Interest is dropping faster than my New Year’s resolutions, and ETF flows are reversing like a bad breakup. So, is this a correction or the start of a bear market? Who knows? Probably neither. It’s just crypto being crypto. 🌪️
In a December 5 post that could double as a reality TV script, PlanD claims Bitcoin is trapped in a “decision zone” between $85,400 and $93,000. Translation: it’s stuck in the emotional equivalent of a rom-com montage, waiting for a plot twist. If BTC can muster the courage to break through $93,000, it’ll be eyeing $100,000 like a six-figure dream. But if it stumbles below $85,300? Prepare for a 19% freefall that would make even the most stoic investor cry into their coffee. 😭
Their own bespoke global M2 money supply index shows a recovery so confident, it’s practically winking at us through the economic fog, suggesting that a softer dollar could turn the market’s frown upside down by late 2025. Coincidence? Or the universe’s way of reminding us that hope, like crypto, is often irrational but irresistibly charming?
Traders, those brave souls who bet their fortunes on digital graphs, found themselves adrift in confusion, for no calamity heralded this plunge-nay, not even the nefarious WhatsApp rumors of a Keynesian uprising. Silver, that shimmering paragon of serenity, and the S&P 500, that bullish bard of Wall Street, ascended triumphantly, while Bitcoin-poor Bitcoin-dipped its nose like a humble thimble in a brewing storm.
But worry not, for the Core Team has been busy, busy bees. Oh, how they’ve toiled and tinkered with improvements aplenty, culminating in a pièce de résistance announced just last Friday.
On the 4th of December, Ondo Finance Inc., with all the subtlety of a marching band in a library, submitted a letter to the SEC’s Crypto Task Force. The letter, written in the style of a desperate inventor begging for a patent, outlines a “roadmap” to speed up tokenized securities. The firm claims the U.S. is lagging behind global markets, as if the entire nation is trapped in a bureaucratic time warp. 🕰️
Bitcoin, poor darling, remains shackled to its “digital gold” narrative, a relic of simpler times. But Ethereum! Ah, Ethereum is the belle of the ball, the key platform upon which the future is inscribed. 🎩✨ BlackRock, ever the astute courtier, does not merely invest in a token; it bestows upon Ethereum the imprimatur of legitimacy, anointing it as the world’s leading financial ledger for tokenizing Real-World Assets (RWAs). 🌍📜
And just to make things extra spicy, Twenty One Capital isn’t going it alone. Oh no, they’ve teamed up with Cantor Equity Partners (CEP), a SPAC that will serve as their trusted public-market vehicle. CEP shareholders have already given the thumbs-up (like a real thumbs-up, not the emoji version), and the deal should be wrapped up by December 8. Then, voila! The new entity will step into the spotlight as Twenty One Capital, Inc. and start trading under the ticker symbol XXI on December 9. Yeah, mark your calendars, this could be the start of something BIG. 📅
Turkish digital asset platform Paribu, in a move that would make even Tolstoy raise an eyebrow, has acquired a majority stake in CoinMENA, a Sharia-compliant cryptocurrency exchange licensed in Dubai and Bahrain, in a deal valued up to $240 million. The acquisition marks the biggest fintech deal by Warszawa (or was it Istanbul? The world’s most polite financial coup, perhaps) and the country’s first cross-border acquisition of a digital asset platform, indicating a significant milestone in the growth of the region’s markets-or at least a very expensive coffee break for the boardroom.
