PANews reported on December 22 that according to the Washington Post, Morningstar analyst Dan Romanoff said that although gold is generally considered the most suitable asset for hedging inflation, Bitcoin may be a more useful inflation hedging tool. Over the past five years, the price appreciation of Bitcoin and gold has exceeded inflation, and the increase in Bitcoin is relatively much larger.

PANews reported on December 22 that according to Barrons, MicroStrategy Chairman Michael Saylor did not make it clear in a recent interview whether the company might be included in the S&P 500, but he said that given the optimistic view on Bitcoin, MicroStrategy may report billions of dollars in quarterly net income next year due to the growth in the value of Bitcoin holdings. Changes in accounting rules that will take effect in 2025 may enable MicroStrategy to meet the profit requirements to join the S&P 500.

Cross-chain protocol Wormhole said that Wormhole DAO will be launched in the first quarter of 2025. To participate in the first vote, W holders need to stake for governance. The Wormhole Staking Rewards Program (SRP) is ongoing across all chains (EVM + Solana), with a minimum of 50 million W tokens allocated in the first reward pool.

According to the monitoring of on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, "smart money that has made a profit of $4.92 million through the $PEPE band in the past six months" has opened a position of 475.3 billion PEPE four hours ago, worth $8.2 million, with an average price of $0.00001724, and has currently made a floating profit of $142,000. In December, five whales "placed a heavy bet" on PEPE

At present, at least 10 companies are adopting or considering MicroStrategy's Bitcoin strategy, including artificial intelligence company Genius Group.

According to the monitoring of on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the address HHqC...y8Aqu is suspected to have sold 25,000 SOLs that were opened at $169.6 two months ago. If sold, it would have made a profit of $313,000. The whale currently still holds 50% of the SOL position (i.e. 25,000 SOLs), with a floating profit of $310,000; the floating profit of these 50,000 SOLs was as high as $4.738 million.

The decentralized liquidity protocol THORChain released version V3. This update provides advanced interoperability and smart contract capabilities, including upgrading to Cosmos SDK v0.50, switching from Tendermint to CometBFT, introducing Cosmos ecosystem compatibility, joining the Rujira application layer, etc.

GraniteShares, a New York-based asset management company with over $10 billion in AUM, has applied for new leveraged ETFs to track companies such as Riot Platforms, Marathon Digital, MicroStrategy and Robinhood. These funds will go long and short at the same time. An ETF that goes long 2x will generate twice the daily return of the corresponding stock.

Since 7pm last night, 4 addresses have redeemed 1,270,507 EIGEN ($5.02 million) from the EigenLayer staking contract and are selling them on the chain for ETH or USDC. 4 addresses have redeemed EIGEN and transferred them for sale. When EIGEN rose to $5.6 a few days ago, they made a profit of $17.65 million from these 8.917 million EIGEN. But now it has fallen back to near the cost line.

A recent study by ApeX ranked the top 10 countries in blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, with Singapore at the top. The study evaluated countries using a composite index that reflects blockchain development and adoption through three core indicators: blockchain patents, blockchain technology jobs, and the number of cryptocurrency exchanges.

Ethereum network NFT transaction volume soared to $199.9 million. It has increased by 73.56% in the past seven days. Bitcoin network NFT ranked second, with a transaction volume of 23% down to $39.7 million. However, the network's user engagement grew well, with the number of buyers reaching 38,987. The Solana network consolidated its third position with a transaction volume of $29.9 million, a month-on-month increase of 5.14%, and a total of 104,958 buyers, a month-on-month increase of 108.45%.

According to on-chain analyst Ember’s monitoring, about 30 minutes ago, Arthur Hayes withdrew 7.85 million USDC from Binance. It is estimated that the 7 million ENA transferred to Binance last night have been sold at an average price of US$1.12.