👻 Threading Daily — 17.12.2025 👻

🔖Macro
- Platinum hits 14 year high
- Fed injected $5.2b into US banking
- Asset managers extremely bullish on US stocks
- BoJ likely to start selling ETF holdings from Jan
- Trump admin launches ‘Tech Force’ for AI
- Trump sues BBC for $10b
- Ford to write down $19.5b EV investments
- Tesla hits ATH, Elon’s net worth hits $600b

🔖Crypto News
- Crypto falls amid renewed macro jitters
- Strategy buys $980m BTC, BitMine buys $321m ETH
- Japan’s SBI Holdings to launch stablecoin
- Russia’s Sberbank testing DeFi products
- CME launches spot-quoted XRP, SOL futures
- PayPal intros PYUSD savings vault on Spark
- Ripple taps Wormhole to expand RLUSD to L2s
- Aster launches Shield Mode for private trades
- MetaMask rolls out BTC support
- SOL has faced sustained DDoS attacks this week
- Ondo announces tokenised stocks on SOL
- Sportdotfun ICO goes live today, $60m FDV
- Kalshi launches parlays

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- Aave Will Win: 2026 Master Plan — Stani Kulechov
- Crypto is Dead — DougieDeLuca
- Crypto Outlook 2026 — Bitcoin Suisse

🔖Raises
- Space (Strategic) $3M, Leveraged prediction markets < Morningstar, Arctic
- Speed $8M, Bitcoin and Stablecoin payment processor < Tether, Ego Death
- RedotPay (Series B) $107M, Crypto wallet and payment solutions < Goodwater, Pantera...
- Strata (Seed) $3M, Perpetual yield tranching protocol < Maven 11, Faction

🔖Early Projects
- @limoraprotocol, Bio: Decentralized trading (~50x) and lending, via concentrated liquidity (~7x traditional APY), on @base @districtxyz @dydx linktr.ee/limora_protocol
- @MirrorAI_, Bio: Autonomous capital layer. Always-on. Powered by MAI. Multi-strategy vaults across chains. Earn relentlessly.
- @SunbeamMoney, Bio: The Bitcoin Savings Account. Real Yield in BTC by @asymmetryfin x @yearnfi Coming very soon.

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