CRYPTO CURRENT NEWS

TRUMP SIGNALS MAJOR SHIFT AT THE FED COMING NEXT YEAR

President Trump says he will soon announce the next Federal Reserve Chair - “someone who believes in much lower interest rates.”

- Trump wants rates cut by a lot
- Finalists reportedly include Hassett, Warsh, and Waller, all seen as more dovish
- He says the Fed chair would consult with him on rate decisions

“I’ll soon announce our next chairman of the Federal Reserve… mortgage payments will be coming down even further.”

@CZ share some BNB please.

ALTCOIN SEASON SETUP IS STARTING TO LOOK VERY FAMILIAR

This is TOTAL crypto market cap excluding $BTC & $ETH .

Same structure as past cycles:
- Multi-year support held
- Liquidity tightening near the lows
- Previous breakouts came after the Fed ended QT

Last time this happened -> 2020–2021 alt explosion.

Now we’re sitting at the same inflection point, with:
- ETFs live
- TradFi on-chain
- QT expected to end into 2026

If this rhymes, alts don’t move slowly from here.

🔥 BITCOIN FLASHES FRESH GOLDEN CROSS

Bitcoin has just experienced its fifth "Golden Cross," a technical signal historically followed by significant price rallies, even though market sentiment currently remains low and skeptical.

📈 Previous Golden Crosses were followed by strong price advances of 87%, 47%, 78%, and 33%.

Historically, these crossover signals appeared early in cycles during times of hesitation and doubt, BEFORE widespread optimism returned. 🚀

Chart: MerlijnTheTrader

100% not possible.

🇲🇭 REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS ROLLS OUT WORLD’S FIRST ON-CHAIN UBI ON #STELLAR #XLM

After years of UBI rumors fueled by the rise of #AI , it’s now a reality starting in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

The Pacific nation has launched the world’s first on-chain Universal Basic Income program using USDM1, a digitally native, U.S. Treasury–backed instrument on the Stellar blockchain.

Citizens will receive $200 in quarterly payments, delivered via stablecoin or traditional currency, designed to ease cost-of-living pressures across the country’s far-flung islands.

The program, called ENRA, showcases how #Stellar #blockchain can power real-world public finance and expand financial access at a national scale.

🚨 JUST IN: MICHAEL SAYLOR & PHONG LE MET WITH $2 TRILLION BANKING GIANT MORGAN STANLEY

Wall Street doors are opening.
Institutional momentum is building.

Something big is coming #BTC 👀

SOLANA JUST WITHSTOOD THE 4TH-LARGEST DDOS ATTACK IN HISTORY -- WITHOUT GOING DOWN

Just in time with the Breakpoint 2025, @Solana was hit with one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded.

Perfect timing for FUD. Perfect timing to try and disrupt momentum.

What actually happened?
✅ #Solana stayed online.
✅ Blocks kept producing.
✅ Users kept transacting.

This was a live network under real attack -- not a stress test, not a simulation.

If the goal was to prove $SOL can’t handle scale, the attack did the opposite. 💯

KEY U.S. DATA THIS WEEK, INCLUDING CPI, COULD SHAPE CRYPTO’S NEXT MOVE 👀

U.S. Jobs data + CPI drop next week ; the same numbers that drive Fed rate cuts, liquidity, and crypto prices.

📅 Key releases (8:30 AM ET):
• Jobs Report: Tue, Dec 16
• CPI Inflation: Thu, Dec 18

One hot or soft print could flip rate-cut odds fast.
📉 Soft data (cooling inflation, weaker labor) → higher cut odds → more liquidity → bullish for crypto
📈 Hot data → delayed cuts → tighter liquidity → pressure on risk assets

The Fed already cut 25 bps this week to 3.5%–3.75%.
Powell made it clear: everything is now data-dependent.

Markets are watching. Crypto will react.

🚨 MICHAEL SAYLOR SET TO BUY MORE #BTC TOMORROW!

#Strategy Tracker chart updated ✅
660,624 BTC held | Avg price $74.7K

Orange dots = past buys → another major purchase tomorrow!

"₿ack to More Orange Dots."

U.S. BANKS ARE PANICKING OVER CRYPTO -- AND THEY’RE SAYING IT OUT LOUD

The American Bankers Association (ABA) and the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) just blasted the OCC for approving bank charters for crypto firms.

Their complaint? That crypto companies are getting access to banking privileges without being traditional banks.

Translation: Legacy banks are scared of competition.

This is what disruption looks like. When incumbents stop ignoring you and start lobbying against you, it means crypto is no longer theoretical -- it’s threatening real market share.

Banks don’t fight things that aren’t working. 👀

YOUTUBE JUST MADE CRYPTO PAYMENTS MAINSTREAM

YouTube now lets content creators get paid in PayPal’s $PYUSD. This is huge because:

💥 YouTube = billions of eyeballs
💥 Creators get paid stable money on-chain
💥 Crypto becomes part of everyday internet income

This isn’t fringe adoption, it’s people earning crypto directly from global mainstream platforms.

Right now, we're seeing in real time how crypto is being built into how the internet pays its users.

$BTC and Market Highlights

Happy Friday, everyone! Markets are waking up to a mix of macro shifts, big institutional moves, and a few stories you definitely don’t want to miss 👇

🔥 Top Crypto Headlines

• China added 30,000 oz of gold in November, pushing total reserves to 2,305 tons - a new all-time high, strengthening the global de-dollarization narrative.

• A major Wall Street validation: JPMorgan launched blockchain-based bonds for Galaxy Digital on Solana.

• Tom Lee’s firm purchased $112M worth of ETH, strengthening its long-term treasury position.

🧡 15 Years Since Satoshi’s Final Public Message

On Dec 12, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto posted on BitcoinTalk for the last time, discussing DoS risks - and then vanished. 15 years later, Bitcoin still runs exactly as designed. Code > kings.

⛏ Solo miner hits the jackpot

A solo miner unexpectedly mined a $BTC  block, earning 3.13 BTC ($284k) - a reminder that Bitcoin is still full of miracles.

💳 Europeans Choose Stablecoins for Real-Life Spending

WhiteBIT’s new Nova Card report shows:

€50M+ in processed transactions

Average monthly spending up to €1,000

81% use virtual cards

Top markets: Spain, Italy, Ireland, Poland, Netherlands

Users mostly spend USDC/USDT/EURI for daily purchases - groceries, cafés, subscriptions

Real crypto adoption is quietly happening. Europeans don’t test crypto cards - they live on it.

🎬 Netflix announces crypto movie

“One Last Attempt” - a film based on real stories of people losing access to multimillion-dollar crypto wallets. A couple discovers their cruise-won crypto is now worth $35M - but they forgot the password.

⚡ Nvidia CEO: “Bitcoin stores energy”

Jensen Huang says Bitcoin turns excess electricity into portable value.

In his words: “Energy became portable for the first time.”

📈 Top Gainers (24h)

• MNT $1.25

• HYPE $29.54

• AAVE $205.16

Big moves before the weekend

#BTC Price Analysis# #Bitcoin Price Prediction: What is Bitcoins next move?

🚨 BREAKING: THE CFTC JUST ELIMINATED ONE OF CRYPTO’S BIGGEST REGULATORY ROADBLOCKS

The agency is withdrawing its outdated digital asset guidance -- rules that have penalized Bitcoin & crypto markets for years.

Here’s the TLDR of what was just removed and why it matters:

🇺🇸 OUT WITH OLD RULES: The CFTC scrapped guidance that treated many digital asset transactions as if they needed a very specific, rigid form of “delivery,” which created legal uncertainty for exchanges, lenders, derivatives platforms, and tokenized products.

⚡️ NO MORE COMPLEX, UNWORKABLE REQUIREMENTS: The old framework was written before modern crypto markets existed -- and often penalized legitimate activity while adding compliance risk.

🏗 GREEN LIGHT FOR TOKENIZED PRODUCTS: Clearing the rule makes it easier to develop tokenized collateral, spot crypto settlement, derivatives, and structured products without tripping over outdated definitions.

🛡 REGULATORY CLARITY = CAPITAL FLOW: With the barrier gone, institutions finally get clearer guidance, reducing legal risk and accelerating U.S. onshore crypto activity.

📈 A MAJOR STEP TOWARD THE GENIUS ACT ERA: This is part of the CFTC’s broader push to modernize digital asset rules, especially after launching its pilot program for Bitcoin/Ethereum collateral last week.

This is major. Regulatory friction that held the industry back is finally being ripped out -- and replaced with clarity.

Crypto asked for better rules, the CFTC actually delivered. 👏

SCARAMUCCI PREDICTS “EXPONENTIAL OPPORTUNITY” FOR #CRYPTO

At LONGITUDE, Scaramucci said educating lawmakers is key, noting that shifting TradFi rails to Ethereum and Solana could cut $4T in verification costs by up to 75%.

Kristin Smith called 2025 a year of unprecedented regulatory progress, with global policymakers racing to keep crypto innovation at home.

#Scaramucci urged attention to the big picture as #BlackRock, #Blackstone, and #JPMorgan advance in #tokenization:
“Don’t look at 2025 myopically. See the exponential technological opportunity that’s coming.”

#Institutional capital + clearer US #regulations = a strong setup for #crypto in 2026.

#GAMESTOP HOLDS THE LINE: ZERO #BTC SOLD IN Q3

#GameStop confirmed they didn’t sell a single sat in Q3, continuing to hodl 4,710 BTC ; the same stack they acquired between early May and mid-June using proceeds from their $1.3B debt raise.

CEO Ryan Cohen is opting to ride out volatility and strengthen the growing corporate #Bitcoin-treasury trend.

Powell cut rates.
Stocks celebrated.
Bitcoin didn’t.

The Fed delivered a 25 bps cut — but wrapped it in caution.
No promise of more cuts. Political pressure rising. Data reliability in question.

Markets ripped to new highs.
BTC slipped below $91K as Asia failed to step in — breaking a key support pattern.

$175M in BTC longs wiped.
Sentiment back to fear.

This wasn’t a dovish pivot.
It was a hawkish cut — and Bitcoin felt it first.

🇺🇸 LATEST: ANTI-CRYPTO CAROLINE CRENSHAW DEPARTING SEC JANUARY 18

Crenshaw, the SEC's remaining Democratic commissioner (and bigger crypto critic than Gensler), is officially leaving the SEC in January.

More good news for the crypto industry. This leaves the SEC with three Republican commissioners, two of whom were nominated by US President Donald, and all are pro-innovation.

President Trump has not yet announced a nomination to take her place.

JUST IN: J.P. Morgan arranged a $50M commercial paper issuance for Galaxy Digital on Solana, with Coinbase and Franklin Templeton buying the notes and settlement/payments done in USDC.

#AVNT — Bearish Trend & More Downside Ahead 👀

On the daily timeframe, after consolidating and sweeping liquidity above, $AVNT finally broke down its $0.30 support. This breakdown points to a target around $0.26 (measured from the pole) 📉

If you missed the initial short, you can wait for a retest before entering.