“Decentralization,” he intoned, his voice trembling with the weight of a thousand ledger entries, “is not a toy to be snatched by the hands of institutional greed.” For Buterin, the rise of ETFs-those gilded cages of Wall Street-was not merely a market trend but a harbinger of doom. 🦈💰
Yes, you read that right. Should the price of BTC hold steady (which is basically like waiting for a pizza delivery on a Sunday night), this strategy claims it could coast along happily without breaking a sweat. We assume this means they’re unphased by the current chaos of the flagship cryptocurrency-whose price is definitely as stable as a trampoline in a tornado.
As per Whale Alert, a platform that tracks large holders’ transactions, this large volume of transfers to the exchange occurred in three tranches. The first transfer was of 54,180,378 XLM, worth about $12,067,815. A sum so vast, it could buy a kingdom! 🏰
Plume has already seen huge growth this year, recording a 10x rise in RWA holders. Yin expects 2026 to be even bigger, possibly bringing a 25x jump in users as RWAs become more accessible and more attractive. Right now, most RWA activity centers on tokenized U.S. Treasury bills, but Yin says this is about to change. With interest rates expected to drop, users are searching for better returns, which is boosting interest in new on-chain assets like private credit, mineral rights, oil, energy markets, and even GPUs. 🧠💼
Almost everyone holding short-term Bitcoin is underwater-like a fish out of water, but sadder. CheckonChain whispers that the profit/loss ratio for short-term holders is at an all-time low. Great. Just what we needed-more losses in our lives.
Bitcoin, that fickle digital siren, took its followers on a one-minute rollercoaster 🎢, plunging from $83,307 to $80,255 on Hyperliquid like a drunkard fleeing a tax audit. The market gods cackled 😈, snatching $3K in a blink before BTC scrambled back to $83,000, gasping for breath.
At the moment, Bitcoin’s lounging around $83,900, extending its eight-day vacation from sanity. Sellers are in the driver’s seat, and the RSI is at 24-deeper into oversold territory than I am into my Netflix queue. 📺 But hey, history says RSI can stay oversold longer than a British summer. 🌧️ The MACD histogram? Let’s just say it’s as negative as my attitude toward Mondays. 💻
This isn’t your typical startup-in-a-garage story. It’s the old guard-the pension-managing, insurance-selling, savings-hoarding titans-saying, “Okay, fine, we’ll take a seat at the crypto table.” 🧓💻
It was an extraordinary year, the likes of which 2025 perhaps never saw before. Prediction markets, those once humble nooks of obscurity, have now ascended to bedazzling heights, like some ethereal creations of a Gogolian narrative. Verily, these platforms, having procured funds by the billions, now strut upon a stage rigged with inflated valuations, as though each prediction were a grand prophecy foretold.
