According to data from Hyperbot, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily, the whale "pension-usdt.eth" closed all its short Bitcoin positions totaling approximately $88.8 million and then opened a 3x leveraged long Bitcoin position, with its position size exceeding $32 million at one point. However, this long position was closed out within about an hour. Subsequently, it opened another 3x leveraged BTC short position, with its current position size exceeding $31 million and an average entry price of $89,604.

Huoxun Finance News, December 15th - According to Bloomberg, HashKey, a licensed cryptocurrency exchange in Hong Kong, priced its IPO at HK$6.68 per share on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, close to the upper limit of the offering range (HK$5.95–6.95). A total of 240.6 million shares were offered, raising a total of HK$1.6 billion (approximately US$206 million). The top 20 institutional investors were allocated approximately 80% of the institutional shares, resulting in a high overall subscription multiple. The company will list on Wednesday, and the funds raised will be used for expanding technology, recruiting talent, and strengthening risk control.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov proposed at the Curve DAO governance forum to allocate 17.45 million CRV tokens (worth approximately $6.6 million) as funding to support the ecosystem growth, research, and technology development of its parent company, Swiss Stake AG. The funds will support a range of technical and security enhancements to the Curve lending protocol and maintain its team of 25 contributors. Swiss Stake AG's goals for 2026 include launching and expanding a new version of its lending system, Llamalend, creating on-chain foreign exchange, and improving Curve's user interface. If the proposal is approved, Swiss Stake AG can stake a portion of its CRV to generate additional yield, but its IP will be released under an open-source license compatible with the Curve software repository.

According to Huoxun Finance on December 15th, OnchainLens monitoring revealed that a newly created wallet deposited $1.23 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a 2x leveraged short position in ZEC. Approximately $404,000 remains on-chain at this address, and it is expected that further injections into trading platforms will follow.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that both onshore and offshore RMB exchange rates against the US dollar have reached a 14-month high. According to data from China Foreign Exchange Trading System, the spot exchange rate of the RMB against the US dollar rose to a high of 7.0500 during trading, the first time it has touched the 7.05 mark since October 9, 2024. In the offshore market, according to Sina's quotes, the offshore RMB exchange rate against the US dollar rose to a high of 7.046 during trading on December 15, a new high since early October 2024. Regarding the central parity rate, the RMB against the US dollar was set at 7.0656 on December 15, a depreciation of 18 basis points. (Jinshi)