According to a chart released today by Matrixport, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily, in the previous cycle, Ethereum attracted incremental funds driven by expectations of smart contract platform ecosystem expansion and the narrative of "Programmable Money," propelling its price to new heights in 2020-2021. At the peak of sentiment in 2021, the market even anticipated a target of $10,000. However, the upward trend failed to continue. After retreating from its highs, Ethereum entered a long period of consolidation, generally trading within a large triangle pattern. Over the past few years, it has primarily exhibited range-bound trading with no clear trend. Structurally, the price attempted to break out of the range twice (once downward and once upward) but failed to sustain the move, quickly returning to the range. Until a direction is confirmed, the market will likely remain range-bound. The current triangle pattern is clearly converging, with the price action space continuously compressing, and the structure is nearing its end. As this long consolidation gradually completes, 2026 may become a crucial window for Ethereum to choose a direction and enter the next phase of its price movement.

According to the latest data from gonkascan.com, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily, Gonka's total network computing power has now exceeded 12,000 H100 equivalent GPUs, approaching the level of traditional large-scale AI computing centers. Over 9,000 high-memory GPUs (H100/H200, etc.) are used, with their proportion continuing to increase, dominating the network's effective computing power weight and enabling the network to stably support high-concurrency inference tasks for models with billions of parameters. The widespread participation of mid-to-high-end GPUs has also significantly lowered the barrier to entry for nodes; as long as the minimum memory requirements are met, they can participate in MLNode operation. Data shows that the Gonka network supports nearly 40 GPU models, covering data center-level computing power such as H200, H100, and A100, as well as professional and consumer-grade graphics cards such as RTX 6000 Ada, A6000, A40, and RTX 4090. This forms a multi-tiered, composable global computing power supply structure, demonstrating Gonka's highly compatible and efficient decentralized computing power path, providing a more open and flexible infrastructure support for AI inference and training. Meanwhile, the daily number of users of Gonka's five major AI inference models has exceeded 3,000, with inference demand maintaining high growth. Models represented by Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-FP8 have formed continuous, high-frequency, and stable calls on the Gonka network, and their usage pattern has clearly moved beyond the testing phase, approaching the early actual production workload of mainstream AI APIs. Gonka aims to efficiently integrate global GPU computing power in a decentralized manner, providing a permissionless infrastructure for AI inference and training. Incubated by US AI developer Product Science Inc., the founding team consists of the Libermans siblings, former core product leaders at Snap Inc. The project has raised over $69 million in total funding from investors including Coatue (an investor in OpenAI), Slow Ventures (an investor in Solana), Bitfury, K5, Insight, and partners at Benchmark.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Lighter announced the launch of its token LIT today and completed its airdrop. Based on Eastern Time, the probability of a "Lighter airdrop on December 30th" on Polymarket is as high as 95%. However, the exact airdrop date is still within Polymarket's UMA dispute resolution period. A user submitted a dispute to the UMA oracle, arguing that the "Lighter airdrop on December 29th" result should be "yes," as the airdrop occurred within an hour of December 29th and December 30th. This may have caused the dispute. Odaily notes that Polymarket relies on the UMA oracle to determine the outcome of events. After an event occurs, anyone can report the result to UMA. There is a dispute period after the report is submitted, during which anyone who believes the report is incorrect can raise a dispute. If there is no dispute, the report results will be accepted; if there is a dispute, UMA's dispute resolution mechanism will determine the final result. The dispute resolution method involves UMA token holders voting to determine the correct result. UMA will incentivize honest behavior and punish malicious behavior.

According to an article published on the X platform by Simon Gerovich, Metaplanet purchased 4,279 BTC in the fourth quarter of 2025 at a price of approximately $105,400 each, for a total value of $451 million. Year-to-date, the company's BTC return has reached 568.2%. As of December 30, 2025, Metaplanet will hold 35,102 BTC, with a total purchase cost of approximately $3.78 billion and an average purchase price of approximately $107,600.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Gate founder Dr. Han released an open letter titled "Web3 Is About to Change Everyone's Life" at the end of 2025. In Dr. Han's view, a truly mature Web3 doesn't mean forcing users to face more complex technology choices, but rather liberating individuals' freedom in asset management and value flow through secure and compliant operations and user-friendly product design. In 2025, Gate will continue to prioritize its reserve mechanism, providing users with a more verifiable security foundation through a total reserve value of $11.676 billion, a reserve ratio of 124%, and transparent disclosure covering nearly 500 assets. Meanwhile, in 2025, Gate continued its compliance efforts in major markets such as Dubai, Europe, Australia, and the United States. Gate Technology FZE obtained a full operating license from the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA); Gate Technology Ltd obtained a MiCA license from the Malta Financial Services Authority, authorizing it to provide cryptocurrency trading and custody services; and Gate US obtained 32 state-level licenses, covering 43 US jurisdictions. Previously, Gate Group also completed the acquisition of a licensed exchange in Japan. This continuously improving compliance framework allows users to focus on long-term asset allocation and independent decision-making without being distracted by platform risks. At the product level, Gate integrates trading, on-chain wealth management, asset management, and payment capabilities, reducing system fragmentation and operational friction, allowing users to seamlessly use the platform across different scenarios without needing to understand complex technical details. Dr. Han stated that in 2026, Gate hopes to work with the entire industry to turn this freedom from a concept into reality.