas week, when most of crypto traditionally slows down, makes it even sweeter. ETH absolutely carried the sleigh this time, climbing steadily from $2k to $17k over seven days.
The holiday season is treating us well. Let’s carry this momentum into the new year.
As always, 40% goes straight back to holders.
"Banana Gun: holidays or not, the jungle stays active." 🍌
Development Updates
This week was quieter on the surface: no major releases shipped, no new shiny buttons to point at, and that’s very much intentional. After rolling out Base on Banana Pro, the focus shifted on other big plans.
The team is heads-down on the bigger stuff now. The kind of work that doesn’t show up immediately on the interface, but sets the tone for what 2026 is going to look like.
The kitchen is still hot. The devs are still cooking. And the roadmap ahead is starting to look very serious.
“Banana Gun: new year, bigger plans.” 🍌
Market Insights
Looking ahead, 2026 is starting to get branded as a potential “crypto winter”, but not the apocalyptic kind people still have PTSD from.
Cantor Fitzgerald’s opinion is that even if prices stay soft, this cycle looks calmer, more institutional, and way less fragile. No cascade of forced liquidations, no FTX-style black holes. Behind the scenes, tokenization, infrastructure, and Web3 plumbing keep growing anyway.
RWAs alone tripled over the past year to around $18.5B and could push past $50B by 2026.
Now, shifting to the less serious headlines. North Korea somehow managed to become the most consistent “power user” in crypto, stealing over $2.1B in the first half of 2025 alone, capped off by the largest hack in history. Impressive, in a deeply unhinged way.
Good news though: Banana Gun remains fully protected by the fact that we do not employ DPRK hackers, fake LinkedIn engineers, or anyone laundering ETH through twelve bridges at once. Low bar, but still reassuring.
Zooming into flows, the holiday week wasn’t exactly cheerful. CoinShares data showed $446M in crypto ETF outflows during Christmas week alone, bringing total outflows since October 10 to about $3.2B. The US led the retreat with roughly $460M exiting. Altcoins stole a bit of the spotlight too. XRP and Solana saw fresh inflows of $70.2M and $7.5M, while BTC and ETH bled $443M and $59.5M respectively.
All in all, it feels less like an industry slowing down and more like one changing gears before the calendar flips.
"Banana Gun: packing tools, not panic, for the year ahead." 🍌
Community Highlights
The timeline stayed playful this week, but there also was a sense of focus after our Base launch.
@work_____ kicked things off by joking that at some point this thing will “go bananas” backed by screenshots of our very real buys.
@SurgeArmy pointed out that Base named Banana Gun app of the week. No victory lap, just a screenshot and a “based af” comment, which honestly said enough on its own.
Finally @M_Ajmal7771 zoomed out, looking at months of chop and basically saying this doesn’t feel finished at all. Not copium.
The jungle is on winter holidays, but still paying attention.
See you next recap. 🍌
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