Uniswap Vote, US GDP: Crypto Week Ahead

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

The most notable event is Uniswap’s vote on a governance proposal called UNification. If approved, the proposal will trigger protocol fees, burn 100 million UNI tokens from the treasury, and bring Uniswap Labs and Uniswap Foundation closer to their operations. Voting, which has already begun, 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, US GDP for the third quarter and a second estimate of PCE inflation will be released.

What to watch

• Crypto
• Macro
  • December 22, 8:30 am: Canada November YoY PPI (previously 6%), est. monthly 0.3%.
  • December 23, 8:30 am: October US Monthly Durable Goods Orders (previously 0.5%), ex. Transport MoM (Prev. 0.6%), Ex. Defense MoM (prev. 0.1%).
  • Dec 23, 8:30am US Q3 PCE Prices QoQ (second estimate). Title (previous 2.1%), core (previous 2.6%).
  • December 23, 8:30 am: US Q3 GDP (initial estimate) (was 3.8%).
  • December 23, 10 am: CB Consumer Confidence for December (previous 88.7).
  • December 24, 7 am: Unemployment rate in Mexico (previously 2.6%).
  • December 24, 8:30 am: Unemployment claims in the United States. Initial – for the week ending December 20 – (Previous 224K); Continuing, for the week ending December 13, (Previous 1897K).
• Earnings (estimates based on FactSet data)

symbolic events

• Governance votes and calls
  • BNB Chain is voting to reduce the number of consecutive blocks a validator produces from 16 to 8. This adjustment is intended to avoid major chain reorganizations and prioritize network stability. Voting ends on December 22.
  • Axie Infinity is voting to stake Community Treasury idle assets to earn Compound Protocol rewards. Voting ends on December 22.
  • Moonwell DAO is voting to change the rETH oracle on Base and OP Mainnet to a stable exchange rate feed and use 2.6 ETH from reserves to pay off bad debts. Voting ends on December 22.
  • CoW DAO is voting to renew its grant program for 2026. The proposal improves capital efficiency through quarterly fund releases and focuses on developer onboarding, ecosystem alignment, and novel protocol applications. Voting ends on December 22.
  • Yearn DAO is voting to rotate multi-signature signers (YIP-89) and enact a yETH (YIP-90) recovery plan that uses Treasury yield, a 10% revenue redirection, and lost claims to pay users. Voting ends on December 23.
  • GMX DAO is voting to seed the new GMX-Solana implementation with $400,000 USDC, using half to purchase GMX tokens to create a balanced initial liquidity pool. Voting ends on December 23.
  • Sandbox DAO is voting to select one of five artists to create a commissioned NFT artwork for the DAO collection, awarding the winner a grant of 8,000 to 12,000 USDC from the existing SIP-26 budget. Voting ends on December 24.
  • Uniswap DAO is voting to activate protocol fees to burn UNI, retroactively burn 100 million treasury tokens and consolidate the growth of the ecosystem under Uniswap Labs with an annual budget of 20 million UNI. Voting ends on December 25.
• Unlock
  • December 24: Plasma XPL$0.1321 to unlock 4.52% of its circulating supply worth $11.47 million.
  • December 28: JUP$0.1953 to unlock 1.73% of its circulating supply worth $10.03 million.
  • December 29: ADVERTISING HYPE$25.17 to unlock 2.59% of its circulating supply worth $240.5 million.
• Token releases

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