Uniswap’s Unification proposal has been approved through a governance vote, leading to the planned burn of 100 million UNI tokens, activation of protocol fee switches, and removal of frontend fees following a two-day timelock, according to Cointelegraph. The vote consolidates previously discussed protocol mechanisms from Uniswap’s community forums and changes the decentralized exchange’s token economics and revenue distribution structure.

A trader known as the "BTC OG insider whale" holds SOL long positions worth about $61.57M after 2,683.68 SOL long orders were fully filled on Dec. 26 at an average entry of $130.19, on-chain analyst Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa) reports. The whale's overall portfolio is valued at $740M, with total unrealized losses reaching $58.04M. The positions include BTC longs worth $87M opened at $91,506.7 and ETH longs worth $590M opened at $3,147.39.

Wintermute founder Evgeny Gaevoy said the firm will vote against a recent Aave governance proposal, citing concerns over token value accrual and a lack of detail on frontend governance, according to crypto news outlet Wu Blockchain. Gaevoy noted that Wintermute has been an AAVE investor since 2022 and is an active participant in the protocol’s governance. Aave is a major decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol.

BTC OG insider whale added 207,316.32 SOL long positions on Dec. 25, valued at $25.498 million, BlockBeats and Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa) report. Limit buy orders for 2,683.68 SOL remain pending between $122.74 and $123.01. The whale's SOL position stands at $63.06 million, with total holdings of $754 million and unrealized losses of $43.32 million, primarily from ETH at $37.33 million.

An unidentified crypto whale withdrew 5,500 Ethereum worth about $16.09 million from OKX on December 25, according to on-chain analyst Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa). Since December 5, the whale has withdrawn a total of 34,415.46 ETH—around $107 million—at an average cost of $3,131.11, currently showing an unrealized loss of about $7.16 million. The sustained withdrawals suggest long-term accumulation or potential OTC activity.

Ethereum developers are planning major network upgrades in 2026, including a Glamsterdam fork that would introduce parallel processing and increase the gas limit from 60 million to 200 million, with validators shifting to zero-knowledge proof validation to target 10,000 transactions per second on Layer 1, Wu Blockchain reported. According to the report, a subsequent Heze-Bogota fork is intended to improve privacy, censorship resistance and decentralization. These planned changes are described as part of Ethereum’s broader scaling roadmap following the Dencun upgrade.

Ethereum whales bought about 220,000 ETH worth roughly $660 million over the past week, according to on-chain data cited by BlockBeats and analyst @alicharts on December 25. The accumulation highlights rising confidence among large holders and is widely viewed as a potential bullish signal for ETH, drawing close attention from market participants.

Infinex reduced its INX token sale to $5 million and lowered the fully diluted valuation to $99.99 million on Dec. 25, BlockBeats reports. The sale will offer 5% of the token supply, down from an initial $15 million raise at a $300 million FDV that included a one-year lock; user registration opens Dec. 27 and the sale starts Jan. 3 on Echo's Sonar, with an additional 2% allocated to Uniswap CCA. Founder Kain Warwick said on social media the adjustment reflects market sentiment and aims to keep pricing attractive and aligned with participants.