🪙 Dogecoin turns 12 today — the meme coin that started as a joke on December 6, 2013, created by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer to poke fun at the rapidly growing number of digital assets.

It became the first cryptocurrency built entirely around meme culture, and the rest is history.

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🤑 Vitalik Buterin has proposed creating a futures market for Ethereum gas, allowing users to lock in future transaction fees in advance and reduce uncertainty as the network continues to grow.

The idea aims to give users predictable costs during periods of high demand — essentially letting them hedge future gas prices just like traditional commodity futures.

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👁️ Donald Trump has authorized Nvidia to export its advanced H200 chip to China — with the U.S. government taking a 25% cut from all revenue generated by those sales.

👉 Trump also criticized Europe, saying the region is “moving in the wrong direction” after imposing a “disgusting” $140M fine on X (Twitter).

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🤖 Aster team has launched a trading tournament featuring 70 human traders and 30 AI bots.

Each participant received $10,000 in starting capital directly from the developers.

👉 Losses are fully covered by Aster, while any profit can be kept by the traders themselves.

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🪙 Michael Saylor says his company intends to buy up as much BTC as possible, effectively removing coins from circulation.

According to Saylor, this strategy reduces the available supply and strengthens the Bitcoin network as a whole.

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🍀 Another solo miner has struck gold — successfully mining block 927474 on the Bitcoin network and earning 3.133 BTC (~$284,000).

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🗓 Solana Breakpoint 2025: Key Highlights

The Solana Breakpoint 2025 conference kicked off in Abu Dhabi on December 11. Here are the main highlights from the first two days:

🟢 Solflare unveiled Solflare Shield, a hardware wallet that stores private keys inside a secure chip.
🟢 State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management plan to launch a tokenized liquidity fund on Solana in 2026.
🟢 Solana will be integrated into Coinbase’s DEX trading service, expanding on-chain access for users.
🟢 Firedancer, developed by Jump Crypto, has officially gone live on the Solana mainnet.
🟢 Light Protocol introduced a new token standard on Solana — Light Token.
🟢 Phantom Wallet announced upcoming integration of tokenized prediction markets from Kalshi and dFlow.

👉 Solana is clearly positioning itself as a core layer for DeFi, tokenization, and consumer crypto going into 2026.

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👻 The Fear & Greed Index remains in Extreme Fear territory — currently sitting at 16.

Historically, such levels tend to coincide with heightened panic and often precede relief rallies or local bottoms, though timing remains uncertain.

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🍿 A very unlucky whale spent $23M buying AI-agent tokens on Base

He ended up selling the entire portfolio for just $2.58M. That’s a brutal $20.4M loss in under a year.

👉 Even whales bleed when hype meets reality.

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📉 The number of active Bitcoin wallets has dropped to a yearly low

On-chain activity on the Bitcoin network is slowing down, with active wallets hitting their lowest level in the past year. This often reflects reduced retail participation and a market waiting for a clear direction.

🔥 Historically, similar periods have coincided with accumulation phases — less noise, more patience from long-term holders.

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💶 Since the start of this year, the supply of euro-backed stablecoins has surged to €425,000,000 — a 168% increase.

The rapid growth reflects rising adoption of euro-denominated digital assets in DeFi, payments, and cross-border transfers.

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💰 Crypto losses to hacks hit $3.4B in 2025 — nearly 70% of all stolen funds came from just three major incidents, including the $1.5B Bybit hack.

The biggest threat remains North Korean hackers, who stole around $2B in 2025 alone.
Since 2022, their total crypto haul has reached an estimated $6.75B.

👉 Security risks remain one of the largest systemic threats to the crypto industry.

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🤖 Robots are now being used as backup dancers at concerts in China.

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🪙 A video is circulating online in which a man claims he found a flash drive from 2009 holding 100 BTC.

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🚀 Blockchain Forum 2026 — the global crypto industry returns to Moscow

📅 April 14–15

Blockchain Forum 2026 is the only international crypto event in Moscow bringing together leading global companies, top speakers, and investors in one place.

The event is organized by the team behind Blockchain Life — a flagship crypto forum that has been gathering tens of thousands of attendees in major crypto capitals worldwide since 2017.

Traditionally, the forum brings together founders and top executives from:
Tether, Binance, Tron, Ripple, Bybit, Animoca Brands, Circle, OKX, KuCoin, Telegram, Cardano, Mastercard, Bitmain, DWF Labs, Consensys, BNB Chain, and many more.

🔥 Three stages
🏢 250+ companies
🔜 20,000+ attendees

All international talks will feature simultaneous translation into Russian.

💡 For the first time:
AI Future — a “forum within a forum” dedicated to the intersection of AI and blockchain, bringing together industry leaders, developers, investors, and researchers.

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📉 In 2025, almost all major L1 assets are down — only BNB and TRX are in the green.

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🪙 In 2025, spot DEX trading volume on Solana reached $1.6 trillion, surpassing every centralized exchange except Binance.

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🪙 Reports suggest Venezuela may have accumulated a large “shadow” crypto reserve — potentially up to 600,000 BTC.

According to circulating claims, the regime sold around 73 tons of gold in 2018 and allegedly converted part of the proceeds into Bitcoin to avoid asset freezes by the U.S. Treasury.

👉 So far, this remains unconfirmed, but if true, it would rank among the largest state-level BTC holdings ever rumored.

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📊 Spot trading volumes are drying up
BTC spot trading volumes and aggregate altcoin turnover have fallen to their lowest levels since November 2023 — Glassnode.

At the same time, prices remain elevated, pointing to weakening real demand and deteriorating market liquidity.

🫡 The market appears to be running on inertia rather than fresh capital — a potentially fragile setup.

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🪙 17 years ago, on January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent the first-ever Bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney.

Finney later said that Satoshi’s identity was a mystery to him — he imagined “a young man of Japanese origin, very intelligent and sincere.”

👉 Looking back in 2014, Finney admitted he regretted his early lack of interest in Bitcoin — not realizing at the time that he was witnessing the birth of a financial revolution.

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