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🥇 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Wednesday, December 17
📈 Top Gainers:
SMARDEX (SDEX) +135.3%
Palladium Network (PLLD) +65.0%
Wojak (WOJAK) +46.3%
📉 Top Losers:
The American Dream (DREAM) -52.2%
Daku V2 (DAKU) -48.1%
FOLKS (FOLKS) -39.9%
🤓 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 🙂
📉 Peter Brandt Expects Bitcoin at 25K
The timeline where everyone suddenly becomes a long term believer again 👮
🔫 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 👍
😱 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 ✅
😱 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 🗡
⚔️ 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 🪓
☕️ 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 👦
🥇 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Monday, December 15
📈 Top Gainers:
Audiera (BEAT) +79.5%
Gunz (GUN) +34.2%
AI Rig Complex (ARC) +32.5%
📉 Top Losers:
River (RIVER) -24.3%
Niza Global (NIZA) -19.8%
Nexpace (NXPC) -16.6%
💸 Bitcoin Hashrate Drops After China Pulls the Plug
Bitcoin’s hashrate fell by around 100 EH/s in a single day roughly 8 percent as at least 400 000 mining rigs went offline. The reason farms in Xinjiang China were shut down
Every cycle Bitcoin survives another “this time China killed it” moment 🖥
😂 Binance Tells Traders to Touch Grass
Binance dropped a post written in binary code and anyone nerdy enough to decode it got the message “touch grass if you can read this” a polite reminder to log off and go outside
Even the exchange thinks you’ve stared at the chart long enough 🌿
🧸 Vanguard Analyst Calls Bitcoin a Digital Labubu
A senior Vanguard analyst says it’s hard to see BTC as anything more than a digital Labubu for now. Still he admits that under the right conditions Bitcoin could one day have value beyond pure speculation
From toy vibes to monetary theory that’s one hell of a character arc 🧸
🎧 Gate closing the year like CT’s attention span never expired:
🔼Gate Ventures outlook - cautious markets, selective narratives, end-of-year positioning vibes
🔼SCOR Launchpool - 5.4M SCOR up for grabs, liquidity miners clock in
🔼Peak Trading Competition - $400K airdrop for those still clicking buy/sell
🔼BountyDrop x Junk.Fun - another airdrop side quest unlocked
🔼Kodiak (KDK) Launchpad Phase 5 - up to 200% APR, numbers doing the talking
🔼2025 Year Gala - top streamers and creators get their victory lap
🔼Crazy Wednesday #17 - trade 1 USDT, maybe win GT, Sony cameras, or 285% APR
🔼Gate US lists THQ & MAGMA - spot trading unlocked stateside
🔼Futures Points Airdrop #44 - ~$31 per user, faucet still flowing
🔼VOOI spot launch - fresh ticker, fresh overtrading
🔼Infrared (IR) Launchpool - 150K IR for the patient users
🔼Meme Go “Gold Finger” recruitment - smart money cosplay goes global
Gate ships features. So you can keep grinding 🥂
👬 Hackers Threaten Pornhub Data Leak for BTC
ShinyHunters say they will leak premium user data unless paid in Bitcoin. They dropped samples and users confirmed it to Reuters. Pornhub linked the breach to a Mixpanel security incident
Privacy premium just got expensive 🔞
🏦 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 😑
😁 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 😭
🇧🇹 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 👉
💶 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 🎧
🎰 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 😊
🥊 Michael Saylor: Fighting the ₿ears
Pure maxi energy 💃
🥇 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Tuesday, December 16
📈 Top Gainers:
Luxxcoin (LUX) +84.6%
pippin (PIPPIN) +37.6%
Avici (AVICI) +26.9%
📉 Top Losers:
FOLKS (FOLKS) -46.2%
RaveDAO (RAVE) -37.3%
River (RIVER) -35.8%
😲 Gate firing updates like CT’s notification panel is infinite:
🔼RAVE perps live - fresh leverage unlocked, volatility enjoyers assemble
🔼GUSD supply >200M - on-chain stablecoin quietly getting serious
🔼Gate US hits 32 licenses - now compliant across 43 states, paperwork maxed
🔼Launchpool frenzy - 4 pools live, APR screaming past 451%
🔼Europe expansion - Malta + MiCA = regulatory speedrun complete
🔼BTC outflows: 25,141 BTC - coins leaving CEXs, cold wallets warming up
🔼Points Airdrop #126 - claim 20 or 66 CYS, farmers still clocked in
🔼Futures Points Airdrop #42 - >$21 per user, faucet stays open
🔼Gate Web3 web upgrade - Noble + Allora mainnets fully supported
🔼Founder documentary drop - Dr. Han, frontline grind, long-term vision arc
🔼Token Crew Phase 2 - 2.4M DOGE referral pool, memes still paying rent
Gate ships infrastructure. CT ships activity. Balance restored 🥂
😫 Strategy Buys Another 10,645 BTC
Strategy bought 10,645 BTC at an average price of $92,098. Total holdings now sit at 671,268 BTC
Still stacking like there is no sell button ❓
🙄 Crypto Market Under Pressure
Over the last 90 days only 10 percent of the top 100 coins are in profit while the other 90 percent bleed. Historically this kind of pain often marks accumulation phases and the moment when only the strongest projects survive
The part of the cycle where boredom does more damage than fear 😱
🗽 SEC Explains How to Not Lose Your Crypto
The SEC dropped a simple guide reminding retail investors that crypto lives on the blockchain not in the wallet lost keys mean lost funds hot wallets are risky cold wallets are safer seed phrases are sacred and self custody means full personal responsibility 👍
✅ Exchanges are convenient but not risk free and regulation or insurance won’t magically save your coins
Turns out decentralization comes with homework 🤡
🤗 Coinbase CEO: Crypto Means Property Rights and Free Trade
Brian Armstrong says crypto creates property rights sound money and free trade for everyone. Not just tech - an economic reset
Big ideas behind small code 💡