• Bitcoin fell below $90,000, and the chances of reaching $100,000 by the end of the year have dropped below 30% after the Fed's decision.
• The Federal Reserve lowered its rates as planned and will start on December 12 to buy back $40 billion worth of 30-day Treasury bonds, while announcing an upcoming pause.
• According to Token Terminal, the total market capitalization of stablecoins reached a record high of $310 billion.
• BitMine strengthened its reserves with an additional 33,504 ETH, amounting to an investment of $112.06 million.
• State Street and Galaxy will launch a tokenized liquidity fund, SWEEP, on Solana in 2026, with an initial investment of $200 million by Ondo Finance.
• The Ethereum Foundation activated BPO-1, increasing blob capacity to 15 per block without a hard fork. BPO-2 is scheduled for January.
• Bhutan announced the launch of the sovereign gold-backed token, TER, scheduled for December 17 on Solana.
• Solana, via Anatoly Yakovenko, reaffirmed that it has no single point of failure.
• Gemini received CFTC approval to launch a prediction market and plans to expand to futures, options, and perpetual contracts on cryptos.
• Several crypto company executives are joining the U.S. CFTC Innovation Council.
• Lighter DEX reported a global outage affecting some users.
• Jerome Powell specified that recent job creations were overestimated by 60,000 and reaffirmed the 2% inflation target.
• Schmid and Goolsbee opposed rate cuts during the Fed voting.
• Exactly 17 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin mailing list.
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What happened this night in the crypto market?
• Bitcoin fell below $90,000, and the chances of reaching $100,000 by the end of the year have dropped below 30% after the Fed's decision.
• The Federal Reserve lowered its rates as planned and will start on December 12 to buy back $40 billion worth of 30-day Treasury bonds, while announcing an upcoming pause.
• According to Token Terminal, the total market capitalization of stablecoins reached a record high of $310 billion.
• BitMine strengthened its reserves with an additional 33,504 ETH, amounting to an investment of $112.06 million.
• State Street and Galaxy will launch a tokenized liquidity fund, SWEEP, on Solana in 2026, with an initial investment of $200 million by Ondo Finance.
• The Ethereum Foundation activated BPO-1, increasing blob capacity to 15 per block without a hard fork. BPO-2 is scheduled for January.
• Bhutan announced the launch of the sovereign gold-backed token, TER, scheduled for December 17 on Solana.
• Solana, via Anatoly Yakovenko, reaffirmed that it has no single point of failure.
• Gemini received CFTC approval to launch a prediction market and plans to expand to futures, options, and perpetual contracts on cryptos.
• Several crypto company executives are joining the U.S. CFTC Innovation Council.
• Lighter DEX reported a global outage affecting some users.
• Jerome Powell specified that recent job creations were overestimated by 60,000 and reaffirmed the 2% inflation target.
• Schmid and Goolsbee opposed rate cuts during the Fed voting.
• Exactly 17 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin mailing list.