4 Altcoins Face Critical Events Before Christmas: UNI, HYPE, ASTER, and HUMA

As the crypto market heads into the final week before Christmas, several major altcoins are approaching governance votes and tokenomics shifts that could materially alter their long-term supply dynamics.

From Uniswap’s long-awaited fee switch to Hyperliquid’s proposed billion-dollar token burn, the coming days mark a decisive moment for multiple ecosystems.

Top 4 Altcoins With Important Headlines This Week

Uniswap (UNI), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Aster (ASTER), and Huma Finance (HUMA) each have protocol-level changes scheduled between December 22 and December 25.

This places token holders and validators at the center of critical decisions as 2025 draws to a close.

Uniswap’s Fee Switch Vote Heads Toward Christmas Deadline

Voting on Uniswap’s UNIfication proposal concludes on December 25, potentially ending years of debate around protocol fees and value capture for UNI holders. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams also confirmed that voting for the Unification proposal is now live.

The proposal, jointly developed by Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation, would activate protocol fees across the ecosystem. It would also burn 100 million UNI from the treasury, an amount designed to reflect what would have been burned had fees been active from inception.

Uniswap governance voting shows strong support for the UNIfication proposal, with voting ending December 25, 2025

According to the proposal summary, voting “For” signals support to:

• Turn on Uniswap protocol fees and use them to burn UNI
• Send Unichain sequencer fees to the same burn mechanism
• Build Protocol Fee Discount Auctions (PFDA)
• Develop aggregator hooks for Uniswap v4
• Burn 100 million UNI from the treasury
• Refocus Labs entirely on protocol development
• Migrate governance-owned Unisocks liquidity to v4 on Unichain and burn the LP position

Uniswap Foundation confirmed momentum heading into the on-chain vote, stating:

“Last month, we posted a governance proposal to turn on protocol fees & align incentives across the Uniswap ecosystem… UNIfication passed snapshot with 63M+ votes in favor. Tomorrow, the proposal moves to on-chain vote,” Uniswap said on X (Twitter).

Amid this fray, the Uniswap token, UNI, rallied by 30% on Sunday. As of this writing, UNI was trading for $6.21, up by over 15% in the last 24 hours.

Uniswap (UNI) Price Performance. Source: CoinGecko

If approved, the proposal will enter a two-day time lock before execution, after which the burn and fee switch will go live immediately.

Hyperliquid Validators Vote on $1 Billion HYPE Burn

Hyperliquid’s governance process reaches its own deadline on December 24, when validators finalize a vote to formally recognize nearly $1 billion worth of HYPE tokens as permanently burned from its Assistance Fund. This could remove over 10% of HYPE from circulating and total supply.

“The Hyper Foundation is proposing a validator vote to formally recognize the Assistance Fund HYPE as burned, removing the tokens permanently from the circulating and total supply,” the Hyper Foundation explained.

The Assistance Fund holds $998,965,886.59, mainly in spot holdings at a system-controlled address.

The Hyperliquid Assistance Fund holds approximately $999 million, subject to validator burn vote ending December 24 (Source: Coin Bureau)

The tokens are held at a system address with no private key, making them mathematically irretrievable without a hard fork. The vote establishes a binding social consensus never to access those funds.

The proposal reinforces Hyperliquid’s reputation as one of crypto’s most unconventional high-growth protocols, having raised no venture capital and routed revenue directly into token buybacks.

With barely two days left before the vote is finalized, the HYPE token is trading for $24.92, up over 3% in the last 24 hours.

Hyperliquid (HYPE) Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto

Aster Reduces Emissions as Rewards Program Launches

On December 22, Aster will reduce its token emissions while simultaneously launching a new $12 million Crystal Weekly Drops rewards program.

“We’re excited to launch $12 million Crystal Weekly Drops — Aster’s new weekly cash rewards program following Double Harvest,” wrote Aster.

Phase 1 runs from December 22 to December 28, with up to $2 million in USDF distributed based on platform-wide perpetual trading volume.

The emission adjustment signals a shift toward tighter supply controls as Aster attempts to balance incentives with sustainability.

Huma Finance Distributes Vanguard Utility Badges

Huma Finance rounds out the pre-holiday slate on December 24, when it distributes Huma Vanguard utility badges to qualifying HUMA stakers.

Huma also offered a brief grace period for users who missed staking their Season 2 airdrop, allowing requalification through December 21.

Taken together, the concentration of governance votes, token burns, emission cuts, and staking incentives marks one of the most active pre-Christmas periods for altcoin tokenomics this year.

While immediate price reactions remain uncertain, the decisions made in the coming days could shape supply curves, incentive models, and protocol alignment well into 2026. This makes UNI, HYPE, ASTER, and HUMA closely watched assets as the year comes to a close.

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