A 38-page manuscript, a parchment of promises and perils, now rests on the FDIC’s digital shelves. Here, the agency outlines the labyrinthine criteria for subsidiaries of supervised institutions to partake in the issuance of payment stablecoins. A maze of regulations, where each turn whispers of compliance and caution. 🧭
Our little BNB is outshining the majors like a sequined dress at a black-tie event. Holding firm above $850 while the rest of the market is as volatile as my mood during Mercury retrograde. 🌚✨
A Tragi-Comedy of Technicals
B. Riley shares had premarket traders giddy on Dec. 16, 2025, thanks to that timely filing. If only they’d been this punctual when I asked them to return my Christmas cards. 🎀
In a livestream titled “Some End of Year Thoughts,” our protagonist, ensconced in the rugged splendor of Colorado, delivered a soliloquy worthy of a tragic hero. 🏔️🎭 The market, he laments, has lost its retail engine-a mechanical failure, not of emotion, but of structure. Institutional capital, that fickle siren, has ensnared itself in Bitcoin’s siren song, leaving altcoins to wither like forgotten wallflowers. 🤑💃 “A donkey of a year,” he declares, with a flourish of disdain, “an old donkey with a gas problem.” 🐴💨
Apparently, Solana’s the cool kid on the block now, with its low fees, lightning speed, and scalability that makes other blockchains look like they’re running on dial-up. 📡💨 StraitsX is all like, “We’re here for the payments, trading, and DeFi shenanigans,” and Solana’s like, “Say no more, fam.” 🤝
Behold, the industry’s stalwarts, those weary knights of the financial realm, have raised their voices in a cacophony of alarm. The traditional banks, their parchment-clad minds writhing with unease, whisper that these approvals stretch the very fabric of the national trust bank charter, a relic of bygone eras. 🧑🤝🧑
On December 15th, the man with a plan scooped up 10.6K BTC, a cool $980 million. Last week? Another $962 million. That’s $2 billion in Bitcoin in just two weeks, pushing Strategy’s crypto hoard past the $50 billion mark. 🤑 But why the rush? With the MSCI index exclusion looming like a storm cloud and mNAV slipping like a banana peel, one might ask: Is Saylor a visionary or a gambler on a bender? 🤔
Now, if we squint at the weekly chart of the S&P 500, the big cheese of US companies, it appears as though the Index is wobbling precariously on the edge of a cliff! 🧗♂️ After a merry little jaunt up the ascending channel for years, it seems the next grand move is a delightful plunge down to the bottom. The Stochastic RSI and RSI indicators are hinting at this spectacle as they tumble back down like a couple of clumsy clowns!
With a flourish worthy of the finest Russian ballet, Gemini unveiled its enchanting creation, Gemini Predictions, across all fifty states of this vast land we call home. The announcement, delivered with a twinkling wink on X, resonated like a symphony of opportunities on Monday.