🚨 NEW: #Binance founder Changpeng Zhao warned that co-CEO Yi He’s WeChat account was hacked and used to promote a meme coin!

🪴 NEW: SEC Chair Paul Atkins says 2025 will be the year the agency’s #crypto initiatives “start seeding and sprouting,” adding: “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

💵 NEW: #Bitcoin treasury firm #Strive announced a $500M stock offering to accelerate its BTC accumulation strategy.

🟡 NEW: #Libeara — backed by Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures — launched a tokenized #gold investment fund in Singapore, giving professional investors blockchain-based exposure to the safe-haven asset.

🟠 NEW: US spot #Bitcoin ETFs recorded $60.48M in net outflows on Monday.

👀 NEW: Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the next decade could see #crypto scale 10–20x, pointing to comments from SEC Chair Paul Atkins that US equity markets may go on-chain “in a couple of years.”

🟢 NEW: #Circle secured regulatory approval to operate as a financial service provider in Abu Dhabi’s ADGM, deepening its expansion into the UAE.

⛓️ NEW: #OKX CEO Star Xu believes that in the coming decades “around 50% of global economic activity will run on #blockchain.”

📣 NEW: The #CFTC launched a landmark pilot allowing #Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDC to be used as collateral in derivatives markets!

🏦 NEW: Fitch Ratings warned it may downgrade US banks with “significant” #crypto exposure, due to growing reputational, liquidity, operational, and compliance risks.

🔥 NEW: #HashKey, the operator of Hong Kong’s largest #crypto exchange, officially filed for an IPO. This is the first public listing attempt by a dedicated crypto exchange in Hong Kong.

📊 NEW: A Paradigm researcher says #Polymarket’s reported trading volumes may be very overstated due to a “data bug” that caused dashboards to double-count activity.

🤖 NEW: #Tether joined a €70M round for Generative Bionics, a new IIT spinoff developing industrial humanoid robots for hazardous factory and logistics work.

📈 NEW: Analysts at the London Crypto Club say a fresh liquidity boost from the #Fed on Wednesday could act as a major catalyst that could potentially send #Bitcoin “sharply higher.”

👀 NEW: Argentina’s central bank is reportedly weighing whether to let traditional banks trade cryptocurrencies, which is major departure from its long-held restrictive stance.

💵 NEW: #Crypto investment products posted a second straight week of gains, pulling in $716M after last week’s $1B surge.

🤝 NEW: #Circle and #Bybit formed a new strategic partnership to expand $USDC liquidity and bring the world’s largest regulated stablecoin deeper into Bybit’s global ecosystem.

🟡 NEW: #Binance has become the first #crypto exchange to secure a full suite of FSRA licenses from Abu Dhabi Global Market.

🏦 NEW: #GoTyme Bank has begun offering #crypto trading to its 6.5 million users through a partnership with US fintech Alpaca, allowing in-app purchases of 11 digital assets converted from pesos to dollars.

🔵 NEW: #Coinbase has fully reopened user onboarding in India after a two-year retreat!

📣 NEW: In a Fox News interview, #JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon rejected claims of politically motivated #debanking and said the bank’s account closures have never been tied to ideology.

💵 NEW: #Robinhood is entering Indonesia’s crypto market through agreements to acquire local brokerage Buana Capital and licensed digital asset trader PT Pedagang Aset Kripto.

⛽ NEW: #Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin suggested building an on-chain futures market for gas fees, allowing users to secure more predictable pricing for future transactions.

👀 NEW: CoinShares’ James Butterfill recently rejected Arthur Hayes’ insolvency warnings, and pointed out that #Tether holds roughly $181 billion in reserves against $174.45 billion in liabilities, leaving about $6.8 billion in surplus equity.

🟠 NEW: Indiana Rep. Kyle Pierce filed a bill that would force public retirement systems to include #Bitcoin-related products and restrict local bans on #crypto usage.

💵 NEW: #BitMine Immersion Technologies bought $199 million in #Ethereum over the past two days.

👀 NEW: #Polymarket is assembling an internal market-making team that would trade against its own users, adopting a #Kalshi-style model that has already drawn scrutiny...

⚖️ NEW: Federal attorneys requested a 12-year prison term for Do Kwon in court filings ahead of his sentencing next week.

📣 NEW: #Strive urged MSCI to reconsider its plan to exclude major #Bitcoin-holding companies from its indexes, arguing the policy would wrongly limit passive investors’ exposure to high-growth sectors.

🚨 NEW: #ZachXBT claims that Danish Zulfiqar—who is allegedly tied to a $243 million Genesis creditor hack on #Gemini—may have been taken into custody by UK authorities.

🤝 NEW: Turkish crypto exchange #Paribu has acquired a majority stake in #CoinMENA.

🔪 NEW: Cantor Fitzgerald slashed its 12-month price target for #Strategy by 60% to $229, but maintained a bullish long-term view on #Bitcoin.

🏦 NEW: Woori Bank started displaying #Bitcoin prices in its main Seoul trading room, becoming the first South Korean commercial bank to integrate crypto data alongside core market indicators.

❗ NEW: Italy’s financial regulator warned #crypto firms to prepare for the Dec. 30 #MiCA deadline, saying VASPs must apply for full CASP licensing by 2025 to keep operating in the EU.

🔴 NEW: US spot #Bitcoin ETFs recorded $194.6 million in net outflows on Thursday, their largest withdrawal in two weeks.

🏦 NEW: Former Signature Bank executives have launched #N3XT, a blockchain-based, state-chartered bank built for instant 24/7 payments and interoperability with #stablecoins and digital assets.

👀 NEW: 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder warned that current volatility makes it unlikely #Bitcoin will repeat its early-2025 surge heading into 2026.

📣 NEW: #Base announced a new Chainlink CCIP-powered bridge to #Solana on Thursday, opening direct cross-chain asset transfers between the two networks.

🟠 NEW: According to JPMorgan, Strategy’s stability is more important to #Bitcoin’s short-term trajectory than rising miner sell pressure.

FACT: $11 trillion Vanguard Group holds 27.2 million ($69 million) MetaPlanet $MTPLF shares.

JUST IN: ETF clients bought $67.74M worth of #XRP, pushing total ETF-held net assets up to $844.99M.

NEWS: $75B #Revolut is integrating #Solana, enabling SOL payments, transfers, and staking inside the app.

Bitcoin adoption grows when earning it becomes part of everyday life. #Coinpaper #CryptoNews #Bitcoin #CryptoMarket #CryptoUpdates #DeFi #DigitalAssets #CryptoInvesting #BitcoinNews #CryptoEducation #BTC

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President #Trump says he’ll sign #crypto legislation. He adds that the upcoming market-structure bill could supercharge the industry beyond what most people expect — a major signal that the White House wants the U.S. to stay competitive as global crypto markets race ahead.

JUST IN: World’s biggest YouTuber #MrBeast is set to launch a new financial services platform.

💵 NEW: Early #crypto investor Christopher Harborne donated a record £9 million to Reform UK—the largest political gift ever made by a living person in Britain!

🚨 NEW: #Ledger researchers uncovered a critical flaw in the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 chip used in the #Solana Seeker, which enables full device takeover and potential private-key theft.

⚖️ JUST IN: Washington state ordered #Bitcoin ATM operator #Coinme to cease money-transmission services and repay over $8 million after alleging the firm illegally converted unredeemed customer funds into revenue.

NEW: Luxury auto giant #Lamborghini just launched its own branded #Bitcoin wallet.

🗓️ NEW: #Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said at Binance Blockchain Week that he expects #Bitcoin to reach $180,000 by the end of 2026.