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YouTube launches an option for US-based creators to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/11/youtube-paypal-google-stablecoin-payouts-pyusd/

Exclusive: YouTube launches option for U.S. creators to receive stablecoin payouts through PayPal
Google, which owns YouTube, has already used PayPal’s stablecoin to receive payments from customers using its cloud computing service.

YouTube launches an option for US-based creators to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/11/youtube-paypal-google-stablecoin-payouts-pyusd/

Exclusive: YouTube launches option for U.S. creators to receive stablecoin payouts through PayPal
Google, which owns YouTube, has already used PayPal’s stablecoin to receive payments from customers using its cloud computing service.

Binance
—Whose Founder,
Changpeng Zhao,
Was Pardoned by Trump
—Now Holds 87% Of Trump’s Stablecoin
(roughly $4.7 billion of the $5.4 billion total)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2026/02/09/trump-stablecoi…

Binance—Whose Founder Was Pardoned—Now Holds 87% Of Trump’s Stablecoin
World Liberty Financial's founding document describes the company as "pioneering a new era of Decentralized Finance." Its flagship stablecoin is anything but.

Gesundheitsministerin: „Elektronische Patientenakte bleibt zentrales Element“
Die „ePA für alle" gilt der Gesundheitsministerin zufolge als Herzstück der Digitalisierung. Deren Finanzierung und die TI-Stabilität bleiben eine Baustelle.

Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK-registered companies to move ~$1B in stablecoins since 2023, evading international sanctions (TRM Insights)
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/how

How Two UK-registered Companies Moved Over a Billion in Stablecoins for the IRGC | TRM Blog
Two UK exchanges linked to Iran’s IRGC moved ~USD 1B in crypto—underscoring how sanctioned actors are building infrastructure, not just abusing it.

This part is especially important (emphasis added):
“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, •••the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility.••• There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”
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Bessent resets financial watchdog with deregulatory mandate (Aiden Reiter/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/treasury-bessent-financial-stability-oversight-council-letter-00686574
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p61#a251211p61

The chemical #habitability of Earth and rocky planets prescribed by core formation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02775-z -> Researchers from ETH Zurich have demonstrated why only a small number of planets have the chemical requirements for life – and why the Earth is so fortunate: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/02/why-only-a-small-number-of-planets-are-suitable-for-life.html

Circle reports Q3 revenue up 66% YoY to $739.8M, USDC in Circulation at quarter end up 108% YoY to $73.7B, and net income up 202% YoY to $214M; CRCL drops 5% (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/circle-quarterly-revenue-rises-stablecoin-gr…

Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users "banking-level privacy" with a "compliance record" (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/09/circle-privacy-stablecoin-aleo-uds…

Exclusive: Circle stablecoin for ‘banking-level privacy’ to launch on Aleo blockchain
Blockchains make data public, but Aleo founder Howard Wu hopes to lure big banks and institutions to crypto through semi-private stablecoins.