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Major exchanges have seen $210 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $450 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $87,000. BTC is trading at $86,923.74 on the Binance USDT market.

Major exchanges have seen $109 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $347 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

Whale Alert reported that 346,500,000 USDT has been transferred from Bybit to an unknown wallet. The transaction is valued at about $346 million.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $88,000. BTC is trading at $87,999.98 on the Binance USDT market.

CME Group is set to launch XRP and SOL futures linked to spot prices, Walter Bloomberg reported. These new contracts will allow investors to trade futures positions under the same conditions as the spot market, unlike the existing quarterly expiration contracts. The move follows CME's launch of SOL and XRP futures options last October.

The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher. The S&P 500 is up 0.48%, the Nasdaq Composite has gained 0.58%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has added 0.33%.

Bittensor announced that it has completed its first-ever halving. As a result, the daily issuance of TAO has been reduced from 7,200 to 3,600.

Ondo Finance has announced plans to launch a stock token and ETF platform on the Solana blockchain in early 2026.

Whale Alert reported that 80,000 ETH has been transferred from Binance to Binance Beacon Deposit. The transaction is valued at about $251 million.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Crypto Task Force will host a roundtable discussion on financial surveillance and privacy starting at 6:00 p.m. UTC on Dec. 15, according to Eleanor Terrett. The meeting will take place at SEC headquarters and will be live-streamed on the commission's website.

Ripple has announced it will expand its $1.3 billion RLUSD stablecoin to Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) blockchains in a strategic move to integrate it into the broader multi-chain ecosystem and decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure, Coindesk reported. Testing for RLUSD will begin on L2 blockchains including Optimism, Coinbase's Base, Kraken's Ink, and Uniswap's Unichain. The company is awaiting regulatory approval from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for a full launch scheduled for next year. Ripple will utilize Wormhole's Native Token Transfers (NTT) standard to allow RLUSD to move natively between chains. Additionally, wXRP will be deployed on Ethereum L2s to facilitate easier swaps, lending, and payments alongside RLUSD.

Nasdaq-listed Bitmine (BMNR), a company focused on Ethereum investment, announced it purchased an additional 102,259 ETH for $321 million last week. The company now holds 3,967,210 ETH, valued at $12.45 billion, which represents over 3.2% of the total ETH supply. Bitmine also added that it holds $13.3 billion in cash and cash equivalents, including $1 billion in cash and 193 BTC.

Blockchain and software technology firm Bitcoin Bancorp plans to install up to 200 Bitcoin ATMs in Texas, starting in the first quarter of 2026. The company intends to later expand its ATM network across the United States and support cryptocurrency payments, stablecoin services, and some Web3 features.

Strategy announced it purchased an additional 10,645 BTC for $980.3 million between Dec. 8 and 14. The acquisition was made at an average price of $92,098 per BTC. The company now holds a total of 671,268 BTC at an average purchase price of $74,972.

New York Stock Exchange-listed digital asset investment firm C1 Fund announced it has acquired a stake in Ethereum infrastructure developer Consensys. C1 Fund's portfolio also includes investments in Kraken, Ripple, Figment, Chainalysis, and Alchemy.

Bitwise has submitted an amended filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its Hyperliquid (HYPE) spot ETF, according to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. The update adds details such as an 8a provision, a fee of 67 bps, and the ticker BHYP. The 8(a) procedure is a non-standard listing method that allows an ETF to become effective automatically after a certain period without requiring a formal SEC approval vote. Balchunas explained that the inclusion of these details suggests that approval for the ETF is imminent.

American Bitcoin (ABTC), a Bitcoin mining firm founded by Eric Trump, the second son of U.S. President Donald Trump, has purchased an additional 261 BTC, according to BitcoinTreasuries. The company now holds a total of 5,044 BTC.

Visa has launched a stablecoin advisory service to help banks, fintechs, and other companies develop and manage their stablecoin strategies, Fortune reported. The company has already secured several clients, including the U.S. Navy Federal Credit Union, credit union VyStar, and financial services firm Pathward.

Digital asset investment products saw net inflows of $864 million last week, marking the third consecutive week of positive flows, CoinShares reported in its weekly fund flow report. Bitcoin investment products attracted $522 million, while Ethereum products saw inflows of $338 million. CoinShares explained that although the inflow volume has been modest for three weeks, it appears to reflect an investment base that is becoming cautiously more optimistic. The firm noted that despite a recent interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve, investor sentiment was mixed and fund flows were erratic in the trading days immediately following the move.

Binance Alpha has announced the addition of MAGMA. The platform, an on-chain trading service within the Binance Wallet, focuses on listing early-stage coins.

Cointelegraph has identified five key points to watch in the Bitcoin market this week. These include whether BTC can maintain support at $90,000 and the potential for mass liquidations of short positions if the price reaches $95,000. From a technical perspective, a bear flag pattern on the daily chart suggests a possible decline to $76,000. Traders are also monitoring the upcoming release of U.S. macroeconomic data, including unemployment and CPI figures, and observing risk-hedging movements in the options market.

JPMorgan has launched an Ethereum-based tokenized money market fund (MMF) called MONY (My Onchain Net Yield Fund), the Wall Street Journal exclusively reported. The fund is supported by JPMorgan's tokenization platform, Kinexys, and is scheduled to open to external investors on Dec. 16 following an initial $100 million investment from the bank. Similar to other MMFs, MONY will primarily invest in short-term bonds using cash or USDC, with investors receiving digital tokens upon subscription. JPMorgan stated that it launched the fund after confirming significant client demand for tokenization.

Macroeconomic expert Luke Gromen has predicted that BTC could potentially fall to $40,000 by 2026. He argued that while the so-called debasement trade—a strategy to hedge against the falling value of fiat currencies—will persist, capital is more likely to flow into gold and specific stocks rather than Bitcoin. Gromen suggested that, fundamentally, all assets except for gold and the U.S. dollar appear to be facing a potential crisis. He also cited several other reasons for his bearish short-term outlook on BTC, including its failure to reach a new all-time high relative to gold, its break below key moving averages, and the risk of quantum computing attacks.

An address presumed to belong to Singapore's DBS Bank withdrew 2,000 ETH, valued at $6.27 million, from Galaxy Digital approximately seven hours ago, according to a report from The Data Nerd. The bank's current holdings are estimated at $499 million in ETH and $706 million in BTC.