TLDR:
🍌 $71.5K in bot fees: first pullback after seven green weeks, still strong baseline.
🟣 SOL breakout: +65% to $34.4K, claimed majority share with $9K single day peak.
🟡 BSC steady: $20.9K despite cooling, retail flow remains active.
🔷 ETH paused: down to $12.4K as smart money stepped back temporarily.
🛠️ Mid-week launch: team shipping something big, skipping updates to finish strong.
🌍 Strong inflows: $2.1B crypto ETF weekly inflows, best since October.
Bot Fees & Chain Breakdown
This past week (12th January to 18th January), Banana Gun brought in $71,501 in total fees. After last week's $115,297, we're down 38%.
Seven green weeks came to an end, and we gave back a solid chunk of the gains. The market pulled back, and so did we.
Chain Breakdown & Week-over-Week:
🟣 SOL: $34,393 (~48%) | Previous Week: $20,860
Solana surged 65% and claimed the crown this week. That absolute monster day on the 12th ($9,170) and another spike on the 16th ($7,266) carried the entire week. When SOL decides to pop off, it really commits to the bit.
🟡 BSC: $20,859 (~29%) | Previous Week: $28,479
BSC dropped 27%, cooling off after last week's doubling. Still pulled respectable numbers, with the 14th hitting nearly $6k. Retail flow is here, just not at the fever pitch we saw seven days ago.
🔷 ETH: $12,363 (~17%) | Previous Week: $58,157
Ethereum absolutely cratered, down 79%. This is where the week's decline really came from. ETH went from carrying half the volume to barely holding a sixth of it. Smart money took the week off, apparently.
🔵 BASE: $3,235 (~5%) | Previous Week: $6,435
BASE slid 50%, giving back last week's gains entirely. Had a few okay days early in the week, then completely flatlined on the 17th and 18th with literal zeros. The L2's struggling to find consistent footing.
🌐 Others: $651 (~1%) Virtual routers doing their minimal contribution thing.
Total fees: $71,501 (vs. $115,297 last week)
The seven-week green streak is over. ETH's collapse was the main culprit, dragging everything down despite Solana's best efforts to compensate. The good news? We're still above $70k, which would've looked great a month ago. Context matters.
Can't win them all. Regroup, reload, go again next week. 🍌
As always, 40% goes straight back to holders.
"Banana Gun: building the next run." 🎯
Development Updates
This week you're not getting the usual Monday dev update, and there's a good reason for that.
We're trying to ship something mid-week, and it needs a bit more time in the oven before we can show it to the banana fam. The team is locked in, the build is moving fast, and we're not slowing down just to hit the weekly blog schedule.
When it's ready, you will know. And we think it will be worth the wait.
"Banana Gun: let us cook." 🍌
Market Insights
This week felt like a preview of how 2026 is going to trade: politics up front, capital in the background, and price reacting somewhere in between.
In the US, the CLARITY Act hit another obstacle. After Coinbase pulled its support, even the White House is now rumored to be reconsidering its stance. That matters because the same issues keep coming back to the center of the debate: stablecoins, DeFi constraints, and who actually gets to set the rules.
For the market, the message is familiar. Regulation risk is still very real, and anything touching stablecoins remains a pressure point, even though they are the infra the whole market runs on.
What makes this interesting is what happened at the same time. Institutions kept buying. Crypto ETFs saw more than $2.1 billion in inflows in a single week, the strongest since October. Bitcoin absorbed around $1.55 billion, Ethereum close to $500 million, with Solana and a few alts also seeing steady demand. This wasn’t limited to the US either, with Europe posting positive flows as well. While lawmakers argue, allocations are still being made through the most traditional channels available.
Then the macro tension showed up. Renewed US-EU tariff fears pushed risk assets lower, Bitcoin slipped toward the low $90Ks, and about $750 million in long positions were wiped out quickly. It was a sharp move, but not a breakdown. BTC is still stuck in its range, even as politics and leverage keep shaking things around it.
Put together, it’s a market balancing regulation uncertainty, steady institutional inflows, and periodic leverage purges. Chaotic on the surface, but not directionless.
“Banana Gun: same jungle, new year.” 🍌
Community Highlights
The dev updates hit differently this week.
@andrealabate saw the wall of text we posted and had the appropriate reaction. We appreciate the vote of confidence.
@crypto_bull is ready to send it. Can't blame them for the enthusiasm.
Finally, @SurgeArmy declared the entire year already.
Bold, but we respect it.
Appreciate everyone paying attention to what we're shipping. More coming soon. 🍌
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