Fed Rate Cut: 25bps or Bust? 🤯💸
Today’s decision was non-unanimous, reinforcing the uncertainty that has dominated investor sentiment over the past week. They couldn’t even agree on pizza toppings, let alone rate cuts! 🍕🤷♀️
Today’s decision was non-unanimous, reinforcing the uncertainty that has dominated investor sentiment over the past week. They couldn’t even agree on pizza toppings, let alone rate cuts! 🍕🤷♀️

While Hong Kong and Singapore played the ‘financial cool kids’ for ages, Seoul’s been secretly building a crypto powerhouse – they’re practically the Silicon Valley of Onchain. And the exchange Upbit? Think of it as the Beyoncé of crypto volume.

This move marks Tether’s latest leap from stablecoins into the wild west of AI. With $5.7 billion in profits during 2025’s first half and 500 million USDT users, the company is splurging on AI like it’s confetti at a crypto carnival. 🎉
“Hold your horses, MSCI!” Strategy cried, quill in hand (or was it a keyboard? 🖋️⌨️). “We’re not just a bunch of crypto cowboys! We’re operating companies, darlings, with Bitcoin-backed credit instruments and all sorts of financial wizardry!” 🧙♂️✨
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s celestial puppetry, executed a ballet of 1,021 BTC (approx. $94.48 million) on December 10, per Lookonchain. The funds waltzed toward what might be a Coinbase Prime vault, their destination as mysterious as a Tolstoyan plot twist. This isn’t mere finance-it’s a symphony of speculation.
Moen’s crying foul over two big things:

Bitcoin (BTC), that shimmering beacon of fiscal stability (or not), inched up by a modest 1.57% over the past 24 hours-just enough to make traders feel like they’ve got a tiny advantage before the chaos resumes.
Last month, Mastercard, Gemini, Ripple, and WebBank staged a grand experiment: settling card payments with RLUSD on XRPL. How novel! Using a public blockchain for mundane transactions, as if financial innovation hadn’t been stuck in a hamster wheel since 2008 🎪. RLUSD, now bloated to $1 billion, and Ripple’s $500 million heist at a $40 billion valuation-because nothing says “sustainable future” like Wall Street’s favorite casino 🎰.

Alas, the market’s response was less coup de grâce and more coup de cringe. Shares plunged like a poorly aimed trapeze artist when MSCI’s plan leaked. Losing passive capital flows? A tragedy rivaling Humbert Humbert’s lost Lolita. 💸📉

TRUMP, once a darling of political fervor and viral whimsy, hath overindulged in its celebrity guise. Alas, the market’s patience hath withered like a forgotten rose. Now, its creators propose a utility-first masquerade, hoping a playable trinket shall reverse its downward spiral. 🌀