📊 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.
The beautiful dream of 'one coin, one villa' is just a bubble under the sickle.
'One coin, one villa' is the most enticing slogan in the cryptocurrency world and the beginning of countless retail investors falling into the trap. You can always find stories like this in the community: someone bets everything on a meme coin and achieves financial freedom in half a year; someone enters the market with a few thousand dollars and instantly swaps for luxury cars and villas. These tales of wealth, whether true or false, act like a stimulant, making you forget the risks and only envision the beautiful dream of 'villas by the sea.'
So you start to follow the trend, heed the 'mentor's' advice to heavily invest in tokens with names that are hard to pronounce, fixating on the red lines fluctuating up and down on the K-line chart, imagining that you too can join the ranks of the wealthy. You are reluctant to cut losses, even if the token plummets, you will comfort yourself by saying, 'This is just a washout; holding on is victory'; you keep adding to your position, investing your living expenses, year-end bonuses, and even loans, just to accumulate a few more 'coins that can be exchanged for villas.'
But reality never accommodates fantasies. When the big players unload their assets and the coin price plummets, those who once shouted 'hold long-term' have long disappeared, and the shills in the group have gone silent. You watch the numbers in your account change from 'down payment for a villa' to 'money for a fast food meal,' and suddenly realize: the so-called 'one coin, one villa' is just a pie chart drawn by the big players, made of your principal and built on bubbles. When you wake from the dream, the villa never arrives, but instead, you may end up with a mountain of debt, left with nothing but losses on the screen and a sense of despair with no means to seek justice.
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You are chasing the myth of wealth, while he is calculating the harvest script.
You are chasing the myth of wealth, while he is calculating the harvest script. Open the cryptocurrency community, and you will never lack the brainwashing rhetoric of the 'get-rich-quick myth.' Some people show off screenshots of doubling their profits in a single day, while others shout, 'If you miss this wave, you'll have to wait ten years.' There are also 'cryptocurrency mentors' who guarantee to 'help you make easy money.' But what you don't know is that behind those glamorous returns are carefully designed harvesting traps. You stare at the constantly fluctuating gains on the screen, calculating dreams of changing cars and houses in your mind, but you don't realize that the big players have already set up an elaborate net — they create a buzz in the group with fake accounts while secretly driving up the token prices. When you rush in with all your savings, it's the moment the scythe falls.