As we enter the final week before Christmas, the crypto market has several major altcoins facing governance votes and tokenomics adjustments, which could significantly change the long-term dynamics of coin allocation.
From the long-awaited activation of Uniswap's fee structure to Hyperliquid's billion-dollar coin burn proposal, the upcoming week is truly critical for many ecosystems.
4 standout Altcoins with important news this week.
Uniswap (UNI), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Aster (ASTER), and Huma Finance (HUMA) all have protocol-level changes scheduled between December 22 and December 25.
Thus, token holders and validators are at the center of important decisions at the end of 2025.
Voting on Uniswap's fee feature is approaching Christmas deadline.
The vote on Uniswap's UNIfication proposal will end on December 25, which may close the debate about protocol fees and bring value back to UNI token holders that has lingered for years, as Uniswap founder Hayden Adams has confirmed that the UNIfication proposal voting process has already begun.
This proposal developed by Uniswap Labs in collaboration with Uniswap Foundation will activate protocol fees across the ecosystem and will burn 100 million UNI from the treasury, which reflects the amount that should have been burned if fees had been utilized from the beginning.
From the proposal summary, voting 'agree' means supporting:
Activate Uniswap's protocol fees and use them to burn UNI.
Send Unichain's sequencer fees to the same burn mechanism.
Create a discount bid for protocol fees (PFDA).
Develop aggregator hooks for Uniswap v4.
Burn 100 million UNI from the reserve fund treasury.
Focus Labs on fully developing the protocol.
Move Unisocks liquidity held by governance mechanisms to v4 on Unichain and burn the LP position.
Uniswap Foundation confirms feedback before on-chain voting, stating that.
Last month, we presented a governance resolution to activate protocol fees and adjust incentive strategies in the Uniswap ecosystem… the UNIfication proposal passed a snapshot vote with over 63 million votes. Tomorrow, this resolution will go to on-chain voting on Uniswap, as announced on X (Twitter).
Amid this trend, Uniswap's UNI token rose 30% on Sunday, and as of this writing, UNI is trading at 6.21 USD, up over 15% in the past 24 hours.
If this proposal is approved, it will enter a 2-day lock period before actual implementation, after which the burn and fee switch will be immediately activated.
Hyperliquid auditors vote to burn HYPE worth 1 billion USD.
The governance process of Hyperliquid has also reached its own deadline on December 24, when validators will vote to officially confirm that nearly 1 billion USD worth of HYPE tokens have been permanently burned from the Assistance Fund, which could reduce circulating HYPE and total supply by more than 10%.
Hyper Foundation proposes to have validators vote to officially confirm that the Assistance Fund HYPE has been burned, permanently removing those coins from circulating and total supply, Hyper Foundation explains.
Assistance Fund holds assets of 998,965,886.59 USD, mostly in spot holdings under system control.
These tokens are stored at system addresses with no private key, making them mathematically unrecoverable without a hard fork. Therefore, voting is considered a social consensus binding access to that fund.
This proposal also reinforces Hyperliquid's image as one of the high-growth crypto protocols that genuinely diverges from the traditional approach, as it is not funded by Venture Capital and pushes revenue directly into token buybacks.
Less than two days remain before the voting results will be finalized, while HYPE Token is trading at a price of 24.92 USD, up more than 3% in the past 24 hours.
On December 22, Aster will reduce Token release while simultaneously launching a new Crystal Weekly Drops reward program worth 12 million USD.
We are excited to launch the Crystal Weekly Drops program worth 12 million USD, which marks Aster's new weekly cash giveaway program following the conclusion of the Double Harvest event.
Phase one runs from December 22 to December 28, distributing rewards of up to 2 million USDF based on the platform's Perpetual trading volume across the system.
The adjustment of Token release reflects the effort to tighten supply control as Aster seeks to find a balance between incentives and sustainability.
Huma Finance distributes benefit badges for the Vanguard.
Huma Finance joins to enhance the strategy adjustment plan before the holiday on December 24 by distributing Huma Vanguard Utility Badges to HUMA stakers who are eligible.
Additionally, Huma offers a short grace period for users who missed the Season Two Stake Airdrop, allowing eligibility again until December 21.
Overall, the intensity of governance voting, token burning, token release reduction, and staking incentives is seen as one of the busiest times for alternative coin economic token activities before the Christmas festival this year.
Although the immediate price response is not yet clear, various decisions in the coming days may shape the supply curve, incentive patterns, and protocol consistency through to 2026. Therefore, UNI, HYPE, ASTER, and HUMA are assets under close observation as the year comes to a close.
