On 10 December 2025, Gemini Space Station, Inc. received authorization from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate its Gemini Titan prediction market platform, allowing affiliate Gemini Titan, LLC to offer binary event contracts to U.S. customers. Following the announcement, Gemini's pre-market share price rose about 18%, signaling investor confidence in the company's expansion into a regulated U.S. market.

OpenAI said on December 11, 2025 that its next‑generation models may reach high cybersecurity capability, enabling functional zero‑day exploits and complex attacks. The company cited a capture‑the‑flag performance jump from 27% (GPT‑5, August 2025) to 76% (GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max, November 2025). It introduced Aardvark, trusted defender access, and a Frontier Risk Council.

On December 11, 2025, Ripple-linked wallets executed coordinated XRP transfers totaling $1,550,694,217 in identical 100 million XRP tranches, according to data highlighted by Whale Alert and community tracker XRPWallets. Older Ripple-controlled addresses funded newly created wallets, with some senders drained to zero. XRP’s price hovered around $2, and trading volume was muted with limited market reaction.

On December 11, 2025, Bitcoin dropped below $91,000 after the Singapore trading session saw a 2.7% intraday decline from a prior peak near $94,490. The pullback came as Asian hours, which had been driving gains since August 2025, briefly weakened and left BTC trading just above $90,000 while triggering $175M in long liquidations across the market.

On December 10, 2025, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released preliminary findings from a review of debanking practices at nine major national banks. The agency said internal policies in place from 2020 to 2023 imposed inappropriate restrictions on lawful sectors, including digital-asset firms, according to the OCC. It added that supervisory investigations into the banks' practices are ongoing.

According to Cryptonews, the NYSE hosted a bronze statue of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, the sixth of 21 planned installations by Twenty One Capital. Twenty One's shares fell 19% on Tuesday's debut following a SPAC merger, even as the firm holds about 43,500 BTC. Bitcoin traded at $90,121 Thursday morning, down 2.3% after the Fed's third straight 25 bp cut.

Intel on Monday outlined plans to manufacture chips in India, followed on Tuesday by Microsoft pledging $17.5 billion over four years and on Wednesday by Amazon announcing more than $35 billion in fresh investment. The commitments focus on cloud and AI infrastructure, with Microsoft and Amazon’s combined pledges topping $50 billion within a 24‑hour period.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission named the initial members of its new CEO Innovation Council, bringing together leaders from major exchanges and crypto firms to advise on derivatives market structure and digital assets. The group, assembled in two weeks, will focus on tokenization, crypto collateral, 24/7 trading, perpetual contracts, prediction markets and blockchain-based infrastructure, Acting Chairman Caroline Pham said.