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🔶 Binance Appoints Co-Founder Yi He as Second CEO

🏦 European Banks Create Qivalis to Launch Euro Stablecoin A group of 10 European banks, including ING, UniCredit and BNP Paribas, has formed a new company called Qivalis. The goal is to launch a euro stablecoin in the second half of 2026 to counter U.S. dominance in digital payments.

🔮 CNN to Integrate Kalshi Prediction Markets CNN will start using Kalshi’s prediction markets across its news coverage. Kalshi Raises $1B at an $11B Valuation

🚫 Binance to Delist Spot Trading Pairs on December 5 Binance announced it will remove the following spot trading pairs: ACH/BTC, DENT/ETH, EGLD/FDUSD, HAEDAL/BNB, INIT/FDUSD, PORTAL/BNB, PORTAL/BTC, PROVE/FDUSD, QTUM/BTC, RIF/BTC, SHELL/FDUSD, STRAX/BTC, TREE/FDUSD, WAXP/BTC, W/BTC.

🖨 Arkham: Circle Minted 500,000,000 USDC

🎩 Strategy CEO Says Reserve Covers 21 Months of Payments Strategy’s CEO stated that the company’s $1.4B reserve can cover roughly 21 months of dividend payments, with the potential to extend this to two years. This removes the need to sell BTC.

🛡 Trust Wallet Added Support for Prediction Markets Trust Wallet has introduced support for prediction markets. The first integration is Myriad, with Kalshi and Polymarket to follow.

🤖 AI Agents Managed to Hack Smart Contracts Worth Millions Anthropic found that AI models can hack smart contracts and cause multimillion-dollar losses. In tests of 10 models, including Opus, GPT-5, and DeepSeek, AI successfully breached 207 of 405 contracts (51%) across Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base, accessing $550M. On a newer dataset (34 contracts launched after March 2025), AI hacked 19 (56%) with potential losses of $4.6M. Test-attack profitability has been doubling every 1.3 months as AI capabilities grow.

Experts Challenge Halving Cycles, Predict Bitcoin Growth in 2026 Grayscale and Bitwise argue that the traditional four-year Bitcoin halving cycle is breaking. Although Bitcoin still follows the usual timing — reaching a new ATH ($126K) 534 days after the 2024 halving — analysts no longer expect a long bear market. Key reasons: • Institutional demand dominates: ETF inflows and corporate buying outpace the halving-driven supply reduction by about 7×. • No bubble signs: Growth has been steady, without the usual parabolic spike. • Macro impact: Bitcoin now reacts to global economic conditions; expected Fed easing in the next 6–9 months may support prices. Experts believe these factors could push Bitcoin higher into 2026 instead of entering a prolonged downturn.

📈 According to a16zcrypto, out of 716 million crypto holders worldwide, only 40–70 million actively use it. This highlights the massive growth potential for the global crypto market.

🥲 Bitcoin miners have entered the most difficult period for margins in history Bitcoin miners have entered the most challenging period for margins in the network’s history. Due to the price drop, hashprice has fallen to a structural minimum of $35 per PH/s, while the median cost of hashpower is around $44 per PH/s. Even operators with highly efficient hardware and competitive electricity rates are now hovering on the edge of break-even. The payback period for the latest-generation mining rigs has exceeded 1,000 days — while during the 2017 bull run it was only 3–6 months.

📊 Crypto Market Prices • Bitcoin (BTC): $87,070 • Ethereum (ETH): $2,803 • XRP (XRP): $2.01 • BNB (BNB): $831 • Solana (SOL): $127 • Total crypto market cap: $2.94T • Bitcoin dominance: 59% • Fear & Greed Index: 23 (extreme fear) • Top gainer in the top-100: MYX Finance (MYX) +10% • Top loser in the last 24h: Canton (CC) –30%

⚙️ Ethereum Tests “Secret Santa” Protocol to Enhance Privacy The Ethereum ecosystem is developing a new Zero Knowledge Secret Santa (ZKSS) privacy protocol designed to enable full anonymity using cryptography. The goal is to create a smart-contract mechanism where it’s impossible to determine who sent a “gift” and to whom. The protocol could become the foundation for anonymous voting, private airdrops, DAO governance, and secure internal whistleblowing systems. How it works: • Participants add their addresses to a smart contract. • Each confirms participation with a unique signature to prevent duplicates. • Through a relayer, participants anonymously submit random numbers so no one knows who contributed which value. • Recipients encrypt their addresses so only their assigned sender can read them. • Each participant ultimately receives a designated recipient while keeping their own identity hidden.

💵Circle and Tether have printed $18,500,000,000 worth of stablecoins since the major market crash on October 10. Today alone: +750,000,000 USDC. Some believe this is the “new money” crypto needs to kick off altseason.

💫 Strategy Formed a $1.44B Reserve to Support Dividend Payments and Debt Interest • Strategy has established a $1.44B reserve to support dividend payments on preferred shares and interest on its debt. • The reserve was funded from proceeds generated by selling Class A shares. • The company plans to maintain the reserve at a level sufficient for 12 months, with a goal to strengthen it to 24 months or more over time.

💸 CoinGlass: Over $150M Liquidated in the Past Hour

💸 Crypto-Based Investment Funds Saw $1.07B Inflows Last Week • After a negative streak, crypto-based investment funds recorded $1.07B in inflows last week. • Investor sentiment improved on hopes of a potential Fed rate cut in December, following comments from FOMC member John Williams, who suggested such a move is possible.

📊🏴‍☠️ PeckShieldAlert: In November 2025, ~15 Major Crypto Hacks Resulted in ~$194.27M in Losses • PeckShieldAlert reports that around 15 significant crypto hacks occurred in November 2025, causing total losses of approximately $194.27M. • Overall losses increased more than tenfold compared to October’s $18.18M, marking a 969% surge.

📊 CryptoRank: November 2025 Became the Second Worst Month for BTC in the Last Three Years

🤖 Pavel Durov Launches Cocoon – a Decentralized Network for Private AI Computing • Cocoon (Confidential Compute Open Network) provides users with 100% privacy when interacting with AI. • Some Telegram features, such as automatic message translation, already operate via Cocoon. • Developers get access to computing power at lower costs compared to Microsoft or Amazon. • GPU owners can earn TON by processing developers’ AI requests.