Happy Friday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

- US inflation falls to 2.7%, lower than expectations.

- Odds of Fed cutting rates by 25 bps in January rise to 28%.

- BOJ raises interest rates to 0.75%

- US Senate confirms pro-Bitcoin Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC.

- Trump administration says we are closer than ever to passing the landmark crypto market structure legislation.

- BlackRock clients buy $113.12 million worth of Bitcoin.

- President Donald Trump said never sell your Bitcoin.

- Bank of England cuts interest rates to 3.75%.

- $NVDA and OpenAI sign MOU with U.S. Department of Energy to accelerate science with AI.

- OpenAI has sold more than 700,000 ChatGPT licenses to US colleges.

- President Trump says the US is preparing for a historic economic boom.

- President Trump says next year will be the largest tax refund season of all time.

- Elon Musk says the future is going to be amazing with AI and robots allowing sustainable income for all.

- White House Advisor Hassett says it’s appropriate for the Fed to lower interest rates right now.

- Shelter CPI moved down to 3.0%.

- Robinhood CEO says slowly, then all at once amid company’s push to tokenize stocks.

- NYSE owner is said in talks to invest in crypto firm Moonpay.

- North Korea drives record $2 billion crypto theft year, pushing all-time total to $6.75 billion.

- Coinbase partners with Kalshi to launch prediction markets.

- Kalshi prediction market surpasses $22,000,000,000 in all-time notional volume.

- Travel Retail Norway to accept Bitcoin payments on arrival at Oslo Airport.

- Taiwan now holds 210.45 Bitcoin in seized assets.

- The Ministry of Justice has just revealed that Taiwan now holds 210.45 Bitcoin in seized assets.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

- ETF clients buy $18.99 million worth of $XRP, bringing total ETF-held net assets to $1.14 billion.

- PumpFun $PUMP reaches new all-time low as ongoing legal battles and alleged insider trading by the founders weigh on the token.

- Christmas-themed $SPANKMAS surpasses 1,500 holders after hitting new all-time high yesterday.

- $NEAR token now live on Solana.

- SoFi launches SOFIUSD stablecoin on Ethereum to offer settlement infrastructure for banks and fintechs.

- Kraken-backed Xstocks launches on TON wallet in nearly all markets.

- Hyperliquid daily net flow over -$200M.

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Credit to the following X accounts for key insights & updates: @whaleinsider @bitcoinmagazine @watcherguru

@degeneratenews @charliebilello @economyapp @earnings_time

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