👻 Threading Daily — 18.12.2025 👻

🔖Macro
- Silver continues hitting ATHs
- Trump: Tariffs have cut US trade deficit by 50%+
- Trump orders ‘complete blockade’ of Venezuela
- US carries out attacks on 3 boats in Pacific
- Germany to approve EUR 50b in military purchases
- EU to abandon combustion engine ban
- Amazon in talks to invest $10b+ in OpenAI
- Tesla hits another ATH

🔖Crypto News
- Memecoin volume down 90% in a year
- HYPE price target $200: Cantor
- Spot XRP ETF surpass $1b inflows
- BitMine buys $141m more ETH
- Crypto ownership falls to 8% in UK: FCA
- Securitize to launch ‘real’ stocks onchain
- OKX rolls out spot margin trading in Europe
- SEC concludes Aave probe
- Visa intros stablecoin settlement via USDC on SOL
- Exodus, MoonPay to launch USD stablecoin
- Kraken launches SportFun token sale
- Worldcoin ID now on Tinder
- Prediction market Probable to launch on BNB chain

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- The State of DeFi in 2025 — DL Research
- Crypto Predictions for 2026 — VeradiVerdict
- The Prediction Market Duopoly - An Analysis of Kalshi and Polymarket — Foresight Ventures

🔖Raises
- ETHGAS (Seed) $12M, Infrastructure layer for programmable gas < Polychain, Amber, Stake, BlueYard
- worm.wtf (Pre-Seed) $4.5M, Prediction market built on Solana < 6MV, Alliance, Solana, Borderless...

🔖Early Projects
- @ETHGasOfficial, Bio: Pioneering Ethereum blockspace markets, unlocking profound capital efficiency and precision for builders to power an instant and gasless Ethereum for everyone.
- @Pears_p2p, Bio: Empowering developers to build the future of 🍐 P2P apps with zero infrastructure cost. Revolutionize how we connect, share, and create with Pear Runtime.

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