Daily Dose of News 🎺
December 05, Monday


♟ General:

• CFTC says spot crypto now tradable on registered exchanges. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Coinbase incubated Ethereum L2 Base network rolls out bridge to Solana. Link.

• First Sui-based ETF approved as 21Shares brings leveraged fund to market. Link.

🖥 Release:

• A New Prediction Market is Coming: Backed by YZiLabs. Link.

• Metamask Prediction Markets are Live - Powered by Polymarket. Link.

🗳 Treasures:

• TON treasury files $420.69 million meme shelf registration to invest in tokens and Telegram AI ecosystem. Link.

🍜 M&A:

• Paribu has acquired CoinMENA. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• DeepNodeAI $3M Strategic Round. Link.

• ​Galaxy has acquired Alluvial. Link.

• LayerBank $2.3M Pre-Seed Round. Link.

• Gondor Grant Round. Link.


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👸 Casascius Coins just moved for the first time in 13 years!

Two transactions of 1,000 BTC each were made from these legendary physical bitcoins

Casascius Coins are physical collectibles created back in 2011 - real metal coins with a hologram hiding a private key

To access the BTC inside, the owner must peel off the hologram, revealing the key and making the coin just a piece of metal while the BTC moves on-chain

There are only 17 known holders, controlling around 36,467 BTC still sealed inside these coins.


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Top Upcoming Crypto Events. Link.

Raise your hand, who is ready for Almanak TGE? 😏

Author: PHOENIX


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Every cycle, another token launch disappoints — hidden lockups. Insider dumps. Broken trust.

The Almanak team decided to take a different path.

Introducing Almanak Games & The Pledge Movement - a new on-chain, algorithmic model where the community drives the launch.

• Hold. Commit. Compete
• Boost your rewards
• Shape the outcome

Games run from 11 December and end on 31 January!

Pledge is live → games.almanak.io


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From +2600% to -86%: the “hottest” crypto-treasury trade has blown up.

Companies that stuffed their balance sheets with BTC and ETH massively outperformed at the start… and then saw their stocks crater as the market realized the business itself wasn’t generating real cash flow.

On average, these “digital asset treasuries” are down ~43% this year, with some names nuked more than 99% despite still holding valuable tokens.

Investors have shifted from “number go up” to “show me the earnings”: token bags don’t pay coupons or dividends, while the debt and preferreds issued to finance those bags still need servicing.

Lesson for the next cycle: holding volatile assets on corporate balance sheets is leverage on the way up – and a brutal mismatch between hard liabilities and speculative treasury assets on the way down.


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On‑chain prop trading is getting a serious upgrade with Foxify & dYdX! Link.

Instant funded accounts, A‑Book execution and transparent payouts are now going live on the dYdX Chain.

Details: Green But Red


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Daily Dose of News 📺
December 08, Monday


♟ General:

• Digital asset ETPs saw $716m in weekly inflows, lifting total AuM to $180B. Link.

• French banking giant BPCE to roll out crypto trading for 2M retail clients. Link.

• Wall Street hedged big crypto bet in $500 million Ripple deal. Link.

• Over $13 billion was traded on prediction markets last month. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Binance becomes the first crypto exchange to secure a global license under ADGM framework. Link.

• SEC ends two-year investigation into Ondo, paving way for U.S. expansion in tokenized assets. Link.

🖥 Release:

• BlackRock files for staked Ethereum ETF. Link.

• Stable, a Bitfinex-backed Layer 1 using Tether's USDT for gas, launches mainnet and native token. Link.

🗳 Treasures:

• Strategy has acquired 10,624 BTC for ~$962.7 million at ~$90,615 per Bitcoin. Link.

• BitMine's ETH holdings reached 3.86 million after acquiring 138,452 tokens over the past week. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• Asgard Finance $2.2M Seed Round. Link.

• AllScale $5M Seed Round. Link.

• Crown $13.5M Series A Round. Link.


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🌐 A few years ago, “on‑chain credit” mostly meant wrapping old loans in a token and calling it innovation.

Now the infrastructure itself is finally moving on‑chain.

Delphi’s new report spotlights PACT as the first protocol that actually rebuilds the 300T+ global credit stack on‑chain instead of just tokenizing legacy paper, with a focus on emerging markets where overhead can eat more than 20% of the interest rate.

Details: Green But Red


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Lamborghini partners with Ledger to launch a limited-edition hardware wallet!


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Meet Vibhu - the mid-tier product marketer shoved into a social role far beyond his skill sets

Recent CT Drama (though I think this is another brilliant marketing strat orchestrated by a borderline madman/genius) made me look up the guy.

Details: Green But Red


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P.S. After reading, answer the question 👇

Tether has invested in Generative Bionics, an Italian startup building humanoid robots!

After AI - now robots?
Looks like Tether is turning into a tech conglomerate of the future

#RoboFi is coming?


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Almanak quietly became one of the most interesting AI x DeFi stories out there.

From a Delphi Labs–incubated DeFi risk manager → to an AI-powered platform for building on-chain strategies.

Now: $1B+ routed, 2,000+ strategies, $130-170M TVL.

Next up - the full IDE for DeFi: Backtesting Agent, Strategy Framework V2, permissionless Vaults & more on the way.


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Remember 2021? Stripe dipped into crypto payments, got regulatory heat, and backed off

Fast-forward to today - they’re all in with Paradigm

Tempo blockchain just went public

Partners? So… just look at the video

And I think it's time to reread my article 😅


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Daily Dose of News 💿
December 09, Tuesday


♟ General:

• CFTC launches digital assets pilot allowing Bitcoin, Ether and USDC as collateral. Link.

• Tether gains Abu Dhabi's approval to expand USDT use across nine major chains. Link.

• Stripe and Paradigm open Tempo blockchain testnet to public, add Kalshi, UBS as partners. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Crypto exchange HashKey seeks up to $215 million from Hong Kong IPO. Link.

• Vintage privacy project Horizen relaunches as Layer 3 on Base. Link.

🖥 Release:

• PNC launches Bitcoin trading with Coinbase for wealthy clients. Link.

• Circle stablecoin for ‘banking-level privacy’ to launch on Aleo blockchain. Link.

🛍 Incentives:

• Zama Testnet New Task. Link.

• Theoriq Airdrop Checker is live. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• MetaComp $22M Pre-Series A Round. Link.

• Magma Finance $6M Strategic Round. Link.

• Pye $5M Seed Round. Link.


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⚡️ Nvidia’s Jensen Huang joins Elon Musk in calling Bitcoin a “store of energy”!

Two of the most influential tech leaders now describe BTC not just as digital gold, but as digital energy - a bridge between computation, electricity, and value itself.

Energy is the new money.


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Almanak isn’t even live yet, and the market is already betting its FDV rips past $160M on day one!

If the product delivers anywhere close to these expectations, this could be one of the standout AI‑DeFi launches of the cycle


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🗳 DAT 2.0. Link.

Sonnet is a tired Nasdaq‑listed biotech company that is turning into Hyperliquid Strategies, a public fund holding $HYPE and cash.

The plan is roughly 12.6M $HYPE plus 305M in cash (about 888M in total) and a filing with the regulator to raise up to 1B by issuing new shares.

Details: Green But Red


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Daily Dose of News 💿
December 10, Monday


♟ General:

• US bank regulator says banks can act as crypto intermediaries. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Polychain and Variant-backed 'neo-brokerage' Cascade wants to open 24/7 perps trading for any asset class. Link.

• PayPal's PYUSD has grown from $1.2B market cap in September to over $3.8B today. Link.

• Octra to hold $20 million public token sale on Sonar at $200 million valuation. Link.

🖥 Release:

• Superstate's new Direct Issuance Programs let public companies raise capital using tokenized stock. Link.

• Cysic TGE Date Announced. Link.

🛍 Incentives:

• Linera Testnet: Game of Life Ending Soon. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• Real Finance $29M Funding Round. Link.

• Surf, an AI platform just for crypto, raises $15M. Link.

• Goblin Finance $1M Strategic Round. Link.

• Ezeebit $2.05M Seed Round. Link.

• Cascade $15M Funding Round. Link.

• Pheasant Network $2M Seed Round. Link.


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