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

Bithumb announced on December 23rd that THQ will be listed on the Korean won market.

**Ethereum 2025 Year-End Summary: From "Experiment" to Global Core Infrastructure** On December 23, Ethereum Foundation member *renaissancing* released the 2025 Year-End Summary for Ethereum—marking a milestone in the network’s history. Ethereum has officially shed its "experimental network" label, emerging as global infrastructure trusted by financial institutions, developers, and AI systems. ### Protocol & Technical Wins At the protocol level, Ethereum delivered two major hard forks in 2025: - **Pectra (May):** Fully implemented account abstraction, supporting gas sponsorship, transaction bundling, and universal key signing. - **Fusaka (December):** Slashed costs via PeerDAS, boosting network capacity by 8x. Additionally, Ethereum raised its gas limit three times *without a hard fork*—showcasing ongoing self-improvement capabilities. ### Regulatory & Institutional Breakthroughs Regulatory clarity and institutional adoption were key drivers: - The U.S. SEC issued

December 23rd — Lookonchain data shows whale address 3QB9kH amassed 3.806 billion PUMP tokens from Binance between September 12 and November 4, with a total value of roughly $19.53 million and an average entry price of $0.00513. Three days prior, the whale transferred all 3.806 billion PUMP tokens (valued at ~$7.3 million at the time) to FalconX for sale, resulting in a total loss of over $12 million — a roughly 62% drop in value.

Dec. 23 — Per SolanaFloor data, a wallet address staked 1,173,614 SOL just 20 minutes ago, with the stake valued at roughly $148 million.

On December 23, the Solana Foundation announced the launch of Kora—a fee relay and signing node built for the Solana ecosystem—with support for fee-free transactions, custom fee tokens, and more. Before Kora, there was no modern, standardized solution for fee delegation and remote signing. While Solana’s account model made these features technically feasible, the market lacked ready-to-use implementations. Kora fills this gap with the following key features: - Fully delegated transaction fees; - Fee payment using any token (including stablecoins); - Offloading signing operations to a secure environment.

On December 23, prediction market Kalshi announced the launch of Kalshi Research—an initiative that will make the platform’s internal data accessible to researchers studying topics tied to prediction markets and forecasting. Its first report, *Kalshi Outperforms Wall Street Consensus Expectations in Inflation Prediction*, has been released. The full report is available via this link: [https://www.theblockbeats.info/flash/325406](https://www.theblockbeats.info/flash/325406)