The Fed Board rescinded a restrictive 2023 Policy Statement that imposed a strong presumption against allowing state member banks from engaging in “novel” activities beyond what's permitted for national banks, like many crypto services, and replaced it with a more flexible policy.

https://www.theblock.co/post/383097/federal-reserve-withdraws-restrictive-2023-policy

Aster has announced Stage 5: Crystal

Duration: 6 weeks (22 Dec 2025 – 1 Feb 2026)
Allocation: 1.2% of total supply (~96M ASTER)

The Road to Aster Chain:
- Aster Chain Testnet — End of December 2025
- Aster Chain Mainnet — Q1 2026
- Staking & Governance — Q2 2026

https://x.com/aster_dex/status/2001266172654952448

JPMorgan has migrated its tokenized deposit product, JPM Coin (JPMD), from its internal permissioned blockchain Kinexys to Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 network Base

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/18/jpmorgan-s-tokenized-dollars-are-quietly-rewiring-how-wall-street-moves-money

United Stables Launches U as a Native Stablecoin on BNB Chain

https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/united-stables-launches-u-as-a-native-stablecoin-on-bnb-chain

Bitfinex Introduces Zero-Fee Trading

https://x.com/bitfinex/status/2001686237917188208

NEAR is now live on Solana

https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/2001683139291136484

The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 58.66%

Market Cap - $2.96T
BTC - $86,933 (+0.25%)
ETH - $2,913 (+2.73%)
BNB - $837 (-0.9%)
SOL - $121 (-1.97%)
BCH - $584 (+7.12%)

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The US Senate on Thursday night confirmed Michael Selig as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/senate-confirms-selig-as-chief-of-cftc-and-hill-to-run-the-fdic

David Sacks says a markup for the CLARITY Act is coming in January

https://x.com/davidsacks47/status/2001770200031736094

Hashed released a report on 2025 and a forecast for 2026

https://medium.com/hashed-official/the-protocol-economy-hashed-2026-3d3991bfa382

Bybit returns to UK with 100 crypto trading pairs after 2-year break

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/19/bybit-returns-to-uk-with-100-crypto-trading-pairs-after-2-year-break

Hyperliquid’s TVL fell to $4 billion amid $430 million in weekly outflows

https://dune.com/queries/4355983/7311700

Binance has announced Bitway (BTW) Booster Program and Pre-Token Generation Event (Pre-TGE) on Binance Wallet

Bitway Pre-TGE Subscription Details:
Total Raise Amount: $50,000 in BNB
Total Token Amount: 100,000,000 BTW (1% of total supply)
Subscription Cap per Binance Wallet User: 3 BNB 

Bitway Booster Program Details:
Activity Start Time: 2025-12-22
Total Rewards: 300,000,000 BTW tokens (3% of total supply) 
Reward Release Schedule: 
Phase 1 rewards, 50,000,000 BTW (0.5% of the total supply) will be fully released on the TGE day. 

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/c5cd08ebd66f45b587f8cd82245c6aa8

Ethereum developers name post-Glamsterdam upgrade 'Hegota' as 2026 roadmap takes shape

https://www.theblock.co/post/383275/ethereum-developers-name-post-glamsterdam-upgrade-hegota-as-2026-roadmap-takes-shape

The crypto market is growing
BTC Dominance - 58.45%

Market Cap - $3.01T
BTC - $88,242 (+1.5%)
ETH - $2,986 (+2.44%)
BNB - $857 (+2.5%)
SOL - $126 (+3.44%)
APT- $1.63 (+10.27%)

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TRON DAO has announced the integration of TRON with Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase

Enabled by LayerZero, the integration allows TRX, TRON’s native utility token, to be seamlessly bridged to the Base network. As a result, users can access TRX directly within the Base App via decentralized exchanges on Base, such as Aerodrome.

https://www.theblock.co/post/383222/tron-integrates-with-base-enabling-trx-access-on-coinbase

Arthur Hayes's essay "Love Language"

Bitcoin will break $124,000 and head toward $200,000 (by March 2026).

https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/love-language

Top 100 gainers in 24h: СС, APT, ZEC, JUP, ASTEDR, XMR, ENA, SUI, PEPE

https://dropstab.com/top-performance

The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 58.45%

Market Cap - $3.03T
BTC - $88,784 (+0.8%)
ETH - $3,023 (+1.61%)
BNB - $855 (+0.69%)
SOL - $126 (+0.54%)
MYX - $3.59 (+24.1%)

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