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🇯🇵 NOW: Japan might see its first rates increase in 11 months. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡ LATEST: Citadel is trying to regulate DeFi like TradFi to protect its own moat. And the crypto community is up in arms. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 LATEST: Strategy will stay in the Nasdaq 100 despite growing scrutiny.

⚡ FACT: $USDT is 61% of the Stablecoin Supply. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 THROWBACK: 15 years ago today was the last time Satoshi was publicly active. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BULLISH: Pakistan’s crypto regulator says the country is embracing Bitcoin as economic infrastructure and using its 20 GW energy surplus for $BTC mining and AI, predicting emerging markets will lead the next wave of adoption.

🚨 TODAY: Vanguard’s head of quantitative equity, John Ameriks, said Bitcoin is still more of a speculative collectible “like a popular plush toy” than a productive asset with income or cash-flow properties. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ INSIGHT: BeatSwap is building infrastructure for IP rights as onchain assets. The platform uses an oracle registry and tokenization tools to bring IP rights onchain, with a dedicated DEX for rights trading powered by BTX. The token recently launched on several exchanges. Tokenized IP aims to improve licensing efficiency. [Brought to you by BeatSwap] News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 ALERT: Over $185 million wiped out in liquidations in just 1 hour. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 PAUL ATKINS: "DTC participants can now transfer tokenized securities directly to registered wallets, which will be tracked by DTC’s official records." News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 LATEST: Tether plans a share sale to raise up to $20B, valuing the firm near $500B, with buybacks or tokenized equity considered for investor exits. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 JUST IN: Bitwise defended Strategy after MSCI proposed removing it from its index. Bitwise says, "Indices must stay neutral and that the change would harm investors seeking digital-asset exposure." News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ UPDATE: The '1011 Insider Whale' has now accumulated 250k $SOL worth $34.44M, total portfolio size sits around $616M, per analyst Ai Yi. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ NEW: Bitcoin miners could drive corporate adoption as crypto treasury purchases slow, says BitcoinTreasuries. NET. Mining companies now account for 12% of $BTC holdings. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: SOL spot ETFs saw net inflows on Dec. 11, while BTC and ETH spot ETFs saw net outflows. BTC: - $77.34M ETH: - $42.37M SOL: $11.02M News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: Unrealized losses across crypto hit ~$350B including ~$85B in Bitcoin as on-chain indicators signal shrinking liquidity, per Glassnode. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: Hex Trust launches Wrapped XRP (wXRP), a 1:1 XRP-backed token issued on LayerZero, bringing native XRP to DeFi across multiple chains, rolling out first on Solana. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 LATEST: Binance adds major USD1 trading pairs and plans to convert BUSD collateral to World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 TODAY: A solo miner has successfully mined Bitcoin block 927474, earning a 3.133 $BTC reward worth ~$284K. News | Markets | YouTube

🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours! 🚨 Ethereum Foundation says BPO-1 is activated, raising blob capacity to 15 per block and increasing L2 space without a hard fork. BPO-2 is set to launch in January. 🔥 Global stablecoin market cap hits an all-time high of $310B, per Token Terminal. 🇧🇹 Bhutan launches TER, a gold-backed sovereign digital token on Solana, set to go live December 17. 🚨 State Street and Galaxy Digital partner to launch the tokenized private liquidity fund (SWEEP), offering 24/7 onchain liquidity using PYUSD. 🔥 Satoshi Nakamoto statue now stands at the NYSE, marking crypto's evolution from Wall Street taboo to institutional acceptance. 🔥 Coinbase will enable DEX trading for all Solana tokens, no listings needed. ⚡️ KIYOSAKI: “The good news… gold and silver, ‘God’s Money,’ and Bitcoin and Ethereum, ‘people’s money,’ go up in value as the fake fiat money system collapses." 🇪🇺 Revolut and Trust Wallet teamed up to offer instant Bitcoin and crypto purchases in the EU. 🔥 There are 124 active crypto ETP filings across assets. Bitcoin leads, followed by baskets and XRP. 🔥 JPMorgan arranged a $50M Galaxy Digital bond issuance on Solana, with Coinbase and Franklin Templeton purchasing the paper using USDC in a push toward tokenized finance. 🚨 $BTC short-term holders have flipped into one of 2025’s deepest loss zones, with the average recent buyer now underwater as price trades below their realized price. 🔥 OpenAI released GPT-5.2, with top companies reporting major gains in long-horizon reasoning, coding, data science, and professional task performance as the model rolls out to ChatGPT and the API. 🔥 The SEC issued a No-Action Letter to DTCC, allowing it to offer tokenization services for DTC-custodied assets, with rollout expected in H2 2026. 🚨 Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud conspiracy in the $40B TerraUSD collapse. 🚨 Coinbase set to unveil prediction markets and tokenized stocks at its showcase on Dec. 17, Bloomberg reports. News | Markets | YouTube