Aave outlined three strategic pillars on Dec. 17—Aave V4, Horizon, and a mobile Aave App—founder Stani.eth said in a social media post. He said this year was the protocol's most successful, with net deposits peaking at 750 亿美元 and 8.85 亿美元 in fees, equal to 52% of all lending-protocol fees.

Machi Big Brother increased his ETH long position to 4,400 ETH on Dec. 17, worth approximately $12.95 million with a liquidation price of $2,720, BlockBeats reports citing Hyperinsight. Machi Big Brother has accumulated $22.9 million in losses on Hyperliquid.

Trader Huang Li-cheng deposited approximately 1,199,700 USDC to Hyperliquid about seven hours ago and opened 25x leveraged long positions totaling 4,050 ETH, valued at roughly 1.19 million U.S. dollars, with a liquidation price at 2,694 U.S. dollars, Hyperinsight data show. Huang's cumulative losses on the platform have reached 21.21 million U.S. dollars.

CME Group announced on Dec. 16 that Trading at Settlement (TAS) is now available for SOL, Micro SOL, XRP and Micro XRP futures. TAS is a futures execution method that allows participants to buy or sell contracts at or near the day's closing settlement price. The structure can be used for more precise hedging and managing settlement-related risk in these SOL and XRP futures products, the announcement said.

Bitget opened deposits for its Theoriq (THQ) Launchpool on December 16, allowing users to stake BGB or THQ to earn 2,333,300 THQ in rewards through December 19 at 23:00 (UTC+8), BlockBeats reports. The Launchpool features two pools: a BGB pool offering 2,133,300 THQ with staking caps of 50,000 BGB for VIP users and 5,000 BGB for regular users, and a THQ pool distributing 200,000 THQ with an individual staking limit of 3,333,000 THQ. THQ is now trading in Bitget's Innovation Zone and AI Zone, with withdrawals scheduled to open at 00:00 on December 18 (UTC+8).

PIPPIN on Solana fell approximately 30% in two hours on Dec. 16, trading at $0.372 with a market capitalization of $365 million, GMGN data cited by BlockBeats show. Blockchain analytics platform Bubblemaps said insiders control 80% of the token's supply, valued at approximately $380 million. Bubblemaps identified 16 newly appeared wallets showing similar funding sources, receiving comparable amounts of SOL, having no prior transaction history, and executing large PIPPIN withdrawals from centralized exchanges, with activity clustered on Solana and consistent patterns across addresses; another linked set of 11 wallets holds approximately 9% of total supply, with fund flows and time windows highly consistent and suspected to be controlled by the same entity. BlockBeats reminded users that meme coins typically have no real use cases and exhibit significant volatility, advising investors to exercise caution.

Visa is allowing settlement of certain transactions in Circle-issued USDC stablecoins on the Solana blockchain for its U.S. payments network, according to Bloomberg, as cited by Wu Blockchain. Cross River Bank and Lead Bank are among the first financial institutions to adopt the service.

Perp DEX aggregator vooi will open airdrop claims at 8:00 p.m. Beijing time on Dec. 18, according to its Dec. 16 announcement. Eligible participants include trading points holders, V1 early users and Cookie campaign winners, with the snapshot taken at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on Dec. 8 and a 30-day claiming window. Vooi disclosed the total token supply is 1 billion, allocated as follows: 10.53% to airdrops and community sale, 27.82% to community growth and marketing including a second-season airdrop, 17% to community contributors, 13.65% to the private round and strategic investors, and 31% to the project foundation.