Uniswap Vote, US GDP: Crypto Week Ahead

It’s a quiet, shortened week in the run-up to the year-end, with little planned for crypto specifically.

The standout event is the Uniswap vote on a government proposal called UNification. If passed, the proposal would enable protocol fees, burn 100 million UNI tokens from the treasury and bring Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation into closer operational alignment. Voting, which has already started, will end on Thursday. Early results show overwhelming support for the changes. Uniswap is the largest decentralized exchange on the Ethereum blockchain.

On the economic front, third quarter US GDP and another estimate for PCE inflation will be released.

What to see

• Crypto
• Macro
  • 22 December at 8.30: Canada Nov. PPI YoY (Prev 6%), MoM Est. 0.3%.
  • 23 December at 08.30: Orders of durable goods in the US, Oct. MoM (previous 0.5%), ex. Transport MoM (previous 0.6%), Ex. Defense MoM (Previous 0.1%).
  • 23 December at 8:30 PCE prices for the third quarter in the US QoQ (2nd estimate). Header (previous 2.1%), core (previous 2.6%).
  • 23 December at 8:30 AM: US Q3 GDP (initial estimate) (previously 3.8%).
  • 23 December at 10: Dec. CB Consumer confidence (previously 88.7).
  • 24 December at 07.00: Unemployment in Mexico (Previous 2.6%).
  • December 24, at 8:30 am: US jobless claims. Preliminary – for week ended December 20 – (Prev 224K); Continued — for week ended December 13 — (Previous 1897K).
• Earnings (Estimated based on FactSet data)

Token Events

• Governance votes and calls
  • BNB Chain votes to reduce the number of consecutive blocks a validator produces from 16 to 8. This adjustment aims to prevent large chain realignments and prioritize network stability. Voting ends December 22.
  • Axie Infinity votes to stake the Community Treasury’s idle assets to earn composite protocol rewards. Voting ends December 22.
  • Moonwell DAO votes to switch the rETH oracle on Base and OP Mainnet to a stable exchange rate feed and use 2.6 ETH from reserves to repay bad debts. Voting ends December 22.
  • CoW DAO votes to renew its Grants program for 2026. The proposal improves capital efficiency via quarterly fund releases and focuses on developer onboarding, ecosystem adaptation and new protocol applications. Voting ends December 22.
  • Yearn DAO votes to rotate multisig signers (YIP-89) and adopt a yETH recovery plan (YIP-90) that uses Treasury dividends, a 10% redirect, and forfeited claims to refund users. Voting ends December 23.
  • The GMX DAO votes to start the new GMX-Solana implementation with $400,000 USDC, half of which is used to purchase GMX tokens to create a balanced initial liquidity pool. Voting ends December 23.
  • The Sandbox DAO votes to select one of five artists to create a commissioned piece of NFT artwork for the DAO’s collection, and awards the winner an 8,000-12,000 USDC grant from the existing SIP-26 budget. Voting ends December 24.
  • Uniswap DAO votes to enable protocol fees to burn UNI, retroactively burn 100 million treasury tokens and consolidate ecosystem growth under Uniswap Labs with an annual UNI budget of 20 million. Voting ends December 25.
• Unlocks
  • December 24: Plasma XPL$0.1321 to unlock 4.52% of its circulating supply, worth $11.47 million.
  • December 28: YUP$0.1952 to unlock 1.73% of its circulating supply, worth $10.03 million.
  • December 29: HYPE$25.22 to unlock 2.59% of its circulating supply, worth $240.5 million.
• The token is launched

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