📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary Current Bitcoin Price: $50,361 Bitcoin is currently sitting above the $50,000 key level, following another brief plunge below $49,000 early this morning. Top-20 altcoins are a mixed bag over the last 24 hours, as Ethereum gains a little over 1%, Solana drops 2% and Polygon leads with a 7% rise. Top Stories for December 8, 2021 🔥 Visa has announced that it will be launching a new cryptocurrency consulting and advisory service, for merchants and banks. The service will guide companies through the world of crypto, offering advice on providing crypto-based features, dealing with NFTs and developing central bank digital currency wallets. UMB, an American financial services company, is already a client of Visa's advisory services for cryptocurrency. Binance's Singapore-based entity, Binance Asia Services, has announced that it is acquiring an 18% stake in private securities exchange Hg, for an undisclosed sum. Hg exchange is a private securities exchange that enables the trading of tokenized shares of private companies. It is built on the Zilliqa blockchain and is also based in Singapore. Crypto research company Messari has launched a governance platform for popular decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), called Messari Governor. The platform is designed to aggregate information and governance functions for these DAOs into one place, including publishing new proposals for platforms as they are posted. | 