1. 🔬 Opportunities to watch

  • Ripple's USD stablecoin RLUSD is set to launch on December 17

  • Ethena launches a new stablecoin USDtb supported by BlackRock's BUIDL tokens, with reserve funds invested in BUIDL

  • Solv Protocol announces that SOLV will go live on Hyperliquid

2. ❇️ DeFi

a. New projects in the past day

  • Ethena USDtb --- RWA (Ethereum, 65.43 million)

  • Metropolis DLMM --- Dexes (Sonic, 0 million)

b. Project list

Project list: TVL > 5m & (7-day net increase | 24h TVL change > 10%)

c. Related projects

  • Wormhole deployed on World Chain and initially supports WLD, USDC.e and WBTC transfers

  • EigenLayer Rewards v2 testnet is now live

  • Meteora confirms no TGE plans this year or in the near future, and MET points activities for LPs have been extended

  • Ether.Fi DAO released a proposal to allocate 5% of protocol revenue to buy back ETHFI tokens

  • Hyperliquid has seen a net inflow of $1 billion in USDC since the issuance of Hype tokens

  • Aave contributors suggested withdrawing lending services from its PoS chain due to Polygon's proposed 'high-risk' bridging proposal

3. 🌏 Macro

  • QCP: Michael Saylor hints at increasing his Bitcoin holdings at over $100,000, with the Bitcoin/gold ratio reaching an all-time high

  • AI Agent project JOI completed the migration from Solana to BNB Chain and will launch the application, with the coin price rising by as much as 600%

  • Ethereum spot ETF saw a net inflow of $855 million last week, setting a record for weekly net inflows

  • Last week, digital asset investment products saw an inflow of $3.2 billion, bringing the total inflow this year to $44.5 billion, more than four times that of other years

  • Futu: Plans to open more cryptocurrencies to retail investors next year, with daily trading volume related to virtual currencies at $10-20 million

  • BNBChain launched a daily ranking of Meme coins, with data support from Ave.ai

4. 🐳 Whale movements

  • About 5 billion DOGE transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet, valued at $2.029 billion

  • Riot Platforms increased its holdings by about $67.5 million, acquiring 667 Bitcoin, bringing total holdings to 17,429 coins, valued at $1.8 billion

  • A newly created Gnosis Safe wallet bought 761,878 VIRTUAL 7 hours ago, valued at $2 million

  • A whale deposited 2,561 MKR into the exchange, losing about $1.3 million

  • ETH swing trader with an 85% win rate borrowed 200 WBTC again 10 minutes ago, with a total short position of 420 WBTC

  • A whale deposited 9.5 million MOCA into Bybit, potentially earning a profit of $2.55 million if sold

  • ETH swing whale borrowed 200 WBTC from Aave in the past hour and sold it for 20.9 million USDT

  • A whale deposited 2,561 MKR into Binance, which would incur a loss of $1.3 million if sold

  • A new address withdrew about $24 million in PEPE and ONDO from CEX

  • Suspected BABYDOGE team/early investors deposited BABYDOGE worth $1.6 million into Binance half an hour ago

  • CAT market maker DWF Labs previously received 36 billion tokens, valued at $22.45 million

  • Sun Yuchen unstaked about 73,000 ETH from Lido and EtherFi, depositing 10,000 ETH and 196,000 EIGEN into HTX

  • Trump family's crypto project World Liberty bought $250,000 ONDO an hour ago

  • ‘Buying low and selling high WBTC made a profit of $14.26 million for smart money’ increased positions of 250,000 LINK in the past 13 hours

  • A whale purchased $12.55 million LINK and $6.3 million ETH from exchanges in the past 48 hours

  • This week's token unlock data: ARB, APE, and QAI will see significant unlocks

  • Azuki #6536 sold for 95.4774 ETH, approximately $382,000

  • FTX Liquidator's main wallet transferred 1 million MPLX and 1 million KMNO to CEX

  • A whale bought 4.58 million ACT and 753,472 WIF from Binance 30 minutes ago, valued at $4.63 million

6. 📃 Industry

a. NFT & GameFi & SocialFi & DID & DAO & Content Creation

  • Yuga Labs co-founder: Hasn't thought about issuing tokens for CryptoPunks yet

b. Exchanges/wallets

  • Coinbase will list Parcl (PRCL)

  • Binance Futures will launch MOCAUSDT perpetual contracts

  • Crypto wallet provider Exodus announces plans to list on the NYSE on December 18

  • Binance HODLer airdrop will launch Simon's Cat (CAT) and Pudgy Penguins (PENGU)

  • Cobo launches a one-stop cross-border payment stablecoin solution to help payment companies efficiently layout cross-border collections and payments

c. Public chain/L2

  • Blast: Plans to announce updates on mobile platform and token economics next month

  • LayerZero: USDtb has been launched on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Solana, and Base

  • Tim Beiko proposed an update to EIP 7723, which does not involve changes to the core Ethereum protocol

  • 147th Ethereum ACDC meeting: Developers are still finalizing specifications for the Pectra development network Devnet 5 release

  • Starknet: STRK staking volume exceeds 100 million

  • ZK Nation proposed to shorten the execution delay on ZK Chain from 21 hours to 3 hours

  • Aligned foundation: 0.2% of ALIGN supply will be given to ZachXBT

  • Monad announces the establishment of the Monad Foundation

  • Story releases Agent TCP/IP, allowing different AI Agents to conduct IP trading

e. Regulation

  • The US Financial Accounting Standards Board allows companies to report BTC at fair value on their balance sheets

  • Satoshi Action Fund CEO: The third state in the US will officially launch 'strategic Bitcoin reserve' legislation this week

  • Crypto custodian Anchorage Digital announces it has obtained a New York BitLicense

  • UK plans to ban public offerings of cryptocurrencies

  • Korean media: The industry expects the government to revisit the virtual asset legislation after the presidential impeachment bill passes

  • Peanut's owner allegedly filed a lawsuit against Binance, accusing it of infringement

  • Italy will maintain a 26% capital gains tax on digital assets in 2025, with plans to raise it to 33% in 2026

f. Security

  • Slow Mist's chief information security officer: MacOS Stealer Trojan for cryptocurrency theft has been open-sourced

  • Shield: The phishing address that stole 55.4 million DAI has transferred 900 ETH to Tornado Cash, worth about $3.6 million

g. Others

  • Revolut CEO: Considering factors like liquidity and listing costs, plans to conduct an IPO in the US

7. 🔧 Tools

8. 💡 Viewpoints

  • 30 founders in a16z's portfolio had their bank accounts closed, Solana ecosystem projects focus on the narrative of de-banking

  • Nansen: Trends in crypto institutional adoption by 2025 involve areas like BTC lending, derivatives, and tokenization of financial assets

  • AI Agent Alpha methodology: Why is the combination of 'platform + market' more popular?

  • OpenAI co-founder: The era of AI pre-training is coming to an end, and trends like agent AI will foster superintelligence

  • A brief history of 'tokenization': What happens after agent tokenization?

  • Expectations for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and other factors drive BTC to a new high, rising 20% in the past month

  • Viewpoint: The market has already priced in expectations of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates, and based on historical data, Bitcoin is very likely to continue its upward momentum

  • Messari released the Ronin Q3 report: DeFi TVL grew 149% year-on-year, with 99% coming from Katana DEX

  • Dialogue with Solana nodes: Who is 'quietly making a fortune' behind memecoins?

  • Former Coinbase CTO: The reputation of AI and the crypto field may gradually converge

  • Greeks.live: Options data shows strong institutional expectations for Bitcoin to reach $110,000 by the end of the year

  • Variant investor: We are currently in the 'application' stage of the application infrastructure cycle

  • Pantera partner 2025 forecast: NFT revival, 1% of Bitcoin will participate in Bitcoin-Fi

  • SignalPlus Macro Analysis Special Edition: Be Like Mike

  • A review of countries considering building Bitcoin reserves

  • VanEck Ventures partner: In the next 3-5 years, about 30% of remittance amounts between the US and Mexico may use stablecoins

  • Viewpoint: Inflation risks may limit the Federal Reserve's policy actions in 2025 and impact risk assets

  • How to operate with 11 new coins during the bull market: run away at the opening or hold for the long term?

  • Trump family's crypto project World Liberty purchased non-stablecoin assets including leading DeFi applications and RWA assets

  • Matrixport: By 2025, Ethereum may achieve a strong rebound

  • US capital coins lead the rally, reviewing 18 token projects associated with traditional asset management firms like BlackRock

  • Bitfinex report: The current crypto bull market is expected to peak in Q3 or Q4 of next year

  • Understanding the debate around Based Rollups: What are the advantages and disadvantages?