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This stop in growth isn’t just some nerdy on-chain stats; it’s like Bitcoin’s version of a Tempur-Pedic mattress-comfortable, familiar, but showing signs of sagging. Meanwhile, the big guys-hedge funds, billionaires, and even corporations-are still stacking coins like there’s no tomorrow. They’re piling into Bitcoin with a gusto that would make even the most enthusiastic amateur referee jealous. The smaller folks? Not so much. Seems the retail crowd has decided to park their Bitcoin aspirations in more comfortable, off-chain garages like ETFs. That’s right-while the average Joes are snoozing, professional investors are playing the long game, and they’re doing it with a control panel rather than a wallet.

This move positions Circle at the heart of the UAE’s digital-asset circus, where camels and crypto coexist in a delicate dance of compliance. The license? A golden ticket to scale stablecoins across the region, because nothing says “trust us” like a government stamp on your digital dollars. 💰

The December 9, 2025 announcement marks a major step toward solving privacy concerns that have kept big banks and institutions away from using blockchain technology for payments. Because nothing says “trust us” like a little bit of surveillance. 🤝

Independent PoR reports? Those are now rarer than a bear market without a crash. Binance, the crypto titan, quit external audits after Mazars said “nope” in 2022. OKX, Bybit, and Kraken? They’ve gone full magician-pulling cryptographic proofs out of hats instead of letting third parties verify. KuCoin offers an internal dashboard (because who needs outsiders?), and Coinbase, despite being a public company, still hasn’t published a PoR. It’s like everyone’s decided, “Trust us, we’re not FTX!” 🙄

Pepe (PEPE), that steadfast little meme, climbed to the psychological threshold of $0.0000050, a 28% ascent from its November lows. The market cap, now over $2.1 billion, is a number that would make even the most stoic investor raise an eyebrow. 🤯

Dear reader, marvel as Tether courts Abu Dhabi’s glittering emirates and flirts with an Italian AI robotics startup! Why confine oneself to blockchain when one can dabble in sentient machines? 🤖✨ (A modest €1 billion for Neura Robotics? Merely pocket change for a titan that treats $1.5 billion in commodity lending as Tuesday’s coffee run. ☕📉)

The Jack Mallers co-founded company has the ambition of becoming the largest publicly-traded holder of Bitcoin (BTC), and its Tuesday US launch follows the completion of its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners. 🤝💰

Last week, Polymarket’s notional volume soared past $1.2 billion, a figure so large it makes one’s head spin like a roulette wheel 🎰. Meanwhile, CNBC, ever the trendsetter, has cozied up to Kalshi to sprinkle prediction data across its platforms-because who doesn’t want to bet on tomorrow’s weather while watching stock tickers? ☀️🌧️

The current landscape shows the Solana crypto market closely mirroring Bitcoin’s trajectory. Both assets peaked on October 6 during Q4 2025 and then entered a multi-week cooldown phase. 🐢📉

But, hold your horses – institutional finance is waving its hands, signaling that this once reliable rhythm might be about to die a quiet death. 🕊️