Riot Platforms shares jumped over 14% on Friday after the firm agreed a 10-year data center lease with AMD worth at least $311 million and bought land in Texas for $96 million funded by selling 1,080 bitcoin. Galaxy Digital also secured approval for an 830 MW grid connection at its Helios site in Texas, supporting plans for up to 1.6 GW of capacity as mining stocks broadly outperformed other crypto-related equities.

Trump Media plans to issue a new blockchain-based rewards token to DJT shareholders in collaboration with Crypto.com, with allocations tied to investors' existing stock holdings. The company says the token will not represent equity, may be non-transferable and cannot be redeemed for cash, and could provide benefits or discounts linked to Trump Media products throughout the year.

On Tuesday evening, Hyper Foundation asked validators on Discord to vote on recognizing HYPE in Hyperliquid’s Assistance Fund as burned, effectively removing nearly $1 billion from circulating and total supply. The stake‑weighted vote remains open until Dec. 21 at 04:00 UTC, and the fund currently holds about 37 million HYPE, over 13% of a 270 million supply, according to The Block.

On Monday, MetaMask announced native Bitcoin support, enabling users to buy BTC with fiat, transfer it onchain and swap between BTC, EVM assets and SOL. The update follows earlier 2024 launches such as Solana integration, a Polymarket onramp, an mUSD stablecoin and in-app perps trading via Hyperliquid, and ties into MetaMask's upcoming MASK rewards program that includes over $30 million in LINEA incentives.

Coinbase has selected Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol as the exclusive bridge for its wrapped assets, including cbBTC, cbETH, cbDOGE, cbLTC, cbADA, and cbXRP. The token set is valued at about $7 billion. Launched in beta in 2023, CCIP is designed to streamline deployment of these assets to additional blockchains.

Lighter, an Ethereum-based decentralized perpetual exchange valued at $1.5 billion, introduced spot market trading starting with ETH on Thursday. The platform processed $292.5 billion in trading volume during November, becoming the highest-volume perpetuals protocol that month. Lighter plans to add additional spot markets in the coming days.

Aave's governance community is considering shutting down protocol deployments on three blockchain networks that have underperformed financially. The Aave Chan Initiative proposed in late November to deprecate instances on zkSync, Metis, and Soneium, citing revenues insufficient to justify operational costs and risk exposure. The proposal includes establishing a $2 million annual revenue minimum for future chain deployments.

Yearn Finance has recovered approximately $2.4 million following a Sunday exploit that drained roughly $9 million from its yETH pools. An attacker exploited an unchecked arithmetic vulnerability to mint an excessive quantity of yETH tokens, enabling liquidity extraction from the protocol's Curve-based stableswap pools. Recovery efforts remain ongoing, with collaboration from security firms SEAL 911 and ChainSecurity.

U.S. prediction market platform Kalshi has launched tokenized versions of thousands of its betting markets on the Solana blockchain. The integration introduces permissionless access to the platform's liquidity pool for developers, aiming to attract crypto-native users and intensify competition with blockchain-based rival Polymarket. Kalshi is collaborating with Solana protocols DFlow and Jupiter to bridge its off-chain orderbook to onchain infrastructure.