⏰What happened in Crypto in the last ~24h: - Kevin Hassett “There’s plenty of room” to cut rates - $WET, $HYPER Coinbase Spot Listing - Tempo Testnet is Live - PNC is first bank to Launch $BTC Trading with Coinbase - OCC Confirms Bank Authority to Engage in Riskless Principal Crypto-Asset Transactions - $SPACE Token Sale on Curated by Impossible - Octra Labs Announces $OCT Public Sale - $FOGO Announces Presale - gensyn Announces $AI Public Sale - $ALEO Launches Circle’s USDCx on Testnet - $ZEN Re-Launches as Layer 3 on Base - $TRUMP Launches Trump Mobile Game - Daylight Launches Pre-Deposit Vaults - $SPARK 20 households now live with Spark as a member of their family • Kevin Hasset, White House National Economic Council (NEC) director and the most likely candidate to become the next U.S. Federal Reserve chair, stated that a "big cut" (a 0.5 percentage point rate reduction) is possible. Kevin Hassett at the WSJ CEO Council is asked how low rates should go: “If the data allows, as it does now, it is possible,” adding, “There is ample room to cut rates further.” In response to a follow-up question asking if this meant a cut of more than 0.25 percentage points, he answered, “Yes.” • $WET, $HYPER - Coinbase has announced that Humidifi ($WET) and Hyperlane ($HYPER) market will begin on Dec 9 and Dec 10 for each, It will begin on or after 9AM PT, if liquidity conditions are met, in regions where trading is supported. • Stripe and @paradigm have opened @tempo blockchain for public testing, enabling any company can build on a payments-first chain designed for instant settlement, predictable fees, and a stablecoin-native experience. Tempo has been shaped with a wide group of partners validating real workloads including Anthropic, Coupang, DeutscheBank, OpenAi, etc. • PNC Bank is the first major U.S. bank to offer spot $BTC trading directly within its digital banking platform. The integration, which is limited to $BTC trading for now, allows clients to access bitcoin directly within PNC’s digital banking platform, removing the need to open or manage separate crypto exchange accounts. • The The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency(OCC) published Interpretive Letter 1188 confirming that a national bank may engage in riskless principal crypto-asset transactions as part of the business of banking. Such transactions involve a bank acting as principal in a crypto-asset transaction with one customer while simultaneously entering into an offsetting transaction with another customer. The bank serves as an intermediary and does not hold the crypto-assets in inventory, instead acting in a capacity equivalent to that of a broker acting as agent. • $SPACE - CURATED is partnering with $SPACE, the first leveraged prediction market on Solana, to host its community token sale via an oversubscription round on Arbitrum (USDT) from Dec 9, 10 AM UTC to Dec 11, 10 AM UTC, open to all registered KYC-verified participants with a $250,000 pool. • $FOGO - The $FOGO presale begins on Dec 17, offering 2% of the total $FOGO genesis supply, with USDC pre-funding now open and token settlement to occur at @fogo public mainnet launch. • $OCT - @octra , a privacy-focused blockchain project, is set to hold a $20M public token sale on Sonar starting Dec 18 at a $200M valuation. The sale will use a fixed-price, commitment-style format in which any number of participants can deposit funds and receive tokens pro rata, with the design meant to maximize decentralization. • $AI - The @gensynai ($AI) public sale, utilizing Sonar Authentication, will be conducted as an English auction starting from a $1M FDV ($0.0001 per token) up to $1B FDV, with tokens distributed on Gensyn Network (L2) and payments accepted in $USDC or $USDT on Ethereum Mainnet. • $ALEO - USDCx is now live on the @AleoHQ Testnet, enabling use cases such as global payroll, aid distribution, e-commerce, remittances, P2P payments, DeFi, and compliant on-chain transactions, while remaining 1:1 backed by USDC in xReserve, fully interoperable across supported chains, and operating without third-party bridges. • $ZEN - @horizenglobal has officially deployed its mainnet on Base, completing the latest phase of the storied privacy-focused network’s evolution. Now, the project is aiming to make privacy a "practical option" for developers and users on Base, the increasingly popular Layer 2 network supported by Coinbase. • $TRUMP, $OL - The official Trump Mobile Game, The Trump Billionaires Club, is coming soon, featuring $TRUMP for all in-game activities, powered by OpenLoot ($OL), with a free waitlist offering a chance to win a share of $1M in $TRUMP rewards. • @daylightenergy_ DayFi Pre-Deposits launch on Dec 16, 1:00 PM UTC, accepting Sky’s $USDS & $USDT. The pre-deposit will have an initial cap of $50M with 2 months lock-up. Vault deposits will be deployed to Plasma, with K3 Capital managing a diversified yield strategy. • Kevin Fisher, CEO of Illusion of Life, addressed 20 households now live with Spark as a member of their family. He also saying that We will be inviting Spark into 10,000 homes by next Christmas @IllusionOfLife, making this new universe accessible to more and more families around the world. $SPARK is up 400% on this news, has reached an all-time high market cap of 7.4 million dollars, and is currently trading around $4.7m.