According to CoinGlass data, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily, the total open interest of ETH futures contracts decreased by 5.46% in the past 24 hours, currently standing at $37.59 billion. Binance holds $8.16 billion, CME holds $4.98 billion, and Gate holds $3.67 billion.
According to official news, BenPay, an on-chain one-stop financial platform deeply incubated by Bixin VC, has officially launched its self-custodied Web3 on-chain interest-bearing card, bringing users an on-chain financial experience of "payment equals participation, and balance automatically increases".
BenPay's on-chain interest-earning card adopts a self-custodial architecture, with assets managed independently by users, eliminating platform contact. Users simply click the "Earn Coins" button, and their card account balance automatically participates in on-chain interest earning. The operation is simple and free of additional fees, and the account balance is always available, allowing users to easily earn while spending. Earnings are settled daily and credited to accounts on the same day. Accumulated earnings can be automatically reinvested, and all processes are transparent and traceable on the blockchain.
At the same time, BenPay DeFi Earn provides a unified entry point for multi-chain protocols, allowing users to conduct more proactive strategy management, asset allocation, and cross-chain flow within BenPay after completing daily consumption and automatic interest generation, forming an integrated on-chain asset closed loop from daily payments → on-chain interest generation → asset allocation.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Odaily reports that whale 0x47e deposited $2 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a short position in LIT with 3x leverage. Additionally, whale 0xd6b deposited $1.5 million USDC into HyperLiquid, also opening a short position in LIT with 3x leverage.
According to official news, Gate Perpetual Contracts will officially launch the maximum slippage limit for market orders and the function to set slippage for market orders at 19:00 (UTC+8) on December 29th, further enhancing the security and controllability of market trading and comprehensively optimizing the trading experience.
This feature allows users to define their acceptable slippage range before placing a market order, and the system will only execute trades within the set range. When the actual execution price exceeds the slippage threshold, the order will be automatically blocked or cancelled, effectively reducing the risk of abnormal executions caused by volatile market conditions or insufficient market depth. This feature is particularly suitable for trading scenarios with rapid market fluctuations or insufficient liquidity, helping users to more accurately control the risk of execution prices deviating from expectations, providing smarter risk control protection and a more robust and efficient trading environment for contract trading.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, on-chain analyst Ai Yi is monitoring the market. LIT has launched, and its current FDV is $2.41 billion. Compared to predictions made a week ago when the pre-market contract was launched, the market's betting percentage that the FDV would exceed $2 billion after one day has dropped from 85.5% to 76.3%. The probability of the FDV reaching $4 billion, $6 billion, and $8 billion or more has also decreased significantly, with the probability of reaching $4 billion or more dropping from 23% to 7%. Furthermore, the top holder in this prediction market, Nijntje (0x4c8...ff4b), currently holds 16 positions, all related to new coin valuations and airdrop predictions, including 414,000 Lighter tokens, worth approximately $327,000, making it his largest holding.
According to an official announcement, SUN.io has completed the upgrade of its smart routing contract and V2 routing contract. Without changing the way the contract interface is called, energy subsidy resources are concentrated in the core contract to improve overall transaction performance and resource utilization efficiency.
Meanwhile, starting December 30, 2025 (Singapore time), the upgraded new contract will continue to enjoy a maximum energy subsidy of 99%; the old contract being replaced will cease subsidies from 23:59:59 on January 14, 2026 (Singapore time), and other business-related contract policies will remain unchanged. This upgrade will not affect normal user usage.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale (0x7d1...3e66) that had been dormant for 1.6 years increased its holdings of LIT 1x leveraged long positions worth $3.59 million, currently showing a floating loss of over $1.26 million. Six hours ago, the whale closed its ASTER short positions, realizing a profit of $537,000.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, LIT opened at 2.21 USDC on Lighter.
According to a chart released today by Matrixport, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily, in the previous cycle, Ethereum attracted incremental funds driven by expectations of smart contract platform ecosystem expansion and the narrative of "programmable money," propelling its price to new heights in 2020-2021. At the peak of sentiment in 2021, the market even anticipated reaching $10,000. However, the upward trend failed to continue. After retreating from its highs, Ethereum entered a long period of consolidation, generally trading within a large triangle pattern. Over the past few years, it has primarily exhibited range-bound trading with no clear trend.
Structurally, the price twice attempted to break out of the range (once below and once above), but both attempts failed to sustain and the price quickly returned to the range. Until a direction is confirmed, the market will likely remain range-bound.
The current triangle pattern is clearly converging, with the price action range continuously compressing, and the structure is nearing its end. As this long period of consolidation gradually completes, 2026 may become a crucial window for Ethereum to choose a direction and enter the next phase of its price movement.
According to the latest data from gonkascan.com, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily, Gonka's total network computing power has now exceeded 12,000 H100 equivalent GPUs, approaching the level of traditional large-scale AI computing centers. Over 9,000 high-memory GPUs (H100/H200, etc.) are used, with their proportion continuing to increase, dominating the network's effective computing power weight and enabling the network to stably support high-concurrency inference tasks for models with billions of parameters. The widespread participation of mid-to-high-end GPUs has also significantly lowered the barrier to entry for nodes; as long as the minimum memory requirements are met, they can participate in MLNode operation.
Data shows that the Gonka network supports nearly 40 GPU models, covering data center-level computing power such as H200, H100, and A100, as well as professional and consumer-grade graphics cards such as RTX 6000 Ada, A6000, A40, and RTX 4090. This forms a multi-level, composable global computing power supply structure, demonstrating Gonka's highly compatible and efficient decentralized computing power path, and providing a more open and flexible infrastructure support for AI inference and training.
Meanwhile, the daily number of users of the five major AI inference models on the Gonka network has exceeded 3,000, and the demand for inference continues to grow at a high rate. Models represented by Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-FP8 have formed a stable, high-frequency usage pattern on the Gonka network, and their usage pattern has clearly moved beyond the testing phase, approaching the early actual production workload of mainstream AI APIs.
Gonka aims to efficiently integrate global GPU computing power in a decentralized manner, providing a permissionless infrastructure for AI inference and training. Incubated by US AI developer Product Science Inc., the founding team consists of the Libermans siblings, former core product leaders at Snap Inc. The project has raised over $69 million in total funding from investors including Coatue (an investor in OpenAI), Slow Ventures (an investor in Solana), Bitfury, K5, Insight, and partners at Benchmark.
Odaily Planet Daily reports that Lighter announced the launch of its token LIT today and completed its airdrop. Based on Eastern Time, the probability of "Lighter airdropped on December 30th" on Polymarket is as high as 95%. However, the exact airdrop date is still within Polymarket's UMA (Underwriters' Agreement) dispute resolution period.
A user submitted a dispute on the oracle UMA regarding the determination that "Lighter was airdropped on December 29th" should be determined as "yes". The user argued that the airdrop occurred within an hour of December 29th and December 30th, which may have caused the dispute.
Odaily Note: Polymarket relies on the oracle UMA to determine the outcome of events. After an event occurs, anyone can report the result to UMA. There is a dispute period after the report is submitted, during which anyone who believes the report is incorrect can raise an objection. If no objection is raised, the report will be accepted; if there is a dispute, UMA's dispute resolution mechanism will determine the final result. The dispute resolution method involves UMA token holders voting to determine the correct result. UMA incentivizes honest behavior and punishes malicious behavior.
According to an article published on the X platform by Simon Gerovich, Metaplanet purchased 4,279 BTC in the fourth quarter of 2025 at a price of approximately $105,400 each, for a total value of $451 million. Year-to-date, the company's BTC return has reached 568.2%. As of December 30, 2025, Metaplanet will hold 35,102 BTC, with a total purchase cost of approximately $3.78 billion and an average purchase price of approximately $107,600.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, Gate founder Dr. Han released an open letter titled "Web3 Is About to Change Everyone's Life" at the end of 2025. In Dr. Han's view, a truly mature Web3 does not mean forcing users to face more complex technology choices, but rather liberating individuals' freedom in asset management and value flow through secure and compliant operations and user-friendly product design.
In 2025, Gate continued to prioritize its reserve mechanism development, providing users with a more verifiable security foundation through a total reserve value of US$11.676 billion, a reserve ratio of 124%, and transparent disclosure covering nearly 500 assets. Simultaneously, Gate continued its compliance progress in major markets such as Dubai, Europe, Australia, and the United States in 2025. Gate Technology FZE obtained a full operating license from the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA); Gate Technology Ltd obtained a MiCA license from the Malta Financial Services Authority, authorizing it to provide cryptocurrency trading and custody services; and Gate US obtained 32 state-level licenses, covering 43 US jurisdictions. Previously, Gate Group also completed the acquisition of a licensed exchange in Japan. This continuously improving compliance framework allows users to focus on long-term asset allocation and independent decision-making without being distracted by platform risks.
At the product level, Gate integrates trading, on-chain wealth management, asset management, and payment capabilities to reduce system fragmentation and operational friction, allowing users to seamlessly use the platform across different scenarios without needing to understand complex technical details. Dr. Han stated that by 2026, Gate hopes to work with the entire industry to turn this freedom from a concept into reality.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, the Lighter Discord Chinese community administrator announced that the airdrop has been completed and token trading will be available soon.
According to an official announcement, Dr. Han, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Gate.com, released a year-end open letter focusing on Gate.com's achievements over the past year and sharing his assessment of the Web3 industry's maturation and long-term strategic thinking. This year also marks Gate.com's 12th anniversary. Looking back on the platform's development, Gate.com has continued to make breakthroughs in trading volume and compliance: its spot trading volume and liquidity rank second globally, while its contract trading volume and overall strength remain among the top three globally. Simultaneously, Gate.com has been advancing its compliance strategy in key markets such as Dubai, Europe, Australia, and the United States, laying a solid foundation for its long-term international development.
In his open letter, Dr. Han pointed out that 2025 is a crucial turning point for Web3, marking its transition from concept to real-world application. As blockchain infrastructure, user experience, and compliance environment mature, Web3 is moving beyond niche technology circles and entering broader real-world use cases. Gate will continue to drive the integration of Web3 into everyday scenarios such as investment, wealth management, payments, and digital asset management in a more seamless and authentic way.
Looking ahead to 2026, Gate aims to connect the entire digital economy with a unified Gate App. Dr. Han stated that Gate is not pursuing the fastest growth, but rather a more stable and sustainable approach, accompanying more users as they move towards the next stage of Web3.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, American real estate entrepreneur and billionaire Grant Cardone revealed in a recent interview that he plans to launch the world's largest publicly traded real estate Bitcoin company in 2026. This company will use cash flow from real estate transactions (including monthly rental income and depreciation) to purchase Bitcoin, with an expected accumulation of 3,000 Bitcoins by the end of 2026. Currently, Cardone Capital, Grant Cardone's real estate investment arm, holds 1,000 Bitcoins, worth approximately $87.19 million.
