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🥂 Gate ending the year like its the best time to shine:
🔼Kodiak (KDK) Launchpad Phase 5 - $146M subscribed, ~140× oversubscribed. FOMO confirmed
🔼Gate Layer x Stargate - cross-chain bridge live, interoperability enjoyers rejoice
🔼$309M net inflows (30d) - Gate ranks #2 globally, liquidity keeps choosing sides
🔼Gate App redesign - global visual refresh, smoother UX, fewer excuses
🔼Points Airdrop #130 - claim 0.6 or 2 GT, farmers still employed
🔼BountyDrop x Kuant.ai - another airdrop side quest unlocked
🔼KDK distribution complete - spot trading goes live, charts about to suffer
🔼Futures Points Airdrop #47 - >$31 per user, faucet still leaking
🔼Perp DEX Year-End Journey - 20K USDT for the grinders who never logged off
🔼Gate US Gift Cards - crypto finally pretending to be useful IRL
🔼Red Bull Racing stickers - Boxie animated sets, culture marketing engaged
Gate ships features. CT ships activity. The loop closes the year 🏃♂️
🔮 Galaxy Says Bitcoin’s 2026 Path Is Hard to Read
Galaxy Research says macro and market risks make forecasting BTC in 2026 unusually difficult. Still the firm keeps a bullish long term view expecting Bitcoin to reach 250K by the end of 2027
Short term noise long term conviction 🤭
💸 Bitcoin Faces Its Strongest Selling Pressure in 3 Years
Analysts say Bitcoin is currently under the heaviest selling pressure seen in the past three years
The kind of moment that separates weak hands from future screenshots 📉
🐻 Bear Market Alarm Goes Off Again
Analysts warn a bear market has started with Bitcoin possibly sliding to the 70K to 56K range in the coming months
The same movie the only thing that changes is who panics first 😭
🪒 Most 2025 Token Launches Failed
Out of 118 TGEs this year 100 tokens are trading below their initial levels nearly 85 percent of launches. The main reasons inflated valuations and tokens with no real use
Turns out liquidity doesn’t fix a bad idea 👮
🥂 Around 461,000 transactions worth $10–15 billion pass through the Bitcoin network daily
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💸 One of Bitcoin’s Darkest Early Losses
In 2011 a Bitcointalk user known as Allinvain lost 25 000 BTC in a single transaction worth 500K back then and over 2.2B today after a hacked mining account and an unencrypted wallet file on Windows
A reminder that early Bitcoin didn’t forgive mistakes it immortalized them 💅
🚽 On the edge of Extreme Fear, we are at 25
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👏 Gate ending the week in full send mode:
🔼Kodiak (KDK) Launchpad Phase 5 - subscriptions blast past $110M, FOMO officially institutionalized
🔼ZKP, GUA & IR perps live - three new leverage plays unlocked at once
Building bullish one step at a time 😎
✏️ Hashed Says 2026 Will Be the Year of the Protocol Economy
Hashed says crypto is moving from hype cycles to a working economy where stablecoins become the payment layer AI agents become real market participants and on chain flows matter more than narratives. They call 2025 the grow up moment when execution beats ideas and see RWA plus private credit as the bridge to the real world
Less casino more infrastructure that actually has users 🧩
📉 Bitcoin Less Volatile Than Nvidia Stocks
In 2025, Bitcoin’s volatility dropped below that of Nvidia stocks. BTC ranged from $75K to $126K - a 68% move. Nvidia saw a 120% swing between $94 and $207. Bitwise attributes it to Bitcoin maturing, more institutional investors, and ETF capital inflows. This trend is expected to continue into 2026
Bitcoin’s calming down 😭
📊 Coinbase CEO Tests Prediction Markets Himself
The bald guy from Coinbase is personally testing prediction markets and stock trading inside the Coinbase app just one day after the feature launched in the US
When the CEO is the first beta user you know they want screenshots not excuses 😱
💳 Visa Launches a Stablecoin Advisory Unit
Visa is rolling out a consulting division focused on stablecoins after already piloting a service that lets companies send stablecoin payments to crypto wallets straight from fiat accounts
Looks like stablecoins just graduated from experiment to enterprise 🧾
🥇 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Monday, December 22
📈 Top Gainers:
Fasttoken (FTN) +174.7%
NUMINE Token (NUMI) +147.6%
zkPass (ZKP) +65.3%
📉 Top Losers:
Bitlight (LIGHT) -79.3%
TOMI (TOMI) -56.8%
pippin (PIPPIN) -20.4%
🤑 Man Claims He Found a Flash Drive With 100 BTC
A video is going viral of a guy saying he found a USB with 100 BTC from 2009. That’s about $8.95M today
Either life-changing luck. Or the best crypto fairytale of the year 👀
📉 Weekly Crypto Money Flows Turn Negative
Last week digital asset investment products saw 952M dollars in outflows with Bitcoin losing 460M and Ethereum bleeding 555M
Looks like conviction took a holiday right before the end of the year 🪨
🗽 US Considers Tax Relief for Crypto Users
Lawmakers are working on a rule that would exempt stablecoin payments under 200 dollars from taxes treating them like normal purchases. Mining taxes would also apply only when rewards are actually sold or cashed out
Crypto taxes slowly learning how money is supposed to work 👦
👍 Elon Musk’s Net Worth Hits a New Record
Musk’s fortune jumped from 600B to 749B dollars after the Delaware Supreme Court reinstated his 2018 compensation package
When one court decision adds more zeros than most lifetimes 👍
😈 $50M Lost to Address Poisoning
A crypto user lost $50M after copying an address from tx history. He even sent a $50 test tx, but the scammer used a fake wallet with the same first and last 4 chars
Clipboard scams still undefeated 🗑
⌚ Base Sells Out “Time to Create” Watches
Base dropped 1 500 limited watches priced at 70 USDC and they sold out in just a few hours
Proof that crypto will tokenize literally anything with a clock on it 👱♀️
🍑 Arthur Hayes Says Altseason Never Disappears
Hayes says altseason always exists and if you keep saying it’s dead that just means you didn’t hold the coins that pumped. Altseason happened you just weren’t invited
Sometimes the market moves without asking your permission 🤡
🤖 AI Put in Charge of a Vending Machine
Claude was allowed to run a vending machine until humans discovered the oldest exploit social engineering. The bot happily gave away PS5s wine and even fish just for being nice
Turns out the first thing humans teach AI is how to be scammed 🕵️♀️
💰 Hackers Stole $3.4B in Crypto in 2025
In 2025, hackers took $3.4B in crypto. Nearly 70% of the losses came from 3 major incidents, including Bybit hack ($1.5B). North Korean hackers remain the biggest threat, stealing $2B this year, totaling $6.75B since 2022
Crypto's worst enemies are still lurking 👮
⌨️ Gate squeezing maximum effect into three bullets:
🔼Tronbank (TBK) first launch - 500,000 TBK raining via CandyDrop
🔼Points Treasure Hunt #33 - limited-time CYS rewards for professional clickers
🔼Kodiak (KDK) Launchpad - nearly $90M subscribed in 24h, FOMO fully engaged
Gate drops. CT uses. Numbers go up 💸
😶 Do Kwon Could Face 45 Years Total
If extradited to South Korea, prosecutors say Do Kwon could get 30+ more years. That’s on top of the 15-year sentence already given in the US
From crypto king to lifetime sentences 😢
👀 UK Plans Full Crypto Oversight by 2027
UK Treasury is drafting rules to put crypto under FCA control starting 2027. They also want to ban political donations made in crypto
Regulation season coming to Britain 🤙