Uniswap vote, US GDP: Crypto Week Ahead

It’s a quiet, shortened week heading into the holiday season, with little planned specifically for crypto.

The highlight is Uniswap’s vote on a governance proposal called UNIfication. If passed, the proposal will enable protocol fees, burn 100 million UNI tokens from the treasury, and bring Uniswap Labs and Uniswap Foundation into closer operational alignment. Voting, which has already started, ends 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 a second estimate of PCE inflation are expected to be released.

What to watch

• Cryptocurrency
• Macro
  • December 22, 8:30 a.m.: Canada Nov. PPI YoY (previous 6%), MoM Est. 0.3%.
  • December 23, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. durable goods orders in October (mom) (previous 0.5), ex. MoM Transport (previous 0.6%), Ex. MoM Defense (previous 0.1%).
  • December 23, 8:30 a.m. Third-quarter PCE price in the United States QoQ (2nd estimate). Title (previous 2.1%), core (previous 2.6%).
  • December 23, 8:30 a.m.: Third quarter US GDP (initial estimate) (previous 3.8%).
  • December 23, 10 a.m.: December CB Consumer confidence (previous 88.7).
  • December 24, 7 a.m.: Unemployment rate in Mexico (previously 2.6%).
  • December 24, 8:30 a.m.: unemployment claims in the United States. Initial – for the week ended December 20 – (prev. 224,000); Continued – for the week ending December 13 – (previous 1897K).
• Earnings (estimates based on FactSet data)

Token Events

• Votes and calls on governance
  • BNB Chain votes to reduce the number of consecutive blocks produced by a validator from 16 to 8. This adjustment aims to prevent large-scale reorganizations and prioritize network stability. Voting closes on December 22.
  • Axie Infinity votes to stake unused Community Treasury assets to earn cumulative protocol rewards. Voting closes on December 22.
  • Moonwell DAO votes to move the rETH oracle on Base and OP Mainnet to a stable exchange rate feed and use 2.6 ETH of reserves to pay off bad debts. Voting closes on December 22.
  • CoW DAO votes to renew its grant program for 2026. The proposal improves capital efficiency via quarterly fund releases and focuses on developer onboarding, ecosystem alignment, and new protocol applications. Voting closes on December 22.
  • Yearn DAO votes to rotate multisig signers (YIP-89) and adopt a yETH recovery plan (YIP-90) that uses Treasury yield, 10% revenue redirection, and lost claims to reimburse users. Voting closes on December 23.
  • GMX DAO votes to seed the new GMX-Solana deployment with 400,000 USDC, using half to purchase GMX tokens to create a balanced initial liquidity pool. Voting closes on December 23.
  • The Sandbox DAO votes to select one of five artists to create a commissioned NFT artwork for the DAO’s collection, awarding the winner a grant of 8,000 to 12,000 USDC from the existing SIP-26 budget. Voting closes on 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 budget of 20 million UNI. Voting closes on December 25.
• Unlocks
  • December 24: Plasma XPL$0.1321 to unlock 4.52% of its circulating supply worth $11.47 million.
  • December 28: JUP$0.1954 to unlock 1.73% of its circulating supply worth $10.03 million.
  • December 29: THRESHING$25.22 to unlock 2.59% of its circulating supply worth $240.5 million.
• Token Launches

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