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🚨 TODAY: Stripe and Paradigm-backed Tempo launched its testnet, a payments-first blockchain designed for instant settlement with predictable fees. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡ NEW: Tidal Trust filed for a Bitcoin AfterDark ETF that would only hold Bitcoin during off-market hours. ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says most BTC gains occur after hours, suggesting the strategy could capture better returns. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 NEW: U.S. banks are now allowed to act as intermediaries for crypto transactions under new regulatory guidance. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NEW: PNC has launched Bitcoin trading for its private banking clients through a partnership with Coinbase, allowing them to buy $BTC directly within their investment accounts. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 ALERT: $131M in positions wiped out in just one hour across the market. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 TUNE IN: Texas just became the first US state to buy and hold Bitcoin. In Savannah Fortis’ latest Byte-Sized Insight with Lee Bratcher, President of the Texas Blockchain Council, they unpack why Texas is doubling down during a downturn and what this means for future state-level $BTC policy. Watch the full episode here. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 SAYLOR: "China will copy the U.S. the moment America starts accumulating Bitcoin." News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 SAYLOR: "China will copy the U.S. the moment America starts accumulating Bitcoin." News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BULLISH: UAE National Security says Bitcoin is a “key pillar of future finance.” News | Markets | YouTube

TradFi is stepping into crypto with trillions on the horizon. Discover how DATs, ETFs, and RWAs are reshaping digital assets and what the next wave of institutional adoption means. Join Matthew Roszak, Joseph Chalom, Reeve Collins and Akshat Vaidaya at LONGITUDE Abu Dhabi on Dec 11, co-hosted by Cointelegraph and @Phemex_EN. 👉 Join here: https://luma.com/u1x1qnpj News | Markets | YouTube

🇦🇪 JUST IN: Circle secures Financial Services Permission license from Abu Dhabi's FSRA to operate as a Money Services Provider under ADGM. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: Bitcoin supply on exchanges dropped by 403.2K $BTC over the past year, signaling reduced selling pressure and lower risk of major sell-offs, per Santiment. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 TODAY: Bernstein analysts say Bitcoin has broken its 4-year cycle pattern and is now in an elongated bull cycle, raising price targets to $150K in 2026 and $200K peak in 2027. News | Markets | YouTube

🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours! 🚨 ZKsync announces it will deprecate ZKsync Lite in 2026 as a planned sunset, with funds remaining safe and a detailed migration plan to be shared in the coming year. 🚨 Bittensor is set to undergo its first halving on Dec 14, cutting TAO issuance from 7,200 to 3,600 per day. 🇮🇩 Robinhood to expand into Indonesia by acquiring brokerage Buana Capital and digital asset trader PT Pedagang Aset Kripto. 🚨 Google searches for dollar "debasement" hit an all-time high this quarter as public interest in currency depreciation explodes. 🇦🇪 Binance secures full suite of licenses from Abu Dhabi's FSRA, becoming the first digital asset trading platform to achieve this milestone under ADGM. ⚡ Vitalik Buterin proposes onchain gas futures market for Ethereum to help users hedge against network fee volatility as adoption increases. 🇺🇸 President Trump's national security strategy omits any mention of cryptocurrency or blockchain despite his pledge to make the US a crypto hub. 🇮🇳 Coinbase is returning to India after a 2-year exit, reopening sign-ups and crypto trading. 🇺🇸 The SEC has released the agenda for its Dec. 15 roundtable on Financial Surveillance and Privacy, featuring speakers from Zcash, StarkWare, Aleo, the ACLU and more. 🚨 The SEC has ended its two-year investigation into Ondo Finance, per Eleanor Terrett. 🔥 Saylor announced Strategy added 10,624 $BTC this week, bringing holdings to 660,624 $BTC. 🇺🇸 The CFTC launched a pilot program allowing BTC, ETH, and USDC to be used as tokenized collateral in U.S. derivatives markets. 🇺🇸 Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup CEOs are set to meet with senators Thursday to discuss crypto market legislation, per Bloomberg. 🔥 JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says, “We’ve always been using technology to do a better job for the clients and we’re gonna do the same thing in tokenization.” 🇺🇸 Standard Chartered now expects the Fed to cut rates by 25 bps on Wednesday. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 UPDATE: Standard Chartered now expects the Fed to cut rates by 25 bps on Wednesday. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 TODAY: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says, “We’ve always been using technology to do a better job for the clients and we’re gonna do the same thing in tokenization.” “Tokenization, blockchain are real.” News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 LATEST: Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup CEOs are set to meet with senators Thursday to discuss crypto market legislation, per Bloomberg. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 INSIGHT: Ripple executive Luke Judges says the XRP Ledger may need a faster, more pragmatic, Solana-style execution and go-to-market strategy to stay competitive among layer-1 networks. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 JUST IN: The CFTC launched a pilot program allowing BTC, ETH, and USDC to be used as tokenized collateral in U.S. derivatives markets. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 LATEST: Grayscale says $BTC may be breaking away from its historic four-year halving cycle, arguing that institutional flows, macro conditions, and shifting supply dynamics now play a bigger role in shaping BTC’s price behavior. News | Markets | YouTube