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Investments in the UAE’s tourism sector are drawing more entrepreneurs and new SMEs.

Strong public backing and a clear policy mix guide growth. Programmes link finance, training, and advisory services. They target founders who want speed and low friction. Lenders now pair loans with mentoring and market access.

You see that in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah. The goal is simple. Build stable companies that hire locally and add new experiences.

Ghana’s Parliament legalizes cryptocurrency trading with the passage of the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act, creating a regulatory framework for exchanges and digital-asset businesses. The Bank of Ghana will oversee licensing and supervision.

JP morgan is weighing offering #cryptocurrency trading services for institutional clients, exploring both spot and derivatives #crypto markets as demand from big investors grows.

This would be a major step by Wall Street’s largest bank into #digitalassets

AI agents now pay each other (and real merchants)

Fetch.ai’s new system supports on-chain $USDC & $FET payments plus Visa integration, letting agents complete real-world transactions like reservations while users are offline.

Uniswap tokenomics shift incoming

The governance vote on the fee switch & 100M $UNI burn is nearing approval with ~99 % voter support, bringing a deflationary future and direct value capture into play for $UNI holders. Vote ends Dec 26.

Breaking News

Coinbase is suing Michigan, Illinois & Connecticut over their attempts to regulate prediction markets, the exchange argues this authority belongs exclusively to the CFTC, not individual states, as it prepares to launch its own product.

📢 GAMING

FIFA and Netflix have partnered to launch a new FIFA football video game exclusively on Netflix Games ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, and players will be able to play on their TV using their phones as controllers, making it highly accessible for Netflix members.

The game is developed by Delphi Interactive and is part of Netflix’s expanding gaming lineup for subscribers.

🇬🇧 UK interest rates have been trimmed again, the BoE now sits at 3.75 % after inflation unexpectedly dropped to 3.2 %. Borrowing costs are easing just in time for the holidays.

Hyperliquid token burn now shapes how you should view the exchange and its future value.

Many traders focus on price charts while missing deeper signals across activity and revenue.

Hyperliquid exchange generates large fee revenue despite flat headline volume.

$HYPE token price reflects sentiment more than cash flow performance.

Perpetual futures DEX volume metrics differ between organic and incentive-driven trading.

Crypto token burn reduces supply using real protocol fees.

The Hyperliquid exchange spent much of the past year leading on chain leverage trading.

Traders treated the platform as a default venue for perpetual futures DEX activity.

HYPE token price rose earlier as usage expanded and sentiment stayed positive.

🚨 Breaking News

Amazon is in talks to invest ~$10B+ in OpenAI, possibly tying a major capital infusion to deeper AI chip & AWS infrastructure collaboration. Nothing is finalized yet, but it could reshape the AI landscape.

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🚀 Institutional Crypto Move

Moon Pursuit Capital launches a $100M market-neutral #crypto fund designed to generate risk-adjusted returns across digital assets using hedged strategies, a shift away from pure directional exposure.

💡 Stablecoin “gold rush”

Exodus joins the expanding field of digital dollar issuers with a USD-backed #stablecoin launching next year, integrating seamless payments inside its #wallet and tapping MoonPay’s global issuance network.

🔐 Security Milestone

Solana $SOL begins its quantum-resistant upgrade, testing post-quantum digital signatures on testnet with Project Eleven, part of the blockchain industry’s push to future-proof #crypto networks against emerging #quantumcomputing threats.

MetaMask has added native Bitcoin support, letting users buy, send, receive & swap $BTC directly inside the wallet after teasing it 10 months ago.

This marks a major step in its multi-chain expansion.

🎯 Confirmed

PancakeSwap $CAKE is launching Probable, a zero-fee on-chain prediction markets platform built on $BNB Chain, backed by PancakeSwap + YZI Labs.

Users will be able to bet on #crypto , sports, global events & more, with outcomes verified via UMA’s Optimistic Oracle.

Japan’s digital finance push continues

A regulated JPY-backed stablecoin could expand blockchain settlement beyond USD-centric rails, SBI and Startale are building it for global usage, launching in early Q2 2026.

📈 NEW Milestone

El Salvador’s Bitcoin stash tops 7,500 $BTC (~$670M) as the government keeps building its reserve stack, a standout example of a national treasury embracing digital assets.

$BIRB Token Incoming

Moonbirds is launching its native $BIRB token in early Q1 2026 on Solana, a major expansion of the Moonbirds NFT ecosystem and a key growth step for Orange Cap Games.