Happy Wednesday all! I hope you are ready for new years Eve🥳.

If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here’s your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

- Metaplanet buys another 4,279 Bitcoin worth $375 million. They now hold 35,102 BTC worth $3 billion.

- 87% chance the Federal Reserve does not lower interest rates in January, according to Polymarket.

- Silver price rallies to over $78 per ounce, up over 9% from its recent low. Now trades back to $70.

- SoftBank fully funds $40 billion investment in OpenAI.

- Nvidia in advanced talks to acquire Israeli generative AI firm AI21 Labs for $2-3 billion.

- Mexico to raise tariffs by up to 35% on Chinese imports starting Thursday.

- Mexico to raise tariffs by up to 35% on imports from India starting this week.

- Elon Musk tells X to increase creator payouts to compete with YouTube.

- Tomorrow is Warren Buffett’s final day as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway: Over six decades, BRK.A compounded at ~19.9% annually and now trades at $754,000. Berkshire beat the S&P 500 in 40 of 60 years.

- David Beckham-backed health firm ceases Bitcoin treasury plans.

- If Bitcoin ends 2025 below $96,900, it would mark the first negative post-halving year ever.

- "Gold is just bitcoin that can't be sent over the internet." - Edward Snowden.

- Robinhood - HOOD delivered a +223% stock return in 2025, driven by higher trading activity, strong net interest income and operating leverage. Focus for 2026: active traders, international expansion, and wealth platform growth.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

- XRP digital asset treasury, VivoPower, acquires Norwegian data center for AI pivot.

- LONGANA launches on Solana with a AUTO 5× SOL perp 100% of PumpFun fees auto-deployed, AI-managed, with liquidation protection.

- Lighter_xyz lists its native token.

- Lighter_xyz announces "token is allocated between the ecosystem (50%) and team/investors (50%). Points seasons 1 and 2 that ran in 2025 have yielded 12.5 million points that will be immediately airdropped, equating to 25% of the fully diluted value."

- Odds of Lighter_xyz's native token fully diluted valuation being greater than $4 billion one day after launch drop to 8% on Polymarket.

If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me – I'll see you tomorrow.

Credit to the following X accounts for key insights & updates: @whaleinsider @bitcoinmagazine @watcherguru

@degeneratenews @charliebilello @economyapp @earnings_time

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Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro.

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