CRYPTO SLUMP EXPOSES VC VALUATION GAP
Several VC-backed crypto projects are now trading at market caps far below their last private funding valuations, highlighting how bull-market pricing failed to hold up once liquidity tightened.

⚡ Solana treasury company Upexi is seeking to raise up to $1 billion to expand its SOL treasury, with the raise potentially covering common and preferred stock, debt securities, warrants and units issued over time.

🚨HOSKINSON: NIGHT WILL NOT REPLACE ADA
Charles Hoskinson says the idea of selling ADA for NIGHT misses the point. NIGHT powers Cardano’s Midnight privacy network, but it’s designed to extend ADA’s ecosystem, not replace it.

SUN'S $60,000,000 FROZEN $WLFI TRAP 🥶 📉
justinsuntron is currently sitting on one of the most brutal paper losses in crypto history—and he literally can’t do anything about it.
Here is how the $TRON founder’s massive World Liberty Financial (WLFI) position turned into a $74M locked vault:
1️⃣ The Freeze 🧊 In September, the Trump-linked project blacklisted a wallet holding 545M $WLFI tokens linked to Sun. The reason? A phishing incident and "suspicious activity." Result: Zero transfers. Zero exits. Zero hedging.
2️⃣ The Timing ⏱️ When the tokens were locked, $WLFI was riding high at $0.33.

🚨 NEW: OpenAI says ChatGPT Atlas is being hardened against prompt injection attacks using automated, reinforcement learning–based red teaming to stop exploits before they reach users.

Bitcoin is the only asset where:
The “risk” is math
The “CEO” is dead
The “board” is physics
The “marketing department” is monetary collapse
The “user acquisition funnel” is your grocery bill
The “regulatory moat” is entropy
The “customer support line” is personal responsibility
Every four years it just quietly tightens supply while governments panic-print themselves into psychosis.
Fiat needs constant belief.
Bitcoin just needs electricity and time.
That’s why every serious attack on Bitcoin eventually turns into a press conference, a lawsuit, or a tweet thread written by someone whose job de

⚡ Ethereum treasury company Bitmine has officially surpassed 4 million ETH in holdings following a fresh $40 million acquisition this week, with chairman Tom Lee calling it "a tremendous milestone."

Crypto ETF selling pressure is back:
Crypto funds recorded -$952 million in outflows last week, ending a streak of 3 consecutive weekly inflows.
Investors have now withdrawn capital in 6 out of the last 10 weeks.
Ethereum ETFs posted -$555 million in outflows, followed by -$460 million from Bitcoin funds.
Meanwhile, Solana and XRP continued to attract inflows last week, at +$48.5 million and +$62.9 million, respectively.
Despite the recent pullback, crypto funds have recorded +$46.7 billion in inflows year-to-date.
Leverage is driving volatile sentiment in crypto.

Is gold's rally still early?
Gold prices relative to cash are now at their highest level since at least the 1960s, officially surpassing the 1980 peak.
At the same time, gold prices relative to US government bond prices are at their highest since the late 1980s.
Gold prices relative to the S&P 500 are at the highest since the 2020 pandemic.
This comes as gold prices have surged +119% over the last 2 years, crossing $4,500/oz for the first time.
Over the same period, cash has returned +9.7%, bonds -4.0%, and the S&P 500 is up +45%.
However, gold prices remain -50% and -17% below the 1980 peak r

THE BITCOIN RAINBOW CHART PREDICTS $150K TO $440K IN 2026!
Here we go! 🚀

BREAKING:
🇯🇵 JAPAN’S 10-YEAR GOVERNMENT BOND YIELD SURGES TO HIGHEST LEVEL IN 27 YEARS.

🚨 UPDATE: XRP social sentiment turns increasingly negative, which historically signals potential price rises as retail doubt often precedes rallies, per Santiment.

🚀 Cantor Fitzgerald forecasts Hyperliquid's HYPE token will surge to $200 by 2035, driven by growing DEX adoption, though emerging rivals like Lighter may threaten the protocol's market dominance.

The Federal Reserve will inject $6.8 BILLION via repo operations December 22, taking total liquidity added to $38 BILLION in the last 10 days as part of year-end funding support.

Crypto flows have turned cautious..
Last week, digital asset investment products saw $952M in outflows.
What’s driving it:
• Delays to the US Clarity Act, extending regulatory uncertainty
• Rising concerns around whale selling
Breakdown:
• $ETH: -$555M
• $BTC: -$460M
• $SOL: +$48.5M
• $XRP: +$62.9M
This isn’t broad panic. It’s selective rotation.
Positioning… or caution?

UPDATE: $10B HYPERUNIT WHALE’S $600M $ETH TRADE
The $10B Hyperunit whale linked to Garrett Jin is up over $50M in the last 3 days on his ETH position worth over $620M. His HL account equity has gone from $150.04M on Friday to now being over $208.07M.
Unfortunately, his account is still down ~$18M on this trade. Will he make it all back?

🚨SOLANA NEARS HISTORIC REVENUE FLIP OVER ETHEREUM
For the first time ever, #Solana is on track to surpass Ethereum in Annual Revenue.
$Sol YTD revenue stands at $1.4 BILLION, nearly 3× of Ethereum.