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The holiday hangover is real. 📉 Markets are sluggish with $BTC ( ▼ 0.1% ) slipping below $87k and $ETH ( ▼ 0.6% ) stuck under $3k. Sentiment remains in "Extreme Fear" as ETFs see 5 straight days of outflows. Macro is heavy: BoJ hints at rate hikes 🇯🇵 + massive Trump-Zelensky meeting this Sunday. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
With a massive options expiry looming, expect volatility to wake up soon. 👀
Here’s what we got for you today:
👀 The year crypto grew up (and got weird)
⭐ Gold & Silver moon. What now?
⭐ BitMine’s $219M ETH move
🔥 Burning hot takes for the road
If you thought 2024 was wild, 2025 just rewrote the entire playbook. We saw a sitting President launch a memecoin, the US Treasury officially HODL $BTC ( ▼ 0.1% ) , and a massive 1500% rally from a sector everyone thought was dead.
In this special year-end retrospective, we are breaking down the 8 Events that didn't just move the candles—they changed the market structure forever. Read the full breakdown here 👇
7️⃣ BEGINNERS ROAD TO PRO TRADERS
Most people treat AI like a crystal ball. They ask: "Will this token pump?" That is the fastest way to lose money.
In Lesson 7, we are flipping the script. We aren't using AI to chase hype; we are using it to kill confusion. I’ll show you how to turn ChatGPT into a skeptical, cold-blooded risk manager that spots the red flags you might miss when you're feeling FOMO.
Inside this deep dive:
The exact prompts to use that force AI to act like a researcher, not a cheerleader.
How to summarize 50 pages of marketing jargon into 5 "Hard Questions" the team must answer.
How to instantly compare a new project against giants (like UNI vs. CAKE) to see if it actually has a chance.
How to verify contracts on-chain so you never buy a fake token again.
THIS GOLD AND SILVER RALLY IS A HUGE WARNING SIGN 🚨
We need to have a serious talk about what’s happening in the commodities market right now. If you’re looking at the charts and seeing Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, and Palladium all mooning together and thinking, "We are so back," you might want to pump the brakes. 🛑
→ This kind of synchronized pump is not a sign of a healthy economy. It’s actually a massive warning signal that the macro environment is getting fragile.
In a normal bull market, these assets don't move in a pack. Industrial metals pump when factories are busy; precious metals usually chill unless there's fear. But right now? Everything is ripping at the same time.
We are seeing a major behavioral shift. Smart money is rotating out of paper claims—stocks, bonds, fiat—and aping into hard assets.
We’ve seen this movie before, and the ending usually gets messy:
The 1970s: The OG inflation era. Oil, Gold, Silver all moved up to hedge against currency debasement, not because the economy was booming.
Early 90s & 2000s: Commodities rallied right before growth fell off a cliff.
Pre-2008: Energy and metals climbed together while the financial system was secretly crumbling.
Price of gold over the past 25 years (early 2000s → now)
Look at the scoreboard for 2025:
Gold is smashing ATHs.
Silver is up 150% (absolute madness).
Copper is having its best run since the GFC.
This isn't a "selective trade" by a few whales. This is broad, fast, and aggressive. Investors are hedging against inflation and reducing exposure to long-duration financial assets. Basically, the trad-fi world is waking up to what we in crypto have known for years: Fiat is risky, and hard money is the safe haven.
Equity markets are currently ignoring this, keeping the vibes high. But commodities are the canary in the coal mine. They reflect the stress in the system way before it shows up in GDP or earnings reports.
My take: This doesn’t mean we crash tomorrow. But it does mean the foundation is shaking. When the "hard money" narrative takes over the legacy markets, you know volatility is incoming. Stay sharp, watch the liquidity, and don't get wrecked by ignoring the macro signals.
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🐋 WALL STREET’S BIGGEST ETH WHALE JUST STAKED $219M
While everyone is watching the charts, one of the wildest plays in TradFi just made a massive on-chain move. BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR)—the company that pulled a full 180° from Bitcoin mining to become the world’s largest public Ethereum treasury—is officially diamond-handing their bags.
💎 The Signal: Staking, Not Selling
Just hours ago, on-chain data popped off showing BitMine moved roughly $219M worth of ETH into staking contracts.
Why does this matter? Because bears were terrified that BitMine (which is sitting on some heavy unrealized losses) would capitulate and dump their 4 million ETH onto the market.
→ This move says the opposite. They aren’t selling; they are locking in for yield. This aligns perfectly with their upcoming Made in America Validator Network (MAVAN) launch in early 2026, aiming to turn their massive bag into a cash-flow machine.
📉 The Arb: Buying $1.00 for $0.80
Right now, BMNR is trading at a serious discount to its Net Asset Value (NAV).
→ You are basically buying exposure to their ETH treasury at 0.8x (some sources even say 0.65x). For every share you buy at ~$29, you’re getting ~$37 worth of assets. It’s like buying ETH at a 20% discount off the spot price.
This is a classic "closed-end fund" arbitrage opportunity, but with a tech kicker.
🧠 The Tom Lee Factor
The guy steering this ship is none other than Tom Lee from Fundstrat. His strategy? The "Alchemy of 5%" - he literally wants this company to own 5% of all circulating Ethereum.
Lee is forecasting ETH to hit $7,000 - $9,000 by early 2026, driven by stablecoin growth and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. If he’s right, BMNR isn’t just a 2x; it’s a leveraged moonshot because the stock price has to catch up to the exploding value of the treasury.
🚨 My Personal Take: High Risk, High Beta
Look, I need to be real with you guys. This isn’t a "set and forget" savings account.
They printed a lot of shares to buy that ETH. Shareholders got diluted hard.
This is a leveraged bet on ETH. If Vitalik slips, this stock dives.
However, if you are bullish on $ETH ( ▼ 0.6% ) for 2026, this is one of the most aggressive plays on the board. The technicals show strong support at the $25-$28 level. As long as that holds, the setup targets a gap-fill up to $131.
→ The biggest whale in the public market is betting the house on the "Crypto Supercycle." If you have the stomach for volatility, grabbing BMNR at a discount to NAV is basically front-running the inevitable re-rating when retail wakes up.
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🔥 BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD
$DOGE ( ▼ 4.66% ) (▼1.2%) gets a boost. Robinhood launched a massive holiday event, distributing $500,000 in Dogecoin to users to reignite retail trading. Read more
Nuclear mining incoming? Putin confirmed talks with the US to use the Zaporizhzhia NPP's power specifically for crypto mining operations. Read more
$ZEC ( ▲ 5.04% ) (▲1.3%) shielded supply holds firm at 23%, proving privacy adoption is sticky as users prioritize anonymity over speculation. Read more
Alameda's chapter closes early. Caroline Ellison was moved to community confinement after serving less than 11 months of her prison sentence. Read more
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