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Alas, the plot thickens! While bulls have repelled sellers, their victory feels as hollow as a politician’s promise. Buying volume? About as enthusiastic as a sloth at a rave. Meanwhile, the UNIfication proposal-a Yuletide gift wrapped in deflationary ribbons-burned $591 million like it was Monopoly money. How delightfully extravagant! Future fees will continue this fiery purge, because why hoard tokens when you can torch them for drama?

Yet, mark well this irony: the crowd, though grim in visage, showers them with coins, even as the market’s tempest rages on. A paradox, is it not? 🌪️

So, apparently, people were shuffling around a rather alarming amount of digital money in 2025. $1.2 trillion monthly, you say? That’s… a lot of zeroes. It seems everyone decided they needed to borrow money to buy more money, which, as any economist will tell you (after a long nap and a strong cup of tea), is always a good idea. 🙄 Crypto derivatives activity, predictably, went bonkers, mostly thanks to these decentralized perpetual futures markets. The spot market? Oh, it was having a quiet little sit-down in the corner, feeling rather overlooked.

The US Dollar Index (DXY) has lost 10.41% of its value since the start of 2025, which is like watching a well-dressed gentleman lose his top hat in a tempest. The euro, yen, and pound are now dancing with glee, while the dollar flounders like a fish out of water. 🐟

In a rather enlightening discourse shared on the platform known as X, the esteemed lead research analyst of Glassnode, one CryptoVizArt, has expounded upon the latest developments concerning the 90-day simple moving average (SMA) of the Bitcoin Realized Loss. This particular indicator, as one might surmise from its name, endeavors to measure the totality of losses (in USD, mind you) that investors are so heroically “realizing” through their various transactions. One cannot help but feel a tinge of sympathy for these souls. 📉

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Earlier in the week, silver had flirted with the idea of hitting the heavens-perhaps a new all-time high, near the mystical $83 mark. Fueled by leverage thicker than a Moscow winter coat and speculative fervor that could give the wildfire a run for its money, the market danced on the edge of catastrophe. And then, as if summoned by some mischievous devil, the CME-those stern gatekeepers of futures-decided to crank up the pressure. Margin requirements now? A lofty $25,000 per contract! Oh, the humanity! Traders, faced with the cruel choice of pouring in more cash or retreating into the shadows, often chose the latter-surrendering to the merciless tide of forced selling. Because what’s a market without a little chaos? 😏

In this age of crypto chaos and macroeconomic melodrama, Ethereum’s user base expands with the tenacity of a particularly persistent garden slug. The network ascends quietly, while ETH’s price stumbles through its daily drama, clutching its wallet and muttering about “lost momentum.”

In a plot twist straight out of a cyberpunk novel, South Korea’s beloved BC Card partnered with Base, a shiny Ethereum layer-2 chain dreamed up by Coinbase, to introduce the noble and slightly mysterious stablecoin USDC. Yes, dollars on the blockchain-because why not add a dash of digital magic to your ₩s?

This “strategy” was sort of like choosing to play chess with a lightning bolt-done via perpetual futures, which is a fancy way of saying they’re betting on the derivatives rollercoaster rather than actually buying and selling the real stuff. It’s a bit like trying to control the tide by blowing bubbles in the bathtub.