BC Card completed a stablecoin payment pilot on Dec. 23, enabling foreign users to pay local merchants, BlockBeats reports. The pilot, run with Wavebridge, Aaron Group and Global Money Express, allows users to convert stablecoins from overseas wallets into BC Card digital prepaid cards.

Wintermute said in a Dec. 23 market report that Bitcoin's market dominance has moved higher as market structure tightened ahead of the holidays. Internal flow data show major cryptocurrencies are seeing stronger buying interest than selling, with BTC displaying a longer and more stable period of buyer advantage and ETH showing increased year-end buying activity. Institutional flows have been a consistent source of net buying since summer, while retail traders have started rotating out of altcoins and back into major tokens, aligning with the view that BTC tends to lead gains before a subsequent move into altcoins.

U.S.-listed AI data center company Hyperscale Data increased its Bitcoin treasury allocation to approximately $76 million on Dec. 23, PR Newswire reports. Its wholly owned subsidiary Sentinum holds 514.9655 BTC, and the company will deploy an additional $30.5 million to purchase Bitcoin on the open market, targeting a treasury value of $100 million.

Binance Alpha will open a new round of airdrop claims at 21:00 Beijing time on Dec. 23 for users holding at least 225 Binance Alpha points, BlockBeats reports citing an official announcement. Claims will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis until the airdrop pool is fully distributed or the campaign ends.

DBS Bank received 2,000 ETH from market maker GSR about one hour ago on December 23, The Data Nerd reports. Over the past two days, DBS Bank has received a total of 4,400 ETH from GSR, valued at approximately 1320 万美元. The 2,000 ETH transfer was worth around 593 万美元.

Implied volatility for Bitcoin and Ethereum has fallen since last week, with Bitcoin IV down over 5% in the past month and over 10% in short- and mid-term tenors, Greeks.live data show. Ethereum IV declined by a larger margin. Over 50% of options positions are set to expire on Dec. 23 during Christmas week, pointing to two weeks of low volatility.

Bitcoin recorded net outflows of $333 million while USDC saw net inflows of $168 million over the past 24 hours, Coinglass data cited by BlockBeats show. Other tokens posting inflows included FDUSD ($7.72 million), LTC ($6.09 million), PAXG ($3.33 million), and XAUT ($3.06 million). Outflows were also recorded for ETH ($81.56 million), XRP ($60.06 million), ZEC ($16.67 million), and USDE ($14.13 million).

On December 23, Ethereum derivatives whale address pension-usdt.eth reduced its long position by 5,180.87 ETH about 5 hours ago, realizing a $230,000 profit, and rebuilt the position back to 30,000 ETH within the past hour, on-chain analyst Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa) reports. The address trimmed its position in the $3,002.6–$3,019 range and re-added longs between $2,954 and $2,964, completing an intraday swing trade while remaining among the top 3 ETH long positions on Hyperliquid. The current position is valued at $88.9M with an average entry of $2,967.88 per ETH, an unrealized loss of $128,000, and total account profit of $25.13M.

MacSync Stealer has significantly advanced on macOS with user assets already stolen, 23pds said on Dec. 23, BlockBeats reports. The new build no longer requires Terminal steps and is distributed as zk-call-messenger-installer-3.9.2-lts.dmg, a code-signed, Apple-notarized Swift app under developer team ID GNJLS3UYZ4, with hashes not revoked at analysis time. A Swift helper fetches and executes encoded scripts from a remote server, while the unusually large DMG contains LibreOffice-related PDFs as decoys. The malware targets browser data, account credentials and crypto wallet information.