Welcome to Bi-Weekly number 48 It’s been a busy few weeks for the gTrade ecosystem! Let’s explore what’s going on with gTrade! 📷 A Quick Snapshot: The team was energized by the results of the Trick or Trade competition and wanted to keep stacking wins. They proposed another OC pull with a snapshot vote to ensure community alignment on a new trading competition. The new competition is an effort to maintain momentum through December. The vote passed, and here we are! 🎁 Naughty or Nice: The competition is now live! Over $300k in $USDC rewards are on the line across two categories, with the largest prize pool in the time-weighted volume track. The team saw the most success with this category during the Trick or Trade event and wants to encourage longer time-frame trades. The competition is open from Dec 3–Dec 24. Be sure to get involved! See the leaderboard and rules here 🎃 Trick or Trade Retro: Twice the volume. Twice the fees. 750k $GNS burned. Grant unlocked. Do those numbers sound good? There’s more. Read up on Trick or Trade’s impact on gTrade on the governance forum. Read more here 📰 BidClub Coverage: Did someone say organic community coverage? Absolutely! gTrade was featured in the bidclub.io article “Gains Network: Real Revenue, Real Burns.” The author explores the metrics behind gTrade, the PMF, yield, and more. Be sure to give it a read and share it with $GNS-curious investors. Read the article here 🌇 DAI-ly Reminder: I am once again asking for your support in withdrawing from the gDAI vaults. If you haven’t heard, the gDAI vault is being sunset. Stakers are encouraged to withdraw and restake into the gUSDC vault if they want to continue earning stablecoin yield. The sunset of the gDAI vault is part of a broader initiative to unify gTrade liquidity toward more performant vaults, improving trading conditions for our most popular collaterals. 🔥 Burn Notice: The Trick or Trade competition sent the $GNS supply plummeting below 27 million. Over the last 30 days, more than 608k $GNS tokens have been burned. With the start of the Naughty or Nice trading competition, the gUSDC vault burn will be paused for a short while to evaluate the impact on OC. Will the Naughty or Nice competition shovel more coal into the furnace? Bet on it! 🐒 Talking About ApeChain: ApeChain has partnered with Bantr to elevate ApeChain mindshare, and gTrade is one of the featured dApps in the ecosystem eligible for rewards through the Bantr campaign! You can earn APE rewards for talking about ApeChain, gTrade, and using the gTrade deployment on ApeChain. Read about it here 🎄 The SMCSS Christmas Special: Join Brian and Ves for the gTrade Super Mega Crypto Streaming Show Christmas Special. Is Santa real? Will there be prizes? Yes and yes. YES! Join us on Thursday, Dec 11, for a Christmas crypto celebration as we cover the hottest gifts to give your loved ones this holiday season. Discounted Pairs: $HYPE, $ZEC, $FARTCOIN, $XAU, $XAG all receive 50% off trading fees! New Listings: $MON — Monad makes its way to gTrade! ⚙️ Developer Update ⚙️ Frontend: Contest preparation; site-wide design improvements; trader QoL improvements (1CT gas, Solana UX bridge flow, trade history) Backend: Improved notifications infrastructure; improved reliability of the core events service; custom RPCs; contest prep and system extensions; depths optimizations Smart contracts: 10.3.1 release; design prep for the next major release

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Snapshot 235 is live: 🇸🇬 Ripple receives Singapore MAS approval to broaden payment activity 🔗 Grayscale debuts first US spot LINK ETF on NYSE Arca 🇬🇧 UK to require exchanges to collect user IDs and report data 🏛️ Vanguard’s 50M clients can now trade BTC and ETH ETFs 🎮 Sony Bank explores a USD stablecoin for PlayStation payments — and more