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Crypto higher, OpenAI to raise $100b, CME makes crypto 24/7

Crypto

• BTC: 68.1k (+2%) | BTC.D: 59% (+0.2%)

• ETH: 1968 (0%) | BNB: 614 (+1%) | SOL: 84 (+2%) 

• Top Gainers: NIGHT, RENDER, TRUMP, AVAX, MORPHO

• BTC ETFs: -$166m | ETH ETFs: -$130m

• CME to launch 24/7 crypto futures, options trading

• Pierce, Atkins unveils details of innovation exemption

• Meetings on stablecoin yield ‘constructive’, no deal yet

• DB taps Ripple for global payments

• Uniswap weighs protocol fee expansion

• Vitalik criticizes Sigil’s ‘Web 4.0’ agents

• Polymarket buys API startup Dome

• Kraken’s xStocks surpass $25b transaction volume

• Analytics tool Parsec winding down operations

• Societe Generale launches Euro Stablecoin

• DBA raises $62m crypto venture fund

Macro & General

• NASDAQ: 22.7k (0%), Gold: 5048 (+1%)

• Futures higher ahead of PCE, Q4 GDP

• Stocks lower on increasing war rhetoric

• OpenAI finalising $100b round

• Nvidia reduces OpenAI investment to $30b

• Trump gives Iran 10-15 days to strike a deal

• UK blocks US from using its bases for Iran strikes

• US ETF inflows nearly double in 2026

• 60% FMs now expect yields to go higher LT

• Trump launches Board of Peace

• Trump to release files related to alien life

• Record fund inflows to Europe equities

• Japan CPI cools to slowest pace in 2 years

• Amazon suffered outages due to its AI coding bot

Left Curve Corner

• Hot coins: Punch, CONWAY

• Hot NFTs:

• Aptos releases tokenomics update

• CONWAY pumps 100% after Sigil’s post

• PUNCH $25m, viral monkey meme

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