🇺🇸 SEC sets Dec 15 roundtable agenda on financial surveillance and privacy with crypto and civil society speakers.

🟢 The SEC published the agenda for its Dec. 15 discussion on financial surveillance and privacy, featuring participants from privacy-focused crypto and ZK teams alongside civil liberties voices, including the ACLU.

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💸 Strategy reports buying 10,624 BTC this week, lifting total holdings to 660,624 BTC.

🟢 The update reinforces the company’s ongoing accumulation strategy, keeping it one of the largest single corporate holders of Bitcoin and a consistent source of spot demand during market dips.

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💸 Grayscale says institutional flows may be weakening Bitcoin’s classic four-year halving cycle.

🚫 Grayscale argues BTC price behavior may be shifting as ETFs and other institutions reshape demand, while macro conditions and evolving supply dynamics increasingly influence market direction.

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🕯 Ripple exec says XRPL may need a Solana-style push to stay competitive among L1s.

🚫 Ripple executive Luke Judges said the XRP Ledger’s roadmap may need faster execution and a more pragmatic go-to-market approach as competition among major layer-1 networks intensifies.

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🏦 Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo CEOs to meet US senators on Thursday to discuss crypto legislation.

🟢 The meeting signals growing engagement between top US banks and policymakers as lawmakers weigh new rules for digital asset markets and market structure.

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🕯 Standard Chartered says it now expects the Fed to cut rates by 25 bps at Wednesday’s meeting.

💢 The bank’s updated call points to a softer policy stance than previously expected, putting extra focus on the decision statement and forward guidance for the path of rates and liquidity conditions.

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💸 Bernstein says Bitcoin’s four-year cycle is breaking and the bull market may extend into 2027.

🟢 Bernstein analysts argue BTC is shifting into an “elongated” bull cycle driven less by the halving rhythm and more by structural demand and macro liquidity, raising their targets to $150K in 2026 and a $200K peak in 2027.

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☄️ Circle receives a Financial Services Permission from Abu Dhabi’s FSRA to operate as a money services provider under ADGM.

✅ The authorization positions Circle to expand regulated operations in Abu Dhabi’s financial free zone, enabling the company to offer permitted payment and money-services activities within the ADGM framework.

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🇦🇪 UAE national security officials describe Bitcoin as a key pillar of future finance.

🟢 The comment reinforces the UAE’s pro-digital-asset posture at the policy level, adding narrative support to the region’s push to attract crypto infrastructure, liquidity, and regulated stablecoin activity.

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