How the December 9-10, 2025 FOMC Meeting Actually Hit the Crypto Markets
Everyone knew the Fed was going to cut rates by 25 bps — markets had it priced in at almost 89% chance — so when it actually happened and the target range dropped to 3.50%–3.75%, it wasn’t exactly a shock. This was the third cut in a row (Sept, Oct, now Dec), and the official reasoning was “hey, inflation’s calming down, let’s make sure the job market doesn’t fall apart.” So far, so dovish.
But then the fine print landed like a wet blanket.
The dot plot showed only one more cut penciled in for all of 2026, the vote was a messy 9-3 (most dissent since 2019), and Powell spent the press conference basically saying “we’re data-dependent and in no rush.” Translation: don’t get greedy, kids. Markets wanted a Christmas present; they got coal with a polite note that says “maybe next year.”
Classic “sell the news.” What Happened Right After Powell Stopped Talking Bitcoin had been flirting with $95k on pure hopium. The second the presser turned hawkish, it got smoked — down 3-5% in a couple hours, broke $92k, kissed $90.5k, then crawled back to ~$92.5k by the end of the day. About $34 million in BTC longs got wrecked. Ethereum and altcoins hurt a bit more — ETH -2-4%, Solana and the usual suspects -4-6%. Total crypto market cap shrank $80-100 billion in a blink. - Over $1 billion in leveraged positions across the board were staring at liquidation if things kept sliding. On-chain flows? Surprisingly calm. Exchange outflows actually ticked up a little meaning some whales used the dip to stack rather than panic.
DeFi TVL and NFT volumes took a quick breather, but stablecoin inflows held steady. People weren’t running for the exits; they were just taking profits and waiting.
Why the Weird “Good News but Everything Dropped” Vibe? The good stuff: Rates are still going down → cheaper dollars → weaker USD → more liquidity sloshing around → risk assets eventually love that. Powell explicitly said “nobody on the committee is even thinking about hiking,” which rules out the worst-case scenario. Starting Dec 12, the Fed is buying up to $40 billion in T-bills (technically just balance-sheet management, but free money is free money).
The not-so-good stuff: - That dot plot was stingy. Markets were hoping for 2-3 cuts in 2026; the Fed said “lol maybe one.” Powell kept hammering “we’re not on any preset course” and “inflation is still sticky in places.” That’s code for “we might just pause for a while.” Result = dashed dreams → profit-taking → dip.
Where We Go From Here Short term (next few days to couple weeks): Volatility. We’ll probably chop around or grind a bit lower until the “sell the news” crowd is done. $90-92k is decent support for BTC; lose that and $85-88k comes into play fast.
Medium to longer term (Q1 2026 and beyond): Still bullish-leaning. History says Bitcoin usually rallies 5-15% in the weeks after the initial post-FOMC dump, especially with year-end “Santa Claus” flows. Institutional surveys keep showing 75%+ of allocators planning to add crypto exposure in 2026. If the next CPI or jobs prints come in soft, the Fed will probably get religion again and cut more than the dot plot says (they almost always do). Weaker dollar + AI narrative + potential friendlier regulation under the new administration = tailwinds.
Things I’m Watching DXY — if the dollar keeps sliding, crypto catches a bid fast. Exchange inflows/outflows and funding rates tell me if the dip is being bought or if leverage is still getting flushed. Powell’s next public comments — one dovish slip and we rip. January 27-28 meeting (no dot plot that time, so less drama, but still important).
Bottom line: Yeah, the knee-jerk reaction sucked if you were long and leveraged, but this was a hawkish cut in a cutting cycle — not the end of the party. Liquidity is still increasing, rates are still going down over time, and the macro setup for crypto in 2026 actually got a little brighter; it just didn’t come gift-wrapped the way the degens wanted on December 10th. #FOMC #BTC走势分析 #Binance #BinanceAlphaAlert #FamilyOfficeCrypto $BTC $ETH $BNB
SOL = the king of memes, mobile apps, and crazy retail volume. $139 price, $79B market cap, 2.2M daily users. When FOMO hits, SOL moons first and hardest. But it still has outages and almost zero real-world assets. INJ = the quiet finance beast. $5.80 price, only $580M market cap. Zero gas on perps, zero downtime ever, and just got $10B in real mortgages from NASDAQ-listed Pineapple Financial. Tokens burning weekly. Google Cloud + Deutsche Telekom running nodes. SOL is the party you go to for fun. INJ is the vault where institutions are quietly moving trillions. Both will run hard in 2026, but for different reasons: SOL → retail explosion INJ → RWA + ETF explosion Smart move? Own both. One’s already priced like a giant. The other still costs pocket money with real banks using it. $INJ under $6 with $10B live mortgages is insane. $SOL at $139 is fair for what it does. Load what you believe in. I’m heavy on both. 🥷🐆 @Injective #INJ $INJ
$TRUTH on fire right now. From 0.0086 straight up to 0.0262, the breakout is backed by real volume and strong buying pressure. No hype — just pure momentum. One of the most powerful moves in the market at this moment. 📈🔥
The INJ Tokenomics Thesis Nobody Is Yelling About (But Everyone Will Wish They Understood in 2026)
I’m not here to scream “to the moon.” I’m here because I just watched another 45,600 INJ get deleted forever while the rest of crypto was arguing about which dog coin has the better hat. And I realized most people holding INJ still don’t actually get why this token is built different. So let me give it to you straight, no fluff, no emojis, no “wen Lambo.” 1. The Supply Story Is Over 100 million INJ total. That’s it. Final unlock happened months ago. The circulating supply chart is a flat line at 99.97 million. There are no more cliffs, no “advisors” quietly vesting, no strategic reserve that magically appears when price gets juicy. Done. Finished. You will never see another INJ enter circulation again. 2. The Chain Is Eating Itself Every Tuesday 60% of every single fee generated on Injective (Helix spot, perps, RWAs, everything) gets thrown into a weekly Dutch auction. People bid INJ to win those fees. Whatever they bid gets burned on the spot. Last auction: 45,600 INJ gone. That’s roughly $250K worth of tokens deleted while most of us were asleep. Total burned to date: over 11 million INJ. That’s more than 11% of the entire supply, vanished forever in under two years. And volume is going up, not down. Burns are accelerating. 3. Inflation Lost the War Yes, there’s still some block reward inflation to pay validators. Starts around 7%, slowly drops over time. But the burns passed inflation months ago. Net supply is shrinking. I’ve literally never seen that happen on a major L1 outside of Bitcoin and post-1559 ETH. 4. More Than Half the Supply Is Locked and Compounding 56%+ of all INJ is staked right now. Google Cloud, Binance, Kraken, and a hundred others are running validators. They’re earning boring 7–10% real yield and most of it gets re-staked because why sell when the chain is literally paying you in scarcity? 5. The Original Sale Was Actually Clean (For Once) Seed/private rounds: $0.08–$0.18 Binance Launchpad public sale: $0.40 Team fully vested by now Biggest slice (36%) went straight to ecosystem and built the best on-chain orderbook in existence No one is sitting on a 500x bag waiting to nuke price. 6. The Price Today Makes Zero Sense Current price: ~$5.60 Market cap: ~$560 million FDV: the same, because there’s nothing left to unlock. You are buying a top-tier L1 with institutional-grade RWAs, zero-gas stock trading, and the most aggressive deflation in crypto… for half a billion dollars. I added a decent chunk this morning. It didn’t feel like trading. It felt like someone left money on the sidewalk and I just happened to walk by. The burns don’t stop when the memes die. They don’t stop when Bitcoin dumps. They happen every Tuesday, forever, as long as people keep trading on the chain. And people are trading more every month. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. No hype. Just math that keeps running in the background while everyone else is distracted. See you at the next burn. #INJ @Injective $INJ
Yield Guild Games Is Back — And It Doesn’t Look Like 2021 Anymore
Remember when everyone and their cousin had an Axie scholarship and thought they were about to buy a house from pixelated monsters? Yeah, that was Yield Guild Games (YGG) at its peak. The token hit nearly $12, the Discord never slept, and half of Southeast Asia seemed to be grinding Smooth Love Potion for rent money. Then the crash came. Axie died, P2E became a dirty word, and YGG quietly faded from most people’s watchlists. Fast-forward to the end of 2025: the token is sitting at eight cents, but something feels… different. The vibe on Twitter isn’t nostalgia or cope — it’s actually excited. So I went digging. Turns out YGG didn’t just survive the bear market; it shapeshifted into something a lot more interesting. From Scholarship Factory to Game Publisher The old YGG was basically a lending desk for NFTs. The new YGG launches its own damn games. The star right now is LOL Land — a bite-sized, ridiculously addictive MOBA that feels like Brawl Stars had a one-night stand with blockchain. It pulled $4.5 million in revenue in its first full quarter and another million the next. Players are actually sticking around because, shockingly, the game is fun even if you turn the crypto part off. They’re not stopping there. In October they rolled out the YGG Play Launchpad — think Steam wishlist meets IDO, but you earn your allocation by actually playing the game and finishing quests. No more paying gas to apes who aped harder. Early titles like GIGACHADBAT are already using it, and the numbers look solid. The Token Actually Does Something Now YGG bought back $3.7 million of its own tokens last quarter using real revenue from games (not some VC unlock schedule). That’s the kind of move that makes burned 2021 bagholders raise an eyebrow. Staking still exists, governance still exists, but the big new utility is simple: the more the ecosystem earns, the more gets funneled back to token holders and the treasury. It’s not revolutionary on paper, but in GameFi it’s borderline exotic. The Community Didn’t Leave — It Grew Up The scholarship kids from 2021 are now community managers, quest designers, and regional sub-DAO leads. GAP Season 11 (the quest/rewards program) looks nothing like the old “grind 200 matches, get tokens” days. It’s skill-based, cross-game, and actually tracks reputation now. They’re even doing offline stuff again — summits, creator camps in the Philippines, esports-style guild tournaments on Ronin with real prize pools. It feels less like a crypto project and more like… well, a gaming company that happens to live on-chain. Price? Yeah, People Are Noticing As of today, YGG is up about 8% while the rest of the market is flat-to-red. Volume is decent, Upbit listing gave it legs, and the chart is quietly forming higher lows for the first time since 2022. Eight cents still feels cheap when the ecosystem is printing millions in revenue and the treasury is buying back supply, but this isn’t financial advice — just observation. The Bottom Line YGG isn’t trying to recreate the 2021 mania (thank God). They’re betting that Web3 gaming wins when the game is good first and the token is just smart icing on top. So far, the data agrees with them. If LOL Land keeps printing and the Launchpad actually ships a couple more hits, this could be one of the quietest 10x stories of the entire cycle. Or it could just be another nice little run before the next winter. Either way, it’s no longer the same project that everyone wrote off two years ago. Yield Guild didn’t die with P2E. It just grew up. #YiedGuildGames @Yield Guild Games $YGG
Why $INJ Is the Sleeper That’s About to Wake the Whole Market Up
Look, I’m not gonna bore you with 10-page whitepaper quotes. Here’s the real talk nobody’s saying out loud in December 2025: While half of CT is still mourning their Solana bags getting jammed for the 47th time this month, Injective just quietly turned into the smoothest, cheapest, most badass finance chain in crypto — and barely anyone noticed yet. Current price? Still under $6. Feels illegal. Here’s what actually happened in the last 60 days (no fluff): Helix dropped gas-free perps → volume went parabolic overnight Pineapple (actual mortgage company, not a meme) bought $100M INJ and started putting $10 billion of real home loans on-chain → their NASDAQ stock $PAPL did +60% in one day Weekly burn auctions are now torching millions of tokens like clockwork You can now long/short Apple, Tesla, Gold, or the entire Nasdaq 24/7 with real leverage and zero gas Deutsche Telekom & Google Cloud are running validators. Yes, really. This isn’t “wen moon” hopium. This is companies that pay taxes and have lawyers choosing INJ because it just works. Think about it like this: Solana = the loud party kid that everyone loves until the network clogs Ethereum = your rich uncle who charges $80 every time he passes the salt Injective = the quiet dude in the corner who owns the venue, never has a line, and everything’s free after cover And right now that quiet dude is still letting people in for pocket change. The math is actually stupid: Last cycle INJ went from ~$1.20 → $52 (40x+) from similar “nobody cares” vibes We’re sitting at the exact same setup again — oversold, hated, boring… then boom. My 2026 targets (keeping it 100): Base case: $28–$35 (easy retest of old highs once alts rotate) Spicy case: $60–$80 if RWAs actually become the narrative everyone keeps promising Copium case: $100+ (not even joking if tokenized stocks and mortgages go full mainstream) Either way, anything under $5.50 right now is straight theft. So yeah… keep scrolling for the next 1000x meme coin if you want. I’ll just be over here stacking a chain that big boys are already using while it’s still priced like a shitcoin. Your move. What’s your INJ bag looking like right now? Lying if you say zero 😏🚀 #İNJ @Injective $INJ
$BNB sitting at $891 today, still 35% off that $1370 high. Market’s scared, Fear & Greed at 15, RSI screaming oversold.
But damn, the fundamentals are stupid strong: another 1.6 M tokens burned last quarter, Maxwell upgrade making the chain fly, SEC case dead and buried, VanEck pushing for a spot ETF, and cross-chain just got a Chainlink glow-up.
I’m buying every dip between $780-860. If that level holds, $1k feels like the easy target, $1200+ next.
FOMC Decision Day is here — December 10, 2025 The Fed’s final meeting of the year wraps up tonight. Whatever Jerome Powell says in a few hours from now will move markets around the globe — from Wall Street to Karachi, Mumbai to Dubai, Lagos to Johannesburg. Here’s exactly when you need to be awake (or at least have notifications on): 🇺🇸 USA (Eastern Time) → 2:00 PM 🇬🇧 UK → 7:00 PM 🇪🇺 Europe (CET) → 8:00 PM 🇳🇬 Nigeria, Ghana (WAT) → 8:00 PM 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇪🇬 Egypt → 9:00 PM 🇸🇦 🇦🇪 🇶🇦 Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman → 10:00 PM 🇰🇪 Kenya, 🇪🇹 Ethiopia, Tanzania → 10:00 PM 🇵🇰 Pakistan → 12:00 AM midnight (midnight, Thursday 11 Dec) 🇮🇳 India → 12:30 AM (Thursday 11 Dec) 🇨🇳 China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia → 3:00 AM (Thursday) 🇯🇵 Japan, Korea → 4:00 AM (Thursday) Statement drops at the times above → 2:00 PM EST Powell starts speaking 30 minutes later → 2:30 PM EST Almost everyone (99 % probability on CME FedWatch) expects a 25 bps cut, bringing the Fed funds rate to 3.50–3.75 %. But the real fireworks will be in Powell’s tone and the new Dot Plot — will they pause in January or keep cutting? Grab your coffee (or stay up late), this one matters. Live stream: Federal Reserve YouTube channel (free, no commentary nonsense) See you on the charts! 🚀 #fomc #FederalReserve #RateDecisionWatch #GlobalMarkets $BTC $ETH $BNB
Bitcoin Just Got the Ultimate Wall Street Upgrade – And Everything Is About to Change
Imagine waking up, checking your phone, and realizing your Bitcoin isn’t just sitting in your wallet anymore. It’s out there working for you – posted as collateral, giving you leverage on billion-dollar futures trades while you slept. That’s not some distant 2026 fantasy. It started two days ago. On December 8, 2025, the CFTC officially allowed Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC to be used as margin collateral in regulated U.S. derivatives markets. The same markets where the world’s largest hedge funds, banks, and proprietary trading firms move trillions of dollars every day just handed Bitcoin the keys to the kingdom. Why This Is Insanely Bullish 1. Your Bitcoin now works twice as hard Want to trade a $1 million Bitcoin futures position on the CME? You used to need roughly $500k in cash tied up doing nothing. Now you can post $500k worth of BTC instead. Same coins, double the utility. 2. Institutions have been waiting years for exactly this Every macro fund, prop desk, and family office has asked the same question forever: “How do we put our Bitcoin to work without selling it?” The old answer was “go offshore and take the risk.” The new answer is “do it right here in the U.S., fully regulated and CFTC-approved.” 3. The dominoes are already falling Coinbase just received its no-action letter. CME, ICE, and every major clearinghouse are racing to roll out BTC-collateral products in the coming months. 24/7 trading in regulated derivatives? It’s basically inevitable now. What the Acting CFTC Chair Actually Said on Live TV “You will be able to use Bitcoin as collateral in derivatives markets… We want safe U.S. markets as an alternative to offshore platforms.” Translation: America just declared war on every unregulated offshore exchange – and the weapon is legitimacy. The Real Move (That Most of the Timeline Is Still Missing) While people keep yelling about Trump turning Bitcoin into a strategic reserve for the thousandth time, the adults in the room quietly turned Bitcoin into rocket fuel for the most sophisticated trading floors on the planet. This isn’t retail degen money. This is BlackRock, Citadel, Jane Street, and Millennium about to plug their multi-billion-dollar algorithms directly into your favorite orange coin. What’s Coming in 2026 - Cash-and-carry basis trades on steroids - True perpetual futures with real capital efficiency - Volatility-selling books backed by spot Bitcoin instead of stablecoins - Treasury + Bitcoin collateral baskets – the new “risk-free” yield product The Bottom Line Bitcoin has always won by doing the impossible. They said it would never be legal tender → El Salvador. They said institutions would never touch it → $120 billion in spot ETFs. They said it could never be serious collateral in traditional finance. They were wrong again. December 8, 2025, is the day Bitcoin stopped being just “digital gold” and became digital oil – the fuel that powers the entire financial machine. The leverage era has officially begun. Save this article. You’ll want to tell people you were here when Bitcoin finally took its seat at the grown-ups’ table. The real bull run starts now. #BTCVSGOLD #TrumpTariffs #USJobsData #CPIWatch #Derivatives $BTC $ETH $BNB
$XRP /USDT Pullback XRP is presently trading at roughly $2.06 after dropping below a few key support levels on the 1-hour chart. Sellers are obviously in control at the moment because the price is below the 7, 25, and 99 MAs. The short-term outlook is still negative. A strong recovery from the $2.04–$2.05 support zone will be essential to preventing a deeper decline, so keep an eye on it. As always, maintain your discipline, control your risk, and follow your plan.
AVAX is waking up on the 4-hour buyers are quietly showing up, and the price is respecting a clear support zone. The market’s coiling: higher lows inside a tightening range, which usually means energy is being stored for a move. If buyers keep pushing, a clean 4H breakout could follow and send momentum back in favor of the bulls.
watch how price reacts at the upper boundary of this range decisive close above it confirms the breakout; a breakdown below current support would flip the story fast. Keep stops tight and let price prove strength before loading up.
Finally Crypto woke up today. 😭 Upon waking up, BTC surpassed 92K, ETH reached 3.4K, and ETF inflows appeared promising. It truly feels like December 2021. The "crypto is dead" crowd went silent quickly lmao. It's still early, though. 2025 is going to be insane, just saying. 🚀 #Crypto #bitcoin $BTC $ETH
The Binance chart is looking fiery once more as $YGG just pumped another 8% today.
The Binance chart is looking fiery once more as $YGG just pumped another 8% today. From someone who actually trades this stuff, here's the real talk—no AI gibberish. Quick figures as of December 10, 2025: Cost: $0.0798 24-hour shift: +8.1% 24-hour volume: $31.2 million, up 72% from the previous day Market capitalization: around $54 million Strong support: $0.073 $0.083–$0.085 is the first real resistance. Why it's changing (the things that really count): 1. YGG Play Launchpad is now operational and being utilized by users. Yggplay.fun is a clean new website that they launched. You don't have to go through 50 Discords to browse games, complete tasks, and obtain whitelist places or early tokens. Their first released game, LOL Land, has already made $7.5 million and still has more than 600k monthly users. It's not just hype; that's actual money. 2. The Guild Protocol & Reputation System is beginning to work. Better quest rewards, staking bonuses, and governance weight are just a few of the on-chain benefits that players and producers can now create. It's more equitable and decentralized than the previous Axie scholarship era. Every day, new guilds emerge, while the larger ones amass assets worth millions of dollars. 3. Quietly, tokenomics is improving. Treasury still owns more over $100 million; they have been repurchasing tokens each month, and the most recent major unlock occurred on November 26. In 2026, inflation is significantly decreasing. The majority of the remaining supply is either staked or locked in guilds. Chart reality check: We've switched the 7-day SMA to support and are currently right on the 50-day EMA. After being oversold for weeks, the RSI cooled off to 46 with opportunity to grow.
The MACD recently turned positive on a daily basis, but the histogram is still quite small. The momentum is growing, but it hasn't yet exploded. The next stop is $0.10 quickly if we use volume to clear $0.085. It's dip-buy territory once more if we drop $0.073. In summary, according to a Binance degen, YGG is one of the few GameFi tokens that will actually delivery goods in 2025. The others continue to tweet roadmaps and raise funds. This one has actual users, income, and a crew that has been working nonstop since 2021. In addition to doing the side missions for free tokens. I'm stacking more than $0.08. Naturally, this is not financial advise, but YGG is the horse you want to ride if Web3 gaming ever has another serious season. Set your stops, conduct your own study, and then perhaps go touch some grass. Peace. 🚀 #YGG #YieldGuildGames @Yield Guild Games $YGG