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Gate closing the year with a lot of updates: 🔼2025 Year-End Summary - your entire trading arc, compressed into one emotional recap 🔼Dr. Han on layoffs - exchanges that survive by firing people won’t survive long 🔼Dr. Han on transparency - no audit readiness, no long-term story. Period 🔼VIP Airdrop Carnival + Super Friday - exclusive dopamine for the upper tiers 🔼Kodiak (KDK) Launchpad Phase 5 - subscriptions open, APR hunters deployed 🔼Points Airdrop #129 - claim 0.6 or 2 GT, muscle memory still undefeated 🔼TradeTide (TTD) spot launch - fresh ticker unlocked for overtrading 🔼Convert Bonus Phase 2 + IR airdrop - new users bribed efficiently 🔼Research update - market repair > market euphoria, patience required 🔼BountyDrop x SCOR - another airdrop side quest activated 🔼Futures Points Airdrop #46 - >$30 per user, faucet refuses to close 🔼Gate Swap GM pool - 3M GM live, daily airdrops for showing up Gate reflects. CT uses. 2025 ends exactly how it began 🏃‍♂️

🌍 Marshall Islands Launch Crypto Based Universal Income The Marshall Islands rolled out the world’s first basic income program paid in stablecoins with every resident receiving 200 dollars per quarter via bank transfer check or a government wallet When social policy goes on chain before most countries even debate it 🌍

🎮 Fake Game Wipes Out Eight Years of Crypto Savings A Singapore investor and RektSurvivor founder lost all his crypto after installing a fake online game found on Telegram. Even after antivirus alerts system cleanup and a full Windows reinstall attackers drained every browser wallet within a day Fourteen thousand dollars gone without seeds clicks or approvals just one bad download 🕺

😎 Taiwan Seizes 210.5 BTC Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice announced the confiscation of 210.5 BTC. A win in the fight against crypto-related crime and a flex from local authorities Bitcoin up for grabs 😊

💻 Ex-PumpFun Dev Gets 6 Years in Prison A former PumpFun developer was sentenced to 6 years in the UK. He abused his position and stole ~$2M worth of SOL Inside job, outside consequences 😏

😢 $27.3M Lost After Multisig Key Leak Multisig isn’t magic if keys aren’t safe 👉

😢 Tether CEO: AI Bubble Is the Biggest Risk for BTC in 2026 Tether CEO says AI bubble could hit Bitcoin due to strong correlation with US markets. AI companies are overspending on data centers and GPUs. If AI hype flips negative, stocks drop and BTC follows. Good news: no 80% BTC crash expected. Institutions are building a stronger base AI sneezes. Markets catch a cold 🥶

💸 Bitcoin at 3 Million by 2035 Scenario CF Benchmarks says Bitcoin could reach 2.95M by 2035 if institutional adoption keeps accelerating. Their base case puts BTC around 1.42M with a third of gold’s market cap while the bull case assumes Bitcoin overtakes gold entirely From speculation to store of value the narrative just keeps upgrading 💎

🪙 Solana Plans to Tokenize Everything Solana cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko said that during the bear market they plan to move every asset on the planet onto the blockchain even the bears themselves When markets go down tokenization apparently goes everywhere 🐻

🏦 JPMorgan Doubts the Stablecoin Trillion JPMorgan analysts say they don’t expect stablecoins to reach a 1T dollar market cap forecasting total supply around 500 to 600B by 2028 Wall Street still drawing lines the market keeps stepping over 🔥

🇧🇷 Brazil’s Stock Exchange Moves On Chain The Brazilian stock exchange is set to launch a tokenization platform and its own stablecoin TradFi keeps finding new ways to quietly become crypto 🤡

💸 Michael Saylor’s Aged Like Milk Tweet Turns 12 Exactly 12 years ago Saylor said Bitcoin’s days were numbered. Today his company Strategy holds 671 268 BTC making it the largest public Bitcoin holder on the planet Crypto really loves a long character arc 🤴

🎧 We are standing still in Extreme Fear around 16

⌨️ Gate mixing markets, missions, and main-character energy: 🔼Research update - market consolidating, positions clustering around year-end volatility plays 🔼Points Airdrop #128 - claim 22 or 75 CYS, clicking remains undefeated 🔼Charity in Central Vietnam - flood relief activated, real-world impact mode on 🔼VOOI futures incoming - perps, margin, bots, copy, convert, auto-invest… full stack unlocked 🔼Matchain staking bonus - stake $MAT, earn base yield + 116,279 MAT extra 🔼Futures Points Airdrop #45 - >$31 per user, faucet still leaking value 🔼Kodiak (KDK) Launchpad Phase 5 - 24h countdown, APR hunters assembling 🔼Dr. Han signals IPO ambitions - first time said out loud, responds to layoffs 🔼Founder take - “If an exchange won’t talk IPO, it’s probably not real.” Shots fired Gate talks public markets. CT talks yield. End-of-year tension unlocked 🥂