📺 YouTube Adds Stablecoin Payouts, GPT-5.2 Arrives, PYTH Buybacks

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As the year winds down, long-term Bitcoin holders are quietly accumulating while market liquidity continues to thin. YouTube has begun offering stablecoin payouts to U.S. creators, OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5.2 with significant enterprise performance upgrades, and Pyth is allocating a third of its DAO treasury to ongoing token buybacks.

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News Roundup

Artificial Intelligence

• Google Unveils Disco, An Experimental AI-Powered Browser (Decrypt)

• OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.2 as Enterprises Cite Sharp Performance Gains (Decrypt)

• Bittensor’s First Halving Set to Reshape TAO Economy and Cull Weak Subnets (DL News)

• OpenAI Delays ChatGPT Adult Mode to 2026 (Decrypt)

• AI Startup Claims to Engineer Social Video Virality (Decrypt)

Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance

• Arbitrum DAO Considers Paid Governance to Boost Delegate Participation (The Defiant)

• Stream Finance Founders Sue Partner Over Alleged Misuse of Protocol Funds (DL News)

• DTCC Wins SEC Green Light for Multi-Year Tokenization Pilot (DTCC)

• Hex Trust Brings Wrapped XRP to DeFi With Regulated Cross-Chain Launch (The Block)

• YouTube Quietly Adds Stablecoin Payouts for U.S. Creators via PayPal (Fortune)

• Ripple Payments Lands First European Bank Partner With AMINA Bank (Ripple)

• Standard Chartered and AirAsia Parent to Pilot Ringgit Stablecoin in Malaysia (Cointelegraph)

• Bank of Japan Poised for First Rate Hike Since January (Nikkei)

• Tether Blocks Early Share Sales as It Courts $20 Billion Funding Round (Bloomberg)

• Pyth Allocates 33% of DAO Treasury to Monthly PYTH Buybacks (The Block)

• Jupiter Unveils Major DeFi Upgrades at Solana Breakpoint (Jupiter)

• ADNOC to Accept UAE’s Stablecoin Across 980 Fuel Stations (CoinDesk)

• Interactive Brokers Enables Stablecoin Funding for Brokerage Accounts (Bloomberg)

• Standard Chartered and Coinbase Expand Institutional Crypto Prime Partnership (CoinDesk)

• Aave DAO Probes CoW Swap Fees and Alleged ‘Stealth Privatization’ (The Block)

• Five Crypto Firms Win OCC Approval to Become U.S. Trust Banks (CoinDesk)

Exchanges

• Coinbase Set to Unveil Prediction Markets and Tokenized Stocks Push (Bloomberg)

• South Korean Police Say Binance Only Partially Froze Stolen Upbit Funds (KBS)

• Kaiko Warns Binance’s Market Dominance Creates Systemic Risk (DL News)

Exchange-Traded Funds

• U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs posted $77.34 million in net outflows on Dec. 11.

• On Dec. 11, U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $42.37 million in net outflows.

• U.S. Solana spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $11.02 million on Dec. 11.

• On Dec. 11, U.S. XRP spot ETFs saw 16.42 million in net inflows.

• VanEck Rebrands Gaming Fund as ‘Degen Economy’ ETF (CNBC)

• Ark Invest Buys Robinhood Dip and Adds to Its Own Bitcoin ETF (The Block)

• Vanguard Allows Bitcoin ETF Trading but Remains Skeptical (Bloomberg)

Infrastructure

• Lolli Adds Lightning Withdrawals in Bid to Win Back User Trust (The Block)

• x402 Broadens Its Ambitions With V2 Payment Layer Upgrade (x402)

• deBridge Introduces Intent-Based Execution to Remove Onchain Friction (The Block)

• Phantom Brings Kalshi Prediction Markets to 20M Users (CoinDesk)

• Ethereum Core Developers Lock Glamsterdam Scope After Governance Clash (EtherWorld)

Markets

• Prediction Markets Turn Jittery as Traders Debate a Crypto Santa Rally (Decrypt)

• Long-Term Bitcoin Buyers Accumulate as Liquidity Thins Into Year-End (Decrypt)

Mining

• Bitcoin Miners Emerge as Key Buyers as Corporate Treasury Demand Slows (Cointelegraph)

• Solo Bitcoin Miner Defies the Odds to Claim $285,000 Block Reward (The Block)

Politics & Regulation

• Senators Claim Momentum on Crypto Market Rules After Closed-Door Talks With Big Banks (The Block)

• CFTC Withdraws Outdated Crypto Guidance to Make Room for Updated Rules (CFTC)

• CFTC Grants Prediction Markets Temporary Relief From Data Rules (CoinDesk)

• Trump Orders DOJ to Challenge State AI Laws, Setting Up Federal–State Clash (Decrypt)

• U.S. Charges Gray Digital Founder Over Alleged $42 Million Crypto Fraud (DL News)

• House Lawmakers Press SEC to Open 401(k)s to Bitcoin and Crypto (Cryptopolitan)

• Philippine Senate Advances Blockchain Bill to Put Government Budgets on Public Ledger (Cointelegraph)

• New York Forces AI Disclosures in Ads as Federal–State AI Clash Looms (Decrypt)

• Pakistan Moves Toward Crypto Integration With Binance Deal and Early Exchange Clearances (Bitcoin Magazine)

• UK Lawmakers Warn BoE Stablecoin Caps Could Drive Innovation Overseas (Decrypt)

Treasuries

• Bitcoin Treasury Trade Falters as Equity Premiums Collapse (DL News)

Venture Capital

• Multicoin Leads $29 Million Series A Extension Round (The Block)

Other News

• Do Kwon Gets 15-Year Sentence for Terra Fraud (Decrypt)

• Save the Children Launches Bitcoin Fund to Speed Emergency Aid (CoinDesk)

• Elliptic Sees Global Crypto Policy Shift Toward Banks, Stablecoins, and Asia (Decrypt)

• Netflix Greenlights Crypto Comedy Built Around a $35 Million Lost Password (Cointelegraph)

• Hollywood Director Convicted of Defrauding Netflix, Spending Millions on Crypto (Decrypt)

• Florida Seizes $1.5 Million in Crypto Using Fugitive Disentitlement Law (Decrypt)

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