Huoxun Finance News, December 18th – Decentralized broadband network project DAWN announced the completion of a $13 million Series B funding round, led by Polychain Capital. The new funds will be used to accelerate DAWN's global expansion, infrastructure deployment, and the development of ecosystem partnerships. Developed by the AndrenaWiFi team, DAWN aims to provide scalable decentralized internet access services through blockchain technology, offering a more democratic and efficient network connectivity solution for users worldwide.

Huoxun Finance reported on December 18th that, according to The Block, financial software giant Intuit has signed a multi-year partnership with Circle to integrate USDC stablecoin payments into core products such as TurboTax and QuickBooks for faster, lower-cost settlements such as tax refunds and corporate payments. Circle will provide the USDC infrastructure. Intuit did not disclose a specific launch date, nor did it specify whether users will directly hold USDC or only use it as a back-end payment channel. Previously, Visa launched USDC (Solana)-based stablecoin settlement services for Bank of America, and Circle has expanded its issuance and distribution with several exchanges (including Bybit).

According to Huoxun Finance on December 18th, CoinAnk data shows that in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation amount for cryptocurrency futures contracts across the entire network reached $474 million, including $366 million in long positions and $107 million in short positions. The total liquidation amount for BTC was $109 million, and the total liquidation amount for ETH was $155 million.

Huoxun Finance News, December 18th - According to the official Ondo blog, Ondo and LayerZero have launched "OndoBridge," supporting 1:1 cross-chain transfers of over 100 listed Ondo stocks and ETFs between Ethereum and BNBChain, with the potential to expand to more EVM chains within weeks. This bridge uses a unified architecture instead of separate bridges for each asset, allowing over 2600 applications integrated with LayerZero to quickly access OndoGlobalMarkets assets; Stargate already supports it. Ondo claims it is currently the largest cross-chain bridge for "tokenized securities." Previously, OndoGlobalMarkets had accumulated a TVL of over $350 million and a trading volume of approximately $2 billion on Ethereum and BNBChain.

According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bitwise Asset Management's Bitwise Sui ETF officially submitted its Form S-1 registration statement on December 18th, document number 0001213900-25-123107, and was accepted by the SEC on the same day. The S-1 document, submitted by Bitwise Sui ETF as the filing entity, includes 16 items such as the registration statement, trust agreement, trust certificate, and related fee documents. The filing entity is registered in Delaware, with its office located in San Francisco, USA. This submission signifies that Bitwise has officially initiated the compliance registration process for the Sui-related ETF, and is still awaiting SEC review and approval.