I forgot to mention, this contains no advice; it's just my personal investment review. The market is currently unfavorable, and preserving your principal is more important than anything else.

@_FORAB This is somewhat similar to the Hunt brothers' silver hoarding spree in 1980 🤔 Back then, the Hunt brothers believed inflation would spiral out of control and attempted to monopolize the market by buying large amounts of silver futures and demanding physical delivery. Silver prices soared from a few dollars to $50. To cope with the delivery pressure, the NYMEX changed its trading rules, such as allowing only selling and prohibiting buying, and raising margin requirements, causing the silver bubble to burst instantly, an event known as Silver Thursday.

The silver speculation has reached an incomprehensible level! The A-share listed company "Baiyin Nonferrous Metals" recently experienced a violent surge, achieving eight consecutive days of limit-up trading, thanks to the name's inherent appeal. The most problematic aspect is that this company's main business is actually copper and zinc, yet it's named "Silver" simply because it's located in "Baiyin City, Gansu Province." Even more illogical is that its net profit attributable to shareholders in 2025 is projected to be a loss of 450 million to 675 million yuan, making it a clearly "loss-making company." This is completely unscripted, driven entirely by emotion, not unlike the Meme phenomenon. One can only advise caution when buying in; a major retreat for silver is likely imminent!

River Completes $12 Million Strategic Funding Round River has completed a $12 million strategic funding round, with participants including @trondao, @justinsuntron, @MaelstromFund (founded by @CryptoHayes), @TheSpartanGroup, and Nasdaq-listed companies and institutions from the US and Europe. This investment will support River's expansion across EVM and non-EVM ecosystems, including TRON, Sui, and mainstream EVM networks, and will continue to build on-chain liquidity infrastructure. The funds will be used to accelerate ecosystem deployment, deepen stablecoin liquidity, and advance the integration of satUSD in trading, lending, staking, and yield applications. River will launch yield products for users and institutions, including Smart Vault and Prime Vault, providing a unified interface for earning yield across ecosystems through protocol-native and institutional-grade strategies. This strategic funding round solidifies River's position as the infrastructure connecting all assets and their cross-ecosystem opportunities.

A monthly income of $1.5 million? That's terrifying! No wonder he's called the "King of Wage Earners." According to a recent post by Douyin blogger "Bit Demon King," Xie Jiayin, head of Bitget's Chinese region, earns a monthly base salary of $875,100. Considering bonuses and profit sharing, his actual monthly income may exceed $1.5 million. I specifically used Gemini to estimate Bitget's annual revenue, which is approximately $5-6 billion, roughly on par with Interactive Brokers or Coinbase. Given this, it seems not impossible that the hardworking Jiayin, as the head of the exchange's most important language region, has such a high salary. However, AI strongly denies this possibility, believing it to be a tactic to gain traffic. I've never worked in an exchange. Can any knowledgeable person step forward to confirm whether this is true or not?

Some chains are stronger than expected, and some chains are stronger than expected. I found that there was a big change in the ranking of active addresses on the EVM chain last month. This is usually a prelude to major updates or growth in the public chain ecosystem. For visual presentation, I organized it into a chart - It is worth noting that BNB Chain topped the list with 2.63M but its growth slowed down, and Base even experienced a 7% correction. - #Sei has experienced significant growth. The number of active addresses in a single month has surged 60% to exceed 1.37M, surpassing Polygon and jumping to the second place. This abnormal growth rate is most likely due to the gaming or payment track accumulating strength. After all, only high-frequency interaction scenarios can support this level of data slope. If the data continues to grow at a high rate, targeted investment strategies can be formulated

The feast is over, and unfortunately, you paid the bill again. 0xSUN: Paid off a Ferrari SF90 in full (¥8,500,000) Xiaoxia: Bought a new apartment in Shenzhen CITIC City Kaixin Yue Bay (¥74,540,000) Hmm: Purchased a Patek Philippe and a China Construction Bank "Little Black Dragon" (¥3,800,000) Beyond: Spent all the pork belly rice and probiotic drinks in one go (¥34,000,000) And you, my friend, what did you get?

Looking back at the end of the year, I realized how incredibly useful these kinds of apps, which I wouldn't normally open, are. The top results when searching "footprints" in the app store are mostly these. As the name suggests, their basic function is to record where you've been each day. For a fee, you can also track your activity levels. If you don't mind privacy risks, you can import your photos to see exactly when and where they were taken. For someone like me with a bad memory who's always on the go, these are incredibly useful. Watching myself gradually unlock the map's fog of war is very satisfying.

Just now, Kaito launched its Personal 2025 Summary feature. You can see it by clicking the top of the official website. The amount of information is quite substantial. Taking myself as an example: - Number of SFs: From less than 100 to exactly 500, witnessing my account management process. In fact, I only officially started managing social media in 2025. - Follower Value: Surprisingly, it was valued at $44M. - Total Pageviews: 30M. Actually, I don't post very frequently, averaging only 1-3 posts a day. This data isn't particularly impressive, but I hope to improve next year. - Total YAPs: Close to 4000. The increase is generally faster as you go further, not linear. For example, I added nearly 1000 in December alone. The most surprising thing is the relationship network in the upper right corner of the report. It's all acquaintances from the "Flywheel Group"! I have to say, Kaito's identification is really accurate! 😂 Look at your 👀

The first piece of good news this Christmas: reaching 4000 points faster than I expected! Thanks to Mara for the Yapybara; it's so cute and motivates me to keep Yapping! In this cycle, truly phenomenal applications are few and far between, but these are definitely among them: Hyperliquid / Pumpfun / Polymarket / Kaito. Despite mixed reviews, it's undeniable that Kaito, as the pioneer of InfoFi, has completely reshaped crypto social media and profoundly influenced the Pre/Post-TGE path. As a content creator, I'm very grateful to Kaito for allowing me to witness my growth. Looking forward to progressing with Kaito in 2026, climbing the ranks rapidly, and breaking into the top 20 in Chinese crypto!