🗓 January:
- $TRUMP memecoin launch right before inauguration
- Pardon of Ross Ulbricht
- Launch and rug of $MELANIA memecoin
- Crypto market cap pushes through $4T
- Memecoin super cycle kicks off

🗓 February:
- Bybit hack for $1.5B (biggest on record, tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group)
- Bitcoin correction >20%
- LIBRA token meltdown after Milei promotion
- Solana inflation controversy
- Exchange security panic

🗓 March:
- Trump signs executive order for a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (plus Digital Asset Stockpile for other majors)
- Public designation of BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP
- BITCOIN Act dropped (proposal for the U.S. to acquire 1M BTC)
- RedStone TGE and major listings
- Binance Wallet activity goes vertical

🗓 April:
- Tariff fears trigger a broad market flush
- BTC dips below $100K
- Extreme fear across the board
- Jesse Pollak pushes the tokenize everything meme
- Mantra collapse
- InfoFi narrative hits peak hype

🗓 May:
- U.S. states start passing Bitcoin reserve laws
- BTC tags a $112K ATH
- Ethereum Pectra upgrade hits mainnet (key EIPs: higher staking limits, EIP-7702 for account abstraction)
- Trump hosts a $TRUMP memecoin dinner
- Coinbase joins the S&P 500
- Hack of the largest LP provider on Sui
- Movement Labs collapse
- L0udio experiment

🗓 June:
- Circle IPO (NYSE debut, >$8B valuation, major win for stablecoins)
- DeFi TVL recovery accelerates
- Aave pushes past $24B TVL
- Polymarket partners with X
- Hyperliquid FOMO wave

🗓 July:
- GENIUS Act, CLARITY Act, and Anti-CBDC Act signed (hard block on CBDCs)
- BTC prints a $118K ATH
- Ethereum turns 10
- Solana ETF launch
- James Wynn liquidation
- Aave crowned DeFi king
- Adin Ross vs FaZe Banks saga

🗓 August:
- ETH spikes to a $4,948 ATH
- DeFi TVL explosion
- Hyperliquid and perps go truly mainstream
- PumpFun token sale mania
- BNB prints a new ATH
- Kanye West token launch

🗓 September:
- Fed resumes rate cuts
- Crypto sidesteps the usual September dump
- SEC and CFTC signal closer regulatory coordination
- Bitcoin OP_RETURN wars
- Creator Capital Markets narrative
- Prediction market battles
- Massive JavaScript supply-chain attack
- ASTER launch

🗓 October:
- BTC breaks to a $126K ATH
- Trump’s tariff comments nuke risk assets
- 4chan prophecy moment
- Record liquidations (> $20B in hours, largest ever)
- Brief USDe depeg on Binance
- CZ pardon
- Zcash narrative revival
- x402 narrative

🗓 November:
- Bear market memes start circulating
- Fresh altseason hopes
- Heavy ETH selling
- LINK ETF speculation
- Cautious, choppy sentiment
- Coinbase acquires UpOnly NFT
- Monad TGE

🗓 December:
- Robinhood rolls out altcoin perps in the EU
- Perp DEXs become narrative of the year
- Bittensor halving
- Kalshi co-founder becomes youngest billionaire
- Kabuto King and Pokémon Cards hype
- Stablecoin usage hits fresh records
- Broad Q4 slump: ~$1T market cap wiped out, BTC and ETH finish the year red despite earlier ATHs
- Trust Wallet exploit (browser extension vuln, ~$7–8.5M drained from ~2.5K wallets via the Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack)

This wraps up a wild year. Thanks for reading and following along.