🇦🇪🏦 ADNOC will accept AE Coin stablecoin payments at nearly 980 service stations across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. This includes services such as fuel, convenience store purchases, and car washes. AE Coin is the UAE's first stablecoin licensed by the Central Bank, pegged 1:1 to the AED. #stablecoin link

🔓📝 Upcoming major token unlocks:

#ASTER 0.98% ($75.4M) – Dec 17
#ZRO 2.47% ($37.4M) – Dec 20
#ARB 0.93% ($19.8M) – Dec 16
#VANA 5.10% ($17.4M) – Dec 16
#ESPORTS 4.66% ($17.2M) – Dec 19
#STBL 2.88% ($16.1M) – Dec 16
#MERL 1.72% ($16.1M) – Dec 19

JUST IN: 🇬🇧 UK to create new rules to "police" cryptocurrency markets, The Guardian reports.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says inflation is "totally neutralized."

🇺🇸 Trump's nominee for Fed chairman, Kevin Hassett, said decisions on interest rate cuts are made by the Fed's board of directors and will not be influenced by Trump. cointelegraph

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. 66kETHBorrow, who previously bought 489,696 #ETH ($1.5 billion), started buying ETH again. He borrowed 85 million #USDT from Aave, then withdrew 38,576 #ETH ($119.3 million) from Binance;
2. 0x7BB8, supposedly affiliated with Matrixport, withdrew 3 million #ASTER ($2.84 million) from Binance;
3. vitalik.eth sold 1,400 #UNI ($7.48k), 10,000 #KNC ($2.47k), and 40 trillion #DINU for a total of 16,796 #USDC;
4. pension-usdt.eth closed shorted 1,000 #BTC ($89.6 million) for a profit of $960k and then opened a long of 358.86 #BTC ($32.2 million). The total profit now stands at $23.2 million.

💸 #BTC Over the last 24 hours, ~$289M contracts have been liquidated, of which longs have liquidated ~$230M and shorts ~$58M.

JUST IN: Bitcoin falls under $86,000

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 PayPal $PYPL submits application to become a US bank.

JUST IN: Elon Musk becomes first person in history to surpass a $600 billion net worth.

🏦👀 #RWA Bank of America states that banks should adopt blockchain technology, citing JPMorgan and DBS's tokenized deposit pilots on public and permissioned blockchains.

📉 #USDT Market Cap is still shrinking. Liquidity is drying up—this isn’t the time for high-risk bets.

🕵️ A newly created wallet withdrew 3,301 $ETH ($9.75M) from Kraken and used it to purchase 51,373 $AAVE at a price of $189.79.

Address: 0x47ca539b3f546078d97bd851130741c6bf370100

🗽🤔 President Trump stated he will consider a pardon for the CEO of privacy-focused #BTC wallet Samourai, saying, "I've heard about it, I'll look at it. Let's take a look at it."