The Meme Times

🐢$FRANKLIN Research The token was born from a political scandal. On December 1, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted an AI-generated meme on Twitter/X with the caption "For your Christmas wish list..." https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/1995291042346852861 The image featured a classic children's character - Franklin the turtle from the Canadian book series and 90s animated show - but in tactical gear, firing a grenade launcher at boats carrying drug traffickers. The fake book cover was titled "Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists." Scandal context: The post appeared amid an investigation into allegations that Hegseth ordered to "kill them all" on a Venezuelan boat with suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea on September 2, 2025. According to the Washington Post, a second strike was conducted to eliminate survivors - which may constitute a war crime under the Geneva Convention. Viral effect: 🟣The post garnered over 28 million views 🟣Canadian publisher Kids Can Press condemned the use of the character, stating that Franklin represents "kindness, empathy, and inclusivity" 🟣Senator Chuck Schumer called it a "sick parody" 🟣 The internet exploded with combat Franklin memes from both sides of the political spectrum 🟣That same day, someone created a token on Pump.fun https://theturtlefranklin.fun/ $20 mil Market Cap😳 Not financial advice. My job is to tell you about a rising coin. DYOR. Don't invest in random crap unless you just want to get a thrill 😘

Kevin O'Leary just declared that most altcoins are useless garbage and only Bitcoin and Ethereum will survive the upcoming regulatory bloodbath. The man who got absolutely cooked by FTX is now dispensing wisdom about what crypto projects have real value. Irony is alive and well in 2025. His logic is simple: institutions will allocate 3 to 5% of portfolios to BTC and ETH, capturing 90% of market performance. Everything else? Background noise heading for extinction. He calls it a "cleansing." Thousands of tokens built on hopes, dreams, and aggressive Discord marketing are about to meet cold regulatory reality. Whether you agree with Mr. Wonderful or not, your bags might have an opinion of their own soon.

⚡Vanishing act in progress. Ethereum on centralized exchanges just hit 8.8% of total supply, the lowest since the blockchain launched in 2015. According to Glassnode, reserves have plummeted 43% since July. Apparently, someone out there still believes in ETH while crypto Twitter debates whether it's dead for the hundredth time. 👀The coins are quietly flowing into staking and long-term storage while institutions keep stacking their balance sheets. Price is chilling above $3,000, eyeing $3,200 resistance. Break that, and $3,500 is on the table. Tom Lee is out here casually predicting $20K in the coming months. No pressure. Supply squeeze loading. Market sentiment says one thing, on-chain data says another. Pick your side wisely.

🔴Plot twist nobody asked for: Trump, the self-proclaimed crypto champion, has quietly ghosted the entire industry. Remember those bold promises about making America the "crypto capital of the world"? Yeah, the new national security strategy doesn't even mention blockchain. Not once. 💸Meanwhile, the irony is thick enough to cut with a knife - every tariff announcement, every trade war escalation still sends BTC into a tailspin. The guy who promised to buy billions in Bitcoin now has his Treasury Secretary saying "actually, we're not buying anything." Market dropped 6% on that one. Crypto community trusted, crypto community learned.

Citadel To SEC: “DeFi Is Just Us, But With Worse UX” 📄 Citadel told regulators that DeFi venues basically walk and quack like normal exchanges, so devs and LPs should wear the same compliance handcuffs as Wall Street. 🤺 Hayden Adams clapped back, reminding everyone about ConstitutionDAO and years of quiet lobbying, and painting the whole thing as TradFi trying to nerf protocols it can’t front-run.

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Polymarket: From “Get Out Of The U.S.” To “Welcome Back (For Now)” 🎯 After getting slapped out of America, Polymarket bought a regulated exchange/clearinghouse and just scored a CFTC no-action pass so its event bets can live on under the “designated contract market” cosplay. 🎰 Translation: the same degen “Will X win?” markets - but this time with more legal footnotes and fewer “sorry, U.S. not allowed” pop-ups.

Connecticut To Prediction Markets: “Nice Derivatives, Shame They’re Just Sports Bets” 🚫 Connecticut basically told Kalshi, Robinhood and Crypto.com that their fancy “sports event contracts” are just unlicensed gambling with extra steps - and hit them with stop orders. 🎲 Moral of the story: you can call it a prediction market, a perp, or a synthetic future, but if it smells like betting on the game, the gaming regulator is going to treat it like betting on the game.

Kids These Days Don’t Get Piggy Banks, They Get Binance Junior 🍼 Binance Junior lets parents park coins in a crypto savings app for their 6-year-olds, complete with earn products and spending limits so little Timmy can’t market-buy memecoins… yet. 🎮 Somewhere out there, a 12-year-old is about to learn compounding APY before learning long division, and honestly that tracks for this cycle.

Solana Phone Drops A Token… And An Unfixable Exploit 📲 Solana’s Seeker ships with SKR token, guardians, dApp store and all the Web3 buzzwords, so your phone can finally farm governance while you scroll. 😬 Tiny catch: Ledger says the Dimensity 7300 chip has a built-in hardware hole that lets someone with your phone in hand basically own it - and your keys - in minutes, no software patch possible.

Not a bull run, just our overlords pressing the green button🟢😅

UK To HODLers: Congrats, Your Bags Are Now Officially “Property” 📜 The UK just passed a law saying your coins are legally property, which is great news for anyone who’s ever thought, “I hope my heirs don’t need a Twitter thread to figure out my seed phrase.” 🧑‍⚖️ On the plus side, you can now own, inherit and recover digital assets like any other property; on the minus side, that also means lawyers are going to start asking very pointed questions about your “totally lost” coins.

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Number Go Up, Volatility Go Down: Institutions Turn Casino Into Bond Desk 📉 Glassnode says BTC has soaked up ~$732B in fresh capital while realized vol got chopped almost in half, meaning the casino is slowly being refurbished into an institutional yield machine with compliance posters on the walls. 🏦 Tokenized RWAs jumping from $7B to $24B in a year is your reminder that a growing chunk of “crypto” is now just TradFi debt and Treasuries in a DeFi cosplay outfit.

Bitcoin Back Above $92K: Bears Liquidated, Boomers Discover IBIT Options 🧨 BTC nuked to <$84K, then bounced to $92K+, deleting $492M in leverage and turning 123,000 traders into “volatility enjoyers,” with shorters eating most of the damage. 🎰 While degen perps get wiped, IBIT options quietly become a top-10 U.S. options market, beating gold ETFs and some tech stocks - congratulations, your boomer uncle is now effectively shitposting with leverage through his broker. 📉 And because that’s still not enough, CME just launched a Bitcoin VIX (BVX) so institutions can stare at one more panic number while pretending they’re “hedging volatility” instead of just farming premium.

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On-Chain Secret Santa Without Doxxing Your Wallet History 🎁 Ethereum devs are cooking up ZK Secret Santa, where zero-knowledge proofs and relayers let you send gifts on-chain without exposing who matched with whom or your full wallet lore. 🕵️ Today it’s Christmas games, tomorrow it’s anonymous votes, stealth airdrops and whistleblower drops that don’t turn your address into a permanent public dossier.

Satoshi-Era Wallet Moves 50 BTC After 15 Years 👻 A long-dormant 2010 “Satoshi-era” miner wallet has reactivated after ~15 years, moving its full 50 BTC (~$4.3M) into five new addresses. 📜 Those coins were mined when block rewards were 50 BTC and BTC traded around fractions of a cent, meaning the holder is now sitting on an estimated gain of over 10,000,000%+ versus their original cost basis.

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