Key Market Intelligence for December 9th, how much did you miss?
Top News
1. NFT Market Sees Another "Golden Dog," Regular Animals See Multiple Trades Surpassing $35,000
3. Zcash Privacy Narrative Shaken, Arkham De-Anonymizes Over Half of Its Transactions
4. SOL On-Chain Meme Coin Franklin24 Surges 160% in 24 Hours
Featured Articles
1. "Crypto Tycoons Spending Eight-Figure Sums on Security Each Year, Fearing Blue War Non-Encounter"
Travel blogger Blue War Non, with over 20 million fans on TikTok, was robbed. In recent years, from France to the UAE, from the U.S. to South America, kidnapping cases involving cryptocurrency holders have been on the rise. Assets not dependent on banks, easily transferable on the go, combined with the "digitally staggering" wealth of crypto tycoons, have made them the top targets for certain criminal groups, rather than just "random victims." This also explains why the security budgets of crypto tycoons are shocking even to traditional enterprises.
2. "Exclusive Interview with Solstice Founder: Reshaping Yield on Solana from First Principles"
At the end of November 2025, Solstice Staking partnered with the Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network (LTIN), Swiss crypto finance giant Bitcoin Suisse, and decentralized staking protocol Obol to launch an institutional-grade Ethereum Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) cluster. This seemingly technical collaboration hides a grander ambition behind it. On the same day, Kamino, a DeFi platform in the Solana ecosystem, announced the launch of the PT-USX token on Solstice Market, offering a 16.5% fixed yield. At this time, Solstice's Total Value Locked (TVL) had surpassed $3.2 billion, with over 26,000 holders and 131,000 monthly active users.
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Weekly On-chain Fund Flows for December 9th

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