
According to Bloomberg, payments giant Stripe and crypto venture capital firm Paradigm announced on December 9 that their jointly developed blockchain project Tempo is open to the public for testing, allowing any enterprise interested in developing real-world stablecoin payment applications to participate. The public beta also added Kalshi and UBS as partners.

According to CCTV News, a new poll shows that Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with the Trump administration's economic policies, and the overall economic mood has deteriorated significantly. In the survey, 76% of respondents said that the US economy is in "poor" condition, a further increase from 67% in July. Most respondents said that the cost of living, including medical care and housing costs, continues to rise. Only 15% of respondents believe that the Trump administration's economic ...
Willy Woo tweeted that you also need to protect your public key in the coming era of daunting large quantum computers. Basically, large quantum computers can derive your private key from the public key. Today's Taproot addresses (the latest format) are not secure, these addresses start with "bc1p" and they embed the public key into the address, which is not good. The previous format hid the public key behind the hash value, so large quantum computers cannot easily crack it.

From "faceless" YouTube channels to AI-generated product demos, 2025’s hottest “hour-a-day” hustles promise easy money—but success still takes testing, luck, and a lot of automation.
Circle on Tuesday announced the deployment of a public testnet of its payment-oriented Arc blockchain, which offers dollar-denominated fees, sub-second settlements and optional privacy controls and is designed to support financial services such as tokenised funds, cross-border transfers and foreign exchange settlements, and has attracted participation from more than 100 Financial Institution Groups and technology companies, including BlackRock, Visa, HSBC and Anthropic.
General Motors (GM. N) shares are on track for their best one-day performance in nearly six years, with the latest jump of 14%.
Coinbase Hot Wallet distributed 50 million PROVEs worth $41.19 million to 14 new addresses in the last six hours. The source of funds is traced back to the multi-signature address of the project party, and the specific purpose of this behavior cannot be determined at present. It may be to organize the CEX wallet, or it may have other uses.