Ethereum News. Dec 16, 2025

JP Morgan announced they’ll launch their first ever tokenized money fund, MONY, on Ethereum

Coinbase plans to announce System update on Dec 17, 2025

Matter labs launched a zk chain-as-a service network on zksync, zksync Managed Services, managed by ZKsync development team

Lido DAO votes to activate V3 on mainnet. This will upgrade Lido from a pooled staking module to a decentralized staking infrastructure and introduces stables allowing users to define their own validator set

BitMine now holds 4 million ETH, on the verge of achieving their long term goal of acquiring 6% of ETH supply at 6 million ETH

MetaMask now supports Bitcoin

Aave CEO Stani personally buys $10 million worth of Aave to be more aligned despite ongoing Aave, Aave DAO dispute

This won’t pull Aave down, they’ve been building relentlessly this year. Recently, they added support for borrowing and lending of MetaMask’s mUSD on their ETH and Linea Marketplace

MetaMask on the other hand added support for Polymarket on their MetaMask Mobile

Circle acquired Interop labs original team behind Axelar to accelerate their multi-chain infrastructure with Arc and CCTP. Common Prefix will take over from Interop to develop Axelar Network

Gaseless L2, Status Network announced pre deposit campaign debuting SNT and Linea vault deposits, ETH vault to open soon. Fees go fund builders, free transactions and yield to LPs

AI agent, Bankr swap goes live

Dev Ross builds gas prediction market in 10 days as requested by Vitalik

Zerion wallet launched Zerion Feed feature where content considered alpha are found powered by Clicker

Base rolled out Onchain Wrapped 2025 where builders, creators and traders can view their year stats powered by Talent Protocol