According to Business Insider, Figure Technology Solutions (NASDAQ: FIGR) announced that its subsidiary Figure Certificate Company (FCC) plans to launch YLDS, a registered public debt security version of "stablecoin" on Solana, aimed at maintaining a USD denomination and continuously distributing yields backed by U.S. Treasuries and repurchase agreements. The DeFi yield on Solana is planned to be integrated with Exponent Finance as one of the first participants.

Wu said that Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor responded on X regarding "digital credit" and MSCI, stating that restricting passive index fund allocations to Bitcoin today is like limiting oil and drilling rigs in the 1900s, spectrum and communication base stations in the 1980s, or computing and data centers investments in the 2000s.

Paxful Holdings Inc. agrees to plead guilty to federal charges and pay a total fine of $7.5 million ($4 million criminal fine by the U.S. Department of Justice and $3.5 million civil fine by FinCEN). Prosecutors state that Paxful facilitated approximately $3 billion in transactions from 2017 to 2019, with about $17 million flowing to illegal sex trafficking sites like Backpage. The platform has long evaded compliance and failed to report suspicious activity as required. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for February 10, 2026, and co-founder Artur Schaback has already pleaded guilty to relate

State Street Bank and Galaxy Asset Management announced the launch of the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP) in early 2026, initially deployed on Solana, supporting 7×24 redemption and subscription with PYUSD, targeted at qualified buyers. Ondo Finance has committed approximately $200 million as seed funding. Future plans include expansion to Stellar and Ethereum, utilizing Chainlink tools for cross-chain data and asset transfer. (CoinDesk)

Wu says that, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, the U.S. government has transferred some of the seized funds from FTX Alameda to a new address, including 1934 WETH (approximately $6.43 million) and 13.58 million BUSD.

Wu said that the Federal Reserve announced an interest rate (upper limit) of 3.75%, in line with expectations of 3.75%, previous value was 4.00%, a decrease of 25 basis points.

The blockchain-based full-stack AI platform ChainOpera AI announces a collaboration with Princeton AI Lab to launch the first expert-level dynamic benchmarking tool for the crypto industry, CryptoBench. The tool was jointly developed by Professor Mengdi Wang and his PhD student Jiacheng Gu, and is used to evaluate the capabilities of LLM Agents in the crypto space, covering scenarios such as real-time data retrieval, future trend prediction, on-chain intelligence analysis, and DeFi risk assessment.

Wu said that Sei announced a partnership with Xiaomi, with a next-generation crypto wallet and content discovery app pre-installed on all new Xiaomi smartphones sold outside mainland China and the United States. The two parties also plan to promote stablecoin payments within Xiaomi's global retail network, including the first rollout in Hong Kong and the European Union in Q2 2026. The app will support seamless login via Google and Xiaomi accounts, integrate MPC wallet security, a decentralized application portal, and support peer-to-peer and merchant payments. The initial rollout regions inclu

Wu Shuo has learned that modern financial services company ProCap Financial (NASDAQ: BRR) has announced its Bitcoin holdings have increased to 5,000 coins. The company also holds over $175 million in cash, maintaining a solid balance sheet to support its strategy and operations.

Wu said that Strategy submitted feedback on MSCI's proposal to remove digital asset custodian companies (DATs) from the global investable market index. Strategy pointed out that DATs are operating companies rather than investment funds, and the 50% digital asset holding threshold proposed by MSCI is arbitrary and unfeasible; the proposal improperly incorporates policy factors into index construction and conflicts with U.S. policy direction, which could suppress industry innovation. Strategy urges MSCI to withdraw the relevant proposal.

The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) has released a report proposing to transfer cryptocurrency regulation from the Payment Services Act (PSA) to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA) to strengthen information disclosure, regulate IEOs (Initial Exchange Offerings), and crack down on unregistered platforms. The new framework requires exchanges to disclose issuer details and conduct independent code audits prior to token sales, and issuers must publicly reveal their identities and token distribution mechanisms. The plan also aims to introduce insider trading prohibitions, ref

Wu said that ETHZilla announced the finalization of an agreement with digital lending platform Zippy, aiming to tokenize U.S.-manufactured home loans on the blockchain and acquire a 15% stake in Zippy for approximately $21.1 million, including $5 million in cash and about $16.1 million in stock. The two parties will integrate ETHZilla's tokenization infrastructure with Zippy's lending and service platform to provide on-chain manufactured home loan products for institutional investors.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that occasional "loss of finality" on the network does not pose serious risks, and confirmation delays of several hours due to vulnerabilities are normal. The key is "not to finalize the wrong block." Previously, a vulnerability in the Prysm client narrowly prevented Ethereum from reaching finality. Oxford University researcher Fabrizio Romano Genovese said that when Ethereum loses finality, its operation becomes more similar to Bitcoin. Such events do not threaten security; they only temporarily shift restructuring guarantees to a probabilistic state

Canadian fintech company Pineapple Financial announces the launch of a mortgage tokenization platform on the Injective blockchain, having put approximately $412 million in loan data on-chain. They plan to gradually migrate over 29,000 historical mortgage loans totaling about $10 billion. Each tokenized loan includes more than 500 data points, which will be used to build a permissioned data marketplace and support the upcoming on-chain mortgage yield product. (CoinDesk)

Wu Shuo has learned that, according to Whale Alert monitoring, a dormant Ethereum pre-mined address that has been inactive for 10.4 years has been activated, containing 850 ETH (approximately $2.81 million), which was only worth $263 in 2015.

Wu Says learns that Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin Corp (Nasdaq: ABTC) announced that since the update on December 2, 2025, the company has mined approximately 416 additional Bitcoin. As of December 8, 2025, the company holds a total of approximately 4,783 Bitcoin, acquired through mining and strategic purchases, some of which are used for custodial or pledge purposes under mining machine purchase agreements signed with Bitmain.

According to DLNews, GameStop's latest financial report shows that the $500 million Bitcoin investment made in May this year was valued at approximately $519 million at the end of the third quarter, recording an unrealized gain of $19 million, a decline from $528 million at the end of the second quarter. The company did not add or sell any Bitcoin holdings this quarter. Due to the earnings report falling short of expectations, GameStop's stock price dropped 5%, with net sales down 4.5% year-over-year to $821 million.

QCP analysis indicates that the crypto market has stabilized this morning, with Bitcoin hovering around $92,000, selling pressure easing but the overall market remaining cautious. ETF experienced a net inflow of $56.5 million on the day, with cumulative redemptions exceeding $1.1 billion in November, and the derivatives market still shows signs of caution. The market is focused on tonight's Federal Reserve FOMC meeting, with interest rate decisions largely priced in, and attention on Powell's remarks. The Bank of Japan's December 19 meeting has become the next risk event, with long-term govern