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Tu 16/12 | Daily Crypto & Macro News


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

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

- Bitcoin briefly falls below $86,000. Now trades around $86,600.

- Odds of BTC hitting $100K by year-end drop below 10% on Polymarket.

- There's now an 85% chance of Bitcoin hitting $80,000 first before going up to $150,000, according to Polymarket.

- In the past 24 hours, 170,894 crypto traders were liquidated, the total liquidations comes in at $578.94 million.

- Head of crypto at Kalshi John Wang says “prediction markets are the memecoins of 2023.”

- 79% chance Fed maintains rate in January, per traders on Kalshi.

- Michael Saylor's 'Strategy' buys 10,645 BTC worth $980 million.

- Bank of Japan may start selling ETFs in January, launching decades-long exit from ¥83 trillion ($534 billion) holdings.

- Gold price climbs to seven-week highs above $4,325.

- President Trump says he will consider a pardon for the CEO of privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet Samourai.

- Fidelity reports that Bitcoin's 4 year cycle may be over.

- SEC Chair Paul Atkins says "public blockchains are more transparent than any legacy financial system ever built."

- $468 million has been liquidated from the Bitcoin and crypto market in the last 24 hours.

- SEC Crypto Task Force to host a roundtable on financial surveillance and privacy today.

- Trump Family-backed miner American Bitcoin increases its BTC holdings to over 5,000 BTC.

- Michael Saylor’s Strategy $MSTR will remain in the Nasdaq 100 index.

- Treasury Secretary Bessent calls to ban stock trading by Congress.

- Nasdaq prepares filing to extend stock trading hours to 23 hours on weekdays.

- PayPal $PYPL submits application to become a US bank.

- Elon Musk becomes first person in history to surpass a $600 billion net worth.

- Kevin Warsh becomes new favorite on Polymarket to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair.

- Bank of America says banks will move onchain over the next several years.

- MetaMask now supports Bitcoin.

- DefiLlama says "correlations between the largest cryptos has been unusually high over the past 7 days".

- UK to create new rules to "police" cryptocurrency markets.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

- Little-known Ethereum token $YEE sees higher trading volume than $PEPE and $SPX.

- DBS – Singapore’s largest bank, received an additional 2k ETH ($6.27 million) from Galaxy Digital.

- On-chain data from DeBank shows a wallet purchasing 2.32M EDEL using $82K in USDC ahead of the upcoming testnet launch.

- Visa launches Stablecoins Advisory Practice to help institutions build stablecoin strategies.

- $4 trillion JPMorgan to launch first tokenized money market fund on Ethereum.

- Moonpay introduces MoonPayCommerce app built exclusively for the Solanamobile Seeker.

- OndoFinance to expand to Solana in early 2026.

- CME launches spot-quoted XRP and SOL futures.

- Solana ecosystem recorded its 2nd consecutive year as the most popular blockchain ecosystem, capturing 26.79% of global interest in chain-specific crypto narratives in 2025.

- Bitmine announces it added 102,259 ETH in the past week.

If you enjoyed this daily roundup, make sure to follow me – I'll see you tomorrow.

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

@degeneratenews @charliebilello @economyapp @earnings_time

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Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro.

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