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🍿 A very unlucky whale spent $23M buying AI-agent tokens on Base He ended up selling the entire portfolio for just $2.58M. That’s a brutal $20.4M loss in under a year. 👉 Even whales bleed when hype meets reality. #News Alpha | Chat

👻 The Fear & Greed Index remains in Extreme Fear territory — currently sitting at 16. Historically, such levels tend to coincide with heightened panic and often precede relief rallies or local bottoms, though timing remains uncertain. #News Alpha | Chat

🗓 Solana Breakpoint 2025: Key Highlights The Solana Breakpoint 2025 conference kicked off in Abu Dhabi on December 11. Here are the main highlights from the first two days: 🟢 Solflare unveiled Solflare Shield, a hardware wallet that stores private keys inside a secure chip. 🟢 State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management plan to launch a tokenized liquidity fund on Solana in 2026. 🟢 Solana will be integrated into Coinbase’s DEX trading service, expanding on-chain access for users. 🟢 Firedancer, developed by Jump Crypto, has officially gone live on the Solana mainnet. 🟢 Light Protocol introduced a new token standard on Solana — Light Token. 🟢 Phantom Wallet announced upcoming integration of tokenized prediction markets from Kalshi and dFlow. 👉 Solana is clearly positioning itself as a core layer for DeFi, tokenization, and consumer crypto going into 2026. #News Alpha | Chat

🍀 Another solo miner has struck gold — successfully mining block 927474 on the Bitcoin network and earning 3.133 BTC (~$284,000). #News Alpha | Chat

🪙 Michael Saylor says his company intends to buy up as much BTC as possible, effectively removing coins from circulation. According to Saylor, this strategy reduces the available supply and strengthens the Bitcoin network as a whole. #News Alpha | Chat

🤖 Aster team has launched a trading tournament featuring 70 human traders and 30 AI bots. Each participant received $10,000 in starting capital directly from the developers. 👉 Losses are fully covered by Aster, while any profit can be kept by the traders themselves. #News Alpha | Chat

👁️ Donald Trump has authorized Nvidia to export its advanced H200 chip to China — with the U.S. government taking a 25% cut from all revenue generated by those sales. 👉 Trump also criticized Europe, saying the region is “moving in the wrong direction” after imposing a “disgusting” $140M fine on X (Twitter). #News Alpha | Chat

🤑 Vitalik Buterin has proposed creating a futures market for Ethereum gas, allowing users to lock in future transaction fees in advance and reduce uncertainty as the network continues to grow. The idea aims to give users predictable costs during periods of high demand — essentially letting them hedge future gas prices just like traditional commodity futures. #News Alpha | Chat

🪙 Dogecoin turns 12 today — the meme coin that started as a joke on December 6, 2013, created by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer to poke fun at the rapidly growing number of digital assets. It became the first cryptocurrency built entirely around meme culture, and the rest is history. #News Alpha | Chat

🍿 CZ met Michael Saylor for the first time yesterday — a true crypto OG crossover. CZ also said he doesn’t see any reason to return to day-to-day work at Binance, making it clear he’s not planning a comeback. #News Alpha | Chat

👻 Most on-chain indicators for BTC are flashing bearish — without fresh macro liquidity, we’re entering a bear cycle, according to CryptoQuant’s CEO. #News Alpha | Chat

🖥 The average cost to mine 1 BTC for public mining companies in Q2 2025 has climbed to roughly $74,600. Rising energy prices, increased competition, and investments into next-gen ASICs continue to push mining expenses higher across the industry. #News Alpha | Chat

🎲 AI trading models in the tournament have officially graduated into full-time degen traders — every single one of them is now performing in the red. Looks like machine learning still can’t beat classic human mistakes: overtrading, bad timing, and pure market chaos. #News Alpha | Chat

📉 Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $3.48B in outflows in November — the largest monthly withdrawal since February. Investor sentiment remained cautious throughout the month as BTC volatility increased and profit-taking intensified, leading to sustained selling pressure across major issuers. #Trading Alpha | Chat

🇨🇳 The People’s Bank of China has stated that virtual assets are not money, have no legal tender status, and any activity involving their use is considered an illegal financial operation. The regulator also emphasized that stablecoins fall under the category of virtual assets and carry significant risks due to non-compliance with KYC/AML requirements, including the potential for money laundering and illegal cross-border transfers. #News Alpha | Chat

🛡 Trust Wallet has added support for Apple Pay and Google Pay — users can now buy crypto with cards in just seconds across 40+ countries (minimum purchase: $20). #News Alpha | Chat

📊 A sharp spike in exchange inflows has been recorded during the latest market correction — Binance remains the clear leader among CEX platforms, It is generating $25B in spot volume and $62B in futures volume, nearly double that of OKX. #News Alpha | Chat

🤑 Since launch, the spot Solana ETF has never recorded a single day of net outflows. #News Alpha | Chat

📊 Analysts report a sharp spike in capitulation among short-term BTC holders — a pattern that has historically signaled the formation of short-term market bottoms, according to CryptoQuant. #News Alpha | Chat

💸 Funds have been actively flowing out of the Winklevoss brothers’ Bitcoin address throughout all of 2025 — and the outflow has accelerated over the past month. The Winklevoss twins, early crypto pioneers, have already realized over $1 billion in profit over the years, and their recent movements suggest they may be continuing to derisk or rebalance their holdings. #News Alpha | Chat