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NYC’s Union Square Holiday Market is quietly using USDC stablecoin payments via Urbanspace’s Avalanche-powered app, offering fast, low-cost settlement for vendors.

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Goblin Finance secured $1 million on December 10, 2025, to enhance Aptos' DeFi yield layer with automated strategies and liquid staking.

Ondo Finance, State Street, and Galaxy plan SWEEP, a tokenized liquidity fund that strengthens OUSG and expands onchain cash management.

Surf raises $15M Series A to advance its crypto-focused AI research model, expand enterprise features, and enhance data-driven tools for traders and analysts.

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Tempo launches its public testnet, enabling developers to evaluate stablecoin-focused payment architecture, reserved blockspace, fast finality, and early ecosystem integrations.

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Polygon’s Madhugiri Hardfork introduces faster consensus, higher throughput, and improved EVM security, enhancing performance on the PoS chain.

Chainlink adds Tempo and Codatta to CCIP as cross chain demand grows across Solana, Base, BNB Chain, and Monad.

PancakeSwap selects LeverUp for its new CAKE.PAD launch on Monad, offering traders access to a high leverage perps platform with a tri token system.

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Pi Network outlines new KYC validator rewards and AI-driven improvements, with distributions expected by Q1 2026. Here’s what participants should know.

AllScale secures $5M to expand its self-custody stablecoin neobank, strengthening infrastructure, compliance, and global access for freelancers and microbusinesses.

Stable launches its STABLE airdrop and StableChain mainnet, introducing a USDT-native Layer 1 for fast, predictable stablecoin settlement.

Kasikornbank partners with StraitsX and Avalanche to enable real-time cross-border payments between Thailand and Singapore using blockchain-based e-money.

The SEC has closed its investigation into Ondo Finance with no charges, marking a key moment for tokenized securities in the United States.

Optimism powers 15% of crypto transactions through its Superchain network of 50+ blockchains, processing up to 24M daily txs at $0.001 fees and 200ms blocks.

Bittensor’s first halving cuts TAO emissions by 50%, reducing inflation, increasing scarcity, and reshaping incentives across miners, validators, and subnets.

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The Hayabusa mainnet upgrade enhances VeChain’s consensus, staking model, and tokenomics, marking a key milestone in the project’s Renaissance roadmap.

Coinbase reopens sign ups in India and plans a fiat on ramp by 2026 as it returns after regulatory hurdles.

Plume brings institutional real world yield to Solana through new RWA vaults, expanded DeFi access, and regulated tokenized assets.

Binance becomes the first platform to secure all FSRA licenses in Abu Dhabi, gaining full regulatory approval to run its global exchange under ADGM’s framework.

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TEL maintains constructive price action after a major early-November breakout, with traders watching a tightening symmetrical triangle for direction.