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🇬🇧 JUST IN: Bybit is back in the UK, relaunching with 100+ crypto trading pairs. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 NEW: President Trump praises Fed chair candidate Chris Waller as "great" and says he's narrowed his pick down to 3-4 candidates, with a final decision coming within weeks. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 LATEST: Bearish sentiment is spiking across social media after Bitcoin's pullback to $84.8K, with retail pushing fear harder than bullish narratives. Historically, this is a contrarian signal for a potential bounce, per Santiment. News | Markets | YouTube

🇯🇵 NOW: Bank of Japan raises interest rates to 0.75%, the highest level in three decades. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ NOW: Coinbase is suing Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut over their attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing the states lack jurisdiction, Bloomberg reports. News | Markets | YouTube

🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours! 🇺🇸 President Trump says he will soon announce the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, “someone who believes in lower interest rates by a lot.” 🚨 World Liberty Financial community proposes using a portion of unlocked WLFI treasury as incentives to accelerate USD1 stablecoin adoption. 🚨 Ethereum exchange supply drops to its lowest levels since 2016, signaling increased trader caution and reduced short-term selling pressure, per CryptoQuant. 🔥 Bitwise predicts $BTC will break the four-year cycle and reach new all-time highs in 2026, with $ETH and $SOL also hitting ATHs if the CLARITY Act passes. 📊 $XRP spot ETFs have logged inflows every single day since launch. 🇹🇼 Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice revealed it holds 210.45 $BTC in seized assets, per Legislator Ju-Chun Ko. 🇬🇧 The Bank of England cut its interest rate by 25 bps to 3.75%, matching expectations. 🇺🇸 US inflation cooled to 2.7%, below market expectations. 🇺🇸 SoFi launched SoFiUSD, a fully reserved U.S. dollar stablecoin, becoming the first national bank to issue a stablecoin on a public, permissionless blockchain. 🔥 Intuit has partnered with Circle to integrate USDC into its financial platforms, enabling faster and lower-cost payments across services like TurboTax, QuickBooks and Credit Karma. 🇺🇸 White House AI and Crypto Czar says a markup for the CLARITY Act is coming in January. 🇺🇸 CFTC seeks feedback on letting retail traders directly access derivatives clearing, part of push for stronger retail protections in derivatives markets. 🇺🇸 The US Senate has confirmed pro-crypto Michael Selig as CFTC Chairman in a 53-43 vote. 🚨 NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is in discussions to invest in crypto payments firm MoonPay as part of a funding round, per Bloomberg. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 LATEST: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is in discussions to invest in crypto payments firm MoonPay as part of a funding round, per Bloomberg. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 JUST IN: The US Senate has confirmed pro-crypto Michael Selig as CFTC Chairman in a 53-43 vote. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 NOW: CFTC seeks feedback on letting retail traders directly access derivatives clearing, part of push for stronger retail protections in derivatives markets. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 BIG: White House AI and Crypto Czar says a markup for the CLARITY Act is coming in January. “We are closer than ever to passing the landmark crypto market structure legislation.” News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NEW: Intuit has partnered with Circle to integrate USDC into its financial platforms, enabling faster and lower-cost payments across services like TurboTax, QuickBooks and Credit Karma. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 ALERT: $140M liquidated across the crypto market in the last 60 minutes.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: SoFi launched SoFiUSD, a fully reserved U.S. dollar stablecoin, becoming the first national bank to issue a stablecoin on a public, permissionless blockchain. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 JUST IN: US inflation cooled to 2.7%, below market expectations. News | Markets | YouTube

🇬🇧 NOW: The Bank of England cut its interest rate by 25 bps to 3.75%, matching expectations. News | Markets | YouTube

🇹🇼 JUST IN: Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice revealed it holds 210.45 $BTC in seized assets, per Legislator Ju-Chun Ko. The total value of seized virtual assets stands at NT$1.30B. News | Markets | YouTube

📊 BULLISH: $XRP spot ETFs have logged inflows every single day since launch. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: BTC, SOL and XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows on Dec. 17, while ETH spot ETFs saw net outflows. BTC: $457.3M ETH: - $22.4M SOL: $11M XRP: $8.54M News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BULLISH: Bitwise predicts $BTC will break the four-year cycle and reach new all-time highs in 2026, with $ETH and $SOL also hitting ATHs if the CLARITY Act passes. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 NEW: Ethereum exchange supply drops to its lowest levels since 2016, signaling increased trader caution and reduced short-term selling pressure, per CryptoQuant. News | Markets | YouTube