What to watch next week｜LayerZero decides whether to turn on the “fee switch”; Aligned airdrop registration ends (12.23-12.29)

Next weeks highlights

December 23

Aligned will airdrop 26% of ALIGN to 891,322 addresses. Airdrop users must register before December 23 .

December 24

Pump Science Roadmap: New partners announced Dec. 24 ;

December 25

Binance delists AKRO, BLZ, and WRX ;

December 27

LayerZero’s vote on activating the “fee switch” will end on December 27 at 8:00 am ;

December 28

Sophon released the mining migration timeline, and mainnet mining will be open on December 28 .

From December 23 to December 29, more noteworthy events in the industry are previewed below.

December 23

South Korean crypto exchange Aprobit announces suspension of operations, last withdrawal date is December 23

Odaily Planet Daily reported that South Korean crypto exchange Aprobit announced its closure and will stop trading on September 23. Withdrawals will be available until December 23. Aprobit said: Due to changes in the business environment, we have decided to terminate trading support. We will do our best to ensure that all users will not experience any inconvenience in returning the assets they deposited in the exchange even after the trading support ends.

It is reported that only half of the 22 crypto market exchanges registered as virtual asset operators in South Korea are currently operating.

Solanas first global online AI hackathon will end on December 23

Solanas first global online AI hackathon was held from December 10th to 23rd, with a prize of US$185,000. It included 6 tracks about AI agents. The main track AI Agent product is supported by ai16z and the Solana Foundation. The remaining tracks include: building infrastructure or frameworks for AI agents, building DeFi agents that can interact with the Solana DeFi protocol and manage positions, building tools for artificial intelligence agents to launch and manage token liquidity, building artificial intelligence agents for spot trading, building chat-based agents, and establishing public-facing agents.

Aligned will airdrop 26% of ALIGN to 891,322 addresses. Airdrop users must register before December 23.

Odaily Planet Daily News Aligned Foundation officially announced that it will airdrop 26% of ALIGN tokens to 891,322 addresses. The specific airdrop targets are holders of STRK, MINA, ZK, POL, SCR, TAIKO, EIGEN and other tokens, and users must hold the corresponding tokens when they are at their historical lowest price, but the minimum holding requirement has not been disclosed. Addresses that meet the airdrop qualifications must be registered before December 23.

Earlier news, the Aligned Foundation has announced the economic model of the token ALIGN. The total supply of ALIGN is 10 billion, and the initial circulation is 3 billion (30%), most of which will flow to the community.  

Telegrams gamification ecosystem rewards platform Timon will start mining next Monday

Odaily Planet Daily reported that the mining function of Telegrams gamification ecological reward platform Timon will be launched next Monday. The first batch of whitelists will be issued on the Timon side next Monday. Users can earn up to 20% annualized returns by completing tasks. The early experience whitelist of this function will be issued on the Timon side.

December 24

Pump Science Roadmap: New partners announced on December 24, plans to start URO and RIF mouse experiments in January next year

Odaily Planet Daily News Pump Science recently released a roadmap on X, the main contents include:

The partnership will be announced on December 24 to prepare for mouse experiments and protocol development;

Mouse experiments with URO and RIF will be launched on January 25, 2025;

A new compound will be launched on February 25th in partnership with VitaDAO;

Supplement pre-orders and the marketplace will launch on March 25;

Decentralized human trials will begin on April 25, and decentralized compounds will be launched;

More related experiments will be conducted on May 25th.

December 25

Binance will delist AKRO, BLZ, and WRX on December 25

Odaily Planet Daily News According to the official announcement, Binance will delist and stop all AKRO, BLZ, and WRX spot trading pairs at 03:00 (UTC) on December 25, 2024. The specific delisted trading pairs include AKRO/USDT, BLZ/BTC, BLZ/USDT, and WRX/USDT. All related trading orders will be automatically removed after the trading is stopped. After 03:00 (UTC) on December 26, 2024, the recharge of these tokens will no longer be counted in the account. After 03:00 (UTC) on February 25, 2025, Binance will no longer support the withdrawal of these tokens. (This newsletter is generated by AI)

December 26

Scallops 1 million SCA airdrop will be distributed on December 26

According to official news from Odaily Planet Daily, Sui Ecological Lending Protocol Scallop will launch an airdrop event during Christmas from December 14 to 26. Users only need to borrow at least $1,000 in assets/hold 1,000 veSCA to qualify for the airdrop. The total amount of airdrop is 1 million SCA, and the airdrop issuance date is December 26. At present, Scallop TVL has reached a high of $195 million, and the total borrowing amount has reached $90 million.

December 27

LayerZero voting to activate the “fee switch” will end on December 27 at 8:00

Odaily Planet Daily News LayerZeros vote on activating the fee switch ended at 8:00 on December 27. The vote determines whether LayerZero will start charging a protocol fee for each message. The collected protocol fee is used to repurchase and destroy ZRO, reducing its circulation.

December 28  

Sophon releases mining migration timeline, mainnet mining will be open on December 28

Odaily Planet Daily reported the timeline of mining migration of the modular blockchain Sophon based on ZKsync. The L1 mining withdrawal window will be closed at 7:59 on December 27; all remaining assets will be automatically cross-chained to the Sophon mainnet on December 27, and the accumulation of SP points in the first phase will end; the mainnet mining will be opened on December 28.

December 29

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