Binance Alpha will open a new round of airdrop claims at 21:00 Beijing time on Dec. 23 for users holding at least 225 Binance Alpha points, BlockBeats reports citing an official announcement. Claims will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis until the airdrop pool is fully distributed or the campaign ends.

DBS Bank received 2,000 ETH from market maker GSR about one hour ago on December 23, The Data Nerd reports. Over the past two days, DBS Bank has received a total of 4,400 ETH from GSR, valued at approximately 1320 万美元. The 2,000 ETH transfer was worth around 593 万美元.

Implied volatility for Bitcoin and Ethereum has fallen since last week, with Bitcoin IV down over 5% in the past month and over 10% in short- and mid-term tenors, Greeks.live data show. Ethereum IV declined by a larger margin. Over 50% of options positions are set to expire on Dec. 23 during Christmas week, pointing to two weeks of low volatility.

Bitcoin recorded net outflows of $333 million while USDC saw net inflows of $168 million over the past 24 hours, Coinglass data cited by BlockBeats show. Other tokens posting inflows included FDUSD ($7.72 million), LTC ($6.09 million), PAXG ($3.33 million), and XAUT ($3.06 million). Outflows were also recorded for ETH ($81.56 million), XRP ($60.06 million), ZEC ($16.67 million), and USDE ($14.13 million).

On December 23, Ethereum derivatives whale address pension-usdt.eth reduced its long position by 5,180.87 ETH about 5 hours ago, realizing a $230,000 profit, and rebuilt the position back to 30,000 ETH within the past hour, on-chain analyst Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa) reports. The address trimmed its position in the $3,002.6–$3,019 range and re-added longs between $2,954 and $2,964, completing an intraday swing trade while remaining among the top 3 ETH long positions on Hyperliquid. The current position is valued at $88.9M with an average entry of $2,967.88 per ETH, an unrealized loss of $128,000, and total account profit of $25.13M.

MacSync Stealer has significantly advanced on macOS with user assets already stolen, 23pds said on Dec. 23, BlockBeats reports. The new build no longer requires Terminal steps and is distributed as zk-call-messenger-installer-3.9.2-lts.dmg, a code-signed, Apple-notarized Swift app under developer team ID GNJLS3UYZ4, with hashes not revoked at analysis time. A Swift helper fetches and executes encoded scripts from a remote server, while the unusually large DMG contains LibreOffice-related PDFs as decoys. The malware targets browser data, account credentials and crypto wallet information.

Centralized exchanges recorded a combined net outflow of 15,200 ETH over the past 24 hours on Dec. 23, Coinglass data show. Binance led outflows with 26,300 ETH withdrawn, followed by Bybit with 2,616.43 ETH and Gate with 1,334.72 ETH. Kraken saw the largest net inflow during the period, receiving 13,300 ETH.

An address identified as linked to BlackRock completed the acquisition of 4,534 Ethereum (ETH) and 45.379 Bitcoin (BTC) on December 23, as indicated by on-chain data. Following these transactions, the address's total holdings in digital assets have reached an aggregate value of $79.127 billion.

As Christmas approached on December 23, crypto liquidity thinned, with Bitcoin range-bound while gold hit record highs, according to QCP. BTC perpetual open interest fell about $3 billion overnight and ETH OI dropped roughly $2 billion, signaling de-leveraging rather than renewed risk-taking. QCP warned this liquidity contraction raises the risk of holiday volatility, with Bitcoin historically swinging 5%–7% during Christmas week. This risk is heightened by the expiry of about 300,000 BTC options worth $23.7 billion and 446,000 IBIT options later this week.