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At the Solana Breakpoint 2025 conference, Huma Finance announced a strategic partnership with Obligate and TradeFlow. The goal of the collaboration is to expand access to liquidity in the trade financing sector.
As part of the partnership, the Huma stablecoin liquidity network will be linked to institutional trade financing channels. This will enable a unified chain that supports scalable and regulatory-compliant investment flows. The announcement came just a few days after Huma's recent partnership with Tala, in which the companies launched a tokenized lending platform for underbanked users worldwide.

The United Arab Emirates are not choosing between Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto industry. The country is developing both directions simultaneously, but doing so step by step and in different cities.
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, is betting on institutional infrastructure around Bitcoin. This includes custodial services, over-the-counter liquidity, mining, and working with regulated capital markets. Dubai, in turn, has built a broader crypto economy. It covers payments, stablecoins, Web3 applications, gaming, tokenization, and products for the mass user.

The American Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing for a significant turnaround regarding digital assets. The new head of the SEC, Paul Atkins, stated that the first months of 2026 will serve as a starting point for a series of regulatory changes that should replace the previous practice of disputes and targeted investigations.

Artificial intelligence is facing one of the most important questions in modern economics - is the current growth of AI companies a bubble or a genuine business revolution? Economists and investment professionals are increasingly hearing the question of whether the artificial intelligence market has inflated to unjustifiable sizes.

Binance quietly added new features to its application programming interface (API) that indicate preparations for the launch of stock trading. The exchange clearly hasn't forgotten its ambitions in this area, despite the unsuccessful experience of 2021.
On December 11, the cryptocurrency exchange made changes to the API log, adding three new endpoints. One of them — with a URL including stock/contract — allows users to 'sign the TradFi-Perps agreement.' The other two provide the ability to request the trading session schedule for the upcoming week or obtain information about the current trading session.

Polygon is betting on scalability. The new Madhugiri update significantly increased the network's throughput and has become one of the most notable technical improvements in recent months.
After the hard fork, the network now processes about 1,400 transactions per second, which is 40% higher than previous figures. The Polygon team sees this as a foundation for further growth - and sets itself much more ambitious goals.

The tokenization sector of real assets is going through a less vibrant period on the charts, but intensive engineering work continues within the ecosystem. What stands out are not the prices but the teams that are building the infrastructure of the future.
Fresh data from Santiment shows that interest in RWA is not waning: it is simply shifting from public discussion to the area of development. This is a key signal for the industry, where the long construction cycle often outpaces market trends.

Silver soared to $63 an ounce, setting a new historical high. Against this backdrop, the crypto market dropped by 2.74% over the day, with all coins in the top 20 showing losses.
Such a sharp break in dynamics hints at a change in capital flows. Usually, such a movement is considered a classic signal of risk aversion, although some analysts believe that the situation may indicate the opposite.

Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, unexpectedly enters the consumer health market.
The company launched the QVAC Health app, taking another step away from the crypto industry. This is part of a broader strategy in which Tether is trying to develop areas not directly related to digital assets.

Aster cancels all trading fees on its stock futures, attracting crypto traders who want to access American stocks like Nvidia, Tesla, and Apple without the restrictions associated with traditional brokers.
In an official post on X, the Aster team confirmed that futures on stocks on their platform now operate on a zero percent model for takers and zero percent for makers. Thus, the exchange removes one of the main barriers for active traders.

The PIPPIN token is back in the spotlight. Amid the revival of the altcoin market, the coin from the AI agents segment has updated its historical maximum, but this surge is accompanied by growing concerns about possible price manipulation and a high likelihood of a sharp correction.
Record growth and record volatility

Federal regulators have changed their approach to digital assets. The U.S. Office of the Controller of the Currency has allowed banks to conduct cryptocurrency transactions as 'risk-free intermediaries' for the first time. The decision marks a significant turnaround after several years of a tough stance on the industry.

Four important sources of information on artificial intelligence for executives that will remain trendy in 2026: this list is worth studying now, while 2025 is coming to an end. Company leaders who have been trying all year to keep up with the rapid development of AI can finally breathe a sigh of relief and calmly figure out what they really need to know about this technology.

BlackRock takes a new step in the competition for leadership in the cryptocurrency fund market. The world's largest asset manager has submitted a registration statement to the SEC for a new product — iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF, which will combine spot exposure to ether and returns from staking.

The second week of December brings a noticeable increase in supply: tokens worth over $237 million will come into circulation. Unlocks in the Aptos, Linea, and Cheelee ecosystems will create additional pressure on turnover volume, while accompanying releases from AXS, BounceBit, and Movement will add short-term volatility to the market.

Shares of Twenty One Capital (XXI), the newest cryptocurrency asset management company in the US, fell by 20% on the first day of trading, despite the fact that the firm holds bitcoins worth over $4 billion. The debut of Twenty One Capital was one of the most anticipated among cryptocurrency companies this year, as the firm is backed by major stablecoin issuer Tether, as well as cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and Japan's SoftBank Group.

Circle is taking a new step in the global expansion of USDC. The company announced a partnership with the exchange Bybit, which ranks second in the world by trading volume. This agreement could significantly change the liquidity structure of stablecoins and create conditions for broader adoption of USDC among traders and companies worldwide.

NASA nearly lost missions worth billions of dollars due to a security flaw that engineers had overlooked for three years. A vulnerability in the critical software CryptoLib could have allowed hackers to gain control over rovers and other spacecraft.

A new OpenAI report showed that artificial intelligence saves employees an average of 40 to 60 minutes of working time per day. This data may disappoint those who expected radical changes in labor productivity due to AI technologies.
The study "The State of Corporate AI in 2025" is based on anonymized usage data from over 1 million business clients and a survey of 9,000 employees from nearly 100 organizations. The document presents a picture of the growing adoption and integration of AI in the workplace.

The SEC has completed a multi-year investigation into Ondo Finance and has not filed any charges. The Commission examined whether the tokenized bonds of the USA and the ONDO token comply with legal requirements.
Against the backdrop of the increasing prominence of the topic of tokenization of stocks in the SEC agenda, this decision opens the way for Ondo to expand its activities nationwide.