Weekly Editor's Picks (1220-1226)
Weekly Editor's Picks (Dec 20-26) by Odaily Planet Daily features curated insights from the past week. Key topics include:
- **Investing & Startups**: Bitcoin underperformed gold and U.S. stocks in 2025, attributed to liquidity flows into AI-driven assets and reduced volatility via ETFs. The U.S. may use crypto to manage its $37 trillion debt. The market is shifting from retail to institutional dominance, with only 15% of new tokens gaining value post-launch. Advice for 2026: lower fundraising targets, focus on product, and embrace realism.
- **Stablecoins & Payments**: Top 1,000 wallets control 84% of stablecoin transaction volume, highlighting centralization risks.
- **Prediction Markets**: Kalshi’s report shows crowd consensus outperforms Wall Street in complex forecasts like CPI.
- **Bitcoin & Ethereum**: Bitcoin’s 2025 development focused on quantum threat defense, layered functionality, and decentralized infrastructure. ETHGas introduced futures and pre-confirmations for block space, enhancing cost certainty.
- **CeFi & DeFi**: Coinbase and Robinhood are evolving into super-apps, integrating stocks, crypto, futures, and prediction markets. Fixed-rate lending remains niche in DeFi due to user behavior misalignment. Aave captures more value than protocols built on it, sparking governance debates.
- **Also Covered**: Polymarket’s migration from Polygon, meme coin performance, and weekly highlights including U.S. crypto integration progress, regulatory updates, and security incidents.
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