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Bitcoin's price dropped below $105,000 after making a new all-time high of $108,365 on Dec. 17. The short-term drop occurred ahead of the United States Federal Reserve's interest rate announcement on Dec. 18. Currently, the market anticipates a 25-basis-point cut.
In spite of short-term volatility, one crypto analyst highlighted a bullish scenario taking shape, with long-term Bitcoin holders positioning themselves for future gains.
| | | | | | | | | Ethena Labs partners with Trump's World Liberty Financial Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Ethena announced a strategic partnership with Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial on Dec. 18. The partnership aims to integrate Ethena's sUSDe token — a staked version of its USDe "synthetic dollar" — with World Liberty Financial's Aave instance, enabling users to deposit USDe and receive rewards in both sUSDe and World Liberty's WLF token.
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Kim Nam-kuk, a member of South Korea's National Assembly, could be sentenced to six months in prison for allegedly not reporting all his cryptocurrency holdings to the government. According to a Dec. 18 report from South Korean news outlet Dong-A Ilbo, prosecutors in Kim's case requested a six-month prison sentence for the lawmaker, who is currently on trial in Seoul.
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