CZ: Does not oppose hardware wallets, noting that different wallet products are suitable for different scenarios.

Cross-chain protocol Relay announced via Twitter that it will shut down Relay Vaults. Users holding funds in the vaults must withdraw via the official portal, which will close on December 31, 2026. After that date, users can still withdraw funds directly from the smart contracts. The project stated that Vaults are an optional product for users to provide liquidity, and the shutdown is to make way for an upcoming improved version, with relevant details to be announced later. Swaps, payment services, and all other integrations remain unaffected and will operate as normal.

According to official announcements, NEAR treasury firm SVRN has acquired NEAR infrastructure platform FastNEAR. FastNEAR will join SVRN as a wholly owned subsidiary, with its co-founders Evgeny (Eugene) Kuzyakov and Mike Purvis also joining the SVRN team. The announcement notes that FastNEAR is a high-performance RPC infrastructure provider powering NEAR applications, and it also supports most of NEAR’s data layer, including server clusters handling network read and write operations, archival infrastructure storing full transaction histories, and NEARDATA – a data source for developers to process these historical records.

HIP-3 market deployer Entropy won the auction for the code "xiaomi" with 569.98 HYPE, and is expected to launch its perpetual contracts soon.

Trump posted on Truth Social, stating: "I ended 8 wars, and 2 more are set to end or be resolved. I freed all Israeli hostages, including the last 28 survivors and victims. I released hundreds of hostages from around the world and sent them back home. I won the Venezuela conflict, captured the dictator who tyrannically ruled the country, and prevented Iran—the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism—from acquiring nuclear weapons—wait a minute! Yet despite all I and the U.S. have accomplished, I did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s truly unbelievable!"

Crypto analyst Darkfost posted on X that Bitcoin’s current trend closely resembles the market pattern from the end of 2025 to early 2026. Prices are fluctuating continuously around the capital-weighted cost benchmark, with $80,500 emerging as a potential key near-term support level. Unlike the realized price, which only calculates purchase prices, the capital-weighted cost benchmark metric weights holding costs based on the size of invested funds, making it a key indicator of the market’s average profit and loss status. Darkfost added that the current zone is a critical juncture where investors are roughly at the break-even point, and market uncertainty may drive more investors to take action. While the $80,500 level is likely to act as support for now, its subsequent trend remains to be closely watched.

According to Yonhap News Agency, Lee Won-uk, chairman of South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), stated that the ongoing Digital Asset Basic Act’s provisions on shareholding limits for major shareholders of virtual asset exchanges are not targeted at specific individuals or firms, but are designed to address the higher public responsibilities exchanges must assume after operating on an institutionalized basis. Currently, South Korea’s virtual asset exchanges operate under a triennial renewal and reporting system, which will be switched to a licensing-based operation system once the Digital Asset Basic Act takes effect. Lee emphasized that virtual asset exchanges possess infrastructure attributes and need to demonstrate the level of public accountability commensurate with their status.