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Gold's historic run
Gold prices have remained above their 200-day moving average for ~550 trading days, the 2nd-longest streak on record.
This is only below the ~750 trading sessions seen following the 2008 Financial Crisis.
During the current streak, gold prices have rallied +135%, surpassing the 2009–2011 gain of +91%.
By comparison, the 1986–1988 run lasted ~510 trading sessions, during which gold prices increased +38%.
Meanwhile, the 1978–1980 streak lasted ~495 sessions, with gold prices rallying +209%.
Gold's momentum remains historically strong.

LATEST: STANDARD CHARTERED PREDICTS 330% PRICE SURGE FOR $XRP
Geoffrey Kendrick at Standard Chartered Bank estimates $XRP will reach $8 in 2026. 📈
The bullish forecast is based on increased regulatory clarity and the recent approval of spot $XRP ETFs boosting adoption.
📊 As per the on-chain analysis platform SoSoValue, spot XRP ETFs have accumulated a total new inflow of $1.14 billion as of Dec. 26.

UPDATE: Real-world asset protocols have surpassed DEXs to become the fifth-largest DeFi category by TVL, hitting $17B as tokenized Treasurys, private credit and commodities rapidly move into the core of onchain finance

No one wants defensive stocks:
Global defensive stocks are now just 17% of world market cap, near the lowest since the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble burst.
This percentage has fallen -7 points since the end of the 2022 bear market.
To put this differently, consumer staples, health care, and utilities have materially underperformed the broader market over the last few years.
This has been fueled by the outsized gains in the US technology sector.
A similar pattern occurred during the 1990s, while the opposite took place during the 2008 Financial Crisis, when global defensive stocks outperformed.
Defensive

LATEST: Inflation remained a dominant search trend throughout 2025, maintaining consistently high public interest across the year alongside other major topics, per Axios.

LONG-TERM BITCOIN HOLDERS ARE QUIETLY BUYING AGAIN
This chart just flipped back into the green. Long-term holders, the group that usually sells tops and buys discomfort, are starting to accumulate again. 👀
That doesn’t mean price has to bounce immediately. These signals almost never show up at the exact bottom. They show up when selling pressure starts to fade and patience replaces panic.
There’s an important caveat here. Earlier this year, wallet reshuffling and exchange movements messed with the LTH classification, so this indicator isn’t perfect. You shouldn’t treat it as a standalone gree

Hedge funds are extremely bearish on the Japanese Yen:
Leveraged funds held ~85,000 contracts of net short positions on the Yen in the week ending December 14th, the 2nd-highest since July 2024.
This marks the 2nd consecutive week of heavily bearish positioning, following ~92,000 net short contracts recorded in the week ending December 9th.
Short positions have gradually accumulated since July as the US Dollar has strengthened against the yen.
This comes as the gap between US and Japanese rates remains large, at ~3.0 percentage points, limiting support for the currency despite the Bank of Japa

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 Metaplanet buys another 4,279 Bitcoin worth $375 million.
They now hold 35,102 $BTC worth $3 billion.

BREAKING 🚨 This whale has opened a $119,209,000 $BTC short position, with a liquidation Price of $102,993
Let's crush him!

💥BREAKING:
ODDS OF A US BANK FAILURE SPIKED TO 71% ON REPORTS THAT “A SYSTEMICALLY IMPORTANT BANK COLLAPSED"

CHINESE BANKS CAN PAY INTEREST IN DIGITAL YUAN
Starting January 1, 2026, banks can pay interest on e-CNY balances, turning the digital yuan from digital cash into something closer to a bank account.

77% SQUEEZE SIGNAL: Why the $90k Wall is Actually a Launchpad
1. The Numbers
Spot Price: ~$87,600
The Ceiling (Call Wall): $90,000. This is the "magnet" and the primary resistance level.
The Floor (Put Wall): $85,000. Market makers are heavily short puts here; they must buy spot as price drops, creating a concrete floor.
Volatility State: Contracting Fast. 7-Day Realized Volatility is down to 11.0% (extremely low).
Squeeze Probability: 77.3% (v6.2 Model). While the current structure is pinning price, the sentiment (Fear) and supply metrics suggest a violent expansion is loading.
When the "pi

BIG: Digital asset products saw $446M in weekly outflows, bringing total post–Oct 10 outflows to $3.2B

ALERT: A user lost $450K in tBTC after sending funds to a look-alike address in an address-poisoning scam, according to web3_antivirus.
The victim copied the destination address from their transaction history after earlier legitimate interactions. No wallet exploit or key compromise was involved.

🔓MAJOR TOKEN UNLOCKS THIS WEEK
More than $585 MILLION worth of tokens are scheduled to unlock over the next seven days.
Large cliff unlocks (>$5M, one-time):
HYPE, SUI, EIGEN, KMNO, OP, ENA, ZORA, SVL
Large linear unlocks (>$1M daily):
RAIN, SOL, TRUMP, WLD, DOGE, AVAX, ASTER

LATEST: 📈 Ethereum's TVL could 10x in 2026, with stablecoins projected to hit $500B and tokenized RWAs to reach $300B as sovereign wealth funds also increase holdings, according to SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom.

Something very serious just happened in the silver market and almost nobody is paying attention.
This is not about normal supply and demand.
This is about derivatives, leverage, and system stress.
A major global bank, one of the biggest players in the silver futures market, reportedly failed to meet a margin call on its silver positions.
That position was then liquidated.
This is a big deal.
This bank is not a small trader.
It is one of the largest players in precious metal derivatives.
When a player this large fails a margin call, it means stress inside the system, not just a bad trade.
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Michael Saylor's STRATEGY now holds 672,497 Bitcoin worth $59 BILLION 🔥

LATEST: ⛏️ The Bitcoin network's mining difficulty has increased to 148.2 trillion following the final adjustment of 2025, and is expected to rise again to 149 trillion on Jan. 8.

FED JUST PUMPED $29.5 BILLION INTO THE ECONOMY