According to Golden Finance, on December 21 local time, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the decision to partially release documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case before the deadline set by Congress, stating that this move was to protect the victims of the Epstein case. Blanche promised that the Trump administration would ultimately fulfill its legal obligations. However, he emphasized that the Department of Justice has an obligation to act cautiously when releasing thousands of documents that may contain sensitive information.

Lido DAO recently released a major strategic proposal to invest approximately $60 million before 2026 to expand into new business areas beyond Ethereum liquid staking. The proposal is titled “2026 Ecosystem Grant Application (EGG): Implementing GOOSE-3,” marking Lido's official move from a single product protocol to a diversified DeFi platform. As the largest liquid staking protocol in the decentralized finance space, Lido has long relied on Ethereum staking and stETH-related products for core revenue. The proposal points out that over-reliance on a single business model may pose challenges to the protocol's robustness and risk resistance in the long term. Therefore, Lido DAO aims to build a richer product portfolio and new revenue streams through systematic investment.

The Gate trading platform recently launched the 2025 User Statement Review project. Based on users' annual trading behavior and product engagement trajectories, it emphasizes user participation paths, consolidates data into traceable records, and introduces behavioral feature tags. This move demonstrates Gate's comprehensive advantages in user scale and trading volume.

Gate News Bot Message, December 19 — According to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, MMT (Momentum) is currently priced at $0.20, up 10.92% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.24 and a low of $0.18. The 24-hour trading volume reached $47.8 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $40.8 million, an increase of $4.02 million from yesterday. Momentum is a financial operating system built for the tokenized future, powering the next era of global finance through asset tokenization, seamless connectivity, and trading within a unified platform. Its core products include: Momentum DEX, the core exchange of the Move ecosystem, designed to make trading on Sui seamless and powerful; Vaults, which offer automated yield services; and Liquid Staking, providing capital efficiency.

Cardano founder Hoskinson criticizes Trump's launch of personal meme coins, believing that this move will politicize cryptocurrencies, affect congressional cooperation, and opposes the government's crypto reserve plan, as criticism results in losing legislative participation opportunities.

JPMorgan Chase is entering the crypto finance space in a relatively low-key yet impactful way. Recently, the bank launched a tokenized deposit product called JPM Coin (JPMD) on the Ethereum Layer 2 network Base, marking the beginning of major Wall Street banks extending their core deposit systems onto public blockchains. This move is seen as an important signal of the integration between traditional finance and DeFi. Unlike traditional stablecoins, JPM Coin is essentially a digital claim on bank deposits, directly corresponding to real deposits within JPMorgan's system, and it can accrue interest. This distinguishes it clearly from stablecoins like USDC in terms of regulatory attributes and fund nature, and also provides institutional clients with a new on-chain option for cash and collateral.

Gate News Bot Message, December 18th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, RIVER (River) is currently priced at $2.99, up 25.50% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $8.55 and a low of $1.64. The 24-hour trading volume reached $25.7 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $58.5 million, an increase of $11.9 million from yesterday. ## Important recent news about RIVER: 1️⃣ **Bitcoin Mining Infrastructure Investment Drives Valuation Reassessment** Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 has signed a 15-year data center leasing agreement worth $7 billion with Fluidstack, leasing a 245 MW data center located in the River Bend park. The park can be expanded by up to an additional 1,000 MW in future phases. This move

TORICO and Mint Town have signed a capital cooperation agreement, planning to raise approximately 4.7 billion yen, all of which will be used to purchase Ethereum. This move makes Mint Town's investment fund the largest shareholder of TORICO, holding about 23.36% of the voting rights.

Ethereum core developers plan to increase the network gas limit from 60 million to 80 million after the BPO hard fork on January 7th to improve transaction throughput and reduce fees. While this move can enhance Ethereum's appeal, related client optimizations need to be completed first.

Golden Finance reports that Lead Bank, concerned about client risks, has reduced cooperation with stablecoin payment companies and increased restrictions on client sources. Strict identity and fund verification have extended transaction and account opening times. This move has far-reaching implications because Lead Bank is one of the few banks willing to handle USD payments for stablecoin users.

JPMorgan Chase is once again increasing its investment in blockchain finance. According to The Wall Street Journal, this globally largest bank by market value has officially launched its first tokenized money market fund based on the Ethereum blockchain, MONY, and plans to inject $100 million of its own funds. External investors are expected to participate in subscriptions starting December 16. This move is seen as an important signal of traditional financial institutions' growing recognition of Ethereum (ETH) as an institutional-grade financial infrastructure. From a strategic perspective, JPMorgan Chase's choice of Ethereum as the underlying public chain highlights its advantages in smart contracts, security, and ecosystem maturity. As the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) accelerates, Ethereum is gradually becoming the core platform for institutions to test and implement on-chain financial products.

The competition for the next Federal Reserve Chair is heating up. According to The Wall Street Journal, President Trump plans to interview Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher Waller in the near future to assess his suitability to succeed current Chair Jerome Powell. This move indicates that Trump is accelerating the deployment of Federal Reserve personnel aligned with his "aggressive rate cut" policy stance. Currently, Waller has officially entered the list of candidates for Fed Chair. Previously, Trump had met separately with former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, both of whom he publicly identified as top contenders. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that during the interview process, Trump focused on evaluating the candidates' views on monetary policy, especially the pace and magnitude of rate cuts.

As the end of 2025 approaches, Dogecoin (DOGE) continues to face pressure amid the overall cooling of the Meme coin sector. As of mid-December, DOGE's price hovers around $0.132, with market enthusiasm significantly lower than in the past. After the viral surge subsided, investors are re-evaluating Dogecoin's true market positioning and whether it still has rebound potential in 2026. From the current market performance, DOGE's short-term trend remains weak. In the past 24 hours, the price has rebounded slightly by about 1%, but the weekly decline is still around 6%, with a monthly drop approaching 16%. In an environment of cautious overall crypto market sentiment, high-volatility meme coins like DOGE are often the first to face selling pressure. Meanwhile, DOGE is still down about 82% from its all-time high in May 2021, with multiple rebound attempts failing to form a trend-breaking move, indicating a lack of market confidence.

Caldera announces that its native token ERA is officially launched on Base, with the contract address 0x00312400303d02c323295f6e8b7309bc30fb6bce, and provides liquidity trading on Aerodrome. This move marks a significant step forward in Caldera's on-chain expansion plan, enabling cross-chain operations and broader ecosystem interoperability.

The European Commission plans to issue approximately €90 billion in bonds in the first half of 2026, with funds to support loans to Ukraine and member states. It is expected to provide loans to Ukraine totaling no more than €33 billion from 2024 to 2027. This move aims to provide stable financial support, especially in the context of disagreements within the EU over the use of frozen assets from Russia.

PANews December 16 News, according to The Block, the United States' first federally chartered crypto bank Anchorage Digital has acquired Securitize For Advisors, the wealth management division of tokenization company Securitize. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. This move will help Anchorage expand its financial advisory services for registered investment advisors. Anchorage will incorporate the Securitize For Advisors team and front-end platform. According to the announcement, over the past year, Securitize For Advisors has grown by over 4500%, with new deposits and assets under management reaching all-time highs. Securitize CEO Carlos

Gate News Bot Message, December 15th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, MOVE (Movement) is currently priced at $0.04, up 11.80% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.05 and a low of $0.04. The current market cap is approximately $122 million, an increase of $12.9 million from yesterday. Movement is the first-layer blockchain built on MoveVM, dedicated to creating the safest and most expressive application ecosystem using the Move language. Movement infrastructure provides a powerful, efficient, scalable, and secure platform for developers worldwide, empowering them to create the next generation of financial applications. The Movement ecosystem has gathered BRKT (on-chain prediction markets), Canopy (decentralized yield markets), Meridian (DeFi super

Gate News Bot message, December 15th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, FIS (StaFi) is currently priced at $0.03, up 17.05% in the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.04 and a low of $0.02. The current market cap is approximately $4.18 million, an increase of $608,800 from yesterday. ## Market Drivers Analysis Recent important news about FIS: 1️⃣ **Ecosystem Application Expansion and Cross-Chain Strategy Deployment** The StaFi platform has launched a tokenized lending market on the Avalanche public chain, collaborating with partners to provide innovative financing solutions for small and medium-sized banks. This move expands the platform’s use cases, enhances ecosystem practicality and multi-chain compatibility, and helps attract a broader range of institutional and retail users to participate, contributing to the platform’s long-term growth.

ADNOC Distribution and Al Maryah Community Bank sign a memorandum of understanding to accept AE Coin stablecoin payments, covering nearly 980 service stations in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. This move aims to promote secure digital payments, with AE Coin being the first centrally bank-approved stablecoin pegged to the Dirham.

US White House AI Advisor Sachs Defends Trump's Restrictions on State AI Regulation, Saying the Move Aims to Reduce Business Compliance Burden. He Believes a Unified Federal Regulatory Framework Is Needed to Support Small Businesses and Innovators.

BlockBeats News, December 12 — BitMine Chairman Tom Lee recently stated that the Strategy company of Bitcoin encrypted treasury (DAT) establishing a $1.4 billion cash reserve is a "wise move." Although Strategy's stock price has fallen more than 50% over the past six months, this cash reserve will enable the company to continue paying shareholder dividends during Bitcoin price declines without selling its $61 billion Bitcoin holdings. Tom Lee pointed out that during the previous Bitcoin downturn cycle, Strategy's stock trading price was below its net asset value (NAV), and building a cash reserve was precisely to prepare for such situations. As the largest ETH treasury company holding over $12 billion worth of Ethereum, BitMine has not yet built

BBVA announces an expansion of its long-term partnership with OpenAI, launching a multi-year AI transformation plan that will cover ChatGPT Enterprise for 120,000 employees worldwide, a tenfold increase in deployment scale compared to before. This strategy aims to enhance customer experience, optimize operational processes, and drive the bank's full transition to AI-native technology through generative AI. This collaboration will promote BBVA and OpenAI to co-develop new AI solutions to revolutionize customer interactions, empower frontline banking staff, accelerate risk analysis, and reshape software development and internal productivity tools. BBVA Chairman Carlos Torres Vila stated that this move will advance the bank into a new stage of "intelligent, personalized, proactive service," further strengthening its leadership in digitalization.

AVAX recently successfully broke through the descending wedge consolidation pattern, but the upward momentum has significantly weakened. Over the past few days, the price has retreated about 9%, indicating that the bullish strength is starting to tire. Meanwhile, the Stochastic RSI has fallen back from the overbought zone, also reflecting a cooling phase in the market. This development coincides with the Avalanche Foundation announcing the establishment of a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Foundation in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The move aims to enhance transparency and promote the adoption of Avalanche in the Middle East region. If regional adoption accelerates, it is expected to strengthen the long-term demand base for AVAX.

Hex Trust announces a partnership with LayerZero to launch Wrapped XRP (wXRP), becoming the first on the Solana network. This move marks a significant step forward for the XRP ecosystem in cross-chain DeFi, laying the foundation for cross-chain asset support, liquidity expansion, and a richer array of decentralized application scenarios. wXRP is a wrapped token supported 1:1 by the native XRP, with custody provided by regulated Hex Trust. Authorized merchants can mint and redeem wXRP within a compliant environment, maintaining a peg to the native XRP. In the initial launch phase, the total value locked (TVL) of wXRP will exceed $100 million, providing solid fundamental liquidity for DeFi trading and liquidity markets.

Nubank is facing an identity crisis due to new regulations in Brazil and is considering acquiring a licensed small bank to resolve the issue. This move could qualify for tax credits, but it may also require applying for a new license, a process that is complex and costly.

Bitwise voiced support for Strategy on the X platform, expressing disappointment over MSCI's proposed removal of Strategy, believing that the index should remain neutral and not evaluate the pros and cons of business models, and pointed out that this move deprives investors of investment opportunities in digital assets.

Gate News Bot message, December 12th. According to CoinMarketCap data, at the time of press, FIS (StaFi) is trading at $0.03, up 32.72% in the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.04 and a low of $0.02. The current market capitalization is approximately $4.49 million, an increase of $1.11 million from yesterday. StaFi is a liquid staking protocol dedicated to providing liquidity solutions for staked assets, helping users earn asset liquidity income while participating in network security. Recent important news about FIS: 1️⃣ **Ecosystem Application Expansion and Cross-Chain Strategy Deployment** The StaFi platform launched a tokenized loan market on the Avalanche public chain, collaborating with partners to provide innovative financing solutions for small and medium-sized banks. This move expands the platform

PANews December 12 News, according to Bloomberg, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted permission in the form of a no-action letter to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), allowing the company to custody and recognize tokenized stocks and other real-world assets (RWA) on the blockchain. This move enables DTCC to provide three years of tokenization services on a pre-approved blockchain. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce stated in a release, "Although the project is still in the pilot stage and subject to various operational restrictions, it marks a significant step forward in the market’s transition onto the chain." Michael Winnike, head of Global Strategy and Market Solutions for DTCC’s Clearing and Securities Services, said in an interview that after obtaining permission, DTCC will also extend its record-keeping work to the blockchain. DTCC, as the core clearinghouse of the US financial system

MOVE Labs former co-founder Rushi Manche announces the establishment of Nyx Group, planning to invest up to $100 million to support cryptocurrency token projects, providing funding and comprehensive operational support to help founders access capital in challenging market conditions.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Paxos co-founder Chad Cascarilla stated that Paxos has applied to the SEC to become a clearinghouse. This move will enable Paxos to directly hold bonds and stocks and issue them natively on the blockchain, allowing users to hold actual underlying assets rather than derivatives.

Author of The Big Short and well-known investor Michael Burry recently issued a strong warning regarding the Federal Reserve's plan to purchase $40 billion worth of T-bills within a month. He believes that this move exposes the structural fragility of the U.S. banking system rather than stability as perceived by the outside world. At the same time, this policy direction could create new downward pressure on Bitcoin (BTC) and the broader crypto market. Federal Reserve Chairman Powell stated that this bond purchase is a "reserve management operation" and not quantitative easing (QE). However, Burry pointed out that the Fed has continued to expand its balance sheet while the banking system is under pressure, indicating that the market still struggles to move away from liquidity support. He emphasized that bank reserves have now exceeded $3 trillion, far above the $2.2 trillion level before the 2023 regional banking crisis. He warned that if the banking system must rely on such a large "lifeline" of liquidity, it is not strong but fragile.

Bitcoin prices plummeted to $89,000 during Asian trading hours, approaching the $80,000 mark at one point, dragging the total cryptocurrency market capitalization down from $3.22 trillion to $3.06 trillion, a loss of $160 billion in a single day. As expected, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points, but disagreements within the FOMC and Powell's hawkish stance became the core reasons for the sharp market correction. The meeting minutes revealed that several officials opposed the rate cut, and Powell further indicated that the Fed might pause rate cuts until January 2026. This hawkish signal quickly dampened risk asset sentiment. Additionally, the Fed announced it would purchase up to $40 billion in Treasury securities within 30 days. Although officials emphasized that this was not quantitative easing (QE), the market widely viewed this move as exposing liquidity pressures. Gold prices subsequently rose, and analysts warned that the banking system could face deeper risks.

ChainCatcher News, Camp Network announces that it will be the first to introduce the prediction market model into the music festival IP sector. The first event will kick off this weekend at the DWP Music Festival, which has over 90,000 participants. Music fans can predict live performance trends of headline artists such as Skrillex, Calvin Harris, and Steve Angello in real-time. Camp Network stated that this move marks the first time that the prediction market sector, valued in the tens of billions of dollars, is integrated with large-scale music festival scenarios. While traditional predictions mainly focus on sports events, Camp Network's innovative approach will provide fans with a brand-new interactive experience. The platform plans to expand this model to 50 countries worldwide.

Galaxy announces the establishment of a new office in Abu Dhabi and the creation of a new business division aimed at entering the Middle East market. This move will expand its partnership network and business strategy, coinciding with the company's recent announcement of its Q3 2025 financial performance.

BlockBeats News, December 10 — After investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build the most expensive team in tech history for months, Meta CEO Zuckerberg is now deeply involved in daily R&D and is pushing the company's strategy toward directly monetizable AI models. According to sources, a new model codenamed "Avocado" is expected to be released in Spring 2026 and may be launched in a closed-source manner (i.e., strictly controlled by Meta and sold for access). This move marks a significant deviation from Meta's long-standing advocacy of an open-source approach. Zuckerberg is dedicating a large amount of time to a core team called TBD Lab, which, during the training of Avocado, even integrated third-party models including Google Gemma, OpenAIgpt-oss, and Alibaba Qwen. Meanwhile, M

According to BlockBeats news, on December 10th, CryptoQuant analyst Axel posted on social media that Bitcoin has regained its bullish structure after a pullback to $80,000. The move comes against the backdrop of the market almost fully pricing in a third consecutive rate cut by the Fed, which will improve financial conditions and open a window for further asset gains without Powell releasing hawkish surprise signals. Since the peak pullback to the $80,000 range in October, the price has shown a steady upward trend over the past 14 days. The key signal is: the 200-day moving average (DMA) slope (blue histogram) has turned positive for the first time in a month, indicating that short-term bullish momentum has returned. The current price has stood above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages, and the trend is confirmed. The 52-week high (orange line) forms a key resistance level – once breached, it will be a follow-up

According to BlockBeats news, on December 10th, Orbit AI, a decentralized space AI network, announced today that its first satellite, OAI Genesis-1, has successfully launched and entered a scheduled low Earth orbit (LEO). Powered by NVIDIA AI cores, Genesis-1 successfully runs a 2.6B parameter AI model for real-time on-satellite analysis of infrared remote sensing data, significantly reducing data acquisition time for disaster warning and maritime monitoring from "hours" to "seconds", while saving 90% of transmission bandwidth costs. By partnering with Nasdaq-listed Powerbank (NASDAQ: SUUN), space solar energy can also be further leveraged to reduce operating costs by 60%. In the context of global giants' layout of space computing, this move marks Orbit AI's pioneering

At a time when market activity is slowing down, the SUI ecosystem has ushered in a favorable critical infrastructure. SUI officially announced that ZenLedger has been integrated into the network to provide users with automated tax processing, accounting tools, and audit compliance processes. The service covers more than 300 exchanges and 40 blockchains, making it one of the most comprehensive financial reporting solutions for current SUI users. This move targets the complex tax filing problem that has long plagued crypto traders, laying the foundation for SUI to attract a wider range of retail and institutional investors. Despite the positive progress in ecological construction, short-term data presents mixed signals. SUI's total DeFi value locked has decreased slightly by 1% in the past 24 hours, maintaining at $923 million, indicating stable funds but not expanding. The scale of lock-up is still considerable, which strengthens the confidence of long-term holders, but the incremental funds of the overall ecosystem have not yet returned.

Bitwise announced that its $1.25 billion Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund has been officially approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to upgrade from an over-the-counter (OTC) to a regulated exchange-traded product (ETP) and has begun trading on NYSE Arca. This move marks a further step towards mainstream financial markets for U.S. crypto asset index products, which is expected to attract more institutional investors to participate. The Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund is the second fully regulated multi-asset crypto ETP in the United States, having previously been listed by Grayscale in 2024. The fund has been operating as an OTC product since its launch in 2020, and this upgrade will significantly enhance market accessibility, enabling financial advisors, retirement platforms, and institutional investors to allocate crypto assets within the framework of traditional exchanges.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) pointed out in its latest "Understanding Stablecoins" report that stablecoins pegged to the US dollar may cause currency substitution and capital outflow risks in vulnerable emerging markets, weakening local currency stability. However, several experts say that the current stablecoin market size is still not enough to have a significant impact on the global macroeconomy. The report highlights that stablecoins may bypass traditional financial intermediaries, thereby circumventing capital flow management measures (CFMs), making it easier for funds to move across borders during periods of market panic and accelerating currency depreciation. The combined market value of mainstream stablecoins such as USDT and USDC has reached $264 billion, which is close to France's foreign exchange reserves and surpasses that of many countries such as the United Kingdom, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates. However, these "dollar equivalents" are more used in cryptocurrency trading than in real-world money management or circumventing regulations.

Hyperliquid (HYPE) has recently seen large whale buying, with the two major wallets investing a total of more than $4.2 million, breaking the current bearish sentiment with strong capital inflows. These large holders are not only actively adding to their positions at the current price but also retaining large USDC reserves, hinting at the possibility of continued buying in the future. However, retail investors remain cautious, leaving the market divided between confidence and hesitation. Despite strong inflows, HYPE's technical structure remains weak. The price continues to move along a narrow descending channel, forming lower highs and lows. $35.48 emerged as a key resistance level that failed to break through multiple attempts. The MACD maintains a bearish stance with the line below the signal line and the momentum bar continues to be weak. The RSI is close to 34, which also indicates that sellers are dominant. However, the price is approaching a psychological support zone that has seen multiple rallies in history and could be a key area for bulls to watch in the short term.