Gate News Bot message, December 19 — According to CoinMarketCap data, at the time of press, F (SynFutures) is trading at $0.01, up 15.02% in the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.01 and a low of $0.01. The 24-hour trading volume is $30.7 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $21.7 million, an increase of $2.83 million from yesterday. SynFutures is a decentralized derivatives trading platform that offers on-chain perpetual contract trading services. The platform features the Oyster AMM mechanism, combining order book and automated market maker models to provide trading opportunities for any asset, ranging from blue-chip cryptocurrencies, tokens, to NFTs, Bitcoin mining power, and more. SynFutures boasts core features such as the ability to list assets in 30 seconds, a unified liquidity pool, and strict risk management, and has already gained

Odaily Planet Daily News: Aster officially announced on X platform that Aster will launch the RTX/USD1 trading pair. Aster users participating in trading will share a total of $150,000 worth of ASTER rewards and additional RTX rewards. The RTX/USD1 spot trading pair will go live at 9:00 on December 19 (UTC), with trading activities continuing until 14:00 on December 29 (UTC). During the event, the RTX/USD1 spot pair will enjoy a 1.5x multiplier. Users can exchange USDT for USD1 and use USD1 to trade RTX/USD1. During the event, USD1/USDT spot trading will be fee-free, and trading rewards will be based only on the transaction fees from RTX/USD1 spot buy orders. The distribution of the reward pool will be based on

The U.S. Senate confirms Trump's nominated officials, with Mike Selig to serve as CFTC head and Travis Hill leading the FDIC. Selig's appointment will advance cryptocurrency regulatory policies.

The U.S. Senate recently officially confirmed two key financial regulatory appointments: Mike Selig will serve as Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and Travis Hill will become Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Both candidates are viewed as relatively friendly to cryptocurrencies, and this decision is interpreted by the market as a potential significant turning point in U.S. cryptocurrency regulation. The Senate approved the confirmation vote with 53 votes in favor and 43 votes against. After taking office, Selig will succeed Acting Chair Caroline Pham. During her interim tenure, Pham has promoted several policy initiatives supporting the crypto industry and plans to leave after the new chair is in place to join crypto infrastructure company MoonPay.

European Central Bank President Lagarde stated that the preparations for the digital euro are complete, with a launch expected in the second half of 2026. It aims to become a cornerstone of financial system stability and calls for the prompt adoption of relevant regulatory regulations.

Gate News bot message, The Anti-CZ whale experienced multiple liquidations on its $HYPE and $ETH long positions. The whale currently holds a floating loss exceeding $47.35M across 2 wallets.

The US court plans to hear new evidence involving the largest extractable value (MEV) practices, with the plaintiffs accusing Pump.fun of using MEV technology to allow insiders to acquire new tokens at low prices and sell them to retail investors, while Solana Labs and Jito Labs are alleged to have facilitated the process.

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.

A large trader is currently facing liquidation risk, with a total long position in cryptocurrencies valued at $237 million and an unrealized loss of $40.3 million. The ETH liquidation price is only about $100 away from the current market price and was temporarily saved from liquidation due to a market rebound.

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.

Perpetual contract trading platform Synthetix has rejoined the Ethereum mainnet. Founder Kain Warwick stated that Ethereum has resolved network congestion issues and can support high-frequency financial applications. He pointed out that in the past, Ethereum couldn't support perpetual contract DEXs, but now network scaling has made it the best choice.

金色财经报道，ether.fi基金会于X平台发文称，12月15日至17日期间，ether.fi基金会花费29万枚USDT回购379,692枚ETHFI代币。

Huang Licheng recently made substantial trading profits, with a BTC long position profit of $6,292.92, a ZEC long position profit of $2,982, and a HYPE long position profit of $2,642. However, his ETH long position is currently floating at a loss of $410,000, mainly due to yesterday's closing of long positions and reduction in holdings.

BlockBeats 消息，12 月 19 日，纳斯达克和纽约证券交易所表示，美国股票市场将在 12 月 24 日和 12 月 26 日如期开市。此前数小时，特朗普签署行政令宣布联邦政府将在圣诞节前后的 12 月 24 日和 26 日关闭。

PANews December 19 News, according to hyperbot data, the whale pension-usdt.eth closed its ETH short position 1 day ago with a loss of $2.097 million. Early this morning, it opened a new BTC long position and gradually increased it to the current 1,000 BTC (valued at $85.658 million), with an unrealized loss of $716,000. The whale's total profit and loss over the past week is approximately +$1.21 million, with a total profit of about $23.15 million on HyperLiquid.

WhiteFiber's subsidiary Enovum Data Centers has signed a long-term hosting agreement with Nscale Global Holdings, involving a 40 MW IT load at a data center in North Carolina. The total contract value is approximately $865 million, deployed in two phases.

金色财经报道，彭博援引知情人士称，洲际交易所（Intercontinental Exchange，ICE）——纽约证券交易所的所有者——正就参与加密支付公司 MoonPay 的一轮融资展开投资洽谈。

Gate News bot message, Perp DEX tokens have become one of the weakest sectors after memes following earlier resilience during the market dip. Top losers include $MYX down 12%, $HYPE down 11%, $ASTER down 8%, $DYDX down 6%, and $JUP down 4%. According to CryptoRank tags, 81% of tokens are down with o

金色财经报道，据华尔街日报，Meta公司正在研发一款代号为Mango的新型图像及视频人工智能模型，与之同步开发的还有该公司的下一代文本大语言模型。据知情人士透露，Meta的首席人工智能官Alexandr Wang在周四与公司首席产品官Chris Cox进行的内部员工问答环节中谈到了这些人工智能模型。这些模型预计将于2026年上半年发布。

ChainCatcher 消息，据金十报道，美股周四收盘，道琼斯工业平均指数初步收涨 0.14%，标准普尔 500 指数上涨 0.79%，纳斯达克综合指数上涨 1.38%。英伟达 （NVDA.O） 上涨近 2%，特斯拉 （TSLA.O） 上涨超 3%，美光科技 （MU.O） 上涨 10%，特朗普媒体科技集团 （DJT.O） 大涨 41.9%。纳斯达克中国金龙指数上涨 0.97%，叮咚买菜 （DDL.N） 下跌 7%。

Solana Treasury Company Forward Industries issues SEC-registered stocks on the Solana blockchain, becoming publicly listed company equity usable in DeFi, holding 6.8 million SOL tokens, with a net asset value of approximately $832 million. After tokenization, FWDI can be widely integrated into the Solana DeFi ecosystem and used as collateral in the Kamino lending protocol.

Twenty-four top artificial intelligence companies have joined the U.S. government's "Genesis Program," aimed at promoting the application of AI technology in science and energy fields. The program will optimize experimental design and simulation calculations to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

Japanese financial industry executives are dissatisfied with the progress of cryptocurrency tax reform, stating that the reform process is slow and may be delayed until 2028. The current tax system requires cryptocurrency gains to be reported at a rate of up to 55%, and does not allow loss deductions. The Financial Services Agency of Japan hopes to reclassify cryptocurrencies to implement a lower tax rate.

ChainCatcher Message, Near Protocol announces its native token $NEAR is now officially live on the Solana network, enabling seamless cross-chain support through NEAR Intents and Orb Markets. Users can now deposit and withdraw $NEAR directly on Solana without multiple wallet configurations or switching.

BlockBeats News, December 18 — According to official sources, the decentralized autonomous wireless network project DAWN announced the completion of a $13 million Series B funding round, led by Polychain. The new funds will be used to accelerate global expansion, new deployments, and ecosystem collaborations. DAWN will continue to focus on expanding decentralized broadband worldwide.

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.

BlockBeats News, December 18th, according to official sources, Lista DAO announced the launch of the United Stables (U) vault, supporting BNB/U, slisBNB/U, BTCB/U, USDT/U lending markets. Users can deposit U to earn yields; use collateral assets to borrow U; through U/USDT and U/USD1

Canadian citizen Jarett Dunn sentenced to six years in prison for $2 million Solana scam. He admitted to the crime on social media and transferred the funds to random addresses in an attempt to claim himself as a whistleblower. The court did not accept his defense, and Dunn was ultimately convicted of abuse of power and transferring criminal assets.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against Danh C. Vo, founder and CEO of Bitcoin mining company VBit Technologies Corp., accusing him of embezzling approximately $48.5 million in false investment projects. SEC documents show that Vo and VBit raised over $95.6 million from approximately 6,400 investors and falsely described the Bitcoin mining business model and the use of funds in their promotional materials. The SEC pointed out that Vo promoted a so-called "custody agreement," claiming it could provide ordinary investors with a passive mining income solution without managing equipment, but in reality, the number of custody agreements sold far exceeded the company's actual mining machine operations. The regulatory agency believes that Vo knowingly or recklessly continued to make misleading statements to investors.

金色财经报道，美国白宫国家经济委员会主任哈塞特：CPI报告是一个“重磅炸弹”。

Odaily Planet Daily reports that according to an official announcement, healthcare and Bitcoin treasury company KindlyMD (NASDAQ: NAKA) announced that its board of directors has approved a share repurchase plan, allowing the company to repurchase its outstanding common stock on an irregular basis in the future. KindlyMD stated that the plan aims to enhance capital allocation flexibility and reflects management's confidence in the company's long-term value and Bitcoin-related business layout. The announcement said that repurchases may be conducted through open market transactions, private negotiations, block trades, or other lawful means, and may also be implemented under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The specific timing, scale, and method of repurchase will be determined by management based on market conditions, stock price, trading volume, and capital needs. The plan does not constitute a mandatory repurchase commitment, and the board of directors may adjust, suspend, or terminate it at any time. KindlyMD will complete the repurchase by August 2025.

PANews 12月18日消息，据Stable官方公告，PayPal发行的美元稳定币PYUSD现已正式上线Stable主网。

Ripple announces the expansion of strategic cooperation with TJM Investments and TJM Institutional Services, having invested in TJM and provided infrastructure support to enhance its trading and clearing services capabilities, with plans to expand into the digital asset sector.

Decentralized contract trading platform SunWukong (SunX) recently surpassed 1 billion USDT in BTC contract trading volume, with over 400 million USDT traded in a single day. At the same time, ETH contract depth has significantly increased. Additionally, the platform held its first DEX science popularization community AMA to help new users understand the DeFi ecosystem.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that ALT5 Sigma Corporation (ALT5) CEO Tony Isaac stated in a letter to shareholders that the company has built a payment infrastructure that is undervalued by the market, which has processed over $5 billion in digital asset transactions, serving enterprise and institutional clients across multiple jurisdictions. The ALT5 Pay and ALT5 Prime platforms are real-time systems that handle daily settlements from cryptocurrencies to fiat, card issuance, and institutional trading. Isaac

ChainCatcher 消息，据金十报道，分析师 Anstey 表示，美国国债收益率已较早前低点有所回升，自 CPI 数据公布后，股指期货的涨幅也相当有限。投资者考虑到距离美联储 1 月 28 日的利率决定还有很长的路要走。美国利率策略师 Ira Jersey 表示，低水平的 CPI 年率数据将让美联储内部的鸽派更易于论证，如果 12 月经济数据疲软，便应进一步降息。

Golden Finance reports that Goldman Sachs expects the Bank of England to cut interest rates by 25 basis points in March, June, and September 2026, respectively, whereas the previous forecast predicted rate cuts in February, April, and July. (Jin10)

Golden Finance reports that Tony Isaac, CEO of ALT5 Sigma, the WIFL treasury company listed on NASDAQ, issued a shareholder letter stating that the company currently holds approximately 7.3 billion WLFI tokens, which are valued at nearly $1 billion at the current price. In addition, its fintech and payments platforms, ALT5 Pay and ALT5