Golden Finance reports that top multi-strategy hedging fund Point72 Asset Management has purchased 390,665 shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR) at a price of approximately $65 million.

Golden Finance reports that crypto analyst Ali states that DOGE is currently at a key support level of $0.128 after breaking below a multi-year support trend line. If selling pressure continues, the next target price will be $0.090.

The SUI ecosystem's one-stop liquidity protocol NAVI Protocol will launch its first DEX premium trading system on December 29, enhancing asset management efficiency and promoting participation in SUI DeFi by multi-wallet users and institutions, establishing a fair and transparent premium discovery mechanism. Analysts suggest following the progress of DEX and RWA projects in the SUI ecosystem to capture early benefits.

The Ethereum Foundation explicitly stated that its sole goal is to achieve "provable security," setting a 128-bit security standard to ensure consistency with mainstream cryptographic standards and real-world computational results. It also proposed tools to achieve this goal, such as the WHIR test and multi-linear polynomial commitment schemes.

Gate News Bot Message, December 19th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, PTB (Portal To Bitcoin) is quoted at USD, up 39.15% in the past 24 hours, with a current market cap of approximately $11.1 million, an increase of $3.13 million from yesterday. Portal To Bitcoin enables Bitcoin to serve as the settlement layer for millions of on-chain and real-world markets through its BitScaler solution, while maintaining trust minimization, high-speed transactions, low fees, and an excellent user experience. Portal OS is a trustless multi-chain infrastructure that supports Portal validators, integrating key modules such as L1 and L2 nodes, Portal liquidity router, and Portal coordinator; validators do not hold user funds. BitScaler is the only trustless multi-party channel solution that extends Bitcoin DeFi through non-custodial delegation, supporting permissionless cross-chain contracts on Bitcoin without new opcodes. Portal's vision is to make peer-to-peer cross-chain transactions seamless and accessible for developers, enabling the construction of scalable cross-chain applications without worrying about complex security vulnerabilities related to bridging and wrapping assets.

Stacks officially launches the Circle-based USDCx stablecoin, supporting the Bitcoin Layer 2 ecosystem and providing institutional-grade liquidity. USDCx is issued through non-custodial smart contracts and utilizes cross-chain transfer protocols to enable multi-chain transfers, avoiding security risks. Multiple protocols have integrated USDCx, encouraging users to migrate from the old version aeUSDC.

Gate News Bot Message, December 19th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, AKE (AKEDO) is currently trading at $0.0004, up 21.30% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.0004 and a low of $0.0003. The current market cap is approximately $8.5 million, an increase of $1.49 million from yesterday. AKEDO is a multi-agent AI framework designed for autonomous content creation and intelligent collaboration. The platform empowers creators, allowing users to design engaging games within just 2 minutes through simple natural language prompts. Powered by large language models (LLMs), AKEDO's modular architecture aims to achieve scalability and flexibility, enabling creators to easily turn their ideas into reality. AKEDO is the first to integrate AI agents into game engines,

Rhea Finance announces that its launched ZcashFi is now live. Zcash community users can lend, borrow, and trade, enjoying multi-chain yields and up to 2% annualized returns. It supports cross-chain borrowing and trading to enhance user experience.

Intuit and Circle reach a multi-year partnership agreement to integrate USDC stablecoin payments into their products, including TurboTax and QuickBooks, to improve cash flow efficiency and support faster, low-cost payment processes.

Gate News Bot message, December 18th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, XRP (XRP) is trading at $1.85, down 3.19% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $2.05 and a low of $1.83. The current market capitalization is approximately $11.179 billion. The XRP Ledger is a public blockchain built for business, jointly led by the global business and developer community. The chain has been reliably operating for over ten years, with zero transaction failures, offering features such as simplified development, low transaction costs, high performance, and sustainability. The XRP Ledger is characterized by decentralization, a smooth development experience, high performance (settling thousands of transactions within seconds), and low costs (only a few tenths of a cent per transaction). Additionally, the platform has a built-in decentralized exchange, cross-currency payments, payment channels, and multi-signature capabilities.

A certain whale's multi-signature wallet was hacked due to private key leakage, resulting in a loss of approximately $27.3 million. The attacker laundered $12.6 million through Tornado Cash, still holds $2 million in liquid assets, and controls the victim's wallet, which has a leveraged position on Aave.

Gate News Bot Message, December 18th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, ALCH (Alchemist AI) is trading at $0.22, up 26.53% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.22 and a low of $0.17. The current market capitalization is approximately $189 million, an increase of $3.995 million compared to yesterday. Alchemist AI is an AI generation platform that allows users to turn ideas into applications and games within minutes without coding. Users can initiate the application generation process by consuming ALCH tokens. The platform offers various generation options including standard pipelines, fast pipelines, and Sonnet 4.5 pipelines, supporting real-time multi-agent collaboration to build applications, and providing instant application previews and interactive generation features. Recent important news about ALCH: 1️⃣ *

Morgan Stanley points out that the market is focusing on four major directions, including AI capital expenditure, the longevity economy, tokenized financial upgrades, and brain-computer interfaces. BiyaPay analysts recommend paying short-term attention to AI and infrastructure chains, and tracking the longevity economy and tokenization's impact on liquidity in the medium to long term. BiyaPay supports multi-asset trading for flexible allocation.

Gate News Bot message, December 17th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, IKA (Ika) is currently trading at $0.00781008, up 16.82% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.00983604 and a low of $0.00499861. The 24-hour trading volume reached $25.9 million. The current market cap is approximately $23.4 million, an increase of $3.37 million from yesterday. Ika is the first sub-second multi-party computation (MPC) network, featuring unparalleled scalability capable of processing 10,000 signatures per second and supporting hundreds of signature nodes. Using a zero-trust, non-colluding architecture, Ika sets a new standard for speed and security in interconnected Web3. Ika has the following core features: ultra-high throughput, scalable transaction processing speed that surpasses existing MPC

Gate News Bot Message, December 17th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, XRP is currently trading at $1.91, up 2.19% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $2.05 and a low of $1.88. The 24-hour trading volume reached $2.777 billion. The current market capitalization is approximately $115.586 billion, an increase of $24.77 million from yesterday. XRP Ledger (XRPL) is a decentralized public blockchain led by a global community of enterprises and developers, dedicated to solving problems and creating value. With over ten years of error-free operation, XRPL offers a smooth development experience, low transaction costs, high performance, and sustainable growth. The platform features powerful functionalities such as a high-performance decentralized exchange, cross-currency payments, payment channels, multi-signature, and tokenization, with each transaction costing less than one cent. It has processed over 63 million ledgers.

Risc Zero announces the shutdown of custodial proof services, and the Boundless network enters a fully decentralized phase, promoting the open market for zero-knowledge proofs. Boundless is designed for multi-chain, utilizing verifiable proof-of-work incentives to enable nodes to generate proofs quickly, enhancing scalability and interoperability.

Gate News Bot Message, December 17th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, ORDI (ORDI) is currently trading at $4.53, up 9.44% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $4.85 and a low of $3.89. The 24-hour trading volume reached $60.6 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $95.2 million, an increase of $8.21 million compared to yesterday. ## Important recent news about ORDI: 1️⃣ **Magic Eden Launches Permanent Buyback Mechanism to Strengthen Token Value Support** The multi-chain trading platform Magic Eden has launched an Ordinals buyback program, where 15% of each transaction fee will systematically be used to purchase Ordinals and include them in a permanent collection series. The automated execution of this mechanism means sustained market demand.

Decentralized prediction market Conviction on ZetaChain opens the Waitlist today, targeting the Asian market, supporting multi-chain betting, and integrating AI market insights. The project has entered the closed beta phase and is expected to launch the Public Alpha in Q1 2026.

This article summarizes cryptocurrency news as of December 16, 2025, focusing on the latest Bitcoin news, Ethereum upgrades, Dogecoin trends, real-time cryptocurrency prices, and price forecasts. Major Web3 events today include: 1. Chair of the US SEC: Cryptocurrency may become the ultimate financial monitoring tool, calling for regulatory balance between privacy and security 2. MetaMask launches Bitcoin support, continuing to expand multi-chain operations 3. Huang Licheng has been liquidated 200 times since the market crash on October 11, with total losses exceeding $22.88 million

Gate News Bot Message, December 16 — According to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, SWARMS (Swarms) is trading at $0.01604753, up 16.17% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.02244238 and a low of $0.01184988. The 24-hour trading volume reached $25.7 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $16 million, an increase of $2.23 million from yesterday. Swarms is a platform built to provide infrastructure for the agent economy. Swarms offers a complete multi-agent orchestration framework, including an enterprise-ready Python framework, high-performance Rust implementation, multi-agent orchestration API in Swarms Cloud, and a type-safe TypeScript client. The platform is powered by Swarms Mar

Nexo has reached a multi-year partnership agreement with the Australian Tennis Association, becoming an official crypto partner for the Australian Open and related events. This collaboration will showcase the brand through the "Nexo Coach's Seat," helping to transform its brand into a digital asset wealth platform.

A recent research report released by Bank of America indicates that amid a fundamental shift in regulatory attitudes, the US banking industry is entering a multi-year "on-chain" transition phase. As the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Federal Reserve begin to establish clear regulatory frameworks for stablecoins and tokenized deposits, cryptocurrency policies are moving from discussion to implementation. The research team led by analyst Ebrahim Poonawala stated that a recent series of regulatory approvals and rule proposals signify that the US financial system is laying the institutional groundwork for real-world assets and payments to go on-chain. OCC has recently conditionally approved five digital asset companies to obtain national trust bank licenses, which is seen as an important step toward the federal-level official acceptance of stablecoin issuance and crypto asset custody. These activities must be conducted in the form of trust services and meet strict requirements for liquidity, compliance, and risk management.

Ripple Labs officially launches its USD-backed stablecoin RLUSD multi-chain expansion pilot, marking Ripple's further deployment in the stablecoin and multi-chain infrastructure space. According to an official statement, RLUSD will be expanded to multiple Ethereum L2 networks, including Optimism, Base, Ink, and Unichain, through a pilot program before obtaining full regulatory approval. This expansion was completed in collaboration with Ripple and the cross-chain interoperability protocol Wormhole. Wormhole's cross-chain technology allows assets to be securely transferred between different blockchains and is regarded as a key infrastructure in the current multi-chain ecosystem. RLUSD has previously been issued on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum mainnet. Ripple stated that expanding to Ethereum L2 is crucial for building a more scalable, efficient, and interoperable financial system.

Gate News Bot Message, December 16th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, XRP (XRP) is currently priced at $1.87, down 6.47% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $2.17 and a low of $1.86. The current market capitalization is approximately $113.222 billion, a decrease of $7.832 billion compared to yesterday. The XRP Ledger is a fully decentralized public blockchain maintained by a global community of businesses and developers. The blockchain has demonstrated complete stability and security over more than 10 years of operation, handling over 63 million ledgers with zero error records. The XRP Ledger offers a smooth development experience, extremely low transaction costs, high performance, and sustainability, supporting developers to build projects with confidence. The platform has built-in powerful features such as a high-performance decentralized exchange, cross-currency payments, payment channels, multi-signature, and more, supporting all non-XRP assets to circulate on-chain in token form.

ChainCatcher Message: According to the latest on-chain data, the perpetual contracts (Perp DEX) with an order book model launched by the integrated all-in-one liquidity hub Honeypot Finance has surpassed a total trading volume of 20 million USD since its launch. This marks the platform's transition from a single trading product to a new stage of "Integrated Liquidity Hub" with multi-module collaboration. Meanwhile, the total trading volume across the Honeypot Finance platform has exceeded 100 million USD, including over 89 million USD in spot trading volume, approximately 51,000 active users, and a total of 1.7 million trading transactions. In terms of product planning, Honeypot Finance plans to launch a based in the first quarter of 2026.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Bhutan and cryptocurrency market maker Cumberland DRW have signed a multi-year memorandum of understanding to collaborate on building digital asset infrastructure in Gelephu Mindfulness City, further deepening the country's long-term cryptocurrency strategy focused on sustainable development. According to the cooperation agreement, Cumberland will support Bhutan's Bitcoin reserve management, establish an office in Gelephu Mindfulness City, and hire local talent. The two parties will also explore the development of a national-level digital asset ecosystem, including modern financial frameworks, sustainable mining, artificial intelligence computing, yield generation, and stablecoin infrastructure. This initiative is led by Green Digital, a digital infrastructure company associated with Gelephu Mindfulness City.

Gate News Bot Message, December 15 — According to CoinMarketCap data, XRP (XRP) is currently trading at $2.00, down 1.38% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $2.17 and a low of $1.97. The current market capitalization is approximately $120.914 billion, ranking 5th globally. The XRP Ledger is a blockchain built for business, led by a community of global enterprises and developers committed to solving problems and creating value. With over ten years of zero-error operation, the XRP Ledger offers a seamless development experience, low transaction costs, high performance, and sustainability. The chain features several core functionalities, including a built-in high-performance decentralized exchange, cross-currency payments, payment channels, multi-signature, and token issuance. The XRP Ledger is known for its open

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.

FHE Privacy Computing Layer Mind Network announces a partnership with the Pippin community to support the AI-Agent ecosystem for Solana. The project will transfer 1% of Pippin tokens into an incentive reserve pool and launch the "Unicorn Reserve" plan, where users can earn Pippin airdrop rewards by staking FHE, encouraging long-term participation. Meanwhile, Mind Network will build multi-chain privacy infrastructure.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Negentropic, co-founder of Glassnode, posted an analysis on the X platform about the impact of Japan's interest rate hikes. He pointed out that what the market fears is not tightening but uncertainty. Sometimes, market volatility can actually be an opportunity. Japan's central bank normalization has brought clarity to the global capital markets, and Bitcoin often thrives after experiencing policy pressure. Previous analyses suggested that Japan's interest rate hikes might not trigger risk-averse sentiment in the crypto market. First, speculators currently hold a net long (bullish) position in the Japanese yen, so it is unlikely they will react quickly to the Bank of Japan's rate hikes. Secondly, Japan's government bond yields have continued to rise this year, with both short-term and long-term yield curves reaching multi-decade highs. The upcoming rate hikes reflect that official interest rates are catching up with market levels, indicating a lower likelihood of risk-avoidance sentiment emerging by the end of the year.

PANews December 13 News, according to CoinDesk, Japan's last interest rate hike caused the yen to rise, triggering a sharp increase in market risk aversion sentiment, which led to Bitcoin prices falling from about $65,000 to $50,000. However, the upcoming yen interest rate hike may not trigger risk aversion in the crypto market for two reasons: First, speculators currently hold a net long (bullish) position in yen, making it unlikely for them to react quickly to the Bank of Japan's rate hike; second, Japan's government bond yields have continued to climb this year, with both short-term and long-term yields hitting multi-decade highs. Therefore, the upcoming rate increase reflects that official interest rates are catching up with market trends. Meanwhile, this week, the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by 25 basis points while introducing liquidity measures, bringing rates to their lowest level in three years. Overall, these factors indicate a clear unwind of yen arbitrage positions and a year-end risk aversion sentiment.

Members of various UK political parties have written to the Chancellor, urging modifications to the Bank of England's stablecoin framework, warning that the framework could stifle innovation and lead to capital outflows. They advocate for the establishment of a forward-looking framework to support fintech development and strengthen the UK's global financial position.

PANews December 12 News, the People's Bank of China Party Committee held a meeting, which emphasized steadily advancing high-level financial opening, safeguarding national financial security. Practicing global governance initiatives, actively participating in and promoting the reform and improvement of global financial governance. Pragmatically conducting financial diplomacy and multi- and bilateral monetary and financial cooperation. Promoting the internationalization of the RMB. Continuously building and developing a multi-channel, broad-coverage RMB cross-border payment system. Steadily developing digital RMB.

BlockBeats News, December 12 — Cindy, co-founder of Solana ecosystem DeFi protocol Drift, stated at the Solana Breakpoint conference, "We will launch a mobile app in the first quarter of next year. This will be the first native application integrated with a multi-collateral account on mobile, and it will also include: Launch App"

Foresight News: BULK Trade Co-founder and CTO Junaid Peer stated at the Solana Breakpoint conference that BULK is building a decentralized perpetual contract DEX on Solana. The platform will launch the Genesis testnet in the coming weeks, offering features such as up to 50x leverage. The DEX provides approximately 20 milliseconds of low-latency trading experience through a multi-operator matching engine. Additionally, BULK has developed the BULK Agave client, which operates as a supporting component network for Solana validators. Validators running this client can earn a 12.5% fee share from the BULK exchange.

Cross-chain interoperability protocol deBridge announces the launch of a brand new execution primitive, deBridge Bundles, designed to fundamentally simplify on-chain interactions for users and developers, reducing multi-layer complexity during DeFi usage. This model allows users to sign only an "intention" that describes the final result, with the protocol automatically completing execution, eliminating the need to manually handle transactions, gas, or cross-chain steps. Traditional on-chain operations often require users to deal with slippage, gas estimation, transaction retries, and cross-chain asset management. deBridge states in its announcement that Bundles shift the execution logic from chain-level operations to a "result-oriented" model, removing cumbersome steps and making user operations closer to a one-click experience. Meanwhile, developers can focus on application-layer logic without having to build complex execution and retry frameworks themselves, significantly shortening development cycles and enhancing product stability.

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.

x402 Payment Protocol officially released version 2 on December 11, 2025, further strengthening its core position in AI-native payments and autonomous machine trading. Since launching six months ago, x402 has completed over 100 million transactions through API, AI agents, and Web services. The V2 version incorporates key upgrades accumulated during this period. The most notable highlight of this update is the realization of a unified payment format for "multi-chain + traditional payment networks." The new protocol standardizes network and asset identification, enabling developers to seamlessly route payments between blockchains like Base, Solana, and traditional networks such as ACH and bank card networks. As a result, x402 is gradually becoming a neutral payment layer connecting crypto finance and traditional finance, simplifying cross-network settlement processes and providing more compatible payment infrastructure for AI agents, automation services, and Web applications.

OpenAI officially releases the new generation large language model GPT-5.2 today, marking the company's further acceleration in expanding into enterprise application scenarios, upgrading ChatGPT from a consumer tool to an enterprise productivity engine. The new model emphasizes faster speed, greater stability, and the ability to handle complex tasks, integrate multi-step workflows, and execute professional workstreams. With major partners such as the US government and Disney joining, OpenAI's business layout is rapidly expanding. OpenAI states that the core goal of GPT-5.2 is to "create greater economic value," with significant enhancements in spreadsheet processing, presentation generation, code writing, visual recognition, long-context understanding, and tool invocation. To validate these capabilities, the company has introduced a proprietary evaluation system called GDPval, which simulates 44 different professional tasks to assess model performance. According to reports, GPT-5.2 achieves or surpasses human professional levels in approximately 71% of tests. While the external community is still awaiting independent review, this data has garnered widespread industry attention.

PANews December 12 News, according to CoinDesk, crypto investment firm Blockstream Capital Partners (BCP) announced in a press release on Thursday that it plans to acquire Corbiere Capital Management. Corbiere Capital Management is a hedge fund based in Jersey, founded by Rodrigo Rodriguez in 2023. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. BCP stated that after acquiring Corbiere Capital Management, it will add equity and event-driven strategies to its existing Bitcoin-related products, building a multi-strategy platform for institutional investors. This merger aims to create a more diversified investment portfolio, combining traditional securities with

Polkadot (DOT) price recently retreated again to about $2, which is considered a key long-term accumulation zone since 2022. According to the latest insights from analyst Egrag Crypto, this area has structural support and is regarded as DOT's "home zone" over the years, but it is currently unclear whether the market has truly bottomed out. DOT price touched around $2, with a significant pullback during trading, followed by sideways consolidation in this critical price region. Egrag Crypto pointed out that he had previously positioned in DOT at higher prices and continued to add to his holdings during the recent pullback. Based on historical trends and Polkadot's core role in multi-chain infrastructure, this zone is seen as an important position of long-term structural support.

Odaily Planet Daily News: The cryptocurrency trading platform Ave.ai officially released a major update for the Android version 2.3.06 today, focusing on optimizing user experience to create a more efficient and reliable trading environment for users. The new version is now available for download, and users can upgrade immediately. The iOS update with new features will also be released soon. Highlights of this update include: 1. New homepage design: The new homepage adopts a minimalist style, making the visuals cleaner. Users no longer need to search through layers; the homepage directly accesses the wallet and the popular Token trading area. 2. Bot copy trading system: An innovative Bot copy trading feature is directly integrated into the app, allowing users to follow experienced wallet addresses that are profitable with one click, and to copy their trading strategies in real-time. The system includes risk filtering mechanisms to help beginners avoid common pitfalls and make earning money simpler and more reliable. 3. Multi-signature wallet upgrade