🦄 Uniswap Fee Switch, Tokenized Equities in 2025

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Bitcoin briefly pushed past $90K as futures trading momentum outpaced spot demand. Meanwhile, Uniswap’s long-awaited fee switch is on track to go live before 2026, tokenized equities are booming with a 2,500% surge this year, and the Museum of Modern Art deepened its digital art commitment by adding CryptoPunks and Chromie Squiggles to its collection.

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News Roundup

Artificial Intelligence

• Tether Expands Open AI Training Data With QVAC Genesis II Release (Tether)

• Bittensor Tightens MEV Protections and Revises Neuron Rules in OTF Update (TAO Daily)

Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance

• Crypto Hedge Funds Stagger Through Worst Year Since 2022 (Bloomberg)

• Klarna Partners With Coinbase to Accept Stablecoins From Institutional Investors (Fortune)

• Russian Central Bank Says Bitcoin Mining May Be Boosting the Ruble (DL News)

• Hilbert Group Acquires Enigma Nordic in $25M Institutional Crypto Push (The Block)

• Tokenization Set to Reshape Finance Faster Than Digital Media Shift (Cointelegraph)

• Uniswap’s Fee Switch Set to Go Live This Week (Cointelegraph)

• Aave DAO Erupts as Aave Labs Pushes Brand-Rights Vote to Snapshot (The Block)

• Tokenized Equity Market Explodes Nearly 2,500% in 2025 (The Defiant)

• JPMorgan Weighs Crypto Trading Services for Institutional Clients (Bloomberg)

• earnXRP Launches to Bring Yield to XRP via Flare Network (The Block)

• Velo Integrates USD1 Stablecoin to Expand PayFi Infrastructure Across Asia (Chainwire)

• ETHZilla Sells 24,291 ETH, Pivots Toward RWA Tokenization (ETHZilla)

Exchanges

• Coinbase Flags Brevis for Potential Listing as ZK Cross-Chain Data Demand Grows (Coinbase)

• Indonesia Whitelists 29 Crypto Platforms as Global Exchanges Move In (Cointelegraph)

• Aster Launches Phase 5 ASTER Buyback Program (Aster)

• Binance Let Suspicious Accounts Move $144M After 2023 Plea Deal (Decrypt)

• Coinbase Buys Prediction Markets Startup The Clearing Company (The Block)

• KuCoin Claims Record Market Share as 2025 Trading Volumes Surge (CoinDesk)

Exchange-Traded Products

• VanEck Moves to Add Staking Yield to Proposed Avalanche ETF (CoinDesk)

• From Dec. 15–19, U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $644 million in net outflows.

• U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs saw $497 million in net outflows from Dec. 15-19.

• From Dec. 15-19, U.S. XRP spot ETFs posted $82.04 million in net inflows.

• U.S. Solana spot ETFs posted $66.55 million in net inflows from Dec. 15-19.

• Clarity Act Delay Sparks $952M Crypto ETP Outflows (The Block)

Gaming

• Crypto Game Crashouts: Biggest Shutdowns of 2025 (Decrypt)

Infrastructure

• TRON Bridges Into Base Ecosystem via LayerZero Integration (TRON DAO)

• Ethereum Foundation Sets 128-Bit Security Target for zkEVMs by 2026 (CryptoSlate)

• Blockchain and No-Code Tools Threaten AWS’s Cloud Dominance (Cointelegraph)

• Magma Devs Launches RPC Smart Router on Google Cloud (The Defiant)

Markets

• LEO Jumps After Bitfinex Scraps Trading Fees Amid Exchange Price War (The Defiant)

• Brazil’s Crypto Market Matures as Activity Jumps 43% in 2025 (Cointelegraph)

• Bitcoin Nears Key Lows vs. Gold as Analysts Split on Next Move (Cointelegraph)

• Token Unlocks to Top $268M This Week as Supply Pressure Looms (Tokenomist)

• Bitcoin Briefly Breaks $90K as Futures Fuel Rally, Spot Demand Lags (Decrypt)

Mining

• Tether Executives Quietly Bought Northern Data’s Bitcoin Mining Arm (The Block)

Non-Fungible Tokens

• MoMA Adds CryptoPunks and Chromie Squiggles to Permanent Collection (The Block)

Politics & Regulation

• Crypto Champion Sen. Cynthia Lummis Says She Won’t Seek Re-Election (The Block)

• Indiana Lawmaker Pushes Crypto-Neutral Policy Over Bitcoin-Only Bills (Decrypt)

• Trump-Era SEC Drops Most Crypto Enforcement Cases (Decrypt)

• Ghana Legalizes Crypto With New Licensing and Oversight Law (Bloomberg)

• Hong Kong Proposes Tough Capital Rules for Insurers’ Crypto and Infrastructure Allocations (Bloomberg)

• U.S. Lawmakers Propose Crypto Tax Relief for Stablecoins and Staking (CoinDesk)

Token Generation Events

• 2025 Token Launches See Massive Post-TGE Underperformance (Momento Research)

Treasuries

• The 7 Largest Publicly Traded Ethereum Treasury Firms in 2025 (Decrypt)

• Metaplanet to Launch U.S. Trading via ADRs Under MPJPY (Cointelegraph)

• The 5 Largest Publicly Traded Solana Treasury Firms (Decrypt)

• BitMine Immersion Now Holds 4.066 million ETH (PR Newswire)

• Strategy Boosts Cash Reserves, Pauses Bitcoin Buying Near Year-End (The Block)

Venture Capital

• Crypto Startup Funding Surges as VCs Deploy $313M in a Single Week (DL News)

Other News

• Brooklyn Man Charged Over $16 Million Coinbase Phishing Scheme (Decrypt)

• Coinbase Institutional Sees 2026 as Early-Internet Moment for Crypto (Coinbase Institutional)

• Solana, Pump.fun Executives Face Lawsuit Alleging ‘Insider-Rigged Casino’ (DL News)

• How a Copy-Paste Error Led to a $50M USDT Loss (Cointelegraph)

• Tether Hiring Lead Engineer to Build AI-Powered Mobile Crypto Wallet (Paolo Ardoino)

• Crypto Must Cement Its Value Before Trump Era Ends, Warns Etherealize Co-Founder (Decrypt)

• Kaspersky Flags Stealka Infostealer Targeting Crypto Wallets (FFEEDS)

• Shadow “Archive” Claims to Have Copied Spotify’s Music Catalog (Decrypt)

• South Korean Crypto Launderer’s Appeal Backfires, Prison Term Doubles (DL News)

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