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🔥 WATCH: @Bybit_Official's World Series of Trading 2026 kicks off with “The Opening Bell” as registration opens. The global trading competition runs through Dec. 2, adding stocks, commodities and AI arenas, with up to 10M USDT in prizes.

🔥 QUESTION: Is Bitcoin heading to $1 million, and could crypto outperform AI stocks in the next bull market? Wall Street veteran and Visser Labs founder Jordi Visser (@jvisserlabs) joins @itsciaranlyons on Trade Secrets to explain why he believes the crypto bull market is just getting started. #TRADESECRETS 00:00 Why Crypto's Biggest Bull Run Could Be Just Beginning 01:18 Jordi Visser: The Crypto Bull Market Has Started 04:41 The AI Stock Boom Is Over — What's Next for Crypto? 08:40 Why Crypto Could Outperform AI Stocks 09:41 AI Agents Could Change Crypto Forever 12:15 Will AI Give Retail Investors an Unfair Advantage? 14:37 Is the Altcoin Season Finally Here? 17:40 Why Visser Is Betting on Zcash and Privacy Coins 20:48 Jordi Visser Reveals His Crypto Portfolio 23:16 How to Spot the Next Winning Altcoin 25:59 What Could Trigger Another Crypto Bear Market? 28:27 Bitcoin to $1 Million? Visser Explains the Math 30:13 Could Crypto Reach a $100 Trillion Market Cap?

🇺🇸 LATEST: U.S. firms and ETFs account for 91.8% of the $4.64 billion tokenized stock market, according to Token Terminal.

🚨 LATEST: OKX CEO Star Xu says the Binance hack should serve as a wake-up call for the industry, and urges exchange CEOs to unite on stronger shared security standards. “Security is everyone’s responsibility. No company can protect the future of crypto alone.”

🔥 INSIGHT: Crypto's guardrails were built for AI agents from day one. @jvisserlabs told @itsciaranlyons he fully expects retail to become "completely consumed" with crypto over the next year as the agentic world moves into its next phase. He expects that shift to show up in higher tokenization and agentic commerce volumes, as he laid out on #TRADESECRETS.

🇺🇸 TODAY: CFTC Chair Michael Selig says “the days of regulation by enforcement are over” while speaking at Chainlink’s LINK: NYC event.

🚨 ALERT: The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has slid to 35, its lowest level since August, down from extreme greed just two months ago.

🇪🇺 LATEST: The ECB says the digital euro is about "sovereignty," with a pilot next year and a rollout as early as 2029. Two-thirds of euro-area card payments currently run through non-European companies. 👀

🔥 LATEST: Ethena has distributed over $800 million in rewards across its USDe ecosystem since launch.

⚡️ NOW: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has blocked transfers to compromised wallets and offered help to Binance. “Moments like this call for the industry to work together.”

🇰🇷 REGULATION: South Korea's presidential office is delaying its 22% crypto tax again, the fourth time it's been pushed back. It was supposed to kick in this January. 🫠

🇺🇸 JUST IN: Peter Schiff calls Warsh’s inflation-fighting rhetoric a “bluff,” predicting the Fed will likely expand QE and potentially cut rates next year even as inflation rises.

🚨 UPDATE: Chainalysis estimates about $5.91B was stolen in the Binance hack, nearly 4x the 2025 Bybit heist, while Binance has so far confirmed $3B frozen. Can Binance recover the rest? 👀

🔥 TODAY: Tom Lee says 99% of finance still runs on old rails, and that's exactly why banks are underestimating how fast crypto could take over. Banks without a crypto plan could get left behind.

🔥 BULLISH: Matt Hougan says $HYPE is “just getting started” despite its 14% rise, claiming 99.9% of Americans do not know it exists.

🚨 UPDATE: Binance says the verified frozen amount from the hack has climbed to about $3B, up from $2.54B earlier.

🔥 INSIGHT: Crypto now has more upside than the AI compute trade. Speaking with @itsciaranlyons, @jvisserlabs said he still sees three to five more years in the agentic compute story, but crypto offers the higher return potential with only slightly more volatility. He credited the run in stocks like Micron to inference demand exploding from the end of last year, a point he made on #TRADESECRETS.

🎙️ Former FTX COO @ConstanceWaing says the public never really saw FTX employees as "someone who is getting hurt." "Most people think oh you guys created this huge tragedy." #CHAINREACTION

🚨 UPDATE: Arbitrum Security Council freezes $30.5M linked to the Binance hack, per ZachXBT.

🔥 LATEST: $ETH has lost $54B in market cap in under three weeks, down about 15%. Analyst Darkfost thinks the flush may be nearly done. Last time OI dropped like this in July, $ETH ripped 32%.

🔥 NEW: Stellar is now a default network on MetaMask, with eligible accounts automatically including a Stellar address.

🚨️️️️️️ JUST IN: Binance co-founder Yi He says the exchange will cover all losses from the hack and user funds remain safe, with deposits and withdrawals paused for security checks.

🇰🇷 BIG: Goldman Sachs just slashed its KOSPI target by 25%, from 12,000 to 9,000. The index has crashed over 35% from its June peak as the AI trade unravels.

🇦🇪 BIG: Standard Asset Company has opened a UAE office to advance its $1.5 billion Bitcoin and real estate strategy.

🚨 JUST IN: Binance’s $2.5B hack may stem from a compromised signature system, not stolen private keys, says Blockaid CEO Ido Ben-Natan. The attacker reportedly bundled 50 EIP-7702 authorizations into one transaction to hijack a Binance wallet. Binance has yet to confirm the exact method.

🚨 INSIGHT: Bitcoin to $250,000. Another crypto crash before 2027. And America falling behind in the global crypto race? eToro founder @yoniassia isn't dodging the big questions. He sits down with @itsciaranlyons on the latest episode of #TRADESECRETS to tackle what's coming next for crypto, why Wall Street could go 24/7 sooner than expected, and whether tokenization changes everything. But the biggest question? Is $250K Bitcoin really on the table? 00:00 — Another crash before the next crypto rally? 02:10 — Wall Street going 24/7 sooner than expected? 03:00 — Could tokenization transform financial markets? 05:00 — Is the U.S. losing the global crypto race? 06:00 — Bitcoin to $250,000: How bullish is eToro's CEO?

🔥 INSIGHT: AI agents could become crypto’s biggest users. Who’s accountable when they overspend? @Mysten_Labs co-founder @EmanAbio explains why spending limits and verifiable records will be critical as AI takes control of payments.

🚨 NOW: Over $1 billion liquidated in the past 24 hours, with longs taking $958M of the hit, as bitcoin:native plunged below $78,000.

🚨 REKT: CoinDCX now confirms a $15.99M loss from old wallets it said were retired after last year's hack.

⚡ INSIGHT: USDT is coming home to Bitcoin, offering privacy and Lightning-fast payments. But can Bitcoin's revamped version of Tether compete with stablecoins on ETH and TRON?

🚨 NOW: Binance has temporarily suspended Binance Alpha trading and certain CEX token purchase features as a security precaution, saying user funds remain safe.

🇺🇸 BIG: Trump wages a trade war with Canada as GOP candidates become casualties.

🇪🇺 JUST IN: European Central Bank holds its key deposit rate at 2.50%, as expected.

🚨 UPDATE: Justin Sun says TRON is monitoring Binance’s security incident and stands ready to assist.

⚡ NEW: FOMO's co-founder says there are already too many tokens, and FOMO won't be launching a Pump fun rival.

🔥 BULLISH: $12.5B Stan Druckenmiller’s first tweet reveals he backs which is bringing Hyperliquid perps to the US with ICE.

🚨 UPDATE: Cryptodotcom says it remains unaffected by the Binance attack and is blocking addresses linked to the incident.

🇰🇷 TODAY: Korean retail just poured $3.55B into SOXL, a 3x leveraged chip ETF, this month. That's nearly 74% of all their US stock buying, while the KOSPI is down 18.8% in October.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: NYSE parent ICE takes a stake in and plans a US-regulated perpetual futures market built on Hyperliquid.

🚨 UPDATE: World Liberty Financial has frozen $27M in USD1 and $2M in WLFI tied to the Binance hack, working with BitGo to lock down the stolen funds. Follow our live coverage for the latest developments 👇

📊 MARKET: CryptoQuant's Axel Adler says $BTC closed at $80,500 yesterday, a new 30-day low, after bouncing off its 365-day moving average. He says tight ranges like this usually end with a sharp move.

🇷🇺 NEW: Bank of Russia confirms proposed self-custody wallet restrictions won’t apply to international payments.

🚨 JUST IN: Binance officially confirms $2.54B in assets frozen so far, with the total potentially rising as efforts to trace funds continue.

⚡ LATEST: Peter Schiff says Bitcoin is "finally breaking down" and the next stop is $75K. $BTC is already back above $80K.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: US Q3 GDP grows 3.4% annualized vs. 3.2% expected.

🚨 UPDATE: Dozens of smaller tokens also saw sharp outflows from Binance, with one altcoin completely drained, per Glassnode.

🔥 INSIGHT: Retail is about to front-run Wall Street into crypto. According to @jvisserlabs, VCs and institutions have barely touched the space because they've been obsessed with AI, while retail already knows crypto inside out. He told @itsciaranlyons he's building an index to spot exactly when retail jumps in, as institutions slowly pile more money in behind them on #TRADESECRETS.

🔥 INSIGHT: Can the US lead on crypto without the CLARITY Act? @etoro founder @yoniassia argues that moves by regulators and market infrastructure providers are putting the US at the forefront despite the bill’s failure to pass.

🚨 INSIGHT: After every major crypto hack, $BTC has gone on to new highs Mt. Gox (2014): $BTC roughly halved. It hit $19.7k by 2017, nearly 100x off its post-collapse low. Bitfinex (2016): $BTC fell ~20%. It was back above pre-hack levels within 3 months and hit new all-time highs in 2017. Coincheck (2018): The hack hit during the 2018 bear market. $BTC climbed from its $3.1k bottom to $29k by the end of 2020, then reached $69k in 2021. Binance (2019): $BTC dipped ~4%. It rallied ~136% in just 7 weeks. FTX (2022): $BTC fell ~22% in a week to ~$15.5k. It was up ~134% a year later and hit a new ATH of $73.7k by March 2024, ~375% off the low. Bybit (2025): The largest hack on record at the time. $BTC dipped ~5%, hit a new ATH exactly 3 months later and went on to $126k, ~70% above its 2025 low. Binance (2026): $BTC is down ~3% so far, Binance says user funds are SAFU, and ~$2.4B of the stolen funds is already frozen. Not financial advice, and past performance doesn’t guarantee future results. But the pattern speaks for itself.

🔥 NEW: Nearly 60% of stock token trading on Robinhood Chain happens when Wall Street is closed, according to Entropy's Tom Wan. $532M of it traded on weekends alone, over just one month.

🔥 LATEST: Crypto exchanges are expanding beyond trading into everyday payments. @Gate’s latest launch of Gate Money combines fiat transfers, digital assets, investment services and Visa-powered card payments, with availability varying by region. Read more:

🚨 NOW: Bybit confirms it is unaffected by the reported security incidents, with trading and withdrawals operating normally and user funds secure.

⚡ JUST IN: Elon Musk says X is adding a long-press on the like button to send someone $1 via X Money. Tipping just became one tap away.

🇪🇺 JUST IN: Christine Lagarde to step down as ECB president on February 7, 2027.

🚨 UPDATE: Who’s exposed to the Binance hack so far Limited exposure: - Wintermute: exposure is under 20% of net equity. CEO Evgeny Gaevoy sees no disruption to operations in any scenario. - GSR: exposure is under 5% of net equity, with no material disruption to business as usual expected. The firm says it's working with contacts at Binance to understand the issue. No direct exposure: - Ethena: all collateral with exchange exposure sits with off-exchange custodians, not directly on exchanges. - Lido: stETH is not affected, and staking and withdrawals are running normally. Lido Earn has no direct exposure. - Aave: contracts are unaffected and positions remain overcollateralized. As a precaution, all DAO-operated V3 and V4 markets are frozen. New deposits and borrows are paused, but withdrawals and repayments still work.

🇮🇱 BIG: The Bank of Israel just shot down Netanyahu's idea of using crypto to dodge sanctions, saying crypto "cannot be used as a route for bypassing sanctions." Netanyahu's reply: "I listen, but I do what I think [is best]."

⚡️ INSIGHT: Compliance needs to be built in from day one, says @FinHarbor CEO Ilya Podoynitsyn. Integrating identity checks, AML controls and transaction data gives firms a unified view of fiat and crypto risk, cleaner audit trails and less manual work as they scale across markets.

🚨 UPDATE: If confirmed, Binance's reported $5.7 billion hack would be the largest in crypto history, surpassing Bybit's $1.5 billion hack in 2025 and Ronin Network's $625 million hack in 2022.

⚡ QUESTION: Did you survive the fall?

🚨 UPDATE: Binance's Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) holds approximately 15,000 BTC, valued at around $1 billion, to protect users against eligible security-related losses.

🚨 JUST IN: Binance co-founder Yi He thanked Ripple for promptly freezing approximately $200 million in funds, adding that user funds are SAFU.

🚨 NOW: Binance founder CZ said losses may exceed $1 billion but confirmed they will be covered.

🚨 JUST TODAY: • Polymarket: $2.7M reportedly stolen. • Binance: $5.7B reportedly drained in suspected hack.

🇸🇪 JUST IN: Sweden's Government Offices are blocking ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday. This leaves Microsoft Copilot as the only approved AI, which can run Claude models anyway.