⚡️ Crypto Watchlist for the week

➡️ $LIGHTER - Lighter is rumored to launch its token this month, as Coinbase added it to its listing roadmap

➡️ $FOLKS - Folks teased the upcoming launch of xChain V2, which will introduce cross-chain vault-based DeFi loans

➡️ $JUP - Jupiter will launch its new stablecoin built in collaboration with Ethena this week

➡️ Base - Base will make a big announcement on Dec. 18 (maybe about its upcoming $BASE token?)

➡️ $IN - INFINIT will launch Prompt-to-DeFi, an AI-powered way to create DeFi strategies, on Dec. 18 for early users

➡️ $COIN - Coinbase is set to launch prediction markets and tokenized stocks on Dec. 17

➡️ $ARB - $19M worth of ARB will be unlocked on Dec. 16

➡️ Macro events - Bank of Japan is expected to hike rates this week for the first time in 11 months

➡️ $MNT - mETH Protocol, the liquid staking & restaking ETH protocol built by Mantle, will undergo a big upgrade on Dec. 15

➡️ MegaETH - MegaETH will open its mainnet to app builders this week

➡️ $BTC - Trump is expected to start interviewing candidates for the next FED chair next week

➡️ $SNX - Synthetix will launch its perps DEX on Ethereum on Dec. 17

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

🔥 Forced sell or final shakeout? NMTD capitulates on HYPE

One of the most dramatic stories of December on Hyperliquid.

🗣️ NMTD is an OG holder and a public HYPE maximalist. For months he openly backed the token, broke down Assistance Fund buybacks, and argued HYPE could grow into a top 5 crypto.

What he did:

➡️ Pledged almost 1,000,000 HYPE worth about $27M on HyperLend, HypurrFi, and Felix
➡️ Borrowed BTC, ETH, and SOL against it
➡️ Added leverage on perps in the $36–42 range

It was a high risk bet that HYPE would outperform the rest of the market.

❌ The market disagreed.

When the health factor dropped to 1.05, the liquidation buffer shrank to about 5%. One sharp move lower and the position was gone.

📉 To survive, NMTD sold 312,000 HYPE in just 4 hours at an average price of $27.15. Roughly $8.5M. The proceeds went straight into debt repayment and saving the remaining position.

He survived. But lost around 25–33% of his original HYPE stack.

❓ The takeaway

Capitulation by large, highly convicted holders often lines up with local bottoms. When even the strongest hands are forced to sell, sellers start to run out.

$27 is the level where one of HYPE’s biggest believers was forced to tap out.

Is this the bottom? Maybe.
Or just a pause before more downside. The market does not owe anyone a clean narrative.

But if you were looking for a moment where pain peaked, this is one of them.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

🔽 Bitcoin dumped $3,200 from $89.8k to $86.6k and liquidated $203 million worth of longs.

All this happened in last 60 minutes with no major negative news or FUD.

Another example of 10 am manipulation which happens almost everytime the US market opens.

Crypto really needs market structure bill.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

🎰 The real goal of gambling is not winning. It is staying in the game

At first glance gambling looks like a chase for jackpots. In reality the most successful gambling products are designed to make winning irrelevant. The true objective is to keep the user playing for as long as possible.

Researchers call this state the machine zone. A trance where time, money, and self awareness fade away. Players are not trying to make profits. They are trying to stay inside the loop.

A famous gambler once put it simply. She was not playing to win.
She was playing to keep playing.

❓ What defines the machine zone

The machine zone first appeared in slot machines.

They allow continuous play with almost no friction. One action immediately leads to the next.
Each cycle is fast. A full loop takes only a few seconds.
Rewards are unpredictable. Near misses trigger stronger urges than losses or wins.
Natural stopping points disappear. There is no end of game, no final round, no forced pause.
Attention collapses into the interface. Time distorts and hours feel like minutes.

The product is not selling money. It is selling absorption.

📱 Smartphones made it portable

When casinos were physical locations, exposure was limited. Studies showed people living within 50 miles of a casino had 2x higher problem gambling rates.

Now the casino lives in your pocket.

Smartphones removed distance, time, and effort. Products evolved to minimize the gap between decision and outcome. This pushed speculation closer and closer to the machine zone.

🕯 Options trading

In the early 2000s options expired monthly. Trades required patience and commitment.
Weekly options appeared in 2005.
Daily expiries arrived in 2022.

Zero day options exploded from 5% of volume in 2016 to 61% by May 2025.

The median retail option went from 4 days to expiry in 2020 to less than 1 day in 2022.
The median holding period today is about 30 minutes.

Waiting vanished. Stopping cues vanished. The loop remained.

⛹️‍♂️ Sports betting

After legalization in 2018, betting was mostly pre game. One bet. One outcome. Forced waiting.

Then came same game parlays.
Then live betting.
Then micro betting.

By 2023, a football game turned into 3 hours of nonstop decisions. Coin toss. Next play. Next score. Next drive. Odds refresh every 20 seconds.

Football became the perfect second screen product. Enough action to stay engaged. Enough downtime to keep betting.

🪙 Memecoins

Memecoins push the machine zone to its extreme.

Platforms like Pump.fun create dozens of new tokens every minute. No earnings. No fundamentals. No limits. Just sentiment.

One click to buy. Instant charts. Constant new opportunities.

When one token goes to zero, another appears immediately. There are no endings. Only replacement.

⭕️ The outcome

The results are brutal.

93% of options traders lose money.
95% of sports bettors lose money.
98.6% of Pump.fun tokens are worthless.
97% of traders there make less than $1,000.

Yet participation keeps growing.

Because the product is not about profit. It is about staying inside the machine zone.

Stop laughing at kids for believing in Santa.

We know adults who are still waiting for alt szn.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

📊 Do crypto traders have an edge in equities?

At first glance it feels like crypto traders should dominate equities. Both markets move on price, flows, and psychology. In reality the edge transfers only partially, and the differences matter more than most expect.

💭 Crypto is a pure narrative market

Crypto trades almost entirely on attention, narrative, price action, charts, and memetic consensus. Fundamentals exist, but rarely dominate. Traders who succeed in crypto are usually very strong in these specific skills.

🌐 Equities are driven by information

Stocks carry real fundamentals. Every 3 months earnings add a large batch of new information that can instantly break a chart or narrative. Valuations, guidance, and expectations matter far more than in crypto.

💱 The playing field is much larger

Equities include thousands of names across many sectors. Finding the trade is already a challenge. In crypto, a well curated feed often points directly to what matters. In equities, orientation takes time and bandwidth.

🕯 You are trading against specialists

A meaningful share of capital is run by sector experts who have covered the same industries for years. They speak with management, run channel checks, and use proprietary data. This creates a natural disadvantage for newcomers.

❓ What actually transfers from crypto

Skills around attention, narrative shifts, and price action still help. They can offset part of the informational gap, but they do not replace deep fundamental knowledge.

📊 Market structure is more complex

Equities have many layers of participants and the options market plays a major role. Sector rotation and cross market flows matter far more than in crypto.

🛍 Beta changes the equation

US equities are more forgiving. Passive inflows provide a natural tailwind. Exposure to the S&P 500 is statistically safer than random exposure to crypto.

💬 The social edge resets

Many crypto traders underestimate how much their success came from networks and information flow. When switching asset classes, that advantage disappears.

Some crypto traders can move into equities and outperform. Many cannot without rebuilding their process. The right move is understanding whether your edge is real alpha or simply beta plus environment. Being honest about that is more valuable than forcing trades.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

🏦 JPMorgan launches an onchain money market fund on Ethereum

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is rolling out MONY, a money market fund operating directly on Ethereum, seeded with $100M of the firm’s own capital before opening to outside investors.

➡️ JPMorgan manages roughly $4T in client assets
➡️ Fund shares are issued and tracked onchain via the Kinexys platform
➡️ Enables faster settlement, continuous issuance, and redemptions
➡️ Maintains a traditional money market focus on liquidity and capital preservation
➡️ Access is limited to large investors with a $1M minimum investment

Large institutions are not starting onchain with risky products.
They are moving the most conservative instruments first, where efficiency gains are immediate.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

🧠 The real way to get rich in crypto without wasting your life

Most people fail in crypto for a simple reason. They ignore the cost of time. PnL looks great on screenshots, but it means very little if it required living in the trenches 24/7.

Money can be earned back.
Time cannot.

🕔 Time is part of ROI

Most people judge returns only in dollars. That is a mistake. Every trade, farm, or strategy consumes both capital and time. Time is finite, non renewable, and impossible to replace. Ignoring it leads straight to burnout.

Spending weeks staring at charts to make a few thousand dollars is rarely a win.

❗️ Grinding is not a flex

The common advice sounds logical. If you have no capital, grind harder. Do every task. Farm every airdrop. Spin up more wallets.

In reality, low value repetitive tasks scale badly. They turn airdrops into an unpaid job with no guaranteed payout. When everyone can do the same thing, nobody stands out. Sybils win, not grinders.

❓ Why most people should not trade

Active trading demands constant attention and emotional energy. Many traders discover that after months of effort, they are down or flat. The real money often starts when they stop trading, hold spot, and wait for a few high quality opportunities.

Lower activity often leads to better outcomes.

🕯 High time ROI beats high effort

The best opportunities usually require less time, not more.

Set and forget positions.
Providing liquidity instead of clicking tasks.
Contributing meaningfully instead of farming blindly.

The goal is actions that compound without constant supervision.

🔍 Judgment is the real edge

There are endless opportunities. The scarce skill is filtering.

Everyone has different constraints.
Limited time.
Limited capital.
Different goals.

Winning means choosing opportunities that fit your situation, not copying someone else’s grind.

⌛ Reputation compounds
One of the highest time ROI plays today is building a credible onchain and social footprint. Sharing what you actually do, explaining decisions, and being consistent compounds reputation while you keep exploring.

Reputation attracts opportunities. Grinding chases them.


Crypto rewards those who optimise for time, not those who sacrifice it blindly. Unlimited time makes anyone successful. Real success is doing more with less.

Money comes and goes.
Time does not.

Optimise accordingly.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

Your no. 1 priority in crypto shouldn't be to make more money, but to survive.

There are so many cases of people who initially got rich and then ended up losing everything because they kept taking excessive risks.

Protect your capital and live to fight other battles.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

📉 Bitcoin predictions vs reality

BTC is around $90,000 with 16 days left in 2025.
Every major forecast missed the mark.

➡️ $170K–$180K JPMorgan and VanEck
➡️ $250K Standard Chartered and Tom Lee
➡️ $350K–$500K Kiyosaki and Chamath
➡️ $650K–$700K ARK and BlackRock
➡️ $1M from the loudest maxis

None of these were close.

This is the reminder markets deliver every cycle.
Price targets are not predictions. They are narratives.
Reality only answers to price, time, and liquidity.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

❗10am manipulation activated again.

🕔 9:30 AM US market opens

➡️Bitcoin jumped $2,865, from $87,500 to $90,365 in just 30 minutes.
➡️ Around $80B added to crypto market
➡️ Around $106 million worth of shorts liquidated within 30 minutes.

🕔 10:00 AM

The manipulation starts

➡️ Bitcoin dropped $4,000, from $90,365 to $86,300 in the next 90 minutes.
➡️ Around $130B erased from total market cap.
➡️ Around $150M in longs liquidated within 1 hour.

Same sequence. Same timing.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

GM

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

⏰ What happened in crypto over the last 24 hours

A lot moved across exchanges, institutions, and regulation.

➡️ $PIPPIN is now live on Robinhood Spot

➡️ HashKey went public on HKEX, raising $205M in its IPO

➡️ $HYPE proposed burning 37M tokens, around 10% of circulating supply

➡️ Binance tested UTF-8 on Spot and published a full listing framework, banning third-party agents

➡️ Coinbase announced a major product expansion including prediction markets, stocks, equity perps, DEX integration, BTC and ETH borrowing, and token sales

➡️ Circle launched the ARC Builders Fund to support early stage onchain apps

➡️ ETHGas raised $12M led by Polychain Capital

➡️ $AAVE unveiled its 2026 roadmap after resolving the SEC probe

➡️ Tether launched PearPass, a decentralized password manager

➡️ Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham confirmed her move to MoonPay

➡️ Bhutan committed up to 10,000 BTC to its national development strategy

➡️ DTCC partnered with Canton Network to tokenize US Treasuries

➡️ Grayscale released its 2026 digital asset outlook with ten core themes

✅ Subscribe to @cryp

🐋 Whales are loading Bitcoin

According to Glassnode, over the last 30 days whales accumulated 269,822 BTC, valued at roughly $23.3B.

❕ The biggest accumulation in 13 years.

When players of this size step in, it usually means one thing:
they are preparing for a move that takes time.

✅ Subscribe to @cryp