Crypto News. December 18, 2025

Hyperliquid Foundation submitted a proposal to remove ~$1 billion worth of HYPE from circulating supply

Ryan Watkins @RyanWatkins_

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Hyperliquid Foundation just proposed to burn all the $HYPE in the assistance fund. Would reduce FDV by $1B at current prices and circulating supply by 13%.

Coinbase still on its push to become the everything app launched a broad of products last night: Prediction markets via Kalshi, Stock Trading, full Solana dex integration via Jupiter, equity preps and futures and other range of products

Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase

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Stock trading. Rolling out on Coinbase in the U.S.

TylerD 🧙‍♂️ @Tyler_Did_It

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Coinbase products announced tonight: - Prediction markets - Stock trading - Equity perps and futures - Full DEX integration including millions of assets on Solana - Borrowing against BTC & ETH - New payment & money transfer features - AI-powered Coinbase Advisor - Coinbase

BNB chain announced plans to launch a new stablecoin

BNB Chain @BNBCHAIN

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A new stablecoin unifying liquidity across use cases, built for scale. Coming soon on BNB Chain 👀

The US Federal Reserve dropped its 2023 policy barring uninsured banks from Fed membership and crypto activities, replacing it with guidance that allows both insured and uninsured banks to pursue certain innovative activities.

Federal Reserve @federalreserve

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@federalreserve withdraws 2023 policy statement and issues new policy statement regarding the treatment of certain Board-supervised banks that facilitates responsible innovation:

K33 Research reported that about $300B in Dormant BTC went back into circulation in 2025

K33 Research @K33Research

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Activity stays low in the crypto market, with low volumes and modest open interest following another week of chop. Will rebalancing effects improve the momentum as we grind towards the end of 2025?

Aave founder Stani Kulechov released their multi-decade roadmap plan built on three pillars: Aave V4, Horizon, and the Aave App, to scale the Aave into DeFi’s foundational credit layer, targeting trillion dollars onchain, as yesterday the SEC concluded its investigation into the protocol.

Stani.eth @StaniKulechov

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Stani.eth @StaniKulechov

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After four years, we are finally ready to share that the SEC has concluded its investigation into the Aave Protocol. This process demanded significant effort and resources from our team, and from me personally as the founder, to protect Aave, its ecosystem, and DeFi more

Acting CFTC Chair, Caroline Pham will join MoonPay as Chief Legal and Administrative Officer

MoonPay 🟣 @moonpay

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BREAKING: Caroline D. Pham is MoonPay's new Chief Legal Officer & Chief Administrative Officer @CarolineDPham will guide our next chapter of growth + compliance excellence following the conclusion of her role as Acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Crypto wallet Exodus and MoonPay are launching a US-backed dollar stablecoin using M0 Infrastructure in early 2026

Exodus @exodus

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Exodus and MoonPay are launching a fully reserved, USD-backed digital dollar to make everyday payments fast and simple. Issued and managed by @moonpay using @m0 infrastructure, and built for Exodus Pay. Join the waitlist at exodus.com/pay

Yearn finance was exploited for $300k

Bennie 🟣 @benhwx

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Yearn ( @yearnfi ) has suffered an exploit, with an estimated loss of ~$300,000, and the attacker has already swapped the stolen funds into 103 ETH, now sitting at 0x78921ce8d0361193b0d34bc76800ef4754ba9151a1837492f17c559f23771c43. > The alert was flagged publicly by https://t.co/qmm4WIvWxa

yearn @yearnfi

We're aware of an issue with iEarn's immutable TUSD contract, deployed over 2100 days ago, unrelated to Yearn vaults. The problem is exclusive to iEarn and does not impact current Yearn contracts or vaults. The incident is similar to this 2023 iEarn USDT hack. https://t.co/osI43q2udb

Berachain liquidity layer, Kodiak announce upcoming ICO from 19-21 Dec

Kodiak @KodiakFi

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The moment we have all been waiting for... $KDK 12/23/2025

Tether rolled out PearPass, a peer-to-peer password manager that functions without cloud infrastructure

Tether @Tether_to

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Introducing🍐🔒 PearPass — the password manager that keeps your data on your devices. No servers to hack. No cloud to leak. Just pure local security. Follow @Pears_p2p & Download the App pass.pears.com/download/

OpenAI to raise $10B from Amazon

Kalshi @Kalshi

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JUST IN: OpenAI to raise $10 billion from Amazon