Vooi, a perpetual contract DEX aggregator, announced on its X platform that airdrop claims officially opened at 8 PM on the 18th. The previous airdrop snapshot time was 8 AM Beijing time on December 8th, and the airdrop claim period was limited to 30 days.

Aster officially announced on the X platform that it will launch the RTX/USD1 trading pair. Aster users participating in the trading will share a $150,000 ASTER reward pool plus additional RTX rewards. The RTX/USD1 spot trading pair will be available on December 19th at 9:00 AM (UTC) and trading will continue until December 29th at 2:00 PM (UTC). During the event, the RTX/USD1 spot pair will enjoy a 1.5x sign-plus bonus. Users can exchange USDT for USD1 and use USD1 to trade RTX/USD1. During the event, USD1/USDT spot trading will be free of charge, and trading rewards will only be based on the transaction fees of RTX/USD1 spot buy orders. The reward pool will be distributed based on each user's RTX buy order transaction fees as a percentage of the total transaction fees, with a maximum reward per user of 3% of the total reward pool. To receive rewards, users must hold at least 444 ASTER during the event.

Robinhood is just a retail distribution machine, while Coinbase aspires to be: retail distribution + commercial distribution + wallet/identity distribution.

According to ChainCatcher, Arkham data indicates that at 09:18, a transfer of 82.41 BTC was made from Hyperunit to Wintermute.

According to Odaily, a significant market player known as the 'October 11 Flash Crash Insider Whale' is currently experiencing a floating loss of $77.22 million on long positions valued at $695 million. The breakdown of losses includes $65.88 million in ETH, $6.17 million in BTC, and $5.16 million in SOL. Additionally, the upcoming announcement of Japan's interest rate decision is expected to influence the broader market and the positions held by this insider whale.

According to PANews, the U.S. Senate has moved forward with confirming a significant number of nominees put forth by U.S. President Donald Trump, including two officials who will play crucial roles in cryptocurrency regulation. On Thursday, the Senate approved Mike Selig as the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Travis Hill to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Selig is expected to be a key figure in cryptocurrency regulation, succeeding Acting Chair Caroline Pham, who has been advocating for an aggressive cryptocurrency policy agenda in the absence of a permanent chair.

1. HYPE fell to $22.3, a low since May; 2. CZ's counterparty whale profits shrank from nearly $100 million to $11.4 million, with HYPE long positions liquidated at around $22; 3. Twenty One Capital CEO: Shorting the dollar and going long on BTC is part of the company's business; 4. The European Central Bank plans to launch a digital euro in the second half of 2026; 5. MEV transactions will be submitted as new evidence in the Pump.fun class-action lawsuit; 6. Cardano founder: Excluded from participating in the crypto legislation process due to public criticism of Trump's crypto policies; 7. Digital bank SoFi launched the dollar stablecoin SoFiUSD, planning to open it to members later; 8. JPMorgan Chase: The stablecoin market size may reach $500-600 billion in 2028, less than the $1 trillion level; 9. Market news: ICE, the parent company of the NYSE, plans to invest in MoonPay at a valuation of $5 billion; 10. Kalshi: No plans to launch a college athlete transfer prediction contract; 11. Bitwise has submitted registration documents for the Sui ETF; 12. Decentralized broadband protocol DAWN completes a $13 million Series B funding round, led by Polychain Capital.

Key Insights: Two competing visions for tokenized stocks gained traction in December 2025, setting up a long-term battle over who controls the rails for on-chain equity trading. DTCC partnered with Canton Network on December 17 to tokenize DTC-custodied assets, starting with US Treasuries. The infrastructure-first approach targeted an MVP in the first half of 2026 source: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2025/12/18/dtcc-and-securitize-race-to-explode-689m-tokenized-stock-market-past-1b/

الرؤى الرئيسية: اكتسبت رؤيتان متنافستان للأسهم الرمزية زخمًا في ديسمبر 2025، مما أدى إلى نشوب معركة طويلة الأجل حول من يتحكم في قضبان تداول الأسهم على السلسلة. أبرمت شركة DTCC شراكة مع شبكة كانتون في 17 ديسمبر لترميز الأصول المودعة في مركز دبي للسلع المتعددة، بدءًا من سندات الخزانة الأمريكية. source: https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/ar/2025/12/18/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%aa%d8%a7-dtcc-%d9%88securitize-%d8%aa%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%aa%d9%81%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%b3%d9%88%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b3/

The U. S. Senate voted to advance President Trump’s nominee, Michael Selig, to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. source: https://www.theblock.co/post/383083/senate-confirm-cftc-chair-michael-selig?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

According to market data, HYPE has fallen 7.92% in the last 24 hours, currently trading at $22.3, its lowest price since May 8, 2025, and down more than 62% from its all-time high of $59.4. Its current market capitalization is $7.6 billion.

Jinse Finance launches its daily cryptocurrency and blockchain news bulletin, "Jinse 8 AM," issue 2913, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

Vaults are one of the concepts in the cryptocurrency world that everyone thinks they understand, mainly because they seem simple and easy to understand.

Jinse Finance launches the "Jinse Web3.0 Daily," providing you with the latest and fastest news on MEME, DeFi, DAO, NFT, and the metaverse industry.

"The future of finance is on Coinbase. All in one app," Coinbase states in just two short sentences, outlining its vision for 2026 and beyond.

Recommended reading tonight: 1. Looking Back at 2025: 18 Milestones in the Crypto Industry; 2. Ethereum Foundation: Ethereum State Evolution Path and Future Challenges; 3. Post-Election Prediction Markets: How to Re-accelerate in 2025;

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and ex-girlfriend of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has been quietly transferred out of federal prison after serving approximately 11 months of her two-year sentence, according to Business Insider.

OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $100 billion at a valuation of $750 billion. The company is also preparing for a public listing that could value it at around $1 trillion.

Ethereum has grown from a small, experimental network into a key component of the global infrastructure.

Despite strong momentum in 2025, prediction market trading volume still represents only a small fraction of the overall sports betting industry.