🇵🇰 #BTC Chairman of Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority: BTC and blockchain should be Pakistan's new financial rails. cointelegraph

🔁 Coinbase-backed artificial intelligence payment protocol x402 is releasing V2, a series of backend enhancements designed to simplify the creation of customized payment flows, improve wallet and identity features, and support "legacy payment systems," among other improvements. theblock

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. 1011short contributed another 110 million #USDC on Hyperliquid to open longs on #BTC and #SOL. Also placed limit orders to buy ETH in the range up to $3030 price Current positions: 140,094 #ETH ($450m), 1000 #BTC ($91.8m), 100,000 #SOL ($13.6m);
2. New wallet received 1,900 #BTC ($175.2 million) from Galaxy Digital in the last 3 days;
3. Whale borrowed 1 million #USDC to buy 5,211 #AAVEs. He now owns 338,544 #AAVEs ($69.08M) on Aave and has $30.8M in #USDC debt.

🎬 Netflix announced a comedy movie about a missing cryptocurrency wallet password with $35 million. cointelegraph

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

👍 #DBR deBridge launches new execution model to simplify blockchain. theblock.co

🆕 #CYS #US Binance will launch USDⓢ collateralized USUSDT and CYSUSDT perpetual futures on December 12, 2025.

📊 Friday expiration of ~$4.3 billion worth of options:
- Nominal value of #BTC options: $3.5 billion
- put/call ratio: 1.09
- max pain point: $90,000

- Nominal value of #ETH options: $744 million
- put/call ratio: 1.24
- max. pain point: $3,100.

🤝 Coinbase and Standard Chartered are collaborating to explore opportunities to develop trading, prime, storage, staking and lending services for institutional clients. cointelegraph

🇯🇵🏦 The Bank of Japan is set to raise its policy rate at the December 18-19 monetary policy meeting. A 25-basis-point increase from 0.5% to 0.75% is the leading option, marking the first hike since January 2025 and reaching a level not seen since 1995. link

📊 #ETH CQ: only 4 times in the last 5 years has ETH traded very close to the realized price of whales owning at least 100 ETH. Two of those instances occurred during the 2022 bear market and the remaining two occurred this year.

🗣 #BTC Twenty One CEO Jack Mallers stated that Bitcoin is projected to reach a market cap of $200 trillion.

💰 Ark Invest has purchased $15.4 million worth of Robinhood shares. link

🕵 Machi has opened a new #HYPE long position with 10x leverage. Machi has also increased his #ETH long position (25x), valued at $26M, but is currently losing over $21M. link

🆕 $CYS has been listed on Bybit futures. link

🆕 $US has been listed on Bybit futures. link

🐳 The '1011 Insider Whale' has accumulated 250,000 $SOL valued at $34.44 million. The total portfolio size is approximately $616 million, according to analyst Ai Yi.

🇸🇬🥇 Singapore topped the global ranking of countries with the highest number of crypto transactions amid the growing popularity of stablecoins, according to the World Crypto Rankings 2025 report. #stablecoin

🤝🔮 #SOL Phantom has partnered with Kalshi to integrate tokenized prediction markets into the Phantom crypto wallet. Users can explore trending events, trade positions with Solana tokens or cash, monitor real-time odds, and participate in live community chats directly within the wallet. The integration provides tokenized positions linked to Kalshi’s CFTC-regulated prediction markets, which include politics, crypto, sports, and culture. link

🆕 $RAVE is now live on Binance Alpha. link

💰 #USDT Tether seeks to raise up to $20 billion through share sales, bringing the company's value to about $500 billion. bloomberg