TLDR:
🍌 $92K in bot fees: sixth week without red, flat at -0.2%, opening 2026 strong.
🔷 ETH dominant: $58K in fees (~63%), slight 7% dip but still carrying
🟡 BSC surged: +49% WoW with $14.7K, back-to-back good days
🟣 SOL steady: up 7% to $14.3K, reliable performance through holidays.
🛠️ Quiet builds: team deep in core upgrades and long-term features.
🌍 2025 crypto inflows: ETH up 138% YoY while BTC underperformed.
Bot Fees & Chain Breakdown
This past week (29th December to 4th January), Banana Gun pulled in $91,762 in total fees. After last week's $91,934, we're basically flat at -0.2%. Six weeks without red, and we closed out 2025 while opening 2026 right around the $90k mark.
The New Year's transition didn't slow us down.
Chain Breakdown & Week-over-Week:
🔷 ETH: $58,267 (~63%) | Previous Week: $62,726
Ethereum slipped 7% but still commanded the majority of volume. The 29th and 30th were absolute bangers ($20k and $23k), then New Year's Eve hit and everything chilled out hard. ETH traders clearly had champagne on their minds instead of charts.
🟣 SOL: $14,305 (~16%) | Previous Week: $13,362
Solana ticked up 7%, staying impressively steady through the holiday chaos. Bounced between $1.6k-$2.9k daily with zero theatrics. While other chains swung wildly, SOL just kept doing its thing. Reliable energy heading into the new year.
🟡 BSC: $14,709 (~16%) | Previous Week: $9,864
BSC surged 49% and came alive again. Those back-to-back monster days on the 29th ($4,359) and 30th ($6,476) reminded everyone why retail flow on this chain matters. Then it cooled off post-New Year's, but the damage was already done.
🔵 BASE: $3,684 (~4%) | Previous Week: $4,954
BASE retreated 26%, consolidating after the Pro launch peak. Numbers stayed modest all week, hovering in the low hundreds most days. The L2 will need another spark to break out of this range.
🌐 Others: $797 (~1%) Virtual routers and misc chains contributing background noise.
Total fees: $91,762 (vs. $91,934 last week)
We basically ran it back at the exact same number two weeks in a row, closing 2025 and opening 2026 around $92k. The week had wild variance though: explosive starts on the 29th and 30th, then New Year's Eve through the 4th settled into a much quieter $5k-$6k daily rhythm. Classic holiday trading behavior.
Six green weeks (or five green plus one dead-flat). The streak's intact heading into the new year. 🍌
As always, 40% goes straight back to holders.
"Banana Gun: same energy, new year, six weeks undefeated." 🍌
Development Updates
This week stayed quiet on purpose. No public launches, no big announcements, and nothing pushed out just for the sake of noise.
Behind the scenes, the team has been deep in work that goes beyond a weekly update. Core improvements, longer-term upgrades, and a few pieces that only make sense once they’re ready to be seen. The kind of work that sets direction rather than chasing short-term visibility. We can’t share details yet, but it’s the good kind of quiet.
Progress didn’t slow down, it just moved out of the spotlight. Things are lining up, and we’re looking forward to sharing more very soon.
“Banana Gun: quietly building into the new year.” 🍌
Market Insights
This week looked messy at first glance, but the signal stayed pretty clear. Crypto investment products closed 2025 almost matching last year, with $47.2B in inflows and a strong finish into year-end. The US still dominates, but the more interesting story is dispersion: Germany jumped to $2.5B in annual inflows, Canada kept accelerating, and Switzerland stayed quietly positive.
Bitcoin underperformed relative to the rest of the pack, with inflows down 35% YoY, while Ethereum pulled in $12.7B (+138%). SOL and XRP also had outsized years. The market clearly leaned into higher-beta exposure heading into 2026.
The more intriguing development, though, came from an unconfirmed but increasingly discussed report around Venezuela. Multiple intelligence-linked sources suggest the regime may have accumulated a “shadow reserve” of 600K-660K BTC between 2018 and 2025, primarily via gold swaps and oil exports settled in USDT and later rotated into Bitcoin. At current prices, that’s a $56-67B position, on par with the largest institutional holders globally.
None of this is verified yet, but the market implication is straightforward: if these assets are seized or frozen, they effectively come off the market. Even a long legal limbo would act as a multi-year supply lock-up, roughly 3% of circulating BTC.
For context, Germany selling ~50K BTC in 2024 triggered a 15-20% drawdown. This is an order of magnitude larger, but with the opposite potential effect if coins are immobilized rather than sold.
"Banana Gun: packing tools, not panic, for the year ahead." 🍌
Community Highlights
Banana twitter leaned heavily into charts this week, and the mood felt very “new year, new patience”.
@Emanouilbie set the tone early with a calm-but-confident take, basically reminding everyone that this part of the cycle is about waiting, not rushing. Very first-days-of-January energy.
@cryptojack4u followed with a more intense read, zooming into the structure and hinting that something feels deliberately compressed. He knows that this phase will not last forever.
Then @CryptoWizardd kept it short and visual, sharing a clean, optimistic view and letting the chart do most of the talking. Sometimes that’s all you need.
Three different ways of saying the same thing: it’s a new year, and people are watching closely.
See you next recap. 🍌
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