• Lighter launches LIT token.

• Zama goes live on Ethereum.

• Robinhood Token Stock activity.

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Lighter, an application-specific ZK rollup on Ethereum specializing in perpetuals, launched the Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT). Positioned as a bridge between TradFi and DeFi, LIT serves as the native utility and incentive token for the trading platform. 25% of the token supply was airdropped for season 1 and 2 points holders. Another 25% is allocated for future ecosystem incentives. The remaining 50% of LIT is reserved for the team and investors under a four-year vesting schedule. Lighter will direct product revenue towards the LIT token through buybacks and growth initiatives. In 2026, Lighter plans to further decentralize and integrate RWA products.

Zama Protocol, a confidentiality layer powered by Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), launched on Ethereum mainnet. It enables truly private smart contracts and transactions where data stays encrypted end-to-end, even during computation. Zama executed the first confidential stablecoin transfer (cUSDT) on Ethereum. Built as a privacy layer, the protocol allows any token or contract to be shielded into a confidential version. Zama unlocks private DeFi, compliant payments, and sealed auctions to public L1 and L2 blockchains. Zama leverages uses FHEVM for Solidity compatibility and heavy FHE operations, keeping gas low and verifiable.

Ethereum analytics tracker Growthepie highlighted that Robinhood's transaction volume on Arbitrum One has overtaken Ethereum Mainnet for the first time. In the last day, Robinhood processed 521 transactions on Arbitrum vs. 310 on Ethereum. Robinhood uses Arbitrum One for onchain rebalancing and settlement of over 1,900 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs. In the future, Robinhood plans to launch a dedicated L2 chain built on the Arbitrum tech stack to support tokenized RWAs and 24/7 trading.

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• BitMine unveils MAVAN solution.

• Bitget integrates Morpho.

• Trend Research is bullish on ETH.

• 58m Safe wallets created.

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Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. announced that it’s developing the Made in America Validator Network (MAVAN), a dedicated U.S.-based Ethereum staking solution scheduled to launch in Q1 2026. The network is projected to generate $374 million in annual staking yields once Bitmine fully stakes its ETH holdings. Bitmine currently maintains $1.2 billion in staked ETH. BitMine is the largest Ethereum treasury company globally with 4.1 million ETH, representing 3.41% of the total ETH supply. Additionally, the company holds a $23 million position in Eightco Holdings (ORBS), a treasury firm focused on accumulating Worldcoin (WLD).

Bitget, a top 10 global centralized crypto exchange, has integrated the Morpho lending protocol on Arbitrum directly into its exchange. Bitget users can now tap into high-yield onchain earn products for USDT and USDC. In the backend, Bitget automatically deploys assets onto Morpho and handles all gas fees. Users can deposit or redeem their funds at any time, with interest accruing instantly. To access the feature, Bitget users simply navigate to the earn section, select onchain earn, and choose their preferred stablecoin. The Morpho instance on Arbitrum One holds over $150 million in TVL.

Hong Kong-based investment firm Trend Research has purchased an additional 11,500 ETH, a move funded through DeFi leveraging. By supplying ETH as collateral on Aave, the firm has borrowed a total of $958 million in stablecoins to purchase ETH. Trend Research’s total holdings exceed 600,000 ETH, worth $1.9 billion. Jack Yi, a representative for the firm, coined the recent purchase as an act of "practicing what you preach," reaffirming their high-conviction stance on ETH. Trend Research has been aggressively accumulating ETH since the massive market liquidation event on October 10th.

Safe, the leading smart contract wallet provider, has achieved 18.3 million new smart accounts deployed in 2025 alone, with over half deployed on Worldchain. A new Safe was created every 1.7 seconds in 2025. Safe secures more than $60 billion in assets across 58 million Safe wallets.

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• Large token unlocks

• 2026 crypto predictions

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• Trust Wallet suffers an exploit.

• Aave DAO rejects an alignment proposal.

• Uniswap DAO approves UNIfication.

• Speedy Secure Finality paper released.

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A security vulnerability in the Trust Wallet browser extension version 2.68, released on December 24, 2025, resulted in over $6 million in drained funds across hundreds of wallets. The exploit is suspected to be a supply-chain compromise introduced in the recent update, although Trust Wallet has not confirmed the root cause. Trust Wallet is urging users of its browser extension v2.68 to immediately disable it and upgrade to v2.69 via the official Chrome Web Store. The issue is linked to seed phrase imports triggering the exfiltration of sensitive data, leading to immediate wallet drains on all chains. Mobile-only app users remain unaffected.

The Aave token alignment phase 1 proposal failed to gain approval from $AAVE token holders. Introduced by BGD Labs co-founder Ernesto Boado, the proposal sought to transfer control of the protocol’s offchain brand assets, including the aave.com domain, from Aave Labs. The proposal aimed to strengthen long-term alignment between the $AAVE token, protocol, and Aave Labs by addressing community concerns over value leakage, such as frontend revenue streams and swap fee diversions from the protocol to Aave Labs. The vote concluded with 55.29% of votes against the proposal.

Uniswap governance passed the UNIfication proposal with 98.82% approval, introducing the long-awaited Uniswap protocol fee switch and a UNI token burn mechanism. Following a two-day time lock, the proposal is set to execute onchain on December 27th, activating an immediate 100 million UNI token burn, worth $580 million. The activation enables protocol fees for Uniswap v2 and v3, disables the current Uniswap interface fee, and allocates 40 million UNI tokens toward a 2-year growth budget. Uniswap Foundation staff will also now work under Uniswap Labs.

Ethereum fellow Yash Saraswat and Abhimanyu Nag published a paper on Speedy Secure Finality (SSF), a framework to solve the 15-minute finality delay in the current Gasper protocol on Ethereum. The paper traces the evolution of protocols like Goldfish and RLMD-GHOST. The paper proposes 3-Slot Finality (3SF) as the most pragmatic solution to balance fast economic settlement with the constraints of Ethereum’s large validator set.

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