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📊 NEW: RWA was the most profitable narrative in 2025 with ~186% average gains, followed by L1s and Made in USA, per Coingecko. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ NOW: Lighter has completed audits of its perpetual and spot circuits and open-sourced the code that verifies every onchain operation. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 TODAY: Circle minted 500M $USDC on Solana. In 2025, 55B $USDC were minted on Solana, with the largest single-day issuance hitting 1B on Sept 25. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 LATEST: Hyperliquid leads perp DEX market with 7x higher open interest than Lighter and lower turnover signaling organic activity despite recent FUD, per CryptoRank. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: Ethereum set for major 2026 upgrades including Glamsterdam fork. This will bring parallel processing, gas limit increase to 200M, expanded data blobs, and 10% network transition to ZK rollups. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 FOMC: Polymarket users predict an 88% chance that the Fed will not make any rate cut changes on January 28. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 UPDATE: Uniswap's Unification proposal passes with overwhelming support. 100M UNI tokens will be burned, fee switches activated, and frontend fees removed after a 2-day timelock. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NOW: Silver hits a new all-time high of $75. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 ALERT: Bitmine is sitting on an unrealized $3.5B loss from its $ETH investments, according to CryptoQuant. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 ALERT: ZachXBT reported multiple Trust Wallet users experiencing fund drains following a recent Chrome extension update. Trust Wallet confirms security incident affecting version 2.68 and urges immediate upgrade to 2.69 while they’re working on the issue. News | Markets | YouTube

🎄IMPORTANT: Touch grass. Markets can wait. Family time can’t. Touch grass and spend Christmas with your loved ones. News | Markets | YouTube

Merry Christmas from Cointelegraph! News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 BIG: ~$150B in longs and shorts were wiped out this year, averaging $400–500M in daily leverage flushes, per CoinGlass. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: SOL and XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows on Dec. 24, while BTC and ETH spot ETFs saw net outflows. BTC: - $175.29M ETH: - $52.7M SOL: $1.48M XRP: $11.93M News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ TODAY: Jan3 CEO Samson Mow says, “No one that understands Bitcoin, wants less Bitcoin.” Do you agree? News | Markets | YouTube

🇭🇰 NEW: Hong Kong moves forward with licensing requirements for virtual asset dealers and custodians, expanding its regulatory framework beyond stablecoin issuers. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: Ondo Finance plans to launch tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Solana in early 2026 using custody-backed assets with 24/7 on-chain transfers. Could this bridge traditional finance and DeFi for good? News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 NOW: Taraxa leads the fastest growing chains by TVL in the past 7 days with a massive 1,169% surge, followed by ZKsync Lite (+226%) and Mezo (+82%). News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 LATEST: CZ reminds investors that early Bitcoin buyers didn't wait for all-time highs, noting "they bought when there was fear, uncertainty and doubt." When did you buy your $BTC? 👀 News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: Team Human finished the tournament at –32.21% ROI while Team AI closed at –4.48%, marking a clear win for the AI side in Aster’s final results. News | Markets | YouTube