What Happened on Dec. 22nd｜Two Top Associates of SBF Plead Guilty

DeFi

• Neutrino releases the $USDN resolution plan.
• Uniswap community votes to approve the proposal regarding the community governance process changes.
• DEX aggregator OpenOcean adds support for Aptos.

CeFi

• OKX will enable margin trading and list perpetual for $BNB on December 23rd.
• The Reserve Bank of India's governor: Private cryptocurrencies will cause the next financial crisis, should be banned.

Infrastructure

• Polygon zkEVM launches the second testnet.
• Optimism's Goerli testnet will migrate to Bedrock on January 12th.
• UMA oracle will release UMA 2.0 in 2023 with the introduction of $UMA staking.

Metaverse & NFTs

• Blur extends the claim period for its Airdrop 2 to January 3rd.
• Australian federal court bars developer Kotiota from releasing unsanctioned Pokémon-branded NFTs.
• National Geographic will launch NFT on Polygon next January.
• GameFi platform Honor World is launched on Arbitrum One.

Policy & Regulation

• SEC Chairman: SEC's top priority remains crypto industry rules processing.
• Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang plead guilty to federal charges.