PANews reported on December 23 that Binance Futures will launch pre-market trading of LITUSDT perpetual contracts at 23:00 Beijing time on December 23, 2025, with a maximum leverage of 5x. LITUSDT perpetual contracts are built on Ethereum, with the underlying asset being Lighter Protocol (LIT). This protocol focuses on perpetual contract trading, employing zero-knowledge aggregation technology to reduce latency and provide instant final confirmation. The total supply of LIT is 1 billion, the settlement asset is USDT, and funding fees are settled every four hours.

BlockBeats news, December 23, Gnosis Chain community operators announced they will execute a hard fork to recover funds lost in the Balancer hack. The funds are currently out of the hacker's control, and all remaining node operators must take corresponding actions to avoid penalties.On November 3, the well-known DeFi protocol Balancer was hacked for over $120 million.

BlockBeats news, December 23, according to market data, precious metals continue their upward trend, with spot gold currently quoted at $4,489.6 per ounce, hitting a record high 50 times this year, with an annual gain exceeding 70%. Spot silver broke through $70 per ounce today, reaching a new all-time high, with an annual increase of approximately 135%. Wall Street independent investment research firm Yardeni Research today raised its gold price target for next year, lifting the year-end 2026 target to $6,000, and still expects gold to reach $10,000 by the end of 2029.Additionally, after China announced new gold tax policies in November 2025, which raised the cost of consumer gold, upstream tax burdens for non-investment gold (such as jewelry) increased by about 7%, leading to a short-term rise in retail gold prices. The pricing method at Shenzhen Shuibei, China's largest wholesale market for gold jewelry, has also undergone multiple adjustments, no longer distinguishing between 'investment gold' and 'jewelry gold'.

BlockBeats 消息，12 月 23 日，Binance 将于 12 月 23 日 23：00（UTC+8）上线 Lighter（LIT）U 本位永续合约盘前交易。

PANews reported on December 23 that, according to ai_9684xtpa monitoring, a whale that spent $38.16 million to build a position in WBTC at $85,754.65 in the past month has recently begun reducing its holdings. Four hours ago, this whale deposited 195 WBTC (approximately $17.05 million) into Binance. Combined with the deposit made three weeks ago, this suggests a total sale of 245 WBTC, with an estimated profit of $325,000 if sold. Currently, the whale still holds 200 WBTC, with a floating profit of approximately $389,000. During this period, the price of WBTC reached a high of $94,555.

PANews reported on December 23 that Binance Wallet announced the second wave of the Audiera (BEAT) airdrop rewards has begun. Users with at least 225 Binance Alpha Points can claim 9 BEAT tokens on a first-come, first-served basis. If the reward pool is not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes. According to previous reports, the Binance Alpha airdrop will begin at 21:00 today, with a minimum requirement of 225 Alpha points .

BlockBeats news, on December 23, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) monitoring, a whale that spent $38.16 million over the past month to build a position in WBTC at an average price of $85,754.65 is reducing its holdings, having deposited 195 WBTC (approximately $17.05 million) to Binance 4 hours ago.Over the past three weeks, this whale has likely sold 245 WBTC, with a profit of $325,000 if sold. The remaining 200 WBTC still have an unrealized gain of $389,000, during which the token price once rose to a high of $94,555.

PANews reported on December 23 that Bybit Alpha and Byreal now support direct trading of the on-chain token $PUMPv2. Users can quickly trade simply by logging into Bybit Alpha, without needing a separate wallet, and track the market price of popular tokens in real time. Byreal is a DEX (decentralized exchange) built on Solana, which achieves stable transaction execution and efficient liquidity market making experience through refined liquidity distribution and fast on-chain confirmation mechanism.

BlockBeats news, December 23, Binance Alpha conducted the second round of Audiera (BEAT) airdrop distribution. Users with at least 225 Alpha points can claim an airdrop of 9 BEAT tokens on a first-come, first-served basis. If the reward pool is not fully distributed, the point threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Alpha points.

BlockBeats news, December 23, Ethereum founder Vitalik responded to community questions regarding "why Ethereum still imposes a contract size limit": due to DoS risk considerations. After Ethereum's state structure is upgraded to a unified binary tree (EIP-7864), it is expected to achieve unlimited contract size, but issues such as gas fees and mechanism design for deploying extremely large contracts still need to be resolved. Currently, based on per-byte creation costs, the practical contract limit is approximately 82KB.