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TLDR:
🍌 $115K in bot fees: seventh green week, up 26%, best single day at $32K on Jan 8th.
🟡 BSC exploded: +94% WoW with $28.5K, retail apes came roaring back.
🟣 SOL breakout: +46% to $20.9K, finally escaped its range with consistent volume.
🔷 ETH steady: flat at $58K, massive $16K-$19K days when it flexed.
🔵 BASE alive: +75% to $6.4K, showing real signs of life after weeks underwater.
🛠️ Major updates: wallet login, presets, quick actions across platform.
🌍 ETH 2026 focus: Standard Chartered calling $7.5K, stablecoins run global rails.
Bot Fees & Chain Breakdown
This past week (5th January to 11th January), Banana Gun stacked $115,297 in total fees. Coming off last week's $91,762, we're up 26%.
Seven weeks without a red candle, and 2026 is already showing it means business.
Chain Breakdown & Week-over-Week:
🔷 ETH: $58,157 (~50%) | Previous Week: $58,267
Ethereum stayed essentially flat, down just 0.2%. Held steady around half the total volume, with the 7th and 8th delivering massive $16k+ and $19k+ days before cooling back down. When ETH wants to flex, it flexes hard, then takes a nap.
🟣 SOL: $20,860 (~18%) | Previous Week: $14,305
Solana jumped +46% and finally broke out of its narrow range. Consistently posted $2.5k-$3.8k across the week with zero quiet days. The energy is back, and SOL traders are making their presence known again.
🟡 BSC: $28,479 (~25%) | Previous Week: $14,709
BSC nearly doubled with 94% growth and became the week's dark horse. That $8,266 explosion on the 11th was the cherry on top of a week where retail came roaring back. The apes remembered their passwords.
🔵 BASE: $6,435 (~6%) | Previous Week: $3,684
BASE climbed 75%, finally looking better after weeks of calm. The 7th and 8th both cracked $2k+, proving the L2 still delivers when conditions are good. Progress.
🌐 Others: $1,366 (~1%) Virtual routers keeping the lights on in the background.
Total fees: $115,297 (vs. $91,762 last week)
Seven green weeks in a row, and we just broke through $115k for the first time since late October.The 8th delivered our best single day in recent memory at $31,985, showing what happens when multiple chains fire simultaneously.
2026 opened strong, and the momentum's building nicely. The new year energy is real. 🍌
As always, 40% goes straight back to holders.
"Banana Gun: seven weeks green, 2026 started hot, momentum locked." 🎯
Development Updates
This week we came back with something heavier than usual. We needed extra time to finish features that couldn't be split into smaller pieces, so enjoy two weeks of developments packed into one!
🍌 Base Integration got full coverage
Base is now live across the entire platform. Every widget that needed multichain support got it: Trenches, CopyTrade, DCA, limit orders, active orders, wallet tracker, the whole lineup now handles Base tokens properly.
We also added Quick Buy to search, so you can fire off a trade with one click instead of opening forms. The chain-specific logic is cleaner now, and we're still polishing the rough edges as reports come in.
🍌 Wallet & Login Upgrades
You can now sign in using your wallet directly. We spent the past two weeks refining the first-time experience and improving WalletConnect so wallet selection feels smooth.
The wallet widget itself got a full multichain overhaul, fixing import flows, adding EVM address validation, and making sure new wallets land under the right blockchain. Transfer notifications for success and failure are also live now.
🍌 Presets & Quick Actions
Presets are here. You can configure your own buy and sell settings in one place, and they automatically apply when you trade. No more repeating the same inputs every time.
Quick Buy also landed in search, and Quick Buy & Sell widgets are coming soon as popup overlays for even faster execution.
🍌 Positions, Orders, Notifications
Positions now show which blockchain you're holding on. Active Orders got multichain logic so you can see SOL and Base orders together. Notifications got faster, sell notifications are new, and we fixed the transfer notification bugs that showed wrong values. Toast messages also stick around just long enough to read now, not longer.
🍌 Mobile & Performance Tweaks
We cleaned up the mobile experience with better header alignment, Orders view improvements, and no more text overflow on buttons. The platform also got faster again with another round of performance optimizations. Currency formatting now adjusts automatically based on whether you're trading SOL or ETH tokens.
🍌 Under the Surface
We removed the old Pending Orders and legacy Wallet widgets since the new versions are better in every way. Chart duplication bugs got squashed, limit order editing works correctly now, and search history saves all tokens like it should.
We also cleaned up deployment, improved error handling, and added more end-to-end tests.
The holiday break is officially over, and the devs will soon forget again what sunlight is: more coming soon.
"Banana Gun: back from the break, locked in harder than before." 🍌
Market Insights
This week gave us a pretty clean read on where the market is heading in 2026.
First up: Ethereum is back in the conversation, and not just on Crypto Twitter. Standard Chartered straight up said it: 2026 could be ETH’s year, in the same way 2021 was. The logic isn’t hype-driven either. Institutional adoption keeps leaning on Ethereum rails: stablecoins, DeFi, tokenization, the boring but important stuff that actually gets used.
Short term, macro still sucks and ETH might wobble, but SC is already talking $7.5k by end of 2026, with much bigger numbers if you zoom out. Even the ETH/BTC ratio is expected to crawl back toward 2021 levels.
Which ties neatly into the other big theme: stablecoins quietly running the world. They’re no longer just a parking spot between trades. USDT and friends are settling payments, moving money across borders, and acting as a de facto digital dollar in places where banks barely work.
TradFi noticed too: reserves parked in Treasuries, banks testing rails, regulators circling. Whether they like it or not, stablecoins are becoming essential, and crypto trading still runs on them. It doesn’t matter if the market spikes, dips, or even panics: liquidity flows straight through stables first.
Meanwhile, macro drama kept things spicy. Trump vs the Fed (yes, again) pushed equities lower, gold printed fresh highs, and Bitcoin… just sat there above $90k. Same range, no panic. Some desks are already calling it defensive demand: not moonboys, just people choosing BTC when everything else feels politically fragile.
That narrative keeps getting louder.
No fireworks, but the positioning feels deliberate. Infrastructure over memes, ETH back in focus, stables everywhere, and Bitcoin acting oddly calm. Looks interesting.
“Banana Gun: trading the infra, not the headlines.” 🍌
Community Highlights
The charts are getting some attention this week.
@LukeGiack has their levels marked and is waiting patiently. $28 and $33 are the targets if things break the right way.
@SurgeArmy quoted @cryptojack4u's bullish setup observation and basically said "we told you so" in advance.
The confidence is there, and apparently it's been there for a while.
@Krypto_yug is calling $30 soon. Short and sweet.
Always interesting to see what the community is spotting in the charts. We'll see how it plays out. 🍌
See you next recap. 🍌
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