🤑 Total open interest in ETH futures on CME breaks records. Link.

The data well support the previously voiced theses about the transition to the “second phase” of the cycle.

Note: Ethereum TVL hits All-Time High!

Chart: Laevitas

#investments


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Daily Dose of News 🎺
December 13, Friday


General:

• Texas House introduces bill to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve. Link.

• Argentina’s president plans to embrace bitcoin payments in 2025. Link.

• Societe Generale and the Central Bank of France testing repo transactions on blockchain. Link.

• Cumulative Solana DEX volume approaches $1T. Link.

Product updates:

• Polygon community weighs proposal to deploy over $1B in stablecoin on its bridge for yield generation. Link.

Listing:

• Binance will list Velodrome Finance. Link.

• Vana has become another project on Binance launchpool. Link.

Fundraising:

• Ex-Paradigm investor raises $75M for new frontier-tech venture firm. Link.

• Sphere, a company specializing in developing advanced payment solutions, has raised $5M. Link.

• commonware, a modular framework designed for building dApps, has raised $9M. Link.


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🌟 What’s next for Ethena? Link.

Reminder: Ethena's USDe has become the third largest stablecoin in terms of supply volume.

About the lucrative strategy from Ethena is our article on Sabstack

Author: Messari

#review


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💵 Does this mean the top is in? Link.

Quote: Not necessarily. Historically, Bitcoin prices continued to climb even as distribution deepened and even bottomed out.

Author: Glassnode

#forecast


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💵 There's now $3.6B worth of bitcoin deposited on Babylon Chain. Link.

Reminder: Binance Earn introduces On-chain Yields with the launch of Babylon BTC Staking

Author: Adrian Zmudzinski | Decrypt

#yield


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💱 Stablecoins: The most lucrative business opportunity onchain. Link.

Note (from “Market Outlook 2025 report” by Citi Wealth): Cryptocurrencies do not threaten the hegemony of the dollar in the global market, and thanks to stablecoins, the American currency is becoming more accessible.

Author: Onchain Foundation

#research #yield


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💵 “So you have 1 BTC. How do you have 20% APY on it?” Link.

Core DAO’s Dual Staking is the great answer.

Remainder: We told you more about Core DAO earlier.

Author: Stacy Muur

#yield


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🏆 Top 10 AI Agents by mindshare. Link.

Also on the weekend, it is highly advised to study this article:
“AI Swarms: The Future of Decentralized Agent Network”

Chart: CryptoRank
Article: Bankless

#top #research


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🌐 Earlier this week, Google's quantum AI team announced that its new quantum computing chip (Willow) is capable of solving a computational problem in less than five minutes — the same problem that would take one of the best supercomputers about 10 septillion years to solve.

Is Willow a threat to crypto encryption?

• Google unveils new quantum computing chip: Clock ticking for crypto encryption? Link.

• Could quantum computing threaten Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1 million Bitcoin? Link.

• Here’s what Satoshi said to do if quantum computing cracks Bitcoin. Link.

#Bitcoin #QC

Spend your weekend usefully! 🙌🏻


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🔑 Upcoming unlocks over 5% of market cap. Link.

Definitely worth marking these dates on your calendar!

Source: DropsTab

#unlocks


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🤑 ETH/BTC ratio performance since bitcoin halving. Link.

Key insight: Based on historical data, an explosive rise in the price of ETH is likely.

Author: venturefounder
Chart: Glassnode

#forecast


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🕶 Crypto Watchlist for the week ahead. Link.

A nice addition to past calendar markings.

Author: The DeFi Investor

#events


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Daily Dose of News 📺
December 16, Monday


General:

• Britain intends to ban public offerings of cryptocurrencies. Link.

• Thailand plans to recognize bitcoin as legal tender. Link

Product updates:

• Bitget secures Bitcoin service provider license in El Salvador. Link.

• Hedera taps into Chainlink’s data standard to boost DeFi and RWA adoption. Link.

Release:

• Ethena rolls out stablecoin backed by BlackRock's BUIDL token. Link.

Listing:

• Bithumb and Upbit will list MOCA. Link.

• Upbit will list VANA. Link.

• Exodus Movement announces uplist to NYSE. Link.

Incentives:

• Binance has added CAT and PENGU to Binance HODLer Airdrops. Link.

Fundraising:

• ​​Yei Finance, a non-custodial money market protocol, has raised $2M. Link.

• Uranium Digital, a project modernising uranium trading, has raised $1.7M. Link.


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📣 Key Predictions - the year ahead for markets 2025. Link.

Regarding Solana and Ethereum, be sure to recall our earlier comparisons.

Author: Delphi Digital

#forecast


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🏆 Top 10 tokens by YTD growth among the top 100 by market cap. Link.

The data continues to support the points previously made in our article on Sabstack.

Author: CryptoRank

#top


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💰 Total stablecoin supply is now making linear gains daily. Link.

Quote: Since the election, the total marketcap of stables has increased by $30B, an average of $750M per day.

Be sure to come back to this post.

Author: Patrick Scott | Dynamo DeFi
Chart: DeFiLlama

#trends


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🍜 The floor price for NFT Pudgy Penguins has equaled the price of BTC. Link.

Another indicator of euphoric sentiment in the crypto market right now.

Source: CryptoRank

#sentiment


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🔔 Here are the promising alts with huge potential. Link.

A list of projects worth paying attention to, as well as a useful reference about the structure of the crypto market

Author: 0xNobler

#research


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🔥 The flywheel of the hype machine. Link.

What unites all the "hot narratives" in crypto.

Author: Stacy Muur

#review


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