Selected News Highlights
1. The latest US CPI and unemployment data will be released at 21:30 tonight.
3. Buildlpad launches a yield product offering an 8% annualized return.
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Over the past 24 hours, the crypto market has continued to evolve across multiple levels. Mainstream topics focused on system-level upgrades of major platforms and the compliant expansion of prediction markets, while institutions continued to advance their deployments in on-chain payments and securities infrastructure. In terms of ecosystem development, Solana strengthened its security and liquidity entry points, Ethereum L2 accelerated application deployment, and the Perp DEX sector maintained intense competition in the struggle for new features and governance.
2. Why are crypto projects no longer being acquired without the tokens?
Early the day before yesterday, the Interop Labs team (the initial developers of the Axelar Network) announced its acquisition by Circle to accelerate the development of its multi-chain infrastructure, Arc and CCTP. Logically, an acquisition should be a good thing. However, the further details provided by the Interop Labs team in the same tweet caused a huge uproar. They stated that the Axelar network, foundation, and AXL token will continue to operate independently, and its development will be taken over by CommonPrefix.
On-chain data
On-chain fund flow on December 18th






