At the beginning of the new year, the global market had not yet fully awakened from the holidays when it was startled by explosions from the Caribbean direction. In the early hours of January 3, local time, the United States launched a military strike against Venezuela, and the operation quickly escalated. Trump announced the capture of President Maduro and his wife, while Venezuela declared a national state of emergency and called for armed resistance.

At the beginning of January, in East Eight Zone time, on-chain monitoring data showed that two distinctly different styles of capital were forming a hedging layout in the same arena: on one side, institutional funds represented by **Trend Research** continued to buy spot on-chain, while on the other side, large players on **Hyperliquid** perpetual contracts concentrated on opening short positions, with a nominal scale exceeding **100 million dollars**. The rapid gathering of long and short forces in the same underlying asset directly amplified market fluctuations.

After the explosive news of the U.S. military raid capturing Venezuelan President Maduro broke, the financial markets showed a mixed performance. Spot gold surged at one point, Bitcoin remained above $90,000, and international oil prices even opened lower. At the beginning of the new year in 2026, the U.S. military action against Venezuela shook the world. The day after the operation, U.S. crude oil futures opened down 1% at $56.76 per barrel, and Brent crude also fell to $60.08 per barrel. On the same day, spot gold opened significantly higher, briefly breaking through $4,370 per ounce.

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The options market pricing for Bitcoin in 2026 shows that the probabilities of dropping to $50,000 or rising to $250,000 are almost equal. Behind this extreme divergence, an industry transformation driven by regulation, products, and capital is accelerating. In December 2025, the Galaxy Digital research team released the "2026 Forecast" report, which sparked widespread attention in the crypto industry. The report depicts a contradictory scenario: the short-term outlook for Bitcoin is described as "too chaotic to accurately assess."