Stablecoin Market Cap Reaches $234.68 Billion with USDT Leading

POLICY: A few Republicans have crypto's destiny in their hands at the SEC, CFTC @jesseahamilton reports

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INSIGHT: Willy Woo says Bitcoin could see a short-term pump in January as liquidity forms a local bottom, but warns on-chain activity still looks macro-cycle bearish.

UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "private DEXes are going to be a massive winner, and they're going to rival CEXes in terms of transaction volume." $NIGHT

UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "when you want to privacy augment your DEX, prediction market, or stablecoin, you use a privacy preserving system to do that, and it feels like a Layer-2, a natural extension of your infrastructure. We built $NIGHT this way."

A few Republicans have crypto's destiny in their hands at the SEC, CFTC

UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "Vitalik is right, that the paradigm of the transaction will be replaced with a proof, that's the way to go—they started with scalability like rollups but now they're realizing they need to do privacy at the same time." $NIGHT

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UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "we gotta start putting up numbers. Our MAUs, TVL, and stablecoin issuance have to go up by a factor of 10x to 100x. The growth of $ADA is going to come from the DeFi system getting big."