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According to The Block, the European Union has officially launched a public assessment and consultation on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), evaluating the framework's applicability in the context of the rapid evolution of digital assets, and is open for industry and public feedback until August 31.This assessment covers the core regulatory framework of MiCA, including key regulatory areas such as crypto asset issuance, asset-referenced tokens (ART), electronic money tokens (EMT), and crypto asset service providers (CASP). The EU's consultation is divided into two paths: an open call for public opinions and a technical consultation aimed at financial institutions, regulators, and industry organizations.The European Commission stated that this move is driven by the ongoing evolution of the global digital asset market and the competitive pressure brought about by the rapid advancement of crypto regulation in the U.S. and Asia. Meanwhile, the transitional period for MiCA will end in July 2026, at which point crypto companies will need to obtain full compliance authorization.Recently, Zerohash has become the first company to simultaneously obtain both the MiCA CASP license and the Dutch electronic money institution license, and Poland has just passed its local MiCA implementation bill. The head of Coinbase's European policy stated that MiCA has established early global standards but should undergo "targeted optimization" to balance regulatory safety and international competitiveness.The European Commission also supports centralizing the regulatory authority over large cross-border crypto institutions to ESMA to strengthen the unified regulatory framework.

Bitget officially announces the launch of the global community event "Fan Story Collection." From now until May 20, users can post images or videos on platforms such as X, Telegram, Reddit, LinkedIn, or Discord to share their real experiences using Bitget and their panoramic trading feelings with UEX. The content must include the hashtag #BitgetFanStory and be submitted through the official form to participate in the event. Participants can use AI tools to assist in image generation or video editing, and submissions should be based on real experiences.This event aims to showcase the growth journey of users on the Bitget platform, covering diverse groups such as early participants, long-term traders, and community contributors. The prize pool uses a dynamic growth mechanism, expanding the prize pool every time 500 new participants join, with a maximum limit of 100,000 USDT. All winners will also receive exclusive merchandise from the Bitget Fan Club.

On the X platform, "on-chain detective" ZachXBT pointed out that certain law firms in the United States are using their investigative work and on-chain forensic results to help victims of hacking incidents file legal claims, but this practice may actually affect the victims' ability to receive compensation or recover funds.In previous hacking incidents involving the Lazarus Group, these law firms typically intervene only after their on-chain fund tracking or freezing is completed, and propose follow-up legal actions that are weakly related to the crypto incidents themselves. They have also employed similar strategies for "free-riding claims" in incidents involving Harmony, Bybit, and others. ZachXBT also called for the crypto community to establish a DAO to resist such behavior.

Binance Wallet announced that it will open the Alpha airdrop claim at 17:00 today. Users holding at least 227 Binance Alpha points can claim the token airdrop. Claim 715 AIGENSYN tokens airdrop on the Alpha event page, first come, first served.If the event has not ended, the score threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every five minutes.

Since the new system was launched by the Korean National Tax Service in July 2025, 33.9 billion won in unpaid taxes has been recovered through cross-border tax cooperation over the past nine months, accounting for most of the total amount recovered cross-border since 2015.Reports indicate that starting next year, South Korea will receive virtual asset transaction data from 56 countries based on a new cryptocurrency reporting framework, and plans to exchange information on overseas real estate holdings and transactions starting in 2030.

According to the official announcement, Binance Wallet stated that it will open the Binance Alpha airdrop for collection today at 17:00.This event uses the updated Binance Alpha blind box (Alpha Box) model, and the airdrop pool includes tokens from multiple projects. Users with at least 228 Binance Alpha points can claim a token reward on a first-come, first-served basis. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points.In addition, this airdrop has three reward tiers: Common (80% of the reward pool), Rare (15%), and Ultra Rare (5%), with each tier corresponding to different values of the Alpha blind boxes. Users will be assigned to one of the tiers when claiming, and rewards will be distributed according to the proportion of each tier. If the rewards are not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.

According to the official announcement, Binance Wallet stated that it will open the Binance Alpha airdrop collection today at 17:00.This event uses the updated Binance Alpha Box model, and the airdrop fund pool includes tokens from multiple projects. Users with at least 242 Binance Alpha points can claim a token reward on a first-come, first-served basis. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points.In addition, this airdrop has three reward tiers: Common (80% of the reward pool), Rare (15%), and Ultra Rare (5%), with each tier corresponding to different Alpha Box values. Users will be assigned to one of the above tiers when claiming. Rewards will be distributed according to these tier proportions. If the rewards are not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.

Binance Wallet announced on platform X that the GENIUS airdrop claim time has been extended to start at 11 PM.

According to the official announcement from Binance Wallet, users holding at least 242 Binance Alpha Points can start claiming tokens on a first-come, first-served basis from today at 12:30 (UTC, approximately 20:30 Beijing time) until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event expires.

The robotics startup Axis Robotics announced that in an experiment codenamed "The Rose of the Little Prince," it mobilized 12,000 users worldwide to complete the crowdsourced collection of 10,000 high-quality trajectory data points within 5 days through its self-developed browser-based platform. This experiment demonstrated that robotic intelligence can be constructed outside of traditional, expensive laboratory environments, achieving data scale explosion through public participation.Leveraging the MetaSim architecture, Axis Robotics has created an end-to-end pipeline from task setup to real machine deployment, decoupling complex physical simulations from lightweight web interactions to ensure that the collected data has deep processing capabilities. The platform enhances data diversity through cross-simulation replay technology, replaying high-frequency physical data from MuJoCo in Isaac Sim and performing large-scale domain randomization.Currently, the official team has successfully achieved real machine reproduction on the Franka robotic arm based on this batch of data provided by ordinary internet users, validating the feasibility of this data collection model in industrial implementation.

Bitget launches the "New Year Collect Nine Blessings" event. During the event, users who complete registration will randomly receive an airdrop reward of 1 to 188 USDT, with a limited quota of 5,000 spots. Participating users can earn "Nine Blessing Fragments" after completing designated tasks such as achieving a contract trading volume of no less than 1 USDT. The fragments are randomly distributed and categorized into different rarities: common, ordinary, rare, epic, and legendary. Users can gift fragments to friends, with a limit of 20 exchanges per account. Collecting fragments can unlock rewards of 1,888 USDT and physical gifts such as Hermès scarves, Maotai from the Year of the Horse, and Zhou Dasheng gold pieces.In addition, users who collect all 9 "New Year Nine Blessings" fragments can participate in sharing a prize pool of 100,000 USDT, with a guaranteed minimum reward of 8,888 USDT per user. The event is now live on the official platform, and users must click "Join Now" to complete registration before participating. This event ends on February 24 at 10:00 (UTC+8).

Vitalik.eth posted on the X platform that the simplicity of protocols is an important aspect of trustlessness, through exit testing, and autonomy. Even if the degree of decentralization is very high, if a protocol becomes bloated due to hundreds of thousands of lines of code or complex cryptography, it will ultimately fail.Vitalik Buterin's concern about the development of the Ethereum protocol is that over-adding new features to meet specific needs can undermine long-term autonomy. To address the issue of protocol bloat over time due to backward compatibility, the Ethereum development process needs clear simplification and garbage collection mechanisms. Simplification standards include minimizing the number of lines of code, avoiding unnecessary dependencies on complex technical components, and adding more invariants. Garbage collection can be done in a piecemeal or large-scale manner, such as replacing PoW with PoS, or downgrading low-frequency complex functions to smart contract code through Rosetta-style backward compatibility. Vitalik Buterin hopes that the pace of Ethereum's transformation can slow down in the long run and strives to prevent unnecessary parts from becoming a permanent burden on the protocol.

Stable release announcement states that the second phase (Phase 2) of its Pre-Deposit Program has officially ended, and eligible users can now claim the related funds. All users who received allocations in Phase 2 can claim their distributed funds through the Merkl dashboard and apply for USDT0 on the Stable platform.In addition, users with overflow refunds can also complete their claims through the Merkl dashboard. Users who were not approved to participate in Phase 2 can withdraw their deposited USDC at any time through the Stable app or directly from the underlying smart contract.

According to the RootData calendar page, next week includes several important news items such as project updates, macroeconomic news, token unlocks, incentive activities, and presale events. Details are as follows:December 15:Yala promises to provide a follow-up plan for YU's de-pegging before December 15;The start time for the Aster third phase airdrop claim is December 15;Binance Wallet will stop supporting ARC-20 assets;CYBER unlocks 3,527,200 tokens, worth $2,842,100, accounting for 6.427% of the circulation;Taiko Season 6 Trailblazers will end on December 15;Federal Reserve Governor Mylan will give a speech;FOMC permanent voting member and New York Fed President Williams will speak on the economic outlook.December 16:ARB unlocks 123,527,800 tokens, worth $26,455,600, accounting for 2.197% of the circulation;Daylight announces the official launch of GRID Games, with DayFi pre-deposit starting on December 16 (1pm UTC);VANA unlocks 1,619,500 tokens, worth $4,647,900, accounting for 5.263% of the circulation;U.S. November unemployment rate;U.S. November seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls (in ten thousand).December 17:Coinbase may release an important announcement on December 17;ZK unlocks 173,144,700 tokens, worth $5,378,900, accounting for 2.020% of the circulation;Eurozone November CPI year-on-year final value.December 18:QAI unlocks 250,000 tokens, worth $22,662,500, accounting for 204.655% of the circulation;Eurozone deposit facility rate as of December 18;Eurozone main refinancing rate as of December 18;U.S. November unadjusted CPI year-on-year;U.S. November seasonally adjusted CPI month-on-month;U.S. November seasonally adjusted core CPI month-on-month;U.S. November unadjusted core CPI year-on-year.December 19:ZKJ unlocks 18,055,600 tokens, worth $795,000, accounting for 4.496% of the circulation;Japan's November core CPI year-on-year;Japan's central bank target rate as of December 19;U.S. December one-year inflation expectation final value;Bank of Japan announces interest rate decision;Bank of Japan Governor Ueda Kazuo holds a monetary policy press conference.December 20:ZRO unlocks 25,708,300 tokens, worth $39,076,700, accounting for 12.659% of the circulation;KAITO unlocks 2,858,300 tokens, worth $1,746,600, accounting for 1.184%.Additionally, there is a share button at the top of the RootData calendar page that allows users to select important events for sharing.Risk Warning: This calendar does not constitute any investment advice.

Binance Alpha reminds users to prepare for today's airdrop claim event, which starts at 16:00 today (UTC+8, corresponding to 8:00 UTC).During the event, users holding at least 252 Binance Alpha points can claim the token airdrop on a first-come, first-served basis until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event expires.The official announcement states that specific airdrop token information and more details will be released later, and users can follow Binance's official channels for the latest updates.

Binance Alpha will conduct an airdrop today at 20:00 (UTC+8). Users with at least 240 Alpha points can claim tokens on a first-come, first-served basis until the airdrop pool is fully distributed or the airdrop event ends. More details will be announced soon.Users are advised to update the App to the latest version (3.4.0 or above) before November 21, 2025, 8:00 (UTC+8). Older versions will not be able to participate in subsequent Alpha activities.

ChainCatcher news, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao expressed his views on social media regarding the Chinese name collection activity for the YZi Labs global incubation program EASY Residency Phase 1 project APRO oracle: "What does APRO mean in English? It should tell the story behind the name; I guess it means a skilled person, that is, A PRO," which sparked heated discussions in the community.Previously, Zhao stated that he had just quickly reviewed more than twenty entrepreneurial projects in the prediction market category on the BNB Chain and felt that the oracle track based on prediction markets might be worth trying.

ChainCatcher message, the robot track pioneer project OpenMind has launched FABRIC Network and Badge Collection. This deployment introduces an innovative on-chain trust layer for human-machine collaboration, facilitating on-chain synergy between humans and robots. So far, over 180,000 users and thousands of robots have participated in map building, testing, and development through the OpenMind APP and OM1 developer portal, marking a key step in human-machine collaboration on the chain.At the same time, OpenMind, as a cross-disciplinary project in AI, blockchain, and robotics, enhances community engagement and collaboration efficiency by linking with research platforms such as Surf and Kaito AI. Surf provides real-time analysis of industry data through AI, offering insights with its unique model algorithms and multi-agent framework to deliver precise analysis of robotic ecosystem development trends for OpenMind community members. Kaito has launched the OpenMind Leaderboard and has separately launched the Robotics Leaderboard section for the robot track.