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🤓 Markets Are Trading Blind US government shutdown cut off fresh economic data since September. Inflation jobs growth - all delayed or incomplete Real numbers land by late December. Until then, markets are guessing 🙂

🏦 Coinbase CEO Says Traditional Finance Is Broken Brian Armstrong says the traditional financial system is fundamentally broken Hard to argue when the fixes keep looking like band aids 😑

📉 Peter Brandt Expects Bitcoin at 25K The timeline where everyone suddenly becomes a long term believer again 👮

😁 Plan B Says Bears Are Fighting a Losing Game Bitcoin isn’t pumping because half the market is selling OGs 2021 trauma victims RSI watchers and cycle believers while the other half is buying fundamentals TradFi and banks. It’s a stalemate for now Epic battle until the sellers run out of ammo 😭

🔫 Binance Pulls In Record Capital CryptoQuant data shows cumulative inflows to Binance hit a record 1.17T dollars up 31 percent year over year far ahead of competitors. Perpetual futures volume reached 24.6T across 49.6B trades while spot trading climbed to 6.82T with over 24B transactions Like it or not this is where crypto liquidity keeps choosing to live 👍

🇧🇹 Bhutan Plans a New City Powered by Bitcoin Reserves Bhutan will use 10 000 BTC from its reserves to help build Gelephu Mindfulness City a special administrative zone focused on long term development From spiritual capital to on-chain urban planning 👉

😱 Yearn Finance Gets Hacked Again Yearn Finance has been hit for the second time this month with attackers stealing another 300K dollars. Just weeks earlier the protocol already lost 9M It’s less DeFi and more Groundhog Day ✅

💶 Euro Stablecoins Are Quietly Exploding Since the start of the year, euro stablecoin supply hit €425M. That’s +168% growth Euro going on-chain without making noise 🎧

😱 Whale Loses $20M on AI Agent Tokens A big investor put $23M into AI agent tokens on Base. Exited today with $2.58M left - −89% total Whales can bleed too 🗡

🎰 Political Memecoins Pumped and Dumped the Market CoinGecko says political hype drove the memecoin boom - and the crash. Market hit $150.6B in Dec 2024, then collapsed 70%+ after tokens like TRUMP and LIBRA Faster disappointment 😊

⚔️ Humans Falling Behind AI Traders In Aster’s trading tournament humans are down −28.8%. AI bots are holding around 0% ROI Machines don’t panic 🪓

🥊 Michael Saylor: Fighting the ₿ears Pure maxi energy 💃

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☕️ Gate pushing updates like Q4 never ends: 🔼VIP Futures Elite Challenge #4 - $100 USDT guaranteed + 45K prize pool for the sweatiest traders 🔼2025 growth flex - volumes, users, and on-chain ecosystem all scaling in sync 🔼On-chain staking boom - GUSD minting breaks 201M, quiet infrastructure W 🔼Points Airdrop #127 - claim 0.6 or 2 GT, farmers still clocking in 🔼BountyDrop x daGama - another airdrop, another dopamine loop 🔼Magma Finance (MAGMA) first launch - new ticker, new overtrading opportunity 🔼Gate Pay upgrade - multi-chain wallets, SDKs, instant convert, payments go brr 🔼5M USDT Subsidy Program - Gate backstopping bad vibes with cash 🔼Futures Points Airdrop #43 - >$25 per user, faucet refuses to close 🔼Derivatives market share up - Gate leading global growth, leverage economy thriving 🔼Perp DEX Christmas Treasure Hunt - 30K USDT hidden under the tree 🔼Theoriq (THQ) spot listing - fresh ticker unlocked Gate ships. CT clicks. The machine keeps running ⌨️

🤡 CZ Reminds Everyone of the Boring Truth If you ever envied people who bought crypto cheap and survived multiple cycles remember what they did in moments like this. They didn’t call the bottom chase bounces or trade every candle they just endured pressure fear and boredom Turns out patience was the real alpha all along 👦