As 2025 comes to an end, project activity has slowed, with fewer partnerships, developments, and major announcements. Market volatility has eased over the past few days. 

Let’s review the latest updates heading into the new year, including prediction markets news, postponed TGEs, legal and policy changes, and more.

Users earn XP from spending, upgrades, and referrals, with card-tier multipliers and all past XP applied retroactively. Tria enabled card top-ups from self-custodied Bitcoin for global Visa/Mastercard spending.

Tria raised $12M in Pre-Seed & Strategic funding led by P2 Ventures (Polygon) and Aptos.

Forbes highlights that clearer U.S. regulation is accelerating the shift of stablecoins toward institution-grade infrastructure, supporting demand for USD-backed assets despite broader crypto market volatility.

Read the full article on Forbes, featuring insights from CertiK CEO Prof. Ronghui Gu.

Crypto markets continue to show elevated volatility, with one potential driver being the $23B Bitcoin options expiry scheduled for next week.

Despite the ongoing pullback, builders remain active. The prediction markets narrative is gaining momentum, marked by a wave of fundraising rounds, doubling valuations, and multiple public testnet and mainnet launches. Let’s break down the most important market updates from the past 48 hours.

Users can now deposit and withdraw TRX and USDT on TRON, with international access via connected exchanges. With $24B+ daily volume and $80B+ USDT in circulation, TRON adds major liquidity to Kalshi.

Recently, Kalshi raised $1B at an $11B valuation, more than doubling its value in under two months, backed by Sequoia, a16z, Paradigm, and others.

Prediction markets are gaining momentum following major fundraising rounds by Polymarket (~$9B) and Kashi (~$11B). The sector now processes billions in weekly volume, signaling strong demand for decentralized forecasting.

The new BNB ecosystem entrants introduce AI integration, ROI & listing forecasts, API access, and reward mechanisms, enabling predictions across crypto, politics, economics, and entertainment.

Oriole Insights is a gamified prediction platform that goes beyond traditional Polymarket-style polls, offering ROI & Up/Down markets powered by deeper collective intelligence around major launches.

The testnet introduces ORI on-chain, allowing deposits and withdrawals via MetaMask on BNB Testnet. To date, Oriole Insights has processed an over 500K predictions and 60K+ registrations.

RLUSD has adopted Wormhole’s NTT standard to enable native multichain issuance across Layer 2 networks, starting with Base, Optimism, Ink, and Unichain. 

The Wormhole's NTT removes the need for wrapped assets or fragmented liquidity, allowing a single canonical version of RLUSD to exist natively on each chain while Ripple retains control of the token contracts.

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Five institutional-grade Nest vaults are launching with nBASIS, nOPAL, nTBILL, nWisdom, and nAlpha assets, providing exposure to on-chain credit, U.S. Treasuries, and short-term receivables.

With Loopscale, users can leverage “RWA looping” to borrow and redeposit assets, boosting yields. The launch strengthens Plume’s multichain presence as Solana’s RWA market nears $1B.