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🚩From 2026 Onward: Crypto VCs Are Changing Their Investment Playbook
- In past cycles, crypto VC investing was driven more by narratives than business models. Fundraising success depended less on cash flow and more on how compelling and “new” the story was.
👉That model has now hit its limits.
> The old loop was simple:
New narrative → user incentives & airdrops → growth metrics → fundraising → token launch as an exit.
Tokens were treated as the business model, and TGE often marked the peak - not the beginning.
This approach worked in strong bull markets, but repeatedly failed after downturns

⭕BOJ Hikes Rates… Without Actually Tightening ❓
The BOJ just raised rates by 0.25%, in line with expectations, but this is not the start of a real tightening cycle.
💠After 30+ years of cheap money and deflation, the BOJ knows hiking too fast would hurt businesses and domestic consumers, not markets.
👉This move is about balance, not tightening.
> Pressure is coming from both sides:
- Inflation has stayed above 2% for nearly 4 years
- The yen keeps weakening as carry trades remain active
- Keep rates too low → imported inflation.
- Hike too fast → self-inflicted economic damage.
🚩So the BOJ’

🟢PREDICTION MARKETS HAVE MATURED ⭕
👉Prediction markets were once dismissed as gambling.
- But with platforms like @Kalshi and @Polymarket now fully regulated in the U.S., and user/volume growth accelerating, the industry has entered a new phase.
- Last month alone, over $13B was traded, more than 3× the peak volume during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
- Historically, prediction markets saw volume spike only during elections, then liquidity would collapse once the event ended.
- Today, volume is no longer tied to a single event.
- @Polymarket , @Kalshi , and @opinionlabsxyz have be

✊⏳The Market Is Showing Signs Of Forming A Bottom.
With Bitcoin holding firmly around the $80,000 zone, raising expectations for a new bullish cycle rather than just a technical rebound.
👏 The market is welcoming the return of capital flows from ETF funds.
The cryptocurrency market has been clearly recovering since late November 2025:
👉Bitcoin stabilizing around the mid-$80,000 range
👉Ethereum has reclaimed the $2,800 level
This is not just a short-term technical bounce but a sign of structural stabilization.
It fits historical patterns: November is typically strong, and retail capitula

〽️ XRP ETF Explodes But $XRP Price Crashes Miserably
🔰 The XRP ETF officially launched on November 13, 2025, issued by Canary Capital, attracting $59 million in trading volume on the very first day and $256 million within the first three days, becoming the most successful ETF launch of 2025.
This is regarded as a major milestone marking the end of the legal battle between Ripple and the SEC with a victory for Ripple.
🥳 On November 24, 2025, the Grayscale Dogecoin ETF launched alongside the XRP ETF, also receiving huge attention from the community.
📛 Contrary to the excitement surrounding th

😁As Thanksgiving 2025 draws near, @Bitcoin ers are once again preparing for the annual dinner-table interrogation > a familiar cycle shaped by a decade of volatility, crashes, comebacks, and shifting narratives.
❓The questions stay the same, but the tone changes every year as BTC rewrites its own story.
💠A look back at past Thanksgivings shows just how dramatically sentiment has swung:
🔵2017: Bitcoin breaks $8,000 for the first time. Families call Bitcoiners “criminals” playing with shady internet money.
🔵2018: After a 78% crash from the peak, skeptics feel vindicated. Bitcoiners become “

⭕79% of Altcoins Are Still Crushed > Here’s What It Really Means ?
- Digital assets bounced this week as selling pressure eased and markets priced in a possible Dec rate cut.
- Most tokens gained 5%+, but BTC and several majors are still negative YTD.
👉The cycle remains extremely narrow: 79/100 top tokens are still >50% below ATH, showing how little capital has rotated into altcoins.
- Majors continue to outperform thanks to deeper liquidity, while segments like DEX tokens, DeFi, and Privacy are holding up better due to clear fundamentals and buyback support.
- Liquidity explains the disper

❤️‍🔥XRP ETF SEES OVER $500M TOTAL INFLOW - ALTCOIN ETFs ALSO ROLLING OUT STRONG
So far, the U.S. has approved four spot XRP ETFs:
@Grayscale – GXRP
@FTI_US – XRPZ
@BitwiseInvest – XRP
@CanaryFunds – XRPC
👉 In just the first week, total net inflow reached over $500–600M.
👉 Largest single-day inflow: Nov 24, with ~$164.04M flowing in.
– GXRP led with $67.36M
– XRPZ: $62.59M
– Bitwise: $17.71M
– Canary: $16.38M
This level of early inflow is extremely rare for an altcoin ETF.
Other Altcoin ETFs launched in the U.S.:
@solana (SOL) Spot ETF → Strong inflows, once hitting $82.6M in a sing

❓How’s the stablecoin landscape looking these days?
👉Anyone been keeping an eye on the latest moves?
Here’s what I’m seeing…
Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed a wave of major stablecoin-related acquisitions-a clear sign that big enterprises are paying serious attention to this space.
- As payments and economic logic become more deeply embedded into the Internet itself, the way people interact online could completely change.
- A true “Stablecoin Layer” could unlock new monetization models and open up entirely new games for all of us to play in this sector.
Of course, the road to whe

Will the $JESSE Token Launch by Base Founder @jessepollak 🔥🔥
Be an Explosive Start or a Disaster for Base Chain?
Base co-founder @jessepollak has officially announced that he will launch his personal token, named $JESSE, today at 25:11:20:09:00PST (Pacific Standard Time) on the @baseapp platform.
This is an exceptional move that few founders worldwide undertake—launching a personal token tied to themselves. It raises significant concerns about risks to the founder, their project, and the community.
Launching a personal token is an extremely sensitive matter in the crypto space, which is w

🔥 GetAgent is going all out again, guys!
👉Now everyone gets free VIP access, and if you ask just 3 random questions, you’ll have a chance to win 50 USDT
- I just tried asking these three:
📈 How to trade futures safely
💎 What’s new in @ latest VIP perks
🪙 And how to join Launchpool to maximize profits
- Couldn’t help but throw in another one about $Aster, since both the community and CZ have been hyping it lately.
- And wow > GetAgent’s answers were fast, clear, and surprisingly insightful.
@, maybe give me a little “luck buff” this time? 😆
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x402 Trend: Comes Fast, Goes Even Faster. Is Altcoin Season Dead?
🔻🔻 $PING $AURA $SANTA $PAYAI dump 50-80% in 3 days!
Over the past 10 days, the x402 trend has been the brightest spot in the crypto market. It originated from an obscure HTTP status code — “402 Payment Required”.
Initially, x402 was expected to usher in a new cycle applying decentralized AI to payments and enhancing user experience. But just 10 days later, the narrative shifted into a rapid pump & dump speculation wave. The dream of a full-blown altcoin season is looking increasingly unlikely.
What started as hope for widesp

❓How much money do you really need to retire?
- A question everyone asks, yet few truly understand. 💸
💠I’ve spent a lot of time digging into this - partly for personal reasons, partly because I keep seeing wild takes on X.
First off, retirement doesn’t mean you’ll never make money again.
It’s not about quitting work entirely, but about no longer being forced to work for money.
When you’ve got liquid assets, your money can keep working for you.
The number you need depends on your lifestyle, where you live, and how much you spend.
According to the classic Trinity Study, if you invest your w