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Aptos has announced proposal AIP-137, which aims to introduce quantum-resistant signatures to address the network's reliance on digital signatures for ownership confirmation, transaction authorization, and overall security. Although current cryptographic schemes are secure at present, this proposal is designed to address the potential future risk of quantum computers forging schemes and compromising account security. If approved through governance review, Aptos will introduce SLH-DSA, which has been standardized as FIPS 205, as an optional account signature type, making it one of the first blockchains to natively support quantum-resistant accounts, with existing accounts remaining unaffected.

BlockBeats News, December 19th, the public sale of the FUN token of the on-chain sports prediction app Football.Fun on the Base Chain has been completed on the Legion platform, with a 3.38 times oversubscription, over $10 million deposited, and over 4600 participating addresses. The audit application is currently in progress, and participants will be notified of the allocation results via email. Previously, Football.Fun released the FUN tokenomics. The total token supply is 1 billion, with 25% allocated to the community, including 4% for a Genesis airdrop; 25% allocated to the team; 24.8% allocated to investors; 17.7% allocated to the treasury; and 7.5% allocated for the public sale.

According to TechFlow, on December 19, Delphi Digital released its latest "2026 Market Outlook" report, which points out that despite the subdued sentiment in the crypto market, the macroeconomic environment is shifting from divergence to convergence, and global central banks have begun an interest rate cut cycle. The Federal Reserve has ended quantitative tightening, and it is expected that by the end of 2026, the federal funds rate will fall below 3%, which is likely to boost global liquidity. The report emphasizes that the record high in gold prices reflects an accelerating trend of currency devaluation, with central banks having purchased over 600 tons of gold in 2025 and expected to continue accumulating at a pace of 70 tons per month in 2026. Meanwhile, the massive U.S. fiscal deficit (USD 1.5-2 trillion annually) is squeezing liquidity in the funding markets and putting pressure on the U.S. Treasury market. Analysts believe that as the liquidity environment improves, inflation-resistant assets such as bitcoin will benefit from favorable conditions, but the market will not see a return to the "liquidity firehose" level of easing seen in 2020-2021.