Venture firm a16z released its annual report on Dec. 11, showing stablecoin transaction volume reached $46 trillion in 2024—20 times PayPal's volume and nearly three times Visa's, BlockBeats reports. The report highlights ongoing tokenization of traditional assets, including U.S. stocks, commodities and indexes being brought on-chain via cryptographic technology. a16z projects that decentralized payment systems will see broad adoption by 2026 as AI and crypto converge.

Circle will launch Circle Gateway on Solana to enable instant cross-chain access to a unified USDC balance, co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire said at the Solana Breakpoint conference on Dec. 11, BlockBeats reports. The service aims to streamline USDC transfers across blockchain networks through the Solana platform.

Keel launched a $500 million "Tokenization Regatta" on Dec. 11 to attract tokenized-asset issuers through competition, CoinDesk reports. Selected projects will receive funding to issue risk-weighted assets on Solana. More than 40 institutions have expressed interest, and first-phase applications open Thursday with two tracks for issuers targeting early 2026 deployment or still building infrastructure.

Anza chief economist Max Resnick said Solana reached 100,000 TPS in May on a live network, not a testnet or whitepaper, BlockBeats reports. Speaking at Solana Breakpoint on Dec. 11, Resnick said proprietary market makers have tightened spreads and SOL-USD volume is three times Binance's.

Coinbase notified users by email on December 11 that starting December 15, only paying subscribers to its Coinbase One service will continue to receive around 3.5% annualized rewards on USDC deposits, while standard non-paying users will no longer earn yield on their USDC, DL News reports citing BlockBeats. Coinbase had previously offered roughly 2%–3.5% USDC rewards in different regions, a program funded by the exchange itself to encourage users to hold USDC on its platform.

Solana's per-block compute cap is set to reach 100 million compute units in early 2025, Jito CEO buffalu said at Solana Breakpoint on Dec. 11, BlockBeats reports. The cap stood at 48 million earlier this year before rising to 50 million and then 60 million. TPS has increased sixfold over the past few years.

Multicoin co-founder and Forward Industries (FORD) board chair Kyle Samani said at the Solana Breakpoint conference on December 11 that ACE (Application-Controlled Execution) will let developers define custom transaction ordering rules while maintaining a single global system with one shared liquidity pool. ACE is part of Solana's "internet capital markets" roadmap targeted for July 2025, granting smart contracts millisecond-level control over transaction sequencing. The design aims to combine traditional finance microstructure with blockchain scalability to reduce fragmentation in DeFi, Samani said.

Ethereum's key support level stands at $2,770, based on realized price distribution data, an analyst said on Dec. 11, citing Glassnode data. BlockBeats reports the level was identified using Glassnode's realized price distribution metric.

Galaxy founder and CEO Mike Novogratz described Solana as a high-speed network built for capital markets at Solana Breakpoint on Dec. 11, BlockBeats reports. He said clearer regulation is pushing the industry to build products people actually use, and noted Galaxy works with Jump based on Solana's high-frequency infrastructure capabilities. Novogratz added a Galaxy client executed a Bitcoin sale valued at $9 billion this year as early investors took partial profits to diversify while new entrants kept buying Bitcoin, and said recent meetings at Abu Dhabi Finance Week reinforced his optimism linked to engagement from leading global investors.