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The Crypto Fire says a biggg thank you to everyone 🔥

We’ll be off tomorrow to celebrate the New Year. Let’s welcome 2026 together and close out a wild 2025 that’s full of ups, downs, and valuable lessons 🙌

💛 From all of us at TCF, thank you for learning, building, investing, and growing with us. 2026 will be the year Web3, blockchain, and crypto truly step into the mainstream.

This is just the beginning of a long journey we’ll walk together into a new chapter.
From TCF, with love 🌱

Here’s what we got for you today:

• 👀 How to become a "pro" trader in 2026?

• ⭐ Looking back at the 2025 memecoin mania

• ⭐ 10 bad crypto habits you should drop ASAP

• 🔥 Burning hot takes for the road

How to become a "pro" trader in the first hour of the market open? Unlike most clickbait strategies, this one is grounded in institutional logic, not magic indicators.

This guide details a mechanical way to move your Stop Loss to Break Even immediately after a new structural break 👇

⭐ BEGINNERS ROAD TO PRO TRADERS

DAY 10: The "Final Boss" for Launching Your Own Token

We have spent the last 9 days learning how to buy, secure, research, and automate crypto. Today, for the final lesson of 2025, we stop being spectators.

Lesson 10 is the perfect way to close the year. Now you’ll learn how to become the House. This specific workflow is the industry standard for 99% of projects.

Read the full guide to see the exact screenshots of the PinkSale dashboard and the checklist for your first launch 👇

🐸 REVIEW THE 2025 MEMECOIN MANIA

2025 started like a fever dream.

It all started with $TRUMP ( ▲ 0.2% ) , which turned PolitiFi (memes mixed with politics) from just a funny little narrative into a full-on liquidity event.

In just two days, FDV shot up to $75B. Solana was printing nearly $14M in fees per day as everyone aped into Raydium, racing before CEX listings arrived.

But we all know how this plays out. Hype was the ladder up. When it crashed, it took the elevator down 😂 By December, TRUMP was still down ~93% from its peak.

There was a point where total memecoin market cap hit $100B+, mainly thanks to the PolitiFi shockwave. In January alone, memecoin volume on Solana DEXs reached $206B.

But after that?

• Market cap dropped nearly 58% from the peak

• Volume fell more than 60% vs Q1

• Across the board, memecoin trading volume crashed 85% as the hype cooled

• On Pump(.)fun, daily token launches went from ~60K → 20K

If you zoom out, 2025 memecoin culture had three clear waves:

1. PolitiFi & celeb timing – like $TRUMP, $MELANIA, $LIBRA

2. Chain-native identity memes – coins like $BROCCOLI ( ▲ 0.97% ) , $BRETT that reflected chain culture

3. AI & creator memes – where the product itself is part of the joke

But regardless of the narrative, most tokens died. Even the ones with huge cult-like communities eventually lost nearly all their value.

💰 So what actually survived 2025?

It was the infra behind them. We’ll take Pump(.)fun as the example:

• It pulled in $816K–$1.35M/day in revenue during Christmas

• $4.2B–$4.5B in weekly volume

• 200K–300K active traders every single day

• Over 13M total users

• $834M+ cumulative revenue

• They shared 50% of fees with creators to avoid mindless farming-and-dumping

Other players tried different angles. LetsBONK even flipped Pump(.)fun, grabbing ~49.8% market share, but faded fast when $BONK ( ▼ 0.52% ) incentives dried up.

Sure, some users left Solana for Base or BNBChain during the chaos. But in the end, Solana still hosted ~85% of memecoin volume overall.

If you’re thinking of jumping into memecoins in 2026, take profit around 2x-3x to protect yourself. Don’t chase ultra-low cap coins with $50K MC hoping for life-changing gains.

Looking ahead to 2026, some old names will definitely come back once the market gets excited again. Hot news = new memecoin surge. It’s always like that.

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⭐ 10 BAD CRYPTO HABITS YOU SHOULD DROP ASAP

Most of our losses in crypto don’t come from bad luck. They come from bad habits. We feel like anyone who's been around long enough will relate to at least half of them.

Now, let’s walk through the 10 most common traps and how to avoid them to make 2026 the best year ever!

1️⃣ Are You Still Ignoring Security?

There’re way too many of you still keep your entire portfolio in browser wallets, right? One wrong click on a fake website, one wrong signature… and boom, it’s gone.

→ So first, keep most of your funds in a cold wallet. And even if you’re sending to the same person, generate a new address every time.

2️⃣ Have You Ever FOMO Buying? You see a coin mooning and you rush in... usually right before it crashes

→ You’re better off waiting for a pullback or just skipping it. New chances always come.

3️⃣ Did You Not Setting Your Own Stop-losses? Holding a -70% bag just because “it might bounce back” is a tough way to learn.

→ Always define your exit point in advance. A 10–15% stop-loss is usually wise.

4️⃣ Did You Leave All Your Funds on Exchanges? Even big CEXs have been hacked. It’s happened before. It’ll happen again.

→ Only leave what you need for trading. Move the rest to a self-custody wallet or cold storage.

5️⃣ Did You Chase Pumps Instead of Real Value? If you’re buying a coin just because it’s going up, it’s just gambling.

→ Focus on real projects with actual users, revenue, and products. Ask yourself: “If this drops 50%, would I still be comfortable holding it?”

6️⃣ Did You Try Overtrading? The more you trade, the easier it is to burn out and make poor calls. Many of the biggest wins come from simply holding.

→ Quality over quantity. Sometimes doing nothing is the smartest move.

7️⃣ Did You Go All-in on Just One Coin? Even if you’re sure this is “the one,” putting all your capital into a single coin is dangerous.

→ Let’s diversify. Each coin should be 10–20% of your portfolio max. Always keep some stablecoins ready too.

8️⃣ Did You Blindly Trust Well-Known KOLs? A lot of people lost money following hype accounts and shill posts.
→ No matter who it is, always verify, always DYOR (do your own research).

9️⃣ You Never Take Profits? It hurts when you watch your portfolio go 5x… then crash back down to break-even.
→ Take profits bit by bit. Even 10–20% at key points helps lock in wins.

🔟 Are You Letting Emotions Control You? Panic-selling bottoms + FOMO-buying tops + Refusing to cut losers = Deadly trio.
→ Make your plan before you trade, and stick to it no matter what.

We said this so many times, but one more time, you don’t have to win every trade. You just need to stay in the game long enough to catch the right ones.

See you in 2026. It’s gonna be wild (again).

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🔥 BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD

CZ Binance: $BTC ( ▲ 1.57% ) , $BNB ( ▲ 1.28% ) and crypto will be fine. But what kind of “fine” here? Steadily going up? Or steadily going down? Read the post

Memecoin $WHITEWHALE ( ▲ 6.64% ) (inspired by the well-known trader The White Whale) went 60X after being taken over. Still, FOMO with caution. Read more

Warren Buffett, widely seen as the greatest investor of all time, officially retires today. What his favorite indicator reveals about the market. Read more

Strategy just added another $109 million in BTC just in the second-to-last week of the year. Read more

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