🔄 Solana Tokens, Fed Liquidity Boost, Bitcoin Quantum Security

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Markets dipped as Bitcoin and Ethereum both edged lower, with technical indicators pointing to lingering bearish pressure. Meanwhile, Coinbase expanded support for all Solana tokens through an integrated DEX, and the Fed announced plans to resume Treasury bill purchases to help maintain market liquidity. On the tech front, Bitcoin researchers are exploring hash-based signatures as a defense against future quantum threats.

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News Roundup

Artificial Intelligence

• Asian Catholic Leaders Draft First Regional AI Ethics Guidelines (Decrypt)

• Grayscale’s Bittensor Trust Goes Public Ahead of TAO’s First Halving (The Block)

• Why TIME Named the Architects of AI 2025’s Person of the Year (TIME)

• Disney Accuses Google of Massive AI Copyright Violations as It Strikes $1B OpenAI Deal (Decrypt)

Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance

• Fed to Restart Treasury Bill Purchases to Maintain Market Liquidity (Reuters)

• Lead Bank Partners With Loop Crypto to Scale Stablecoins & Payments (The Block)

• Phantom’s CASH Stablecoin Rockets Past $100M Supply (The Defiant)

• Superstate Launches On-Chain Direct Stock Issuance for Public Companies (The Defiant)

• State Street and Galaxy Unveil Onchain Liquidity Fund (CoinDesk)

• Bhutan Launches Gold-Backed TER Token on Solana (Decrypt)

• UK FCA Sets Stablecoin Payments as a Top Priority for 2026 (The Block)

• Revolut and Trust Wallet Enable Instant, Self-Custodied Crypto Buys in the EU (CoinDesk)

• Crypto Becomes Central to Venezuela’s Sanctions-Strained Economy (Decrypt)

• Klarna Deepens Crypto Push With Privy Wallet Partnership (CoinDesk)

• Anchorage Lands Another Stablecoin Issuer (The Block)

• JPMorgan Conducts $50M Commercial Paper Issuance on Solana Using USDC (Bloomberg)

Exchanges

• Coinbase Opens Access to All Solana Tokens via Integrated DEX (Solana)

• Gemini Wins CFTC Approval to Launch Regulated Prediction Market (The Block)

• Paxful Pleads Guilty, Hit With $7.5M in Penalties for Enabling Criminal Crypto Activity (Decrypt)

• USDⓈ-M Futures Adds REST API for Signing TradFi-Perps Agreement (Binance)

• Coinbase to Restrict USDC rewards to Paid Coinbase One Subscribers (DL News)

• Binance Launches Private IOI Tool for Institutional-Scale Trades (The Block)

• dYdX Opens U.S. Access With Launch of First Spot Market With Solana Trading (The Block)

• Nexo Buys Buenbit to Accelerate Regulated Expansion in Latin America (The Block)

• Coinbase Picks Chainlink CCIP as Exclusive Bridge for Wrapped Assets (The Block)

• Binance Expands Support for Trump-Backed USD1 Stablecoin (The Block)

Exchange-Traded Funds

• U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs brought in $224M in net inflows on Dec. 10.

• On Dec. 10, U.S. Ethereum, Solana, and XRP spot ETFs also saw net inflows of $57.58 million, $4.85 million, and $10.2 million, respectively.

• Vanguard to Open Crypto ETF Access for 50M+ Clients (Cointelegraph)

• 21Shares Launches New XRP ETF (TOXR) on CBOE (The Block)

Infrastructure

• Ethereum Activates BPO-1 Upgrade to Boost L2 Data Capacity (EF)

• Vitalik Says Fileverse Now Stable for Secure Collaboration (Vitalik Butern)

• Polygon Targets 100,000 TPS After Madhugiri Upgrade (Polygon)

• Xiaomi Smartphones to Preinstall Sei Wallet Globally (Except U.S. and Mainland China) (Decrypt)

• Bitcoin Researchers Weigh Hash-Based Signatures for Quantum Security (DL News)

Markets

• Bitcoin Options Traders Shift Focus to 2026 Rally (Decrypt)

• Why Bitcoin Is Falling Despite the Fed’s Rate Cut (Decrypt)

• U.S. Jobless Claims Rise While Trade Deficit Narrows to 4-Year Low (DOL, BEA)

• Bitcoin and Ethereum Slip as Charts Signal Bears Still in Control (Decrypt)

Politics & Regulation

• OCC: Crypto Debanking and ‘Weaponized Finance’ Must End, Regulator Warns (Decrypt)

• CFTC Innovation Council to Include Crypto and TradFi CEOs (Cointelgraph)

• Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Crypto Exchanges (CCN)

• DOJ Indicts Ukrainian Tied to Russia-Linked Cyberattack Groups Using Crypto (Decrypt)

Treasuries

• Adam Back Says Every Company Will Become a Bitcoin Treasury (DL News)

• BitMine Buys 33,504 ETH as Tom Lee Calls Market Bottom (The Block)

• Bitcoin Treasury Firms Face Losses as Some Begin Selling (Decrypt)

Venture Capital

• a16z Crypto Expands Into Asia With New Seoul Office (CoinDesk)

• Rushi Manche Launches Nyx Group With Up to $100M to Back Token Projects (The Block)

• a16z Report: Stablecoins Hit $46T in Volume as Tokenization Accelerates (a16z)

Other News

• Satoshi Nakamoto Statue Installed at NYSE in Symbolic Milestone for Bitcoin (Cointelegraph)

• A Startup Moves to Claim the Abandoned ‘Twitter’ Brand (Decrypt)

• Crypto Traders Boost Security as Violent Kidnappings Rise (Bloomberg)

• Asia’s Wealthy Plan to Boost Crypto Allocations (Cointelegraph)

• Inside the Pseudonymous Crypto Sleuths Battling Hackers (Cointelegraph)

• How Professional Crypto Traders Analyze Interest Rate Decisions (Cointelegraph)

• Do Kwon Faces Sentencing in New York Court Today (Decrypt)

• China Reasserts Crypto Ban While Hong Kong Stays Open (Wu Blockchain)

• Spanish Police Break Up Network Behind Deadly Crypto ‘Wrench Attack’ (Decrypt)

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