Ethereum Foundation: EIP-1 has been activated, increasing the blob size per block to 15

Guotai Junan Securities said on December 11 that it expects the Federal Reserve to pause its rate cuts in January, with just 25 basis points of rate cuts remaining for the two remaining meetings chaired by Jerome Powell.

On December 11, MEXC confirmed in an official announcement that BeatSwap (BTX) will be listed for spot trading, with trading scheduled to go live at 8:00 PM UTC+8 the same day.

On December 11th, data from Coinglass shows that funding rates across major centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) exchanges point to an overall bearish market sentiment for mainstream cryptocurrencies. Specific funding rates for these coins are detailed in the attached chart. BlockBeats Note: A funding rate is a mechanism set by crypto exchanges to align perpetual contract prices with the underlying asset’s spot price. It enables fund transfers between long and short traders—exchanges do not collect this fee themselves. The rate adjusts the cost or profit for traders holding contracts to keep contract prices close to the underlying asset’s value. Key context: A 0.01% funding rate acts as the baseline. Rates above 0.01% signal broad bullish sentiment, while rates below 0.005% indicate widespread bearishness.

On December 11, Bloomberg reported that deep inside Singapore’s so-called “Asian Fort Knox”—a vault housing top-tier wines and priceless artworks—rests a complete 69-million-year-old Triceratops skeleton, one of just 24 known worldwide. Among its collector-owners is Yoann Turpin, co-founder of crypto market maker Wintermute. The trading executive and his co-investors paid roughly $5 million for the 5-meter-long fossil earlier this year, shipping it from Wyoming to Singapore’s Le Freeport. All four owners invest in cryptocurrency, including Chaw Wei Yang, who runs collectibles-focused platform Co-Museum. This purchase underscores a taste shift among crypto elites. After the 2022 NFT boom, their interest in digital art has faded—now, crypto executives are increasingly turning to collectibles, precious metals, and sculptures.

On December 11, per Farside monitoring data, U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs saw a net inflow of $57.6 million yesterday, while Solana spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $4.9 million.

December 11 — Per Farside monitoring data, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $2.235 billion yesterday.