📰 The Economist has released a New Year's Eve cover with predictions for 2024. 1️⃣ At the top, Zelensky and Putin look into each other's eyes, they are separated by an hourglass with the bottom half more filled in: time is running out for this war. 2️⃣ US and PRC interests will collide in South America and Southeast Asia. Biden and Xi's interests diverge, they look in opposite directions. 3️⃣ Above Putin's head is Trump and a dove of peace, Zelensky's is a girl and missiles. Zelensky will be gone. There will be a woman in his place. 4️⃣ Artificial intelligence is a new opportunity and threat at the same time. 5️⃣ The ballot box - in 2024 Putin and Biden and many countries around the world will have presidential elections and this will affect the future of the world. 6️⃣ A downturn in the world economy and trade is inevitable.

🍣 Bitcoin Is Coming to Sushi as DeFi Platform Expands to ZetaChain Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Sushi said it is expanding to layer-1 blockchain ZetaChain to add native bitcoin (BTC) support. The addition of ZetaChain, which raised $27 million earlier this year, introduces the first native bitcoin trading in DeFi, enabling users to swap the largest cryptocurrency across 30 networks without wrapping, Sushi said in a release. Wrapping a coin allows it to be used on a different blockchain than the one it was originally issued on.