🤖 A new trading tournament for AI agents has started — now the neural networks are trading stocks.

No one has lost money yet, but they just started today. Two newcomers have been added to the pool — Kimi and a secret model that the organizers have not yet revealed.

🏢 A new virus is spreading on WhatsApp — attackers send it pretending to be from “friends” and fake investment chats, and just one click is enough for the virus to gain access to the device and contacts.

The Trojan targets crypto wallets and exchanges — it scans Binance, OKX, Coinbase, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Ledger Live, Phantom, and other apps, stealing data when they are opened. Although the main attack is currently happening in Brazil, potentially any WhatsApp user could be affected.

💸 The company FG Nexus sold 10,922 ETH from the balance.

📊 At night, Bitcoin dropped below $86,000 — nearly $1 billion worth of trader positions were liquidated in the last 24 hours, with long holders suffering the most.

CryptoQuant CEO noted that according to on-chain metrics, the bullish cycle effectively ended earlier this year when Bitcoin approached the $100,000 level. From the perspective of classical cyclicality, the market usually returns to the realized price — currently around $56,000 — to form a bottom.

However, due to large holders like MicroStrategy, who are unlikely to sell, a significant portion of coins is effectively taken out of circulation. Therefore, he doubts that the price will drop to $56,000.

💰 Paolo Ardoino gave a major interview in which he explained how Tether became one of the key elements of the global financial system. The main points:

🔴 Stablecoins are just a temporary bridge. In 50 years, the need for USDT will disappear, and Bitcoin will become the world currency.
🔴 Tether entered the TOP-17 holders of US government debt, and stablecoins have become a tool to strengthen dollar hegemony — this is already recognized in Washington.
🔴 USDT grew to 500 million users without marketing. The explosive growth began in 2020 when people in Latin America and Asia realized that the dollar can be stored on a phone.
🔴 Tether already holds over 120,000 BTC on its balance sheet, profits are converted into Bitcoin and gold.
🔴 The company invested nearly $5 billion in the US and is building its own mining facilities, aiming to become the largest miner.
🔴 In Africa, the payment infrastructure is more efficient than in the US, so Tether’s strategy in America is mass self-custody through partners like Rumble Wallet.
🔴 The GENIUS Act was a turning point, opening the way for Tether into the US market.
🔴 Tether is the most profitable company in the world by revenue per employee due to zero fees and rising treasury yields.
🔴 For developing countries, USDT is a lifeline: local currencies depreciate, banks block deposits, and people massively move into stablecoins.
🔴 Tether Gold is a solution for those not ready for Bitcoin but who trust gold.

🍿 Famous trader Machi Big Brother has been completely liquidated — only $15,538 remains in his account, and total losses have exceeded $20,200,000.

💰 In November, the outflow of funds from spot Bitcoin ETFs has already reached a record $3.79 billion.

🎲 Realized losses on BTC have risen to levels last seen during the FTX crash, — Glassnode.

The majority of the capitulation was driven by short-term holders.

☘️ A solo miner mined a block and earned 3.146 BTC ($264,000).

📊 The record outflow of funds from Bitcoin ETFs represents a short-term "tactical" rebalancing, not an institutional outflow of funds from BTC, — analysts.

✈️ Today the market is behaving predictably calm — a classic sideways trend after several nervous days.

The fear and greed index remains in the extreme fear zone (11), with just over $350 million liquidated in the last 24 hours — not critical, but enough to maintain a tense atmosphere.

To put it simply: the market is holding its breath, digesting recent movements and waiting for a new trigger to choose a direction.

🔮 On Polymarket, they found a trader with an almost 100% streak of successful trades, who uses a simple tactic — entering in the last seconds into markets that are already practically decided, where the outcome is predetermined, but there remains a small inertial yield within 0.1–1%.

According to his profile, he earned about $130,000 in a month with such microtrades, and since the beginning of 2025 — over $415,000, while also holding several large positions with yields of 30–40%.

🧸 Bitcoin has the most bearish sentiment in the last two years — Santiment.

💰 Solana is discussing proposal SIMD-0411, which suggests doubling the disinflation rate, thereby accelerating the reduction of SOL inflation from the current 4.18% to the target 1.5%.

If approved, this level will be reached by early 2029 instead of 2032, and the potential emission will be reduced by approximately 22.3 million SOL ($3 billion) over six years.

The initiative should also reduce pressure on staking yields and increase the average lock-up time.

📊 Over the weekend, Bitcoin rose above the $87,000 mark. The fear and greed index increased slightly but still remains in the extreme fear zone — at a level of 19.

Meanwhile, the CEO of VanEck stated that Bitcoin could become vulnerable to the development of quantum technologies in the future.

According to him, if it ever becomes clear that the system is "fundamentally broken," investors will be ready to completely abandon Bitcoin, even though their spot ETF has already attracted more than $1.2 billion.