🇺🇸 UPDATE: The U.S. Senate Banking Committee won’t hold a crypto market-structure markup in 2025, pushing it to early 2026 after bipartisan discussions.

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🔥 CZ’s take: If you ever envied the folks who bought crypto cheaply and held through multiple cycles, think about what they did in moments like this.

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🔥 Adoption update: The Marshall Islands becomes the first nation to roll out universal basic income on-chain, via USDM1 sovereign bonds on Stellar.

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⚡️QUESTION: With 2026 just two weeks away, what's your hottest take for the year ahead?

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🔥 THROWBACK: In July 2025, wallets idle since 2010 sprang to life, moving more than $8.6 billion in Bitcoin.

These coins were mined when BTC traded for under $0.10.

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🔥 Latest update: In Aster’s live trading tournament, human traders are down about 28%, while AI traders are hovering around break-even.

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🇺🇸 US ETF FLOWS — UPDATE: On December 17, Bitcoin, SOL, and XRP spot ETFs attracted net inflows, while Ethereum spot ETFs saw net outflows.

BTC: +$457.3M
ETH: -$22.4M
SOL: +$11M
XRP: +$8.54M

📊 BULLISH: XRP spot ETFs have seen daily inflows since launch.

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🇹🇼 JUST IN: Taiwan's Ministry of Justice says it holds 210.45 BTC in seized assets, per Legislator Ju-Chun Ko.

The total value of these seized virtual assets stands at NT$1.30B.

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🇬🇧 NOW: The Bank of England has cut its interest rate by 25 basis points, bringing it to 3.75%, in line with expectations.

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: U.S. inflation cools to 2.7%, well below market expectations.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: SoFi unveils SoFiUSD, a fully reserved U.S. dollar stablecoin, and becomes the first national bank to issue a stablecoin on a public, permissionless blockchain.

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🚨 LATEST: Bearish sentiment is surging across social media after Bitcoin retraced to $84.8K, with retail traders fueling fear more than bullish narratives. Historically, this has been a contrarian signal for a potential bounce, according to Santiment.

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🇺🇸 NEW: President Trump hails Fed chair hopeful Chris Waller as "great" and says his selection is narrowed to 3-4 contenders, with a final decision expected in the coming weeks.

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🇧🇷 Just in: Brazil’s main stock exchange, B3, is gearing up to launch a tokenization platform and issue its own stablecoin for token trading and settlements, slated to begin in 2026.

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🛒 LATEST: Holiday spending deserves more than points that expire.

54% of loyalty memberships stay inactive, and many rewards never get redeemed. Traditional loyalty programs just don’t cut it anymore.

The seQura App takes a different path.

With seQura, shoppers in Spain can book travel and shop for holidays using flexible payments, while earning real cashback in Bitcoin. Shoppers can earn up to 10% Bitcoin cashback across 500+ premium brands, with expansion to more EU markets planned.

No expiration. No breakage. Just ownership.

[Brought to you by Sequra App]

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🚨 Quick fact: there are only about 1,035,659.4 $BTC left to be mined.

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🇯🇵 Insight: Japan’s Metaplanet is gearing up for US trading through Deutsche Bank-backed ADRs, under the MPJPY ticker.

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📊 Market update: $7B in shorts could be wiped out if BTC adds $10k to its price.

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📊 Market update: Exchange inflows this month jumped to $10.9 billion, the strongest level since May 2021.

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🚨 LATEST: This Q4 is the second-worst on record.

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