📈 Grayscale: New BTC ATH Coming in 2026

Grayscale Research says Bitcoin will hit new all-time highs in 2026. That goes against the classic “four-year cycle” narrative

Maybe the cycle changed - or maybe patterns were never real 😨

🥂 Gate dropping updates as always:

🔼ETH OI up 0.44% - leverage slowly waking up again
🔼Blockchain Conference Brasil - Gate flexing its “All in Web3” strategy on stage
🔼Gate Ventures - calling the market undervalued while Ethereum scales up and institutions circle DeFi
🔼Dr. Han refutes rumors - operations stable, products expanding, FUD defeated
🔼Points Airdrop #119 - claim 2,100 or 7,800 PUMP, the most on-brand ticker ever
🔼Stock Token Rebate Event - up to 1,450 USDT per user, get paid to trade stocks-on-chain
🔼RLS Perps launched - fresh leverage bait unlocked
🔼Blue Chip Escort Week - trade blue chips gas-free, name still hilarious
🔼TradingView integration - chart, click, trade
🔼University visit - students get a crash course in markets, strategy, and Web3 careers
🔼Futures Points Airdrop #33 - yield >$33 per user, free money meta persists
🔼Fee distribution adjustments - Gate tuning the machine

Gate keeps moving. The cycle remains unbroken ✏️

💖 GM Frens!

💸 Tether Prints Another $1B USDT

Brrr season never ends ✅

😀 Bank of America Says: Put 4% Into Crypto

Even the boomers are joining the party 🥳

💰 Hacker Waited 5 Years to Steal $340K USDC

A user lost $340K in USDC after signing a malicious tx on a phishing site five years ago. The scammer simply watched the wallet, waited for big deposits and drained everything in one hit

Patience level: villain mode 😈

🚀 CZ Says More ATHs Are Coming

Market getting ready for lift-off 👀

💸 JPMorgan now calls Bitcoin a leading signal for US markets

First they pretended it didn’t matter

Now they’re watching it for direction 😴

🍷 Strategy says its $1.4B reserve can cover 21 months of dividends

The company notes the buffer can stretch to almost two years which removes any need to sell BTC

Steady payouts even through the storm 😑

😨 Kevin O’Leary says a December Fed rate cut is unlikely

But he adds that Bitcoin will be just fine regardless

Volatility fades, conviction stays 👊

🇬🇧 UK legally recognizes crypto as property

The new law gives digital assets full property status as the country continues testing tokenized pound deposits through 2026

London is quietly gearing up for the onchain era 👍

🤩 Erik Voorhees: Bitcoin is the most powerful financial tool ever made

BTC fixed broken money, became a mathematically protected asset and, he says, will evolve into global money within 5 to 15 years

Everything else from Ethereum’s dominance to prediction markets and AI-driven tokenization is just supporting cast 🤩

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🟢 Rayls
Token claim is live, RLS trading around $0.03
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🧊 Aster
Airdrop checker for Season 3 is open
Check your status on the Airdrop page
Season 4 runs until Dec 22 with 1.5% allocated

🔥 Infinex
Craterun trading campaign live with $2.5M in rewards + 10% INX vouchers
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⚠️ We’re just sharing alpha. Always DYOR 🧠

💸 Bitcoin’s “fair value” sits near $165,000

A global-liquidity model suggests BTC is trading at a 47% discount to its equilibrium zone around $165k

The take: holding price much lower for long may be difficult 🧮

📚 Binance launches accounts for students aged 6 to 17

Kids can now make payments through Binance Pay where the service is available

Crypto lunch money era begins 🕺