TLDR:
🍌 $72K in bot fees: fourth green week in a row, up 7% through wild swings.
🔷 ETH exploded 70% and took the crown with three monster days in a row.
🛠️ Devs shipped Base support with trenches, swaps, limit orders, and wallet tracking.
🔵 BASE jumped 252% after Pro launch on the 18th, traders put it to work instantly.
⚙️ EVM groundwork is done: more updates and features coming fast now.
🌍 US outflows hit $952M, RWAs tripled to $16.7B this past year.
Bot Fees & Chain Breakdown
This past week (15th December to 21st December), Banana Gun brought in $72,104 in total fees. Coming off last week's $67,617, we're up 7%. Four green weeks in a row. The streak continues, even if this one took us on a wild ride.
Chain Breakdown & Week-over-Week:
🔷 ETH: $34,160 (~47%) | Previous Week: $20,056
Ethereum went crazy with 70% growth and claimed the throne. Three consecutive monster days (15th-17th) saw ETH pull $6k, $9k, and $11k respectively. Then it cooled off hard. Rollercoaster.
🟣 SOL: $14,376 (~20%) | Previous Week: $19,034
Solana retreated 24%, taking a break this week. It stayed remarkably consistent though, hovering between $1.8k-$2.4k daily with zero drama.
🟡 BSC: $13,721 (~19%) | Previous Week: $25,048
BSC got cut nearly in half, down 45%. After two weeks of dominance, the retail flow slowed significantly. The $4.4k day on the 17th was the only bright spot in an otherwise quiet week for the chain.
🔵 BASE: $9,023 (~13%) | Previous Week: $2,566
BASE absolutely exploded with 252% growth. We launched Base support on Banana Pro on the 18th, and traders immediately put it to work. This is what happens when you give users proper tools. Looks like a lot of Banana users are already feeling the difference Pro makes on L2s.
🌐 Others: $824 (~1%) Virtual routers doing their thing in the background.
Total fees: $72,104 (vs. $67,617 last week)
Wild swings defined this week. Classic crypto volatility: feast or famine, no in-between.
Four green weeks running. The trend is intact, even if the path getting there looked like a heart rate monitor. 🍌
As always, 40% goes straight back to holders.
"Banana Gun: in the green, four weeks deep." 🍌
Development Updates
Another week of locking in, and delivering what the jungle has been asking for.
🍌 Base on Banana Pro: The Main Event Base chain officially launched on Banana Pro this week.Trenches, swaps, limit orders, wallet tracking, the whole arsenal now available on Base.
Base gets the full treatment: Trenches for hunting tokens, swaps with limit orders and DCA, wallet tracking that works across both Base and Solana, and a unified web app where you see everything in one place. No separate instances, no tab switching. Your watchlist, positions, and wallets now pull from both chains at once.
Brand new Quick Buys landed with a preset manager for both chains, so you can fire off trades faster. Instant overlays are also live, meaning you can stack any widget on top of your main terminal for even quicker access to the tools you actually use.
🍌 EVM Groundwork: Just the Beginning Launching Base was the hard part. Now that the EVM foundation is in place, expect a lot more updates coming fast. The infrastructure is built, and the team is already planning the next surprises.
🍌 What's Next: With Base polished and live, the focus shifts to what comes after. The kitchen is still hot, the pots are still boiling, and the devs won't be touching grass anytime soon.
"Banana Gun: based." 🍌
Market Insights
This week felt chaotic on the surface, but underneath, the machinery kept moving. While headlines screamed about crypto investment products seeing $952M in weekly outflows, institutions quietly kept building.
The negativity was loud, but it was also very localized. The US alone accounted for almost the entire outflow, while Europe and Canada kept printing inflows, small but steady. Not exactly a global retreat.
Zooming out, the real signal this year has been the structure. Tokenized real-world assets tripled this year, jumping from $5.6B to $16.7B in market cap. BlackRock’s BUIDL alone crossed $2.3B in AUM, and it’s now being used as collateral across DeFi.
On the trading side, onchain derivatives had a monster year. Perp DEXs pushed the DEX-to-CEX volume ratio up to 18.7%, nearly 3x from last year. Hyperliquid alone cleared roughly $3T in annualized volume, while challengers backed by serious capital are stepping in fast. The arms race is real and execution is everything.
Even with spot volumes cooling and old launchpad hype fading, capital didn’t leave, it rotated. Solana slowed, BNB Chain picked up the flow, and lending markets quietly expanded with total DeFi loans up over 37% YTD.
TLDR: this doesn’t feel like a market dying, so don’t worry too much and enjoy the holiday season.
"Banana Gun: putting updates under your Christmas trees." 🍌
Community Highlights
The timeline stayed playful this week, but there also was a sense of focus after our Base launch.
@andrealabate pointed out how some moves only make sense if you’re thinking a few steps ahead, the kind of take that comes from watching products evolve, not just charts and candles.
@SurgeArmy kept the energy simple. He said something big was coming, and here it is. No deep threads, no essays, just the kind of comment you drop when things feel on track.
Then @TheMonteDev summed it up in the most on-chain way possible. Approving and straight to the point. Sometimes that’s all that needs to be said.
Different tones, same mood. The jungle is clearly enjoying the show.
See you next recap. 🍌
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