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Trust Wallet, the world’s leading self-custody wallet with over 200 million users, has partnered with Revolut, Europe’s popular financial app boasting 65 million global customers. Revolut is now integrated directly as a payment provider inside Trust Wallet, enabling instant, secure fiat-to-crypto purchases across Europe. Users can fund wallets in seconds without leaving the app, bridging traditional banking and self-custody seamlessly. This combo empowers everyday Europeans to enter crypto effortlessly while retaining full control of their private keys and assets.

Gemini Titan, the Winklevoss twins’ affiliate, secured CFTC Designated Contract Market approval on December 10, 2025, five years after applying in March 2020. U.S. users can soon trade binary yes/no contracts on Gemini’s site, like “Will Bitcoin top $200K?”, with mobile rollout next and crypto futures, options, perpetuals planned. CEO Tyler Winklevoss thanked President Trump for crypto relief as Kalshi and Polymarket smashed volume records post-election.

a16z crypto has opened its first Asia office in Seoul, appointing Sungmo Park, former APAC Lead at Monad Foundation and Polygon Labs, as Head of APAC go-to-market. Park, fluent in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English, will help portfolio founders build partnerships, expand distribution, and grow communities across the region. The move targets South Korea’s status as the world’s second-largest crypto market, where nearly one-third of adults own digital assets, plus high ownership in Singapore and surging on-chain activity in Japan amid Asia’s $2.36T on-chain boom.

State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Digital are launching the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP) on Solana in early 2026, targeting institutional cash management needs. The private tokenized fund will let Qualified Purchasers move money in and out using PYUSD, PayPal’s regulated stablecoin issued by Paxos, enabling near 24/7 liquidity instead of traditional market hours. Ondo Finance will seed the strategy with around $200 million, signaling growing demand for tokenized money market-style products.

Bhutan has launched TER, its sovereign gold-backed digital token on the Solana blockchain through Gelephu Mindfulness City. Each TER represents physical gold held securely, offering stability and blockchain speed for global transfers. DK Bank, Bhutan’s first digital bank, handles distribution and custody in the initial phase. This move boosts Bhutan’s blockchain push, including BTC mining and reserves worth over $500 million.

Eric Trump–backed American Bitcoin Corp has added 416 more Bitcoin worth about $38 million to its treasury, taking its total holdings to roughly 4,784 BTC. The Nasdaq-listed miner has been steadily growing its reserve through a mix of mining and strategic purchases, positioning itself among the larger public corporate Bitcoin holders and signaling strong long-term conviction in the asset despite recent volatility in its share price.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin accused Elon Musk of turning X, once a free speech platform, into a tool that spreads coordinated hate, especially in Europe after a $140M EU fine for not controlling misinformation. He warned that algorithm changes promoting outrage over kindness could harm core social values in the coming years. Meanwhile, Farcaster, a decentralized network Vitalik supported, is shifting to a wallet-first model, focusing more on on-chain trading than social interactions.

The Federal Open Market Committee will release its policy decision today at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, followed by Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time. During this event, the Fed will also share updated economic projections, including its outlook for growth, inflation, jobs, and future interest rates. Markets are watching closely, as traders widely expect another 25 basis point rate cut to adjust the target range for the federal funds rate. Read More

Brevis, a ZK verifiable computing platform, has teamed up with multi-chain DEX Aster to tackle speed, security, and privacy hurdles in on-chain trading. Brevis shifts complex computations off-chain, verifies them via zero-knowledge proofs on-chain, slashing costs while keeping everything trustless. The duo will enhance user privacy, hiding positions and P&L, without sacrificing market transparency, rivaling centralized exchanges.

Upbit, South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, is now keeping 99% of user assets in offline cold wallets after a major hot wallet hack. Hackers stole about 44.5 billion KRW in crypto, mainly from a Solana hot wallet, prompting Upbit to overhaul its wallet system and cut hot wallet use to effectively zero. This new setup goes beyond South Korea’s rule that requires at least 80% of customer assets to be held in cold storage.