Pakistan Rolls Out 2 Bold Crypto Exchange Deals

Pakistan is moving to formalize its place in the global digital-asset economy, signing a memorandum of understanding with Binance to explore the tokenization of up to $2 billion in state-owned assets while granting early regulatory clearances to both Binance and HTX. 

Together, the initiatives reflect one of the country’s most ambitious pushes yet to merge sovereign finance with blockchain-based infrastructure.

According to Pakistan’s finance ministry, the MoU with Binance will allow the government to assess tokenising sovereign bonds, treasury bills, and commodity reserves — including oil, gas, and metals — as it seeks new tools to boost liquidity and expand market…

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3 Macro Factors Driving The Bitcoin Drawdown From $120,000 To $90,000

Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) months-long range-bound trading, and a 12% pullback that’s keeping it from reclaiming $100,000, has traders digging into what’s driving the weakness.

What Happened: Pseudonymous macro researcher Capital Flows elaborated in a detailed X thread that three key macro forces are behind Bitcoin’s drawdown:

Bitcoin is acting as a risk-asset release valve: BTC remains highly sensitive to shifts in risk appetite. While it typically tracks equities, it has recently diverged because it responds more quickly to changes in macro liquidity and the broader risk curve.

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Bitcoin Price Forecast Tools And Cycle Valuation Metrics

The Bitcoin Magazine Pro Price Forecast Tools chart provides a comprehensive framework for identifying potential price floors during bear cycles and forecasting upside targets based on on-chain fundamentals and network-derived data points. By aggregating multiple metrics, this methodology has historically called Bitcoin market cycle peaks and bottoms with remarkable accuracy. Can these tools continue to provide a basis for reliable BTC price forecasting over the next 12 months and beyond?

CVDD & Balanced Price: Bitcoin Price Cycle Low Indicators

The Cumulative Value Days Destroyed (CVDD) metric has historically called Bitcoin price cycle lows almost to perfection across…

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YouTube To Roll Out PayPal Stablecoin Payout Option For US Creators – PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ:PYPL)

YouTube, owned by Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), will now allow U.S. creators to receive their payouts in stablecoins.

What Happened: Creators can opt to receive earnings in PayPal’s (CRYPTO: PYUSD) stablecoin, PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) head of crypto May Zabaneh confirmed.

The feature uses PayPal’s existing payouts infrastructure, meaning YouTube itself never handles any crypto directly.

The move comes as Big Tech increasingly embraces stablecoins amid clearer regulation and rising mainstream adoption, The Fortune reported.

PayPal first enabled payouts in PYUSD for general recipients early in Q3.

Soon after, YouTube adopted the same capability for creators earning revenue on the…

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Coinbase Reportedly To Rival Polymarket, Kalshi With In-House Prediction Market – Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN)

Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) is reportedly planning to unveil prediction markets and tokenized equities next week, while its stock continues to trade inside a broader downtrend.

Coinbase Plans Prediction Markets And Tokenized Equities Launch

Bloomberg on Friday cited a person familiar with the matter saying that Coinbase is developing the tokenized equities offering in-house without external partners.

A Coinbase spokesperson invited users to tune into a Dec. 17 livestream but did not confirm specific product details. 

Screenshots circulating on X in recent days appeared to show early versions of the features inside the Coinbase app, adding to speculation ahead of the event.

This move…

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9 Ways MSCI’s Proposed Digital Asset Rule Could Undermine Index Neutrality

A major rule change is being considered by MSCI, one of the most influential index providers in global markets. If adopted, it would materially alter how public companies that hold digital assets—particularly Bitcoin—are classified and included in major equity indexes.

For companies, investors, asset managers, and anyone who depends on index-based benchmarks, this proposal raises fundamental questions about how markets define operating businesses and what role balance sheets should play in index eligibility.

Join the call for MSCI to withdraw its digital asset exclusion rule.

Here’s what’s at stake—and why it matters.

1. MSCI Is Proposing a New 50% Balance-Sheet Threshold

At…

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Solana Flips Ethereum In New Developer Activity: Is SOL The True Consumer Chain For 2026? – Emeren Group (NYSE:SOL)

Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) achieved what seemed impossible just years ago. In the first nine months of 2025, Solana Inc. added 11,534 new developers while Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) brought on 16,181, according to Electric Capital’s developer tracker. While Ethereum still leads in total developer count with 31,869 active developers globally, Solana’s 17,708 developers are building something fundamentally different. They’re not focused on complex financial instruments or enterprise blockchain experiments. They’re building payment systems, gaming platforms, and consumer applications that regular people actually use daily.

The Numbers Tell A Consumer Story

While Ethereum maintains its crown for…

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Bitcoin At $92,000 Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Continue Recovery

Bitcoin has reclaimed $92,000 as Congress approached the SEC for approving the inclusion of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in 401(k) retirement plans.

Bitcoin ETFs saw $77.3 million in net outflows on Thursday, while Ethereum ETFs reported $42.4 million in net outflows

Market Commentary: Michael van de Poppe noted that Bitcoin remains highly volatile due to thin liquidity, producing sharp swings in both directions.

Even so, the market is forming higher lows, indicating an emerging uptrend that could lead to a breakout in the coming days or weeks.

He added that the most recent sell-off looked more manipulative than organic, and price action appears to be stabilizing as selling pressure…

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Bitcoin Yield 2026: Will Hashrate Become Wall Street’s Next Cash-Flow Market? – Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (BTC) (ARCA:GBTC)

As 2026 approaches, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) shows a divergence between what the network delivers and how the market prices it. The network has never been more secure, with hashrate at record levels, but the economics of mining remain fragile. Miner rewards are smaller than before, difficulty is higher, and revenue per unit of compute leaves miners with almost nothing after covering basic costs.

In 2021, investors saw a similar pattern in premium-based Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (NYSE:GBTC) trades, which were viewed as reliable BTC-linked yield until the trust premium collapsed and liquidity reversed. So to avoid repeating that cycle, Bitcoin income must be tied to the compute that secures the…

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