🍷 RedotPay raised $107 million in a Series B round to develop a digital asset payment infrastructure using blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies

💸 Bitcoin for $7 From a Vending Machine

Back in 2012, a vending machine sold Casascius coins for $7 each. No KYC. No charts. Just coins and regret

Time travel was cheaper back then 🚶‍♂️

🍸 BlackRock: Bitcoin Is One of the Biggest Bets of the Year

$12T giant BlackRock says Bitcoin is one of the biggest investments this year. Not a side play. Not an experiment

Wall Street locked in 🖕

🙃 CryptoPunks Enter the Museum

MoMA in New York added 8 CryptoPunks to its permanent collection. Donated by the community, not bought. NFTs just became official art history

From JPEGs to museum walls 🙄

🕺 Arthur Hayes Says Altseason Never Left

Hayes says altseason didn’t disappear people just missed it by buying the same old coins and waiting for past cycles to repeat. The market rewards those who hunt for what’s new not what already pumped with examples like Hyperliquid and Solana

Altseason happened you just weren’t holding it 😁

🤔 Fundstrat Split Personality for 2026

A leaked Fundstrat outlook warns of a major crypto correction in early 2026. Targets: BTC $60–65K, ETH $1.8–2K, SOL $50–75. Meanwhile Tom Lee says BTC $250K soon and ETH deeply undervalued

Even the analysts can’t agree 🤓

👀 2025 Returns Reality Check

Hard assets ate first. Risk assets waited 🚽

🥖 Satoshi Opened a Bakery

After the crash, Satoshi gave up charts. Now it’s bread not blocks. Still proof of work, just edible

Bullish on carbs ☕️

👊 IMF vs El Salvador on Bitcoin

IMF says El Salvador stopped its Bitcoin experiment. No public buys, Chivo wallet phased out, reserves just internal moves. But the Bitcoin Office says they still buy 1 BTC per day. Holdings now 7,500+ BTC, IMF or not

Official statements. Unofficial stacking 😁

😨 Miner Capitulation Signal?

VanEck points to the biggest monthly BTC hashrate drop since April 2024. This often signals miner capitulation. Historically, after such drops, BTC bounced within 90 days in 65% of cases

Pain now. Stats say bounce later 🔫

🥂 Gate closing the year like chill season isn’t real:

🔼Red Bull Racing Boxie stickers - 11× oversubscribed, even JPEGs have FOMO now
🔼Gate Charity in Benin - Christmas toy distribution done, real-world impact > charts
🔼Points Airdrop #131 - claim 15 or 50 CYS, clicking never takes holidays
🔼STABLE trading competition - 7,333,334 STABLE split among the grinders
🔼Japan–Korea Winter Series 2026 - offline brand expansion arc unlocked
🔼Dr. Han makes EM’s Top 100 (2025) - founder prestige upgrade
🔼Futures Points Airdrop #48 - ~$44 per user, faucet officially unhinged
🔼Futures Points Carnival - trade, earn double points, degeneracy incentivized
🔼CandyDrop Airdrop 8.0 - holiday mode activated with a 30 ETH giveaway

Gate builds the machine. Execution continues ⌨️

🫡 GM!

🏆 VanEck Sees Gold at 5K and Bitcoin Catching Up

VanEck’s head of multi asset solutions says gold could climb to 5 000 dollars next year. He also notes Bitcoin has lagged the Nasdaq 100 by roughly 50 percent this year a gap that could set BTC up as one of 2026’s top performers

When lag turns into fuel 🏆

📊 Bitcoin Mirrors the End of 2022

Analyst Timothy Peterson says Bitcoin’s current price action looks a lot like late 2022 when BTC sat near 16K with December weakness and long consolidation. If the seasonal pattern repeats momentum could flip after January 7 just like in early 2023

History doesn’t repeat but it keeps leaving hints 👍

🤖 Humans Lose to AI in Trading Tournament

In Aster’s humans vs AI trading battle real traders ended with a brutal minus 32.21 percent and around 225K in losses while AI agents limited the damage to just minus 4.48 percent or about 13K

Turns out the machines panic less when the chart goes red 🤖

💸 Peter Schiff Declares Bitcoin Officially Dead Again

Schiff says if Bitcoin doesn’t rise with tech stocks and doesn’t rise with gold or silver then it never rises at all. According to him the trade is over all fools are already in and if BTC isn’t going up it can only go down

Somehow Bitcoin keeps surviving its own funerals better than most assets 🪦

📢 3 FRESH DROPS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS

💡 Lighter
Leave your wallet for the airdrop before Dec 26
Submit wallet on the airdrop page

🪨 OP Net
New Galxe quest for Star Seeker role
Quiz answers: C, B, D, C, A, C, A, B, B, C
Deadline: Dec 27
Complete the quest on Galxe

🧬 Linera
New social quests live with M0X
Complete tasks on the Linera portal
Stay active for potential rewards

⚠️ We’re just sharing alpha. Always DYOR 🧠