ZEROBASE, a blockchain zero-knowledge proof infrastructure project, announced today that Constantin Gao has officially joined the team as Chief Governance Officer. This position will focus on designing the governance structure and coordinating relationships between the ZEROBASE Foundation and the ZEROBASE DAO, aiming to promote the DAO's independent operation and achieve its autonomous goals. ZEROBASE stated, "We believe Constantin's extensive experience in decentralized governance, multi-stakeholder coordination, and public goods funding will help ZEROBASE build a sustainable, verifiable, and self-driven governance ecosystem." Constantin Gao has long been active in the decentralized community and crypto public service funding, and is a well-known DAO architecture researcher in the Chinese community. His appointment marks a key step forward for ZEROBASE in its governance structure and global community co-governance.

The UK tax authorities have sent approximately 65,000 "demand letters" to individuals suspected of defaulting on cryptocurrency taxes, doubling the number from last year. Under the UK's current tax system, the sale, exchange, or consumption of cryptocurrencies is generally subject to capital gains tax, while staking rewards and airdrop income are considered taxable income. (The Block)

According to Galaxy Research, the US government has authorized the Treasury Department to include seized digital assets as part of its strategic Bitcoin reserve since March of this year. With the recent inclusion of Prince Group's confiscated assets in the reserve, the size of the reserve has increased by 64% overnight, now equivalent to approximately 3.5% of US gold reserves in US dollar terms.

OKX market data shows that ETH has broken through 3900 USDT and is currently trading at 3900.72 USDT, a 24-hour increase of 1.04%. (This newsletter was generated by AI)

STBL announced on the X platform that its Q4 $100 million USST minting program has officially launched, with over $2 million in initial minting completed as part of a phased rollout. The project is also enhancing its automatic peg mechanism and integrating with Franklin Templeton's IBENJI to strengthen stability, liquidity, and profitability.

Michael Saylor posted on the X platform: "The most important orange dot is always the next one." Strategy's BTC accumulation data may be disclosed next week.

Market data shows that MLN (Enzyme) briefly broke through 12 USDT and is currently trading at 11.35 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of 115.15%.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin previously expressed his hope that more developers working on ZK and FHE would express performance as a ratio, rather than operations per second. In response, some community users questioned how to ensure hardware independence and pointed out that closing the gap between C and FHE(C) would require expensive, specialized FHE hardware. In response, Buterin suggested that publicly available hardware could be used, and that the geometric mean of the capital expenditure dollars per operations per second and the joules per operation for both the encrypted and raw computations would be a reasonable first-pass metric.

As 18 wallets dumped 890 million tokens worth $10. 66, Astra Nova's team launched a buyback program. source: https://ambcrypto.com/18-wallets-dump-astra-nova-are-hackers-behind-rvvs-65-crash/

1. A whale with a $220 million long position in BTC and ETH continues to increase its holdings to $231 million, currently suffering a $4.42 million loss. 2. Binance invites the community to participate in oversight and report any suspected Alpha fraud and violations. Successful reports will receive rewards. 3. Andrew Kang's associated address has again switched from long to short, with a position valued at $68.24 million. 4. Binance will adjust margin parameters for PM Pro and futures contracts. 5. X launches the Handle Marketplace, an account ID trading platform. 6. A whale deposited $2.91 million in USDC into Hyperliquid over the past two days, establishing long and short positions worth approximately $70 million. 7. BitMine may have increased its holdings by nearly 380,000 ETH, worth approximately $1.5 billion, since the October 11 crash. 8. An address withdrew 142,000 LINK from Binance, worth $2.4 million. 9. Astra Nova An equal amount of affected RVV tokens will be repurchased.

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The NEAR Foundation, which is at a critical juncture in its ecosystem development, has made one of its most significant senior-level personnel adjustments in recent years, appointing five senior industry professionals to oversee key areas such as product, business, marketing, technology, and human resources.

Faced with stagnant business growth and profit anxiety, OpenSea is actively seeking transformation. It is not only trying to transform itself into a full-chain integrated trading platform, but also re-attracting users and liquidity through airdrop incentives.

In the history of American politics, no president has ever interwoven state power, personal brand and financial speculation into a global experiment like Trump.

In 2025, the total amount of token repurchases exceeded US$1.4 billion, of which the repurchase expenditures of the top 10 projects accounted for as much as 92%, indicating that the market's attention to the token repurchase mechanism has increased significantly.

Tempo, a collaboration between Stripe and Paradigm, may ultimately be the test of how much people are willing to pay for decentralization.

By rebuilding the problem that TradFi has already solved: the clearing system.

Golden Finance has launched the 2850th issue of "Golden Morning 8:00", a morning newspaper for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, providing you with the latest and fastest digital currency and blockchain industry news.

Trump, who once slammed cryptocurrencies as "empty talk," is now one of the biggest Bitcoin players in the United States. How did he quietly build a trillion-dollar crypto empire while serving as president?

Golden Weekly is a weekly blockchain industry summary column launched by Golden Finance. Its content covers the week's key news, market and contract data, mining information, project dynamics, technological progress and other industry trends.