TLDR:
🍌 $67.6K in bot fees: and highest weekly total since early November.
🟡 BSC on top: $25K in fees and solid growth, holding the crown for a second week.
🔷 ETH pushed hard: $20K in fees after doubling from last week.
🟣 SOL stayed steady: $19K in fees, consistent even without leading.
🔵 BASE inching up: $2.5K in fees, slow but moving.
📈 Momentum building: third green week in a row, trend still intact. 🍌
Bot Fees & Chain Breakdown
This past week (8th December to 14th December), Banana Gun pulled in $67,617 in total fees. After last week's $55,619, we're up 22%.
Three green weeks in a row, and we can see some momentum building nicely. Are the trenches waking up?
Chain Breakdown & Week-over-Week:
🟡 BSC: $25,048 (~37%) | Previous Week: $20,353 BSC grew 23% and kept the crown for the second week running. That $7,013 day on the 10th was the highlight, but the chain stayed consistently strong throughout. The retail apes are back and they're hungry.
🟣 SOL: $19,034 (~28%) | Previous Week: $21,958 Solana dipped 13% but stayed solid. Even its worst day (13th at $1,682) was respectable, and it peaked at $3,780 on the 9th. SOL is proving it can hold ground even when it's not leading the pack.
🔷 ETH: $20,056 (~30%) | Previous Week: $10,015 Ethereum doubled up with 100% growth. Mainnet decided to move with conviction this week, with multiple $3k+ days (10th, 11th, 12th, and 14th).
🔵 BASE: $2,566 (~4%) | Previous Week: $2,233 BASE inched up 15%. Still stuck in single-digit percentage territory, but at least it's moving in the right direction. The L2 needs a real catalyst to break out of this range.
🌐 Others: $913 (~1%) Virtual routers and misc chains adding small contributions to the total.
Total fees: $67,617 (vs. $55,619 last week)
Three consecutive green weeks, and we just broke through the highest weekly fees in total since early November. The 10th delivered our best single day ($14,106) in over a month, and the consistency across the week shows this isn't just a one-day spike.
Volume is building across multiple chains, traders are active, and the upward trend is holding. This is what recovery looks like. 🍌
As always, 40% goes straight back to our holders.
"Banana Gun: building momentum." 🍌
Market Insights
This week felt less about charts and more about foundations getting locked in. Visa made it official by launching a full stablecoins advisory practice, essentially telling banks and fintechs that stablecoins are no longer an experiment but a strategy question. With Visa already running a $3.5 billion annualized stablecoin settlement volume, this looks less like research and more like scaling. Payments rails are quietly being rebuilt while most people are still watching candles.
On the institutional side, the contrast was sharp. JPMorgan rolled out its first tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, joining BlackRock in pushing traditional finance deeper on-chain. Real-time traceability, on-chain collateral and regulated access are no longer future concepts, they are live products. At the same time, the darker chapter of crypto’s history closed a page, with Terra founder Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison. The message is clear: the market is maturing, and consequences are catching up to past excesses.
Meanwhile, activity on Solana kept accelerating. Lending TVL climbed to $3.6 billion, competition between protocols intensified and institutional-grade risk management is starting to look normal on-chain. Fast execution, low fees and usable products are pulling capital in, and newer protocols are scaling in months rather than years.
Stablecoins are growing, tokenization is spreading, DeFi is professionalizing and old narratives are being retired. This does not feel like an end-of-cycle market. It feels like infrastructure being laid before something much bigger moves.
"Banana Gun: built for speed, watching the shifts." 🍌
Community Highlights
The jungle stayed loud this week, and the community kept things refreshingly straightforward.
@OxSchinchan summed up his entire strategy in one sentence: buy what you can, stack patiently, and send it straight to cold storage. Simple plan, strong conviction. He even backed it up by posting screenshots of fresh Banana orders, just in case anyone thought he was joking. According to him, $BANANA season is warming up.
@SurgeArmy went straight for the warning label. Big things are coming, and fading $BANANA at these levels might not age well. Short message, zero hesitation.
Meanwhile @frank_ensteiin kept it concise and to the point, reminding everyone that eyes are now locked on the next Banana update. Anticipation seems to be doing most of the talking.
Different voices, same signal. The jungle is paying attention. 🍌
See you next recap. 🍌
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