Coinbase will launch MERL (Merlin Chain) perpetual contracts, with the launch date on December 18. If liquidity conditions are met, the MERL-PERP trading market will open at or after 9:30 AM UTC in regions that support trading.

according to "New Consumption Daily," JD.com's digital collectibles platform "Lingxi" announced the opening of the transfer function. It declared that starting from December 15, newly issued digital assets will officially open transfer services, while the opening time for existing assets is to be determined. This move came just one day after Lingxi began its public beta, quickly sparking heated discussions in the digital collectibles community.

As early as December 2021, JD.com's digital art collectibles issuance platform "Lingxi" had launched a JD APP mini program. The first batch of digital art collectibles, designed based on JD's mascot "Joy," was officially put on sale. However, with tightening policies, Lingxi, which did not open secondary trading, once tended to "halt."

Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model forecasts the US third quarter GDP growth rate at 3.5%, previously estimated at 3.6%.

according to the AXIOS website, OpenAI has revealed for the first time that GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to assist scientific research in real laboratory environments, meaning that artificial intelligence is expected to play a more central role in scientific experiments. Although AI has made rapid progress in fields such as mathematics and physics, major breakthroughs in biology have been relatively slow because biology relies heavily on real-world laboratory work, not just computational simulations. OpenAI has partnered with biosafety startup Red Queen Bio to build a testing framework to evaluate AI models' performance in laboratories. The laboratories involve "wet" operations such as liquids, chemicals, and biological samples, to distinguish them from "dry" labs that focus mainly on data analysis. In the experiments, GPT-5 proposed improvements to the molecular cloning experimental process; after human scientists executed them, the results were fed back to GPT-5, which iteratively optimized the plan based on the feedback. The experimental results showed that GPT-5 improved the efficiency of a standard molecular cloning process by 79 times.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles made a series of frank and sometimes critical remarks about President Trump's inner circle in an interview with Vanity Fair, including calling Musk an "openly self-admitted" "ketamine user." She also referred to Vice President Pence as a "conspiracy theorist," the Director of the Office of Management and Budget Vought as an "extreme right-wing fanatic," and criticized Attorney General Barr's handling of the "Epstein files." On Tuesday, the White House quickly tried to downplay the impact of the interview, with Wiles posting on social media that it was a "maliciously defamatory article" that "ignored important context." White House Press Secretary Psaki expressed support for Wiles, saying that Trump "has no greater or more loyal advisor than Susie."

 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ended its four-year investigation into the Aave protocol. The founder of Aave stated that the team invested significant resources to respond to the SEC's investigation.

 market shows BTC breaking through $88,000, currently at $88,002.21, a 24-hour increase of 1.34%. The market is highly volatile, please manage your risk accordingly.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) announced on the X platform that SOL, Micro SOL, XRP, and Micro XRP futures now support the TAS (Trading at Settlement) trading feature, enhancing traders' flexibility in settlement risk management. It is reported that TAS (Trading at Settlement) is a futures trading method that allows traders to buy and sell at the daily closing settlement price or prices near it, used for precise hedging and reducing settlement risk.

Castle Investment founder Ken Griffin stated that Trump has actually identified a suitable candidate for the Federal Reserve Chair, but he refused to disclose specific information and reiterated that it is important for the White House to maintain distance from the Federal Reserve.

 Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, stated that the preliminary PMI data for December shows that recent economic growth is losing momentum. Although survey data indicates that the annualized GDP growth rate for the fourth quarter is about 2.5%, growth has slowed for two consecutive months. With new sales growth sharply slowing before the holiday season, economic activity may further slow entering 2026. Signs of economic weakness are also widespread, with a huge inflow of new service orders nearly stagnant, while factory orders have also declined for the first time in nearly a year. Although manufacturers continue to report output growth, the decline in sales indicates that the current production level is unsustainable unless demand recovers in the new year, production will need to be reduced. Service providers reported that sales growth in December was one of the slowest months since 2023.