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At the Blockchain Association Policy Summit, U.S. Senators Gillibrand and Lummis stated that the "Crypto Market Structure Bill" is expected to have its draft released by the end of this week, with revisions and hearings scheduled for next week. The bill aims to establish clear boundaries for digital assets by adopting a classification-based regulatory framework, clearly distinguishing between digital commodities and digital securities, and providing a pathway for exemptions for mature blockchains to ensure that regulation does not stifle technological progress. The bill also requires digital commodity trading platforms to register with the CFTC and establishes a joint advisory committee to prevent regulatory gaps or overlapping oversight. Summary generated by Mars AI. The accuracy and completeness of this summary, generated by the Mars AI model, is still being iteratively updated.
Boosted by expectations of further easing from the Federal Reserve, gold has risen for four consecutive days. Technical indicators show strong bullish signals, but there remains one more hurdle before reaching a new all-time high.
Against the backdrop of relatively accommodative expectations in both China and the US, which suppress asset downside volatility, and with extreme fear and capital sentiment not yet fully recovered, ETH remains in a favorable "buy zone."
- 11:53The "TIME Magazine 2025 Person of the Year Cover" betting event on Polymarket has concluded, with AI being selected and attracting over $55 million in funds.According to ChainCatcher, based on information from the Polymarket website, the "TIME Magazine 2025 Cover" betting event has concluded, with AI becoming the annual cover. Ultimately, this betting event attracted over 55.28 million USD in funds, with nearly 4 million USD wagered on AI and other options. The final winner took all and received the reward from the betting pool.
- 11:41Grvt launches Builder Codes, officially opening its ZK-powered trading infrastructure to developersAccording to ChainCatcher, Builder Codes enables developers to build custom terminals, tools, and applications based on Grvt, and earn continuous revenue from order flow. This allows Grvt to focus on the underlying matching and settlement system, while ecosystem teams can innovate in parallel on the same technical foundation. Based on ZKsync Atlas, Grvt provides developers with a unified liquidity environment featuring higher performance and lower costs. The first batch of partners includes professional terminal Tealstreet and institutional-grade OEMS Tread.fi, among others.
- 11:41The 171st Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developers Meeting Confirms Glamsterdam Upgrade Will Retain Trust Payment Function and Remove FOCILAccording to ChainCatcher, based on Christine Kim's summary of the 171st Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDC), the meeting mainly discussed retaining trusted payments as a component of the embedded proposer-builder separation (ePBS) in the Glamsterdam upgrade, while officially removing the Fork Choice Inclusion List (FOCIL) feature. In addition, the Fusaka upgrade was successfully launched on the mainnet on December 3, and the subsequent blob parameter hard fork was smoothly activated on December 9, with the network operating stably. The meeting also discussed proposals such as EIP 7688, 8061, and 8080, and plans to begin planning the Heka upgrade in January next year, while considering changing its star name to one that meets the standards of the International Astronomical Union.