🍿 OM OKX Update: We’ve found evidence that several linked accounts used large volumes of OM as collateral to borrow substantial amounts of USDT, artificially inflating OM’s price. OKX fully covered the resulting losses. The relevant evidence has been shared with regulators and law enforcement agencies, and several trials are now underway.
🔁 #WLD Tools for Humanity adds encrypted messaging and financial services to World as it advances its push toward a super-app model. Cointelegraph
🤔 Fogo is canceling its $20 million token pre-sale and will instead host a token airdrop to accompany its upcoming mainnet launch. Source: The Block.
📊 Santiment: #XRP bulls and bears are in a tug-of-war, keeping XRP around $2. Social sentiment around XRP is bullish. #ETH has fallen about 35% over the past 12 weeks. After the summer surge, FOMO has cooled, and retail investors likely won’t push prices lower.
✅🔮 Bitnomial has obtained CFTC approval to launch a prediction market in the United States. (Cointelegraph)
🇺🇸 Trump says interest rates should be 1% or lower next year. #macro
🆕 #LIGHTER update: Coinbase adds Lighter to its listing roadmap.
🆕 #LIGHTER update: Coinbase adds Lighter to its listing roadmap.
🎯 TOP OF THE DAY — Friday, December 12
• Stablecoin payouts on YouTube (read)
• Bitcoin OG insider longs (read)
• SEC, DTCC and tokenization (read)
• ❗️ Fed printing press (read)
• Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared 15 years ago (read)
• New Netflix movie (read)
• Success of a lone miner (read)
• Phantom prediction market (read)
• Netflix director faces up to 90 years in prison (read)
• Interactive Brokers accept stablecoins (read)
• Programbuyback PYTH (read)
❕ Hacking 0G Labs (read)
• Ripple expanding in Europe (read)
❕ Crypto exchanges in Belarus (read)
❕ Hacking Zerobase (read)
❕ Banking licenses of crypto giants (read)
• Pakistan and Bitcoin (read)
• War between humans and robots in Europe (read)
• Altcoin supercycle (read)
• Tether wants to buy Juventus (read)
• Fed news (read)
📕 Nothing unusual—just Der Spiegel’s new cover.
🥂 Today's digest and weekend events — https://t.me/cryptoattack/21110
🤑 A Polymarket user nicknamed "noovd" earned $300,000 by predicting how many posts Elon Musk would make on Twitter.
⚽️🚀 #JUV: Tether reportedly plans to acquire Juventus FC. JUV jumped over 30% as soon as the news broke, with buying activity ramping up. By 22:52 Moscow time, JUV led the top purchases on all CEXs. Activity also picked up for other football-club tokens. #CAreport 📊 Chart 👈
#usdt
🇮🇹 Tether aims to buy Juventus FC. The USDT issuer has submitted an offer to Exor to purchase 65.4% of Juventus’ shares, fully in cash from its own funds. Tether already owns 10.7% of the club. It is prepared to invest €1 billion in Juventus’ development. Paolo Ardoino, Tether’s CEO, called Juventus “part of his life” and a symbol of Italian excellence.
🇮🇹 Tether aims to fully acquire Juventus FC — the USDT issuer has already submitted an official offer.
🤑 Raoul Pal expects the altcoin supercycle to begin in 2026.
Why there isn’t an altseason now
• All the chatter that “alt-season is dead” is noise. The market moves with the business cycle.
• When the cycle is weak, risk-taking shrinks. As the cycle strengthens and profits rise, capital moves deeper into risk, toward altcoins.
• Donald Trump and Scott Bessent are priming the market for a flood of liquidity.
• Even Trump’s proposed tax bill could unleash up to $1.5 trillion of fresh money into the banking system.
Bitcoin as a macro asset
• BTC tracks global liquidity about 90% of the time.
• NASDAQ shows an even stronger link to money printing.
• Bitcoin isn’t an “uncorrelated asset”; it’s one of the most macro-sensitive assets.
• The current BTC price already factors in a recession that may not happen.
Big macro game
• The main driver is currency depreciation driven by a steady rise in liquidity.
• About 8% per year is the minimum profitability threshold beyond which capital loses purchasing power.
• Governments print money to service debts. This is a systemic, ongoing process.
Liquidity and the business cycle
• Since 2008, the business cycle has become more predictable due to debt repayment structures.
• The cycle lengthened from about 4 years to roughly 5–5.5 years after debt-term extensions in 2022.
• The next major liquidity surge has shifted to 2026.
Main conclusion
• Crypto’s current softness is a temporary mismatch between price and macro backdrop caused by liquidity constraints.
• Crypto is the most liquidity-sensitive asset class.
• The main phase of the cycle and the “banana zone” are still ahead.
• This is a long macro-cycle game, and patience is a key asset.
Raoul Pal
• One of the world’s most influential macro analysts, ex-Goldman Sachs hedge fund manager, and Real Vision co-founder.
• Coined the concept of “banana zones” in crypto—phases of rapid growth tied to liquidity cycles.
Full speech: link
Previously:
- CZ expects a supercycle
- Bitcoin resembles Google in 2017
- Opinion on the BTC correction
Crypto Headlines
🗽 The Fed is printing again. Is the new $40 billion per month program salvation or a signal of hidden trouble?
- Alarming signal from the debt market: banks are reluctant to lend to each other even for short periods, and the Fed is rushing to buy short-term Treasury bills.
- AI bubble: every problem in AI triggers panic and a sell-off. How long can this go on?
- BTC in a bear trap: Bitcoin’s target is $70,000, and there’s essentially one scenario that could derail it.
- What went wrong with the Fed, how the financial markets reacted, and when to expect more QE — our new video: https://youtu.be/ggNV3K_ORPk
🗽 Bitwise promotes Bitcoin in Times Square.
Michael Saylor calls Bitcoin the new benchmark return on Wall Street.
Crypto headlines
✅ 15 years ago today — December 12, 2010 — Satoshi Nakamoto posted his last public message on the BitcoinTalk forum. And today, silver hit a new record at $64 🤑
Friday news:
🔸 The Mantle Global Hackathon 2025-2026 online, with a $150k prize pool, is breaking records — more than 800 applications have already been submitted
🔸 Interactive Brokers now supports stablecoin funding for US clients
🔸 The U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors has reappointed presidents of the regional reserve banks to ensure leadership continuity after Powell leaves
🔸 Belarusian authorities have removed Bybit, Bitget, OKX and other crypto exchanges from the list of blocked sites
🔸 Tether plans to raise $20 billion through the sale of shares to boost the business valuation to $500 billion
🔸 Media: On December 19, the Bank of Japan will raise rates by 0.25%
🔸 SEC allowed DTCC to conduct asset tokenization
🔸 Do Kwon received 15 years in prison for the $40 billion LUNA/UST scam in 2022 🚨
🔸 Ripple, Circle, BitGo, Paxos and Fidelity Digital Assets will soon receive trust bank licenses in the United States
🔸 U.S.-based YouTubers will be able to receive rewards on the platform in the stablecoin PYUSD
Rates:
🌐 Bitcoin — $90,142 (−2.57%)
📉 S&P 500 — 6,832 (−0.99%)
🇷🇺 USD/RUB — 80.24 (↑0.01%)
🇺🇦 USD/UAH — 42.26 (↑0.15%)
🌕 Gold — $4,292 (↑0.33%)
⚫️ Brent Crude — $61.20 (−0.57%)
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