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This week we have:
🎙️Hot Off the Mic: This Isn’t QE… It’s The Fuel For $200K Bitcoin
📰News: AI Models Now Capable of Profitable Smart Contract Exploits
🌟Narrative of the week: Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Speeds Up The Chain
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🤖 AI Models Now Capable of Profitable Smart Contract Exploits
Recent research by Anthropic reveals that commercial AI models, such as GPT-5 can autonomously discover and exploit smart contract vulnerabilities worth millions. With the cost of executing these attacks dropping rapidly and success rates jumping from 2% to nearly 56% in just one year, researchers emphasize the urgent need for developers to adopt AI driven defence systems to close the shrinking window between deployment and exploitation.
🏛️ Kevin Hassett Favored for Next Fed Chair
Prediction markets now strongly favor Kevin Hassett as the next Federal Reserve Chair, fueling optimism for crypto friendly policies due to his significant past ties to Coinbase and the industry.
✅ CFTC Greenlights Spot Crypto Trading on Regulated US Exchanges
In a historic shift driven by President Trump’s policy directives, the CFTC has officially approved spot cryptocurrency trading on federally regulated futures exchanges to bring digital asset markets back to US soil.
⚡ Ethereum Fusaka Upgrade Goes Live
Ethereum’s new Fusaka upgrade officially launched on Wednesday, introducing Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS) to drastically increase data capacity and reduce transaction costs for Layer 2 networks.
🏦 Bank of America Endorses Bitcoin ETFs
Bank of America has officially authorized its 15,000+ wealth advisers to recommend a 1–4% cryptocurrency allocation, granting wealthy clients direct access to major Bitcoin ETFs starting January 5.
🇺🇸 Polymarket Begins US Rollout
Polymarket has officially initiated its US comeback by granting waitlisted users access to trade sports event contracts, following a crucial regulatory green light from the CFTC. With a potential valuation reaching $10 billion, this strategic relaunch escalates the rivalry with competitor Kalshi as both platforms race to dominate the rapidly expanding American prediction market.
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This Isn’t QE… It’s The Fuel For $200K Bitcoin
In this video, I break down the shift everyone slept on. Regulators quietly scrapped a post 2008 rule on November 25 that’s been strangling bank liquidity for over a decade. This move frees the private sector to absorb US debt and crank up leverage across risk assets.
Narrative of the Week: Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Speeds Up The Chain
Ethereum pushed out the Fusaka upgrade on Dec 3 and it landed clean. Cheaper L2 fees, a wider base layer and smoother UX. Let’s get into it!
Cheaper L2 Activity: PeerDAS one of the implementations expands blob capacity from 3 to up to 9 per block, already cutting L2 fees by 40 to 60 percent with bigger boosts coming in December and January.
Bigger Gas Limit: L1 block capacity jumps to 60 million, giving devs more room and fewer failed transactions.
Quality of Life Boosts: Passkeys, faster node sync, better math primitives. Ethereum is now leaning more towards improving the User Experience.
Fusaka is Ethereum quietly getting faster, cheaper and more usable, laying the groundwork for ETH to dominate real world assets and AI workloads. And the EF is signaling there’s more scaling on the way, with Osaka and the next blob boosts lining up to push fees even lower.
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