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THE FED INJECTS LIQUIDITY OVERNIGHT
The Fed injected $18.5 BILLION via repos and drained $5.7 BILLION via reverse repos, signaling short-term funding support.

BIG: Berkshire Hathaway now holds 31% of its assets in cash, the highest level in 20+ years.

LATEST: Tokenized stocks market cap just hit a new ATH at $1.2B.

XRP flips BNB to become the 3rd largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap

China is outpacing the world in patent filings:
China now accounts for ~27% of global patent applications, the highest of any other country in the world.
This percentage has DOUBLED over the last 11 years.
Over the same period, the US' contribution has fallen -9 percentage points, to 20%, the lowest since at least the 1980s.
At the same time, Germany’s percentage has declined -3 points, to 6%, also the lowest since at least the 1980s.
Japan’s percentage has held steady at ~18%, the world’s 3rd-largest.
China is leading the global patent race.

BREAKING: The Fed’s balance sheet surged +$24.4 billion in the week ending December 24th, posting the biggest jump since the March 2023 Banking Crisis.
This marks the 3rd-consecutive weekly increase for a total of +$45.5 billion.
As a result, the Fed’s total assets are up to $6.58 trillion, the highest since the end of October.
The Fed is projected to buy $35-$55 billion in Treasury bills each month in 2026.
That would make ~$550 billion in total purchases this year, bringing the Fed’s balance sheet back above $7.0 trillion, the highest since October 2024.
The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet i

The Most Bullish Year in Bitcoin History Looked Like Nothing
400,000 BTC Disappeared in 2025. No One Noticed.
Wall Street spent 2025 asking the wrong question.
Bitcoin chopped sideways. Volatility died. The narrative became: Is the bull market over?
Meanwhile, Strategy by itself absorbed 225,000 BTC.
Not lost. Not sold. Absorbed.
The Illusion of Failure
Flat price looks like failure unless you're the one accumulating into it.
Strategy bought across 41 separate weeks in 2025. No fanfare. No momentum chasing. Just relentless absorption while everyone else got bored and looked away.
Their stack:

AVAX SURGED 11% AFTER GRAYSCALE'S ETF UPDATE
Avalanche jumped 11% after Grayscale updated its S-1 to convert the Avalanche Trust into a spot AVAX ETF.
Volume surged 140% to $546 MILLION.

JP MORGAN FOUND AN INFINITE MONEY GLITCH.
They’re manipulating silver like their lives depend on it.
They did it 5 years ago, and now they’re doing it again.
In the world of institutional trading, that is simply Cost of Doing Business (CODB).
The "Infinite money glitch" P&L:
– Gross Profit from Manipulation: ~$100 Billion
– Regulatory Fine: ~$1 Billion
– Net Profit: $99 Billion
– ROI: 9,900%.
If you could pay a 1% tax to legalize theft, you would do it every day and that’s exactly what JPM is doing.
The Technical Reality:
They operate under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).
Translation:

⚠️WARNING: EVM WALLET DRAIN ALERT
Hundreds of wallets across EVM chains are being drained, per ZachXBT.
Attackers are stealing amounts under $2,000. Losses have topped $107,000 and are still rising.

FORBES: THE BIG 3 CRYPTO THEMES FOR 2026 ARE ALREADY PLAYING OUT
The hype cycles are over. Forbes says 2026 will be shaped by real structural shifts that are already visible today:
🧠 Institutions aren’t dabbling anymore
They’re building long-term exposure through ETFs, custody, tokenization, and onchain settlement -- not trading memes.
🏗️ Infrastructure + regulation finally matter
Market structure, custody, stablecoins, and tokenized assets are moving from theory to production. This is plumbing, not headlines.
🌍 Crypto is bleeding into the real economy
From tokenized stocks and treasuries t

VITALIK SHARES HIS VISION FOR ETHEREUM IN 2026
The mission?
✅ Build the "world computer" for a truly free internet—decentralized apps that ditch fraud, censorship, and hacks.
✅ Apps that keep running even if devs vanish or Cloudflare gets nuked.
✅ Privacy-first tools for finance, identity, governance, and beyond.
✅ No more dependence on fading companies or ideologies.
Ethereum isn't chasing memes or blockspace filler—it's reclaiming independence in a subscription-obsessed world.
$ETH

Japanese government bonds have recorded historic losses:
Japan’s 7 to 10-year bonds are down -32% in US Dollars over the last 7 years, the worst performance among any major bond market.
This is followed by Germany’s government bonds, which are down -8% over the same period.
Bond prices began to decline in 2021, with losses accelerating in 2022 as inflation surged and major global central banks began hiking rates.
Meanwhile, 7 to 10-year US Treasuries are up +13% since November 2018, despite falling in 2021 and 2022.
At the same time, China's government bonds are up +35%, as yields declined ami

🇰🇷 S. KOREAN RETAIL TRADERS BACK BITMINE
South Korean traders continue buying BitMine Immersion Technologies despite an 80% drop.
BMNR is now the 2nd most popular overseas stock, with $1.4 BILLION in inflows following its ETH treasury pivot.

Markets are witnessing history:
The US stock market cap-to-GDP ratio is up to a record 218%.
This comes as the stock market's value jumped to an all-time high of $68 trillion, far exceeding the ~$31 trillion size of the US economy.
This ratio has surged +56 percentage points over the last 8 months.
As a result, the metric is now ~78 percentage points above the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble peak.
Since the 2020 pandemic, the US stock market has grown twice as fast as the world’s largest economy.
Own assets or be left behind.

SOLANA IS PRINTING REVENUE THROUGH PURE VOLUME.
In the past year, #Solana pulled in over $1.5B in network revenue -- the highest of the major chains tracked -- beating both $ETH and $HYPE, COMBINED.
Solana is proving that the “low fees + high throughput” model can still produce the biggest top-line number when activity is nonstop 🔥🚀

🚨 TODAY: 🇺🇸 GRAYSCALE FILES FIRST U.S. BITTENSOR $TAO ETP
Grayscale filed the initial S-1 for Grayscale Bittensor Trust (ticker: $GTAO) with the @SECGov.

The Bittensor ETP aims to provide regulated access to decentralized AI tokens— an emerging crypto narrative.
A little about $TAO:
—Bittensor operates as an open network that utilizes crypto-economic incentives to coordinate machine learning development.
—Contributors of models and computing power are rewarded with TAO tokens.
🇩🇪 Before Grayscale's U.S. filing, Deutsche Digital Assets, a Germany-regulated provider of ETPs, announced