👻 Threading Daily — 08.12.2025 👻

🔖Macro
- Futures higher ahead of inflation data
- Meta rallies on big Metaverse cuts
- OpenAI plans $4.6b Sydney data centre
- Netflix in talks with Warner Bros
- X adds video banners
- Elon fined $140m by European Commission
- Fifa World Cup draw today

🔖Crypto News
- Crypto mixed ahead of PCE
- Sovereign funds buying BTC: Larry Fink
- MiCAR transition period to end Dec 30: Italy
- Argentina SoE YPF could allow crypto payments
- Cloudflare outage hits crypto apps
- Base to support SOL-based assets natively
- VFX, Blockdaemon to offer self-custody DeFi
- Hashkey to begin IPO process next week
- Aster releases H1 2026 roadmap
- Native USDC now linked b/w HyperCore and HyperEVM
- Lighter DEX: ETH perps rolls out spot trading
- Myriad launches Myriad Pools
- Kalshi enters media partnership with CNBC

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- AI is Rewiring the Economy — fintechbrainfood
- I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto — Kenchangh
- Four Directions Crypto Will Evolve in 2026 — Poopman

🔖Raises
- LayerBank (Pre-Seed) $2.3M, Non-custodial Lending Platform < Torab, Coin Bureau
- Gondor (Pre-Seed) $2.5M, DeFi layer for prediction markets < Maven 11, Castle Island

🔖Early Projects
- @fin, Bio: If banks and payment products could be rebuilt from the ground up today, they would look like Fin.
- @BlynxFi, Bio: Trade on anything, anywhere. Enable blinks to get started. Powered by @solana x @kalshi
- @Magnet_Swap, Bio: The first PropAMM on Ethereum.
- @ReliqFi, Bio: welcome to the temple of hype. pre-deposits open soon

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