😮 The SEC excluded cryptocurrency from the audit priorities for 2026 for the first time in several years.

Under Gary Gensler, the crypt was considered a high-risk zone, and spot ETFs on BTC and ETH were on the list of priorities.

Now the main focus of the regulator is AI technologies and automation, not cryptocurrency.

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💳 Mastercard implements verified usernames in crypto wallets on Polygon - release

What’s changing:
• The Crypto Credential system (Mastercard crypto service) adds convenient short wallet names tied to a verified person.
• Mercuryo checks the identity and gives out these usernames, and the user binds them to his wallet.
• A token is issued in the Polygon network, which displays that the wallet supports such transfers.

Why do we need it:
• Reduce errors when entering the address.
• To simplify life for beginners.
• Add a layer of trust and verification to online tools.

Mercuryo is a fintech company that provides payment services and infrastructure for working with cryptocurrency.

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🙁 CryptoQuant: Strategy shares have already fallen by 64% from the historical high.

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😬 FAIL: An anonymous whale from November 3 to 10 bought 30,838 ETH for $110.43m at an average price of $3581, and today sold all its 31,005 ETH ($92.19m) with a loss of $18m.

ETH ~ $3,000.

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😯 Coinbase is probably preparing an important announcement on December 17 (twitter)

Crypts in social networks believe that it will be about the launch of the Base token.

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❌ The Internet «lay down to rest» - probably a failure of Cloudflare, one of the largest hosting providers.

Because of this, many sites around the world, including Twitter and Spotify, do not open, and some users report the unavailability of ChatGPT.

UPD: Cloudflare suspects that their servers have been hacked. The company is conducting an investigation.

Even the Downdetector website doesn’t work, which records failures...

UPD: Sites are starting to come to life - Cloudflare solves the problem.

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🔽 SV: Money outflows from American Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs continue.

Net outflow for yesterday:

▪#BTC = -$254,510,000.
▪#ETH = -$182,800,000.

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🥰 Cypherpunk bought #ZEC for another $18,000,000 - release

▪Average purchase price: $602.
▪Total on the balance sheet: 233,644 ZEC (1.43% of circulating supply), bought at an average price of $291.

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🔪 The U.S. Stock Market Fear and Volatility Index (#VIX) - maximum since the end of October.

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🐙 Kraken raised $800,000,000 to transfer traditional finances to the blockchain.

• $600m - the main round from the institutions.
• $200m is a separate strategic investment from Citadel Securities with a valuation of $20b.

The goal is to accelerate the launch of online shares, derivatives, tokenization, staking and payment services, as well as to expand the global presence.

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⚠️ Quantum computers can hack Ethereum even before the 2028 U.S. elections.

Vitalik Buterin said that the base layer of Ethereum should be «petrified» to eliminate bugs and ensure the predictability of the network, where hundreds of billions of $$$ are stored.

The main thing:
• Innovations should go to L2, and L1 turns into the most stable layer of calculations and security.
• The early «spirit of experiments» disappears - the industry was absorbed by memecoins and copying of success.
• Elliptical curves (a special type of mathematical functions used in cryptography) will die, and quantum computers can break the current cryptography before the 2028 U.S. elections.
• Ethereum has 4 years to switch to quantum-resistant protection.

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👇 Two-thirds of the TOP-15 Hyperliquid traders are now shorting Bitcoin (list)

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🔽 SV: Money outflows from American Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs continue.

Net outflow for yesterday:

▪#BTC = -$372,770,000.
▪#ETH = -$74,220,000.

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❌🇷🇺 The American regulator OFAC imposed sanctions against Russian IT companies AEZA Group, Media Land Technology, Media Land, ML.Cloud and others.

Purpose: to prevent the use of Russian IT services to bypass restrictions and strengthen control over cross-border digital infrastructure.

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🔥 #SOL Mass listing of spot Solana ETFs continues in the United States.

Today, trading of ETFs on SOL from 21Shares has started.

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💎 #TON AlphaTON Capital bought 1,600,000 TON ($2.8m) on the open market - release

➤ In staking: 4,000,000 TON ($7m).
➤ Average purchase price: not disclosed.
➤ The value of the company’s digital assets (TON + USD1): $28,600,000.
➤ Money for building up the TON reserve: $51,400,000 (from partners and through a credit line).

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#aztec
🥳 Aztec launched Ignition Chain, the first fully decentralized Layer 2 blockchain on Ethereum.

Ignition Chain works on its own consensus layer and gives developers the opportunity to create DeFi applications with complete privacy.

The queue has already exceeded 500 validators, after which the network automatically launched the production of blocks in the mainnet.

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🧐 Quarkslab conducted the first ever public audit of Bitcoin Core security.

2 low-risk problems and 13 recommendations for improvement were found - not a single vulnerability that could affect network security.

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⚖️ William Lonergan, co-founder of the Samourai Wallet cryptomixer, was sentenced to 4 years in prison.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the service helped to «launder millions of dollars of criminal funds».

Earlier, the CEO of the project Keonne Rodriguez was sentenced to a maximum term of 5 years.

Details:
• Both pleaded guilty and have already paid more than $6.3m as part of the confiscation.
• After release, everyone was assigned 3 years of supervision and a $250k fine.

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🇮🇳 India is preparing its own stablecoin #ARC, tied to the rupee.

The token is planned to be launched in a strict two-level model together with the RBI digital rupee, while maintaining full support and regulatory control.

The main goal is to stop the leakage of liquidity into dollar stablecoins, preserve capital and innovation within the country and at the same time increase the demand for government bonds.

The launch of the stablecoin is planned as early as the 1st quarter of 2026.

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🧠 The AI traders’ test continues.

A new season of the «AI Trading Showdown» experiment has started, where neural networks again trade crypto with a real deposit of $10,000 (follow)

Two newcomers were added to the pool - Kimi and a secret model, which the organizers have not yet disclosed.

Intermediate results:
➤ DeepSeek 3.1 — $10,479
➤ Gemini 3 — $10,454
➤ Kimi k2 — $10,398
➤ Mystery-model — $10,396
➤ GPT 5.1 - $10,240
➤ Qwen 3 — $10,220
➤ Grok 4 — $10,074
➤ Claude 4.5 — $10,057

At the moment, all neural networks are in the black.

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