Polymarket is predicting a 50% chance of "Bitcoin hitting $100,000 again this year."

On December 5th, Polymarket announced its official launch on the MetaMask mobile app.

December 4 – Acting U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Caroline D. Pham today announced that listed spot cryptocurrency products will launch trading for the first time on a CFTC-registered futures trading platform in the U.S. federal regulated market. This announcement follows recommendations from the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, incorporates stakeholder input from the CFTC’s “Crypto Sprint” initiative, and builds on collaboration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The CFTC’s “Crypto Sprint” initiative has also launched a public consultation on all other CFTC-related recommendations in the President’s digital asset market report. Additional efforts under the initiative include: - Enabling tokenized collateral (including stablecoins) in derivatives markets; - Making technical revisions to CFTC regulatory provisions covering collateral, margin, clearing, settlement, reporting, and recordkeeping to facilitate adoption o

**December 4th** Mario Nawfal, founder and CEO of Dubai-based venture capital firm IBC Group, said in a social media post that during a conversation with SBF (about FTX’s bankruptcy—an interview is coming soon), SBF revealed an unexpected detail: his former cellblock mate, ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, was just pardoned by Trump. Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in a U.S. prison last June on charges of drug trafficking and illegal gun possession. SBF noted he shared a cell block with Hernández for 18 months, calling them friends and stating, “No inmate is more deserving of a pardon—he was framed.” SBF spent significant time helping Hernández prepare for trial and review evidence, adding: “He’s not a drug lord—he may be the world’s most effective leader against drug cartels. Juan Orlando is the most innocent prisoner I’ve ever met, including myself.” The pardon landed days before Honduras’ November 30 election, with Trump endorsing Nasry Asfura, the Nati

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Polymarket is currently hiring for an internal market-making team that will likely interact with customers on its trading platform, a setup similar to functionality that previously drew criticism for the firm’s key competitors. Sources familiar with the matter said the company has recently held talks with several traders — including those with sports betting backgrounds — to join the new department. Polymarket declined to comment on the developments.

Per Onchain Lens monitoring on December 4, Matrixport has withdrawn 2,805 BTC—valued at $260.11 million—from Binance over the past 8 hours.

On December 4, Jupiter announced that the public sale phase of HumidiFi (WET) has sold out, netting a total of $5.57 million across its Wetlist, JUP staker, and public sale phases. Successful participants will be able to claim their allocated WET tokens on Dec. 9 at 9 a.m. ET (the token generation event, or TGE, time), with the liquidity pool going live simultaneously.