• Macro updates from US & Japan
• Pump.fun dev's 6-year sentence
• Final voting begins for Uniswap's UNIfication proposal  
• Jump Trading gets sued by Terra administrators 

• Trump's announces his first official stimmy - 'Warrior Dividend'
• Coinbase unveils Super App
• Robinhood lists $PIPPIN, despite insiders controlling 80% of the supply  
• ETHGas raises $12 million to create an Ethereum gas futures market
• blocmates MetaDAO article & podcast plugged

Alex, Grant, 563 and Nev jump on for our last blocmates pod of the year to talk about the good and bad from 2025. 

We realise there’s a load we’ve missed but without doing this for three hours, we don’t have much of a choice. 

Expect us to get into our personal choices for the best bits including HIP-3, Rekt drinks sending, the privacy meta and everything coming onchain.

Things look good for 2026, zoom out of the market and let it ride.

• Aave-SEC case dropped, Stani releases 2026 roadmap
• Hyperliquid ETF to launch soon
• Visa to settle USDC payments on Solana
• Japanese Yen stablecoin coming from Startale/SBI to launch in Q2 2026
• Securitize to bring equities on chain with full ownership rights

• JP Morgan tokenizes MMF on Ethereum
• Circle acquires Interop Labs team
• Solana is under a historic DDOS attack, yet network is stable
• Aster launches 'Shield Mode' with 1001x leverage available

• Macro updates: Japan set to raise rates, carry traders out in force
• Tether is eying a raise at a $500 billion valuation 
• Firedancer goes live on the Solana mainnet
• Hyperliquid set to introduce Portfolio Margin
• The Tether x Juventus takeover rejection saga

• Tokenization of stocks, treasuries, bonds is accelerating in the US
• Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison
• Trump hints at no tax on gambling wins
• Solo Bitcoin miner hits the jackpot

• FOMC recap: Have we stepped into the QE phase?
• Stripe makes moves in the stablecoin infra space
• Fogo drops pre-sale announcement 
• The Lighter vs. Hyperliquid beef

Last week felt like maybe some of the worst sentiment we've seen across the industry in a long time and we even felt it ourselves. 

This week we're discussing the chatter online from some chap who says he's wasted his prime years on crypto and is now pivoting to be a philanthropist or something, dunno. 

Anyway, do we agree? Or is it just another crash out when the market takes a turn? Plus Jeff defends ADL on Hyperliquid in a new public spat and Cobie says CT is garbage these days. Talking about it all. 

Find our Yeet sign up links on YouTube or over on Twitter @blocmates. Enjoy. 

• FOMC Day: What to expect?  
• Banks get the green act as crypto intermediaries
• Hyperliquid's Jeff snaps back at Tarun of Gauntlet over ADL FUD
• Is Trump about to save crypto gaming?

• Crypto to be tested as collateral in US derivatives market 
• Equity tokenization is accelerating
• Polymarket accused of double counting its trading volume
• Poland says no to crypto MiCA rules
• Saylor's Strategy buys more BTC 

• USDC is now linked between HyperCore and HyperEVM 
• Vitalik proposes futures-style ETH gas market
• Larry Fink says sovereign wealth funds are buying BTC
• Aster accelerates buybacks   
• TAO halving deets 

• CFTC green lights spot crypto trades on registered exchanges 
• Key economic data points to know before next week's Fed meet
• Ethereum's post Fusaka hiccup
• Perp DEX wars: Aster, Drift, Lighter edition

• Polymarket enters the US
• Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade goes live
• Upcoming TGEs: Seeker and Stable  
• Charles Schwab to step into the crypto arena in 2026
• All about the robotics executive order  

Bringing you some festive cheer for our first December pod. 

Alex and Grant catch up on the back of Devconnect in Argentina and end up on an hour-long tangent about the issues this industry faces and why everything we buy is completely cooked.

And if there's any hope to fix it. 

• CNN to use Kalshi prediction markets across its news coverage
• Trump says Americans may soon pay ‘no income tax’
• Aave adds and removes chains (Mantle; Sonium, ZKsync, Metis)
• Bank of America agrees to 4% crypto exposure
• Kraken acquires Backed to accelerate tokenization  

• MicroStrategy raises cash to fund USD reserve
• Vanguard to allow clients to buy crypto ETFs
• Kalshi-powered tokenized prediction markets go live on Solana
• Anthropic AI agents find hackable smart contracts

• HYPE unlocks: A quick TLDR
• MicroStrategy could sell BTC
• Yearn Finance gets hacked
• Ripple makes moves in Abu Dhabi and Singapore
• China reaffirms negative crypto stance

• Kalshi's legal troubles 
• CME's data centre failure hiccup 
• Upbit hacker's details emerge 
• MegaETH's refund plans
• Infinex's upcoming Sonar sale
• Will ICOs replace airdrops in 2026? 

• Nasdaq proposes raising IBIT options limits
• Upbit falls victim to $37 million hack 
• Robinhood's share of Kalshi volume exposed
• Addressing the Tether FUD  
• Is Trump's next Fed Chair a dove?

• Monad mainnet is off the ground and running
• SEC to discuss tokenized equities on December 4 
• CFTC greenlights Polymarket's US comeback
• State of Texas scoops up Bitcoin via IBIT
• Everything about the MegaETH pre-deposit drama

• US government launches Genesis Mission to accelerate scientific discovery using AI
• MegaETH pre-deposit bridge opens today
• Galaxy Digital to provide liquidity for Polymarket and Kalshi  
• HIP-3 volume soars 
• Truth behind the billions in stablecoins minted and why no one announces when they are burnt and redeemed 

• Monad mainnet to go live today 9am ET
• Cardano chain split saga triggers FBI involvement 
• HYPE updates, FUD, team unstaking, USDH, and growth mode
• Pump.fun cashes out nearly $500 million in the last 6 weeks

• Crypto market sees major liquidations as prices tumble 
• MegaETH-based HelloTrade comes out of stealth 
• Kalshi raises $1 billion in latest round
• MSTR could be excluded from equity indices in January
• $JESSE token gets sniped