Key Market Insights for December 18th, How Much Did You Miss Out On?
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1. Latest US CPI and Unemployment Data to Be Released Tonight at 9:30 PM
2. Chinese Meme Coins on BSC Chain Buck the Trend with "Hakimi" Seeing a 20% Surge in 24 Hours
3. Buidlpad Launches Yield Product Offering 8% APY
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Over the past 24 hours, the cryptocurrency market has shown continuous evolution on multiple fronts. Mainstream discussions focus on major platform upgrades and the compliant expansion of prediction markets, while institutions continue to advance their positioning in on-chain payments and security infrastructure. In terms of ecosystem development, Solana reinforces security and liquidity access, Ethereum L2 accelerates application deployment, and the Perp DEX sector maintains intense competition in new features and governance dynamics.
2.《Why Are Crypto Projects Being Acquired Without Taking the Tokens Now?》
Early morning the day before yesterday, the Interop Labs team (the initial developers of the Axelar Network) announced their acquisition by Circle to accelerate the development of their multi-chain infrastructure Arc and CCTP. In theory, getting acquired is a good thing. However, the Interop Labs team's further elaboration in the same Twitter thread caused quite a stir. They stated that the Axelar Network, Foundation, and AXL token will continue to operate independently, and their development work will be taken over by CommonPrefix.
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On-chain Funds Movement on December 18

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