Uniswap vote, U.S. GDP: Crypto Week Ahead

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It's a quiet, foreshortened week in the run-up to the year-end holidays, with little scheduled for crypto specifically.

The standout event is the Uniswap vote on a governance proposal called UNIfication. If passed, the proposal will activate protocol fees, burn 100 million UNI tokens from the treasury and bring Uniswap Labs and Uniswap Foundation into closer operational alignment. The vote, which has already started, ends on Thursday. Early results show overwhelming support for the changes. Uniswap is the largest decentralized exchange on the Ethereum blockchain.

On the economic front, third-quarter U.S. GDP and a second estimate for the PCE inflation are due to be released.

What to Watch

• Crypto
  • Dec.22, 11 p.m.: SAHARA$0.02684 end-of-year AMA on X.
• Macro
  • Dec.22, 8:30 a.m.: Canada Nov. PPI YoY (Prev. 6%), MoM Est. 0.3%.
  • Dec. 23, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Oct. Durable Goods Orders MoM (Prev. 0.5%), Ex. Transport MoM (Prev. 0.6%), Ex. Defense MoM (Prev. 0.1%).
  • Dec. 23, 8:30 a.m. U.S. Q3 PCE Prices QoQ (2nd estimate). Headline (Prev. 2.1%), Core (Prev. 2.6%).
  • Dec. 23, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Q3 GDP (initial estimate) (Prev. 3.8%).
  • Dec. 23, 10 a.m.: Dec. CB Consumer Confidence (Prev. 88.7).
  • Dec. 24, 7 a.m.: Mexico Unemployment Rate (Prev. 2.6%).
  • Dec. 24, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Jobless Claims. Initial — for week ended Dec. 20 — (Prev. 224K); Continuing — for week ended Dec. 13 — (Prev. 1897K).
• Earnings (Estimates based on FactSet data)
  • Nothing scheduled.

Token Events

• Governance votes & calls
  • BNB Chain is voting to reduce the number of consecutive blocks a validator produces from 16 to 8. This adjustment aims to prevent large chain reorganizations and prioritize network stability. Voting ends Dec. 22.
  • Axie Infinity is voting to stake the Community Treasury's idle assets to earn compounding protocol rewards. Voting ends Dec. 22.
  • Moonwell DAO is voting to switch the rETH oracle on Base and OP Mainnet to a stable exchange-rate feed and use 2.6 ETH from reserves to repay bad debt. Voting ends Dec. 22.
  • CoW DAO is voting to renew its Grants Program for 2026. The proposal improves capital efficiency via quarterly fund releases and focuses on developer onboarding, ecosystem alignment, and novel protocol applications. Voting ends Dec. 22.
  • Yearn DAO is voting to rotate multisig signers (YIP-89) and enact a yETH recovery plan (YIP-90) that utilizes Treasury yield, a 10% revenue redirect, and forfeited claims to repay users. Voting ends Dec. 23.
  • GMX DAO is voting to seed the new GMX-Solana deployment with $400,000 USDC, using half to buy GMX tokens to create a balanced initial liquidity pool. Voting ends Dec. 23.
  • The Sandbox DAO is voting to select one of five artists to create a commissioned NFT artwork for the DAO's collection, awarding the winner an 8,000–12,000 USDC grant from the existing SIP-26 budget. Voting ends Dec. 24.
  • Uniswap DAO is voting to activate protocol fees to burn UNI, retroactively burn 100 million treasury tokens, and consolidate ecosystem growth under Uniswap Labs with a 20 million UNI annual budget. Voting ends Dec. 25.
• Unlocks
  • Dec. 24: Plasma XPL$0.1321 to unlock 4.52% of its circulating supply worth $11.47 million.
  • Dec. 28: JUP$0.1953 to unlock 1.73% of its circulating supply worth $10.03 million.
  • Dec. 29: HYPE$24.97 to unlock 2.59% of its circulating supply worth $240.5 million.
• Token Launches
  • Dec. 22: River’s S2 Airdrop claim period ends.
  • Dec. 22: Solstice’s presale of SLX starts.
  • Dec. 24: GOAT$0.03256 to be delisted from BitMEX.
  • Dec. 28: AltLayer’s EIGEN Airdrop Phase 2 for reALT stakers or holders period ends.

Conferences

• Nothing scheduled.

• As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
• GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
• Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.

• Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer said Hut 8’s $7 billion, 15-year Fluidstack lease at River Bend underscores its shift toward institutional-grade digital infrastructure.
• Google’s payment backstop and expansion/renewal options could see the potential contract value rising to about $17.7 billion, according to Palmer.
• Palmer raised his Hut 8 price target to $85 from $78 and reiterated his buy rating on the stock.

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