Data: Web3 social application Towns has over 400,000 total users, with over 200,000 token holders

On December 27th, the Lighter team announced in its Discord community that Season 2 point distribution has been completed, and identified cheating behaviors have been removed. Additionally, there is currently no airdrop event, nor a "claim" process — users should not engage with any such links. Furthermore, the team changed the final wording from "see" to "S3e," leading the community to speculate that the project’s TGE will also feature a Season 3 points event.

On December 27, Japanese-listed firm KLab announced the official launch of its "Dual Gold Financial Strategy," under which it will gradually purchase Bitcoin and gold. The company plans to allocate 3.6 billion yen (approximately $24 million) from a total financing of around 5.1 billion yen, with a 6:4 split between Bitcoin and gold. As of December 25, KLab had added 3.17 Bitcoin to its holdings, with an average purchase price of roughly 13.83 million yen per BTC (or about $90,000 per BTC). Its total Bitcoin holdings now stand at approximately 4.37 BTC. The firm also simultaneously acquired 1,860 shares of a gold exchange-traded fund (ETF). (Source: CoinPost)

On December 27, the LayerZero community’s vote to activate the protocol fee mechanism failed to pass, as it did not reach the required quorum. The next vote is scheduled for 6 months from now. The proposal aimed to decide whether to implement the LayerZero protocol fee mechanism, which would charge a fee for each LayerZero transaction—with the amount capped at the cost of validation and execution. All collected fees will be converted to ZRO and burned.

On December 27, cryptocurrency exchange Bit[.]com announced it will proactively streamline its existing operations while launching its "User Asset Migration Plan." Bit[.]com will provide clear, comprehensive guidance to users via official announcements, emails, in-app notifications and other channels to help them complete asset processing and migration smoothly within a set timeframe. Specific timing, procedures and precautions will be outlined in subsequent announcements and instructions. Public records indicate Bit[.]com launched in 2020 as a subsidiary of Matrixport, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency financial services platform. Matrixport was founded by Wu Jihan in 2019 after he departed Bitmain (where he remains chairman), with Matrixport serving as Bit[.]com’s parent company.

On December 27th, it was revealed that Smart Money address “RN1” turned an initial $1,000 investment on Polymarket into over $2 million in profits this year. The address focused primarily on sports prediction markets in 2024, logging more than 13,000 total bets—with its largest single profit hitting $129,000. Per crypto influencer @carverfomo’s analysis, this trader generated returns via high-frequency arbitrage: they capitalized on temporary price discrepancies in the platform’s automated market maker (AMM), rather than relying on accurately predicting event outcomes themselves.

December 27 — Per data from Ashes Monitor, Bitmine has staked a total of 154,176 ETH today, worth approximately $451 million. Previous statistics show Bitmine’s total ETH holdings stand at 4.066 million.