Odaily Planet Daily reports that China Properties Investment Holdings Limited (736 HK) announced that its board of directors has resolved to proceed with its asset allocation plan: subject to compliance with relevant laws and regulations and risk management, it intends to use its own funds to purchase and hold BNB and other suitable digital assets in the open market as strategic reserve assets for the company.

Huoxun Finance News, December 24th - According to a Hong Kong government press release, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) jointly announced the conclusion of their consultation on the licensing regime for virtual asset trading and custody services. The market widely supports including such services in the regulatory framework. The new regime will follow the traditional securities regulatory structure, focusing on core risk control such as private key custody. The two agencies have also launched a one-month further public consultation to establish an independent licensing regime for institutions providing virtual asset advice and management services, which is expected to be submitted to the Legislative Council for review in 2026.

Huoxun Finance News, December 24 – The People's Bank of China and eight other departments issued the "Opinions on Financial Support for Accelerating the Construction of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor." The Opinions propose exploring international cooperation in digital finance. It supports provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) along the corridor to participate in multilateral central bank digital currency bridge projects, promoting the use of central bank digital currencies in cross-border payments with Thailand, Hong Kong, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. It supports exploring and promoting pilot projects for cross-border payments of digital RMB between the mainland and Singapore. It supports eligible provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) along the corridor to build cross-border e-commerce digital service platforms, connecting with cross-border e-commerce and trade digitization platform companies in countries such as Singapore to enhance cross-border e-commerce service capabilities. The section on expanding the cross-border use of RMB mentions strengthening bilateral monetary cooperation with Southeast Asian and Central Asian countries to create supporting conditions for the cross-border use of RMB. It further promotes the pilot program for facilitating RMB settlement in trade and investment at a higher level, supporting foreign trade enterprises to use RMB for settlement more extensively. It supports investors from ASEAN countries to invest in RMB and reinvest domestically. It encourages RMB pricing and settlement in commodity transactions. It supports cross-border transfer of RMB cash by banking financial institutions. It supports banks using RMB for pricing and settlement when conducting cross-border financing, cross-border guarantees, and cross-border asset transfers. Support eligible provincial (autonomous region, municipality) legal entity banks along the Belt and Road to join the RMB cross-border payment system. Leverage the advantages of digital RMB, such as payment-to-settlement, low cost, and programmability, and explore innovative solutions using digital RMB smart contracts. Explore the feasibility of expanding the application of digital RMB in scenarios such as channel payment settlement, financing, and tax refunds. Study expanding the geographical scope of digital RMB cross-border application and utilize bilateral and multilateral cross-border business models to reduce costs and increase efficiency in channel cross-border payments.

According to Onchain Lens, Matrixport withdrew 1,090 BTC from Binance, worth $94.7 million.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, three addresses suspected to belong to the same entity or individual (0x3D0...20d0, 0xA58...244E, 0x48c...bc9d0) deposited 2.47 million USDC as margin into Hyperliquid in the past 24 hours, opening a total long position of $1.69 million in TST. This position accounts for 42.3% of Hyperliquid's total TST holdings, occupying the top three long positions. All of these addresses transferred BTCB from Gate, deposited it into Aster, and then withdrew USDT, with the margin withdrawals all occurring from Gate or OKX within the past 24 hours. Currently, the TST long position is the only position these addresses hold on Hyperliquid. Address (0x48c...bc9d0) previously went long on TST in early December and profited $31,000.