📰 CoinEasy Newsletter - Thursday, December 11th Summary ✅ Gemini Receives CFTC Approval, Preparing to Launch Prediction Markets, BTC, and ETH Derivatives - Legal Crypto Futures, Options, and Perks Trading Expected to Be Available in the US - Planning a Comprehensive Trading Platform Including Prediction Market Functionality - Major Exchanges Accelerate Entry into Regulated Derivatives ✅ a16z Investment Lead Bank Partners with Loop Crypto to Expand Stablecoin Payments - Building an On-Chain Payment Pipeline for Corporates and Banks - Designing a Large-Scale Payment Processing Infrastructure Focused on USDC - Signals of Growing Stablecoin Adoption by Traditional Financial Institutions ✅ BTC and ETH Rollercoaster Immediately After the FOMC Meeting... Volatility surges on 0.25% 'hawkish cut' - Hawkish message included even in rate cut → Short-term mixed performance - Liquidations expand as BTC and ETH sweep - Market focuses on additional cut path in Q1 ✅ CryptoQuant: "BTC could reach $112,000 if the Fed turns dovish" - A bullish trend opens when the 94k and 102k resistance levels are broken - On-chain indicators signal sustained long-term buying pressure - Supply shock and ETF inflows suggest key drivers ✅ Stripe acquires Valora wallet team… Full-scale expansion of stablecoin payments - Aiming to build a USDC-based global payment network - Simplifying the user experience by integrating off-ramps and on-ramps - Web2 payment companies make a full-fledged leap forward on-chain ✅ MSCI launches Bitcoin test index… Internal conflict between "Innovation vs. Regulation" exposed - Global index firms expand access to crypto - Increasing demand for institutional BTC derivative indices - The clash between regulatory risk and innovation momentum is a key variable ✅ 'Crypto AI' Grok claims 4x the performance of ChatGPT... Raises $15 million - Develops AI models based on on-chain data training - Focuses on use cases in trading, security, and market prediction - Investment in the AI x Crypto sector surges ✅ American Bitcoin, run by the Trump brothers, purchases an additional $380,000 in BTC - Expands total holdings to 4,783 BTC - Strengthens politically and corporately integrated Bitcoin treasury strategy - Continues BTC accumulation by large private holders ✅ Cascade aims for "24/7 perf trading across all asset classes"... Supports Polychain and Variant - Plans to offer on-chain perpetual futures for stocks, indices, commodities, and FX - Emphasizes compliance-focused models, not evasion of global regulations - Focuses on experiments to transplant traditional financial derivatives onto the chain