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Gold is heading towards $5,000 — who will manage to seize the movement?👀

Goldman Sachs surveyed 900 institutional investors, and most are confident: by 2026, gold could see $5,000 per ounce. The bank itself is more cautious — the forecast is $4,900, but in the market, it's often not the numbers that win, but the sentiment 📈 And right now, it’s clearly bullish.

💡 What is driving the price?

🌍 Central banks are buying gold like there's no tomorrow
Slowly but surely moving away from the dollar — and this is a very important signal. When the powerful of the world accumulate the metal, the market simply has to react with growth.

👤 Retail investors and funds are also in the game
Interest is high, gold is once again perceived as a safe haven. A nervous world → demand for protection.

📊 Resilience after records
Yes, there was a pullback after $4,336. But on November 28 — again a two-week high, the fourth month of growth in a row. This is not a coincidence, this is a trend.

🤔Gold is rising not only due to demand — it is rising due to distrust in the future of the global economy.
📌Too much uncertainty: debts, geopolitics, a weakening dollar, shaky markets. When the world shakes — gold becomes an antidepressant. And as long as the nervousness doesn't subside, the metal could very well crawl up to $5k and even higher 🚀

🚀 ZOOMEX: AMBASSADOR AT THE START!

A top-20 CoinMarketCap exchange, sponsor of Haas F1 and partner of Emiliano Martinez, has announced the launch of a Social Media Ambassador Program for the CIS.
The focus is on long-term collaboration with crypto creators and opinion leaders to promote the brand in the region.
In short, they came seriously and for the long haul.

💰 How much can you earn?

The program is multi-level — meaning you can earn from several activities at once:

• 5 USDT — for each person who registered using your link
• 50 USDT — for a series of publications about Zoomex (5 days in a row)
• +10 USDT — for a futures trade of $100
• +10 USDT for a friend who deposited $50 and also made a futures trade of $100
• + for your subscribers — a 30% discount on fees 🤝 Convenient to ensure conversion is not affected

📌 Who is accepted into the program?

👉 bloggers and authors on Telegram / YouTube / X / TikTok with at least 100 subscribers
👉 admins of crypto communities with at least 100 members
👉 just active market enthusiasts

🔗 Registration — through the form, currently looking for fresh talent ready to promote the brand.

If you've been thinking about joining a partnership, trying your hand at crypto ambassadorship, or just want to test the format — it seems this is a good entry point.

AND WHAT'S WRONG WITH ETFs? 🤔

It's funny — ETFs are being churned out in batches: SOL, LTC, HBAR, now XRP and DOGE, while the market looks at this with the face of a person who no longer believes in love, altcoins, or growth.

The crowd only gets excited when someone is hacked, someone loses a seed phrase, or another "crypto fighter" gets scammed out of a million. ETFs? Well, ETFs and ETFs. No hype, no froth at the mouth.

And here lies the catch. Good news — zero effect. Macro pressures, money is cautious, rates are high, the market's mood is "I don't want anything." But usually, it's in such quiet moments that the foundation for future rallies is laid. ETFs — this is not a firework, it's hidden wiring under the floor. Not visible, not audible, and then — click — and the circuit is closed.

💭 So what's wrong with ETFs is only one thing: they don't put on a show. But they do their job.
And if one day the Fed loosens its grip and money rushes back into risk assets — then the flash could be such that today's silence will seem suspicious. 😉

🐸 Why PEPE might still fall by 18% — or even by all 25%?

In the last three months, PEPE has already dropped by 55%, and if we look deeper — it’s down 75% over the year. It seems that after November 21, the market tried to breathe, but so far it looks like a short pause before the next movement, rather than a confident turnaround. The pressure from sellers hasn’t gone anywhere — they still dominate.

Now an interesting point: large players seem to be picking up the coin, while retail investors are more often exiting, locking in losses. As a result, there’s a stark contrast — the "whales" are accumulating, the crowd is selling off, and the price continues to slide down.

📉 RSI is winking at hidden bearish divergence.
The chart is forming lower lows, while the RSI shows higher highs. It’s like a red light at a turn: "caution, the momentum is weak!". If support doesn’t hold — a minus 18% seems quite a realistic scenario.

But let’s rhyme the most interesting part:

If we break support → the minus may not be 18%, but all 25%.
If we break resistance → we will start to unwind the bounce.

💬 PEPE is at a crossroads. If we hold the level — there will be a chance for a bounce. If we drop deeper — prepare for a red candle

#PEPE

🔥 When will MicroStrategy crumble?

And will it even crumble?

MicroStrategy (yes, the very monster that holds more than 3% of all BTC) today looks like a tower supported by ever new bricks. And the higher it rises — the louder the creak.

The company assures:

even with BTC $25k debts we are not afraid — assets cover it twice.

💥 Where the structure is cracking

🔹 In accounts — about $54 million, while on payments for preferred shares — about $700 million a year.
🔹 The business is unprofitable — debts do not feed.
🔹 The main driver of growth has been one — issuing new shares and buying bitcoin.

🚨 Risks that are tightening

• Threat of exclusion from MSCI — January 2026
• Potential mechanical sell-offs of $2.8 billion
• Possible outflow of up to $8.8 billion
• 649 870 BTC on the balance — and the market remembers the day when the order books collapsed by 90%

If MicroStrategy starts selling — this is no longer a corporate problem.
This is a problem for the entire BTC market.

📌 The question is not "will MicroStrategy fall", but "when will the system stop relying on faith?"
And then the market will hear the real sound.
Not from an X-post — but from the order book😏

🚨 THE MONAD AIRDROP OF $112,700 JUST WENT UP IN FLAMES.
And no, it wasn't stolen.
It was eaten up by fees. Completely. To zero.

Yes, yes, wallet user 0x7f4 committed a true blockchain suicide: hundreds of transactions in a row, errors along the chain — and the person didn't even notice that each attempt was simply devouring the remnants of the airdrop.
$112,000 went… to the validators.
Congratulations. That's a skill.

Investor Joe in X wasn't holding back:

"Congratulations 0x7f4e…fa7d — managed to blow the entire Monad airdrop on fees."
If there were a contest for "most expensive rage-click of the year" — we would already know the winner.

But here's what makes the situation really spicy 👇
🔥 At the same time, SlowMist claims that the Monad airdrop distribution portal has been HACKED.
Hackers could intercept sessions and "rewrite" your tokens to their addresses even before distribution.

Users are complaining:
— tokens have disappeared,
— the address is someone else's,
— support is shrugging.

That is:
one person burned $112K with their own hands,
another — was robbed through a vulnerability,
and Monad, in the meantime, is collecting info on "farmers" who are squeezing drops through hundreds of wallets.

And all of this beautifully fits into the old truth as the network itself:
💀 If you don't make a test transaction — the market will test you.

🚨 BINANCE HAS LAUNCHED A NEW FEATURE — and I’ve already had the chance to test it!😉

In short: event contracts are like mini-bets on price direction.
Up or down? You choose a side — and if you guess right, you receive a fixed payout.

And here’s the funny part: I’m not really an expert in futures,
but I decided to give it a try… and it seems I came out ahead 😅
Maybe I got lucky, but the experience is pleasant.

Why this is really cool:
• no liquidations,
• no leverage,
• you know in advance how much you can earn.

Three steps — and you’re in the game:
1️⃣ Binance → Futures → Event Contracts.
2️⃣ Choose an asset, term, and amount.
3️⃣ Pick a side and confirm.

That’s it. A small, neat “prediction market” right in your app.

If you want to try something new on Binance — this is just the thing where you can start without extra stress. Just be careful: gambling can be addictive 😉

💸 The Ministry of Finance has once again "explained" how to milk the population using crypto

Another episode of non-state absurdity and kleptocracy. This time — the Ministry of Finance and the Tax Service are cheerfully launching the campaign "Taxes Protect" and explaining how to correctly give them a piece of your crypto income🤗

📌 Traders must come forward and voluntarily confess
Not just pay 18% personal income tax and an additional 5% military levy — but personally log into the electronic cabinet, submit a declaration, and say:
— yes-yes, I earned a bit here, can I give you a quarter?👀

And all this — despite the fact that there is still no comprehensive law for the market. But collecting from people — they always manage to do that on time.

📕In the draft law — the same 23%, but also a "grace period"
Hurry up, citizens, only now! Legalize your income at a discount — 5% + 5%.
Isn't this like Black Friday from the government, huh?

Meanwhile, RUSI writes: due to the lack of regulation, Ukraine has lost 10 billion hryvnias
But of course, the culprits are not those who cannot produce a law for three years, but — anyone else.
The main thing is that the tax rates are ready.

🔥 «Who taught Eric to lie?» — a rhetorical question

To be honest, listening to Eric Trump gives the impression that he had a master class in reality from his father since childhood.

And here he is again in action:

• Senators accuse WLFI of selling tokens to people from the Russian Federation, North Korea, and sanctioned entities.
• Eric responds: «This is all funny! We know everyone, we check everyone, everything is perfect!»
• He also adds the obligatory: «Elizabeth Warren is simply attacking our family».

Well, it's classic — instead of specifics, arguments, or procedures — there is a shift to politics.

💬 My opinion

The WLFI platform works with tokens that can be resold, transferred, mixed, and in the world of crypto, this is always a risk zone. When senators ask about compliance with sanctions regimes — this is a normal process, not a «witch hunt».

📌 Eric Trump does what he does best:
protects the family business, uses loud statements and emotional rhetoric, and when faced with uncomfortable questions — he almost never answers.

So if someone «taught Eric to lie», then the teacher has been nearby his whole life — and they share the same last name.

🛸 𝘛𝘙𝘌𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘙, 𝘒𝘖𝘛𝘖𝘙Ы𝘐̆ 𝘓𝘖𝘔𝘈𝘌𝘛 Polymarket: 100% 𝘚𝘋𝘌𝘓𝘖𝘒 И $415 000!

An anonymous player has emerged on Polymarket, achieving nearly the impossible — almost 100% successful trades. And no, he is not an insider genius. He simply exploits the weaknesses of the platform itself.

What does he do?
🔹 Enters the market in the final seconds, when the outcome is already obvious
🔹 Captures micro-profits of 0.1–1% — but with minimal risk
🔹 And repeats this hundreds of times, like a machine

Result:
💰 $130 000 in a month
💰 Over $415 000 since the beginning of 2025
💰 Plus large positions that yield 30–40%

But this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Analysts have noticed a whole class of such players — they use arbitrage bots, instantly buy up “resolved” markets, correct price errors, and earn millions from it.

Research has shown:
🧠 “Arbitrage bots” have already extracted nearly $40 million in profit from Polymarket
⚡ Speed is the main secret. Whoever sees the price error first takes the money
🔍 And yes, such opportunities last seconds

Essentially, this is not trading, but surgical extraction of profit from market imperfections.

📌I’ll be honest, I’ve never done anything like this🤔. If anyone has experience: write and share information.

🔥 The crypto market is experiencing a cultural collapse — and at the same time a quiet reboot.

If earlier we lived in an era of romance, when it seemed that DAOs would save the world, DeFi would rewrite finance, and NFTs were art itself, now the atmosphere is completely different.

According to CIO of Sigil Fund, known as Fiskantes, the industry has lost that naive optimism of 2017–2021. Back then, people really believed in big ideas. Now, however, the market has become much more prosaic.

🤡 In place of innovation came memes and attempts to latch onto the hype around AI.
The technological spirit has been replaced with "let's sell another token with a dog"

But it’s not all bleak 👇

🌱 There are glimpses of a new meaningful core.
Fiskantes notes the resilience of Zcash — as an example of how ideology can still survive in a harsh environment.
And importantly: the market has definitively switched to a mode of "show the numbers, not dreams".

🚀 Among such, Hyperliquid stands out.
And in the future phase of mass adoption, the lion's share of value, according to the expert, will go to large public companies — Circle, Coinbase, Robinhood. Logically: infrastructure wins the longest.

The conclusion is simple: romantic crypto is dead, but adult crypto is very much alive. Now there are fewer fairy tales and more mathematics.

🐽 «Feed and Slaughter»: a scheme where everything is lost

In Q3 2025, 80% of all social engineering attacks were on messengers 📲
And the leading scheme here is pig butchering — "feeding before slaughtering". It has already taken $10+ billion 😳

The essence is simple and disgusting: the perpetrator plays the role of a "friend", "investor", or "partner" for weeks, gaining trust ❤️‍🩹
Then they offer to "safely invest" in crypto or on a "cool platform". The balance supposedly grows 🚀
But it's impossible to withdraw money — and one day everything just disappears 🫥

Why does the scheme work so well?
— cheap scalability ⚙️
— call centers in Southeast Asia
— psychology > technique 🧠
— crypto as a quick and anonymous transport 💸
— PBaaS — conveyor for fake platforms 👾

🔍 How to recognize a fake platform

• The domain is fresh — up to a month 🌱
• Hidden owner and strange contacts
• Fake reviews and "media publications" 📰
• The site suspiciously resembles an exchange — but is too slick 🧼

🛡 How to protect yourself

Take a pause. Check the domain. Ask an extra question.
And most importantly — do not invest where the only source of trust is a pretty chat 🙅‍♂️

🌾 What you sow is what you reap. Trump and crypto🫡

Trump decided to play crypto-king? Great. And here he gets the full package: volatility, drawdowns, and a loss of $1.1 billion in a couple of months. TMTG shares collapsed to $10.18 because crypto dropped — and just like that, the empire cracked.

🥮Wanted a harvest — had to remember that the crypto market is not wheat. Everything grows fast here, but dries up even faster. In the fall, crypto gave him +$3 billion and a spot in Forbes 400. Today — it took it back. Karma? No. Just market mechanics.

And TMTG continues to push hard:
— $250 million in digital assets through Truth.Fi
— $2.5 billion under its own BTC reserve
— Custody through Crypto.com and Anchorage Digital

🪬All of this under the slogan "bitcoin will protect against discrimination." But bitcoin does not protect — it tests resilience. And if you entered the game — the market will definitely test you.

But even if you are a president, billionaire, and media company owner, the law of the market is the same: sow crypto risks — reap crypto volatility 🌪️

📌In a word ….. the redhead has played himself out

#BTC

🎄 The holidays are near: and, as per tradition, the "Ukrainian kleptocracy" is adjusting the collections

Another criminal group decided to gather its pre-New Year budget.

This time — a call center in Kyiv, which launched a "fake financial platform" for Europeans.
The scheme is classic, like Olivier on the table:
• they called foreigners,
• told about "super successful investments",
• showed fake graphs,
• installed software and "demonstrated profits" that did not exist.

Result:
💸 over $1.4 million in cash
💸 5.8 million hryvnias
💸 17,000 euros
…and this is just what they found.
A true "Christmas special edition" — only without the garlands.

Five victims "invested" 8.2 million UAH — and this is just the visible part of the iceberg.
In total — over 30 EU citizens.
And the organized crime group built the system so decently and solidly that the "VIP-client managers" controlled the victims' computers via remote access.

The country may change, technologies may change, even ETH may fall and rise a couple of times —
but this "industry" consistently enters the season, like Christmas markets.

🎁 Telegram gifts are falling. But the main question is — WHO actually buys them?

👶 Newbies who want to “enter crypto without crypto”
Telegram gifts are the ideal entry point for those who are afraid of exchanges, wallets, and phrases like “seed phrase”.

🧸 Collectors with the syndrome of “I need it all”

This is a separate caste.
People who collect everything: stickers, NFTs, cards, figures. Now — gifts.

They care about:
• rarity,
• collection status,
• “oh, I have that very Plush Pepe from the early drop.”

💵 Speculators “on a budget”

These are the guys who view Telegram gifts as a mini-NFT market for TON.
The logic is simple:
“bought for 7 TON → sold for 35 TON → hero”.

🧩 So, who buys?

Those who:
• want to feel “in the loop”,
• collect anything and everything,
• play mini-trading,
• believe in TON as a new digital religion,
• love to shine in chats.

📌Yes, the market is falling right now.
But the demand for the peculiarities of human psychology — never. 😄
#Ton

🛢🇺🇸 The USA is preparing a new shale revolution. And Russia is once again left at a broken well

America is bored again — they decided to boost their shale production and launch a new season of the oil market "How to become stronger without OPEC and unnecessary tears".

Technologists in the States have figured out how to squeeze even more oil from shale, and if everything takes off — it will be the most unpleasant thing Russia has seen since the days of cheap oil at $20.

💥 Why will this hit Russia harder than sanctions, the SWIFT ban, and Twitter, blocked by Roskomnadzor?

Because Russia is:

⛽ A large gas station that decided it is an "energy superpower".

The entire model:
sold oil → closed the budget gap → told on TV that "everything is going according to plan".

But!
If the USA consistently increases production, then:
• prices stop rising,
• the market becomes oversaturated,
• OPEC+ loses leverage,
• Russia loses the last lever of influence, apart from "threatening with missiles".

💭If American shale takes off, it will be: the most painful geopolitical economic blow to Russia in the last 20 years 🙄

🥱 The market looks dead, although everything seems fine

In recent days, the crypto community resembles a crowd after a three-year marathon: legs hurt, no ideas, mood at zero. And this is despite the fact that:
• 🚫 No new exchange crashes
• 🚫 Silence outside
• 🤦‍♂️ And inside — 'the market is dead'

According to researcher punk6529, this is classic cycle fatigue: everything that lacked long-term value has been reset — and with it, the faith of some players.

🔁 Forgotten what crypto is? Yes, that happens

An expert says directly:
👉 many got carried away with junk trends
👉 started to perceive the market as a casino, not as the infrastructure of the future

And yes, it's time to remember the basics again:

Decentralization is the only real foundation
• without intermediaries
• without a single center
• with resistance to pressure

🙋‍♂️ My opinion

Honestly? Punk6529 hit the mark.

But the important thing is: such 'fatigue' periods are not the death of the market, but its cleansing.
📌 Every crypto cycle goes through this phase. When:
• weak projects fall off
• hype disappears
• only those who are actually building remain

🎯 And it is precisely after such phases that the market begins a new cycle of growth.

🚨 The GBR has uncovered a scheme for smuggling men into the EU for crypto assets — an era where even an illegal immigrant "only accepts USDT"

📕 The story is straight out of 2025: in Transcarpathia, a soldier was detained who "organized trips" across the border to Romania for $2000. And, of course, payment was strictly in crypto — no banks, no traces, only virtual wallets and disappearing messages on Telegram.

🔢 According to the investigation, he used official information, communicated in a self-deleting chat, demanded payment in stablecoins, and after receiving funds, funneled them through an exchange service to cover his tracks.
As a true "tourism consultant," he sent instructions: routes, coordinates, tips on how not to get caught. He warned that on foot — it takes 5–6 days

🔦 Now he faces up to 9 years, and investigators are looking for other participants in the "business."

By the way, this is not the first case: in 2024, a gang was caught in the Odessa region that smuggled people wanting to go to Moldova for $5300 — and also accepted payment in cryptocurrency. The trend, as they say, is stable.

🎯 If even fleeing to the EU "illegally" is paid for in USDT — then it seems we all need to keep some stablecoins on hand. Just in case. 😉

🔥 Binance Pay has soared: 20+ million merchants, stablecoins — the new king of payments

It seems that crypto payments have finally moved out of the "for insiders" category. Binance Pay has surpassed 20 million (!) merchants worldwide — and this is not just a number, but a growth of 1700 times since the beginning of the year. Yes, even graphs are shy to show such figures 😅

What drives this machine? Of course, stablecoins.
In the B2C segment, 98% of all payments through Binance Pay are indeed stablecoins. And it's no surprise: low fees, instant transfers, global availability — who would voluntarily want to go back to SWIFT with its "wait 3 days, your payment is important to us"? 😉

Binance Pay is not just growing, but is literally weaving itself into global finance:
🇧🇷 integration with Pix in Brazil,
🇦🇷 support for QR payments in Argentina,
🇧🇹 connection to Bhutan's tourism ecosystem.

Even traditional players have started to stir: SWIFT is developing a blockchain registry, banks are exploring on-chain settlements — competition is tightening, to say the least.

In fact, we are witnessing a quiet revolution: crypto payments have ceased to be a niche and have become a real tool — fast, cheap, and understandable. And the further we go, the more this looks like not a hype, but a norm of life.

🤡 Hayes is back in action: a forecast that fits any scenario

Arthur Hayes has rolled out another big essay, but the essence can be summed up in a couple of lines.

💡 Main points:

Bitcoin lives on dollar liquidity.
Not on memes, not on ETFs, but on how much money the U.S. injects or withdraws from the system.

According to Hayes, there is currently a distortion:
ETFs show inflows, but the Treasury quietly withdraws liquidity back.
As a result, the crypto market gets the 'leftovers from the table'.

📉 Bad scenario

If the U.S. continues to tighten policy:

• liquidity ↓
• markets sluggish
• BTC could drop to $80,000–85,000

Hayes admits this, even though he usually advocates for 'Bitcoin at a million'.

📈 Good scenario

If the Treasury and the Fed turn on the incentives again:

• liquidity ↑
• markets come alive
• BTC could theoretically reach $200,000–250,000

🤔 But there's a catch

Until the end of 2025 — one and a half months.
When you hear about '250k this year', you can't help but smile.
It sounds nice, but the realism... not so much.
#BTC