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.

The Biden administration plans to add Sophgo, an artificial intelligence company affiliated with Bitmain, to the U.S. Department of Commerce's restricted trade list because the company's TSMC-made chips were illegally incorporated into Huawei's artificial intelligence processors, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Max Keiser, a senior bitcoin adviser to the President of El Salvador, said that President Bukele has increased his daily bitcoin purchases, with a medium-term goal of buying another 20,000 bitcoins.

Since the activation of EIP-1559, 4,523,479.74 ETH has been permanently destroyed, worth over $15.3 billion. On-chain transfers account for about 8.17% of the total ETH destroyed, while Opensea NFTs account for about 5.08% of the total ETH destroyed. Decentralized exchange (dex) platform Uniswap destroyed 225,723.78 ETH, accounting for 4.99% of the total ETH destroyed. Meanwhile, Tether (USDT) transactions on the Ethereum network resulted in the destruction of 205,458.95 ETH, accounting for 4.54% of the total ETH destroyed. The network's inflation rate is currently at a moderate 0.820%, and the amount of ETH in circulation has increased by 3,245,017.99 since the hard fork.

Microstrategy added three new board members to its board of directors shortly before it was added to the Nasdaq 100 stock index, bringing the total number of board members to nine, according to the latest filings. The new board members include Brian Brooks, Jane Dietze and Gregg Winiarski, all of whom have experience working for large companies dealing with digital assets, according to the filings. Each board member will receive $2 million worth of equity, half of which will be options and the other half will be RSUs, which will vest over four years.

PANews reported on December 21 that according to News.bitcoin, the cryptocurrency market has been as unpredictable as the shutdown of US government agencies in recent days. There are reports that the US government is about to shut down due to a stagnation in spending negotiations, which has historically affected the market in various ways. Due to the disillusionment of market participants' short-term expectations, Arthur Hayes believes that the cryptocurrency market will see a "dismal decline" near Trump's inauguration day, but the crypto community is holding its breath to see if Trump's inauguration will trigger a legendary "God candle" trend (Note: "God candle" refers to a sharp rise in prices in one day, which eclipses the surrounding activities on the price trend chart), which means that the current market downturn is only a temporary calm, a bear market stage in a larger bull market cycle, and if the United States solves the 2025 budget problem and Trump implements a number of Bitcoin-focused strategies to encourage the market, Bitcoin may see a huge recovery.

PANews reported on December 21 that this week, the Federal Reserve finally confirmed the "turn" that the market had long expected. The central bank's statement this week and the update of its economic forecast had a huge impact on the market. Market participants currently expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by about 40 basis points by December 2025, and U.S. Treasury yields have risen in response. Bitcoin fell from its all-time high earlier this week. Bitcoin continued its decline in European trading on Friday and once approached $95,000. Earlier, Bitcoin had just set a record high of more than $108,000. This round of decline in the currency circle has a greater impact on altcoins such as Ethereum and Dogecoin.