「BTC OG Insider Whale」 has incurred an overall unrealized loss of over $73 million, with only an unrealized loss of $64.28 million on ETH long positions.

December 18: Per Hyperinsight data, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" has once again expanded its Ethereum long position. As of press time, its 5x leveraged ETH long position has grown to 196,300 coins, with the position’s value reaching $5.61 billion and a liquidation price of $2,108. Additionally, the whale’s total long position now stands at roughly $679 million, carrying an unrealized loss of $69.14 million.

On December 18, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams took to social media to announce that the protocol’s **Fee Switch Proposal** has entered its final governance voting phase. Voting kicks off at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time on December 19 and wraps up on December 25. If approved, a 2-day timelock will precede two critical actions: burning 1 billion UNI tokens, and activating fee switches for Uniswap v2 and v3 on mainnet. This will launch ongoing UNI token burns and Unichain fee-related initiatives.

On December 18th, per Onchain Lens data, the Bhutanese government staked 320 ETH via Figment. Before this development, Bhutan was migrating its national identity system from Polygon to Ethereum.

On December 18, on-chain analyst AI Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reported that three addresses believed to belong to the same whale entity have redeemed assets from Lido and Eigenlayer over the past 4 hours, then swapped those assets for ETH. The addresses subsequently transferred 7,653 ETH—valued at $21.62 million—to the same Binance deposit address. These ETH were accumulated at an average price of $2,476 between May 2023 and July 2025. If sold, the move would realize a profit of $2.668 million, though that profit has retraced nearly 69% from ETH’s peak value.

Binance Alpha will list RateX (RTX) on December 19, per an official announcement released December 18. Eligible users can claim the airdrop using Alpha Points on the Alpha Events page once trading goes live. More details will be shared soon.

**December 18 – Ray Dalio, billionaire and founder of Bridgewater Associates, announced yesterday he will match $250 in donations for every child in Connecticut.** Previously, Michael Dell and his wife donated $250 each to children under 10 via the "Trump Accounts" initiative. In response, Elon Musk noted the Dell family’s act was certainly generous—but argued there will be no poverty in the future, so saving money will be unnecessary. Musk has previously advocated for universal high incomes and firmly believes future AI and robotics will eliminate the need for human labor. Trump Accounts are a new child investment account established under the 2025 "Working Families Tax Cuts" Act signed by former President Donald Trump. The accounts aim to provide long-term savings and investment opportunities for U.S. children to build wealth.