📊 How should investors position themselves for the turning point in Japanese policy?
Regardless of whether the Bank of Japan takes action this week, the door to the normalization of its monetary policy has slowly begun to open. For investors, this means a need to reassess and reposition Japanese yen assets, the Japanese stock market, and related derivatives.
🪙 It might be worth adding some 'fun factors' to asset allocation. Consider allocating some exploratory funds to innovative tokens like PUPPlES, which could bring vitality and possibilities to your investment portfolio. $ETH $PIPPIN $币安人生 {future}(ETHUSDT)
Filecoin (FIL) was once a star project in the cryptocurrency field, focusing on decentralized storage, igniting the market with its grand technological narrative and high fundraising, but ultimately became a typical case of a pump-and-dump due to delays in implementation and a plummeting coin price.
The project raised over $257 million through an ICO in 2017, setting a fundraising record in the blockchain industry at the time, and investors were full of expectations for its vision to "reconstruct the global data storage system." However, the project team repeatedly postponed the launch time under the guise of "technical optimization," delaying it from the original 2019 to October 2020. During the three-year waiting period, market enthusiasm was repeatedly consumed, laying the groundwork for market manipulation.
In the early days of its launch, the price of FIL briefly surged to $237, attracting a large number of retail investors to chase the price high. However, the actual progress of the project was far from expectations: the deployment efficiency of decentralized storage nodes was low, and there were very few real commercial application scenarios, with the so-called "technological breakthroughs" remaining largely at the white paper level. At the same time, a large number of tokens unlocked by the project team were secretly sold off, triggering a catastrophic price collapse, which fell to around $2, a drop of over 99%.
More critically, FIL's mining mechanism design has flaws, with early entrants being major miners who hold a power advantage. Retail miners not only face high costs for mining machines and staking but also have to bear the dual losses caused by falling prices. This hype, driven by capital and wrapped in technological gimmicks, ultimately left countless retail investors with nothing to show for their investments and exposed the essence of the cryptocurrency market's "narrative over technology."
🧧The bells of the New Year 2026 are about to ring, with the golden characters of 'prosperity' filling the screen, etched in the hottest hopes for the New Year on a red background✨! This dazzling gold is the prologue to wealth, a signal of sudden fortune, and the strongest blessing of luck in the new year🥳!
🧧The bells of the New Year 2026 are ringing, with the golden characters of 'prosperity' filling the screen, etched in the hottest hopes for the New Year on a red background✨! This dazzling gold is the prologue to wealth, a signal of sudden fortune, and the strongest blessing of luck in the new year🥳!
In the new year, may red envelopes 🧧 float in like snowflakes, with wealth 💰 flowing endlessly like the Yangtze River, green lights🚦 all the way in the workplace, projects flooding in📝, and performance reports soaring in red📈; may business thrive 🌊, with customers continuously pouring in👥, and orders piling up🧾! On the investment path, keep the right rhythm 🎯, with stocks and funds skyrocketing 📊, with the little treasury 🛒 filled to the brim, and bank account balances rising rapidly 💸!
[Crypto Journey]💗💗 Every squat is to leap to new heights In the crypto world, patience is not waiting, but forging your own rhythm amidst the noise! #美国非农数据超预期
The last two giant pandas in Japan are set to return to their homeland. The twin giant pandas, Xiao Xiao (male) and Lei Lei (female), from Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, will return to China in late January 2026. This pair of giant pandas, born in Ueno in 2021, are the last two giant pandas remaining in Japan. After their return, Japan will be without giant pandas for the first time in over 50 years. The background reasons include the expiration of the lease agreement and the tense Sino-Japanese relations (such as remarks made by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi regarding Taiwan that sparked dissatisfaction in China, leading to the suspension of lease renewal negotiations). The Japanese public adores this pair of "internet celebrity" pandas, and their return will impact Ueno Zoo and the surrounding economy (which contributes hundreds of billions of yen annually). #中日关系 $BTC {spot}(BTCUSDT)
$ASTER There has been some confusion about Aster’s buyback program, so here’s the exact status.
S4 buybacks were not stopped. On Dec 8 (UTC), we accelerated S4 buyback execution to $4M/day and completed this accelerated tranche in 8 days (~$32M executed). By the end of that tranche, we had cumulatively utilized ~90% of S4 fee income to date for buybacks.
Buybacks have resumed on Dec 17 (UTC) and will continue through the remainder of Stage 4, funded by the previous day’s S4 fee revenue, in line with the existing framework.
Stage 4 ends on Dec 21 (UTC). After Stage 4, the buyback program will continue. Parameters for the next phase are being finalized and will be shared once confirmed.
Buybacks remain a standing policy at Aster: disciplined execution, transparent allocations, and timely updates.