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BlockBeats 消息，12 月 26 日，中国人民银行近日发布《人民币跨境支付系统业务规则》（银发〔2025〕248 号），将于 2026 年 2 月 1 日起施行，替代 2018 年版规则。该通知明确将「数字货币研究所」列为通知对象之一，与国家开发银行、各商业银行、清算总中心等机构并列。

新规明确了人民币跨境支付系统 (CIPS) 的运营架构和业务处理流程，规定 CIPS 应支持混合结算模式，包括实时全额结算和定时净额结算，并能够支持「人民币付款、人民币对外币同步交收（PvP）、券款对付（DvP）结算、中央对手集中清算和其他跨境人民币交易结算等业务」。

BlockBeats news, December 26, trader Eugene Ng Ah Sio posted on his personal channel that he has gone long on Bitcoin and some small-cap altcoins. Now almost everyone is on holiday, even the big sharks are watching without biting much, (Bitcoin) price has not effectively broken below $84,000. The entire market's trading volume has completely collapsed, and sellers are quite exhausted.

As long as there are a few big buyers entering the market, the thin order book will be easily torn apart. "The upside potential for going long below $90,000 is quite good, with clear stop-loss levels. I would rather test the waters here now than hesitate and be at a loss when it comes to $95,000 or even $100,000. Additionally, historically, January is usually a month of high volatility; I bet that as December ends, this volatility will return in some form."

BlockBeats news, December 26, iGold Advisor Chief Analyst and Founder Christopher Aaron stated that the fourth significant turning point of the Dow to Gold ratio has arrived. This signal indicates that gold is set for several years of sustained increases, while holders of industrial stocks such as the Dow and S&P 500 may face years of losses.

Note: The Dow to Gold ratio refers to the number of ounces of gold required to purchase one share of each of the 30 constituent stocks of the Dow. Based on the average data from the previous three critical turning points in history (1930–1933, 1968–1980, 2002–2011), the Dow is expected to decline by 90.5% relative to gold over a period of 9.3 years.

BlockBeats news, on December 26, according to official news, Binance Wallet will distribute the Binance Alpha airdrop today at 21:00 (UTC+8).

Users holding at least 240 Alpha points can claim the token airdrop. First come, first served. Until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event ends. Specific details will be announced separately.

BlockBeats News, December 26, Trust Wallet officially stated that approximately $7 million has been confirmed to be affected, and the team will ensure that all impacted users receive refunds. Providing support to affected users is the team's top priority, and the team is actively improving the refund process.

Additionally, the team urges users of the affected browser extension v2.68 to follow the steps below as soon as possible:

Step 1: Please do not open the Trust Wallet browser extension v2.68 on desktop devices to ensure wallet safety and prevent other issues.

BlockBeats news, on December 26, according to GMGN's monitoring, at 9 AM today, a top address (H4s6) holding the Meme coin "67" on the Solana chain sold all of its 20.1 million holdings in a short time, causing the price of "67" to flash crash, rapidly falling 74% from $0.019 to a low of $0.005, now rebounding to around $0.014.

This address previously used $514,000 to build a position at an average price of about $0.0246. Due to the continuous decline in coin price, it ultimately liquidated at an average price of $0.0107, realizing a loss of about $290,000, with a loss rate of 56.1%. During this selling process, the address quickly broke through all buy orders in the range of $0.005 to $0.019, exiting rapidly.

BlockBeats message, December 26, the Lighter team announced that its perpetual and spot trading zk circuits have completed auditing and are officially open source. The team has released the complete verification code, allowing external independent verification of every order, cancellation, and liquidation operation of Lighter L2 on Ethereum to confirm their authenticity and validity. Developers can build the ZkLighterVerifier using the script generated on GitHub and perform consistency checks with the deployed contracts on Ethereum.

BlockBeats news, on December 26, Greeks live macro researcher @BTC__options stated that today is the annual options settlement day, and also the largest cryptocurrency options expiration day in history, with a total nominal value of about 28 billion U.S. dollars. Among them, Bitcoin (BTC) has 267,000 options expiring, with a Put/Call ratio of 0.35, the maximum pain price at 95,000 U.S. dollars, with a nominal value of about 23.6 billion U.S. dollars; Ethereum (ETH) has 1.28 million options expiring, with a Put/Call ratio of 0.45, the maximum pain price at 3,100 U.S. dollars, with a nominal value of about 3.71 billion U.S. dollars.

Today, more than half of the options have been settled. Before the settlement, the volume and trading proportion of large options transactions have continued to rise, mainly due to the demand for position shifting; after the settlement, the quarterly options expiring in March account for the largest position, making up more than 30% of the total positions, mainly consisting of out-of-the-money call options.

BlockBeats news, on December 26, according to monitoring data from Arkham, about five minutes ago, a whale "0x2a42" withdrew 87,659 LINK from Binance, worth approximately 1.08 million USD. Over the past two days, this whale has withdrawn a total of 234,979 LINK from Binance, worth approximately 2.9 million USD.

Recently, whales are suspected to be accumulating LINK. Previously, a whale "0xEC7B" has withdrawn a total of 469,437 LINK from Binance over the past two days, worth 5.77 million USD.

BlockBeats news, December 26, according to Reuters, Russian President Putin revealed to a businessman at a late-night meeting on December 24 that Russia might be open to exchanging controlled parts of Ukrainian territory, but he requested the entire Donbas region.

Putin also mentioned the management issues of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant at the meeting, stating that discussions are ongoing about joint management by the US and Russia. In addition, Putin revealed that the US side has expressed interest in conducting cryptocurrency mining near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and that the plant should be used to supply some electricity to Ukraine.

BlockBeats message, on December 26, according to Coinglass data, the total nominal amount of forced liquidations across the network in 2025 is approximately $154.64 billion, corresponding to a daily average of about $400–500 million in regular leveraged reshuffling.

On most trading days, the scale of long and short liquidations remains in the range of tens of millions to several hundred million dollars, mainly reflecting daily margin adjustments and short-term position liquidations in a high-leverage environment, with limited medium- to long-term impacts on price and structure. The truly systemic pressure is concentrated in a few extreme event windows, with the de-leveraging event from October 10 to October 11 being the most typical.

BlockBeats news, on December 26, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, approaching the massive options expiration, 'Maji' has net increased its positions by 525 ETH long positions in nearly 16 hours, closing BTC long positions. As of the time of publication, it holds:

Ethereum 25x long positions, with a holding amount of 8000, liquidation price 2870 US dollars;

HYPE 10x long positions, with a holding amount of 8000.

BlockBeats news, on December 26, Kalshi CEO and co-founder Tarek Mansour stated on platform X that the first Prediction Market Conference is planned to be held in March 2026. At that time, researchers, economists, policymakers, and traders will discuss core issues surrounding prediction markets and knowledge aggregation.

Original title: (Between Risk and Hope: ETH Cali and the Colombian Ethereum Community)

Original source: ShanhaiWoo

Cali, Colombia, the capital of salsa dance, is also the birthplace and growth place of ETH Cali. Here lies a comprehensive offshore industrial and service park, Zonamerica, where an innovative ecosystem, an active entrepreneurial community, and tax incentives for resident companies have attracted ETH Cali to establish here. In addition to office areas, Universidad del Valle (Valley University) and Universidad ICESI (ICESI University), located within five kilometers of Zonamerica, have also become important hubs for ETH Cali to hold events and connect with the student community.

BlockBeats news, on December 26, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale deposited 3 million TRUMP tokens worth 14.88 million dollars into Binance after holding them for about 50 days, incurring a loss of 7.8 million dollars. The whale's initial purchase cost was 22.68 million dollars.

BlockBeats news, on December 26, at 16:00, Bitcoin will迎来 the largest options expiration day in history, with approximately 300,000 BTC options contracts (nominal value of about 23.7 billion USD) expiring. The total expiration scale of BTC and ETH options today is 28.5 billion USD, double that of the same period last year.

Previously, multiple analysts expected that the market volatility would significantly amplify after this options expiration.

In addition, reviewing the 'epic' options delivery market trend records from previous years, the market often welcomes a one-sided trend acceleration after the delivery.

BlockBeats news, on December 26, according to analyst Specter, the largest loss wallet in the Trust Wallet hacker incident that occurred this morning lost assets worth approximately 3.5 million dollars, and that address has been dormant for a year. The second largest loss wallet lost 1.4 million dollars in assets, which had been dormant for more than two years before being attacked.

Previously reported, the Trust Wallet hacker stole over 6 million dollars in crypto assets this morning and has transferred over 4 million dollars to CEX.

BlockBeats message, on December 26, according to HyperInsight monitoring, the number of whale long positions for BTC and ETH on Hyperliquid has significantly decreased recently. Currently, the long and short forces of BTC whales are roughly equal, while the number of ETH short positions has doubled compared to longs. Currently, there are about 122 BTC long whales and 116 shorts; for ETH, there are about 58 long whales and 113 shorts.

Compared to the data from October 14 this year, the number of BTC long whales has decreased by nearly half from 234 over the past two months, while the short positions at that time were about 125, showing relatively limited change.

According to a report from BlockBeats, on December 26, based on records from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons, former co-CEO of Alameda Research Caroline Ellison will be released from federal prison on January 21, 2026. Caroline Ellison had previously been transferred from a Connecticut prison to home confinement in October.

On December 20, the U.S. SEC issued a lawsuit notice stating that former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is still serving time in federal prison for fraud, while former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and other executives have agreed to a settlement that still requires court approval. Other executives who signed the settlement agreement include former CTO of FTX Trading Zixiao Wang and former co-chief engineer of FTX Nishad Singh. (The Block)

Original title: Entering the Wave of Stablecoins for Six Years, He Saw the Prototype of Future Payments

Original author: Sleepy.txt, Dynamic Observation Beating

This year is destined to be recorded in financial history as the 'Year of Stablecoins', and the current commotion may just be the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface lies a current that has been surging for six years.

In 2019, when Facebook's stablecoin project Libra detonated like a deep-water bomb awakening the traditional financial sector, Raj Parekh was at the eye of the storm at Visa.

As the head of Visa's cryptocurrency department, Raj experienced firsthand the psychological shift of this traditional financial giant from observing to entering the arena, a moment of non-consensus.