Crypto Events Recap, December 26-27
👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/crypto-events-recap-december-26-27-2024
TOP NFT SALES CONDUCTED IN DECEMBER
The Top NFT sales list includes Pudgy Penguins, CryptoPunks, ENS Domains, and Azuki collections. The most expensive NFT sale accounted for 125 ETH ($488K).
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.52T (+0.43%)
BTC Price: $96,719 (+1.49%)
BTC Dominance: 54.4% (-0.10%)
Fear & Greed Index: 74 (Greed)
Total Value Locked: $194B (-0.23%)
ChainOpera AI has closed a $17M seed funding round
The funding was led by Finality Capital, Road Capital & IDG Capital. ChainOpera AI is the truly decentralized and open AI platform for simple, scalable, and trustworthy collaborative AI economy.
👉 theblock.co/post/332347/chainopera-ai-raised-17-million-in-seed-funding-to-build-blockchain-l1-and-ai-os-for-ai-agents
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.46T (-3.96%)
BTC Price: $95,400 (-3.37%)
BTC Dominance: 54.5% (+0.20%)
Fear & Greed Index: 79 (Extreme Greed)
Total Value Locked: $194B (-2.98%)
Sui (SUI) DeFi Ecosystem Overview
The Sui ecosystem reached a total TVL of $2.86B, with a 22.3% growth in the last 30 days. Leading the ecosystem are Suilend ($567M), NAVI Protocol ($484M), and Streamflow ($297M).
Sahara AI has introduced its roadmap for the next year
The roadmap is focused on creating tools and infrastructure that advance decentralized AI while empowering everyone to participate in and benefit from AI’s advancements. Sahara is a decentralized AI network that enables everyone to deploy autonomous AI.
👉 saharalabs.ai/blog/2024-2025-roadmap
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.58T (+2.39%)
BTC Price: $97,893 (+3.65%)
BTC Dominance: 54.3% (-0.60%)
Fear & Greed Index: 73 (Greed)
Total Value Locked: $200B (+3.12%)
Binance will support the Fantom (FTM) token swap and rebranding to Sonic Labs (S)
Binance will delist and cease trading on all spot trading pairs for FTM on January 13 and then open trading for S token on January 16 at 8:00 AM UTC. All FTM tokens will be swapped to S at a 1:1 ratio.
👉 binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-support-the-fantom-ftm-token-swap-and-rebranding-to-sonic-s
Top-15 Price Gainers in 2024
Among the top performers are Popcat, a memecoin on the Solana blockchain, MANTRA, a Layer 1 blockchain focused on real-world assets, and MOG Coin, a cat-themed memecoin on Ethereum.
Crypto Events Recap, December 21-23
👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/crypto-events-recap-december-21-23-2024
Top Fundraising Rounds conducted in the last 7 days
Projects that received the most funding are BVNK ($50M), a stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, Lens Protocol ($31M), a high-perfomance blockchain for social apps, and Plume Network ($20M), an L1 blockchain for scaling RWAs.
Uniswap Labs announced the launch of Unichain in early 2025
Unichain is a L2 purpose-built for DeFi, exclusively on the OP Stack. As the mainnet goes live, Unichain will become part of Optimism’s Superchain ecosystem. Uniswap Labs says adding its own network will bring faster, cheaper transactions with more liquidity.
👉 theblock.co/post/332126/unichains-public-mainnet-expected-to-launch-in-early-2025-uniswap-says
Bio Protocol (BIO) will be the 63rd project on Binance Launchpool!
Users will be able to stake BNB and FDUSD tokens into separate pools to farm BIO tokens over 10 days, with farming starting on Dec 24th at 00:00 UTC. Launchpool Hard Cap is 99.6M BIO (3% of supply). BIO is a curation and liquidity protocol for Decentralized Science.
👉 binance.com/en/support/announcement/introducing-bio
Top-15 Total Value Locked (TVL) gainers in Q4 2024
Among the top performers are BNSOL, the tokenized representation of SOL staked by Binance, Fenix Liquidity, a cutting-edge modular AMM architecture, and Euler V2, a modular lending platform.
Mononoke (MONONOKE) launches on Solana in 2025
MONONOKE is a tokenized IP-based meme coin inspired by the Princess Mononoke film, blending anime fandom with meme culture on Solana. With seamless exchange access, IP-based collectibles, and exclusive rewards, it offers real value to holders.
👉 x.com/mononokeonsol/status/1870114110811062578
Aethir teamed up with Injective to democratize AI with tokenized GPU compute
Aethir and Injective collaborate on the first-ever tokenized GPU marketplace launch, unlocking a whole new way to access and trade high-performance compute. Among the announced features are fractional GPU power, a real-time GPU leasing market, DeFi-ready GPU trading, staking, and lending.
👉 aethir.com/blog-posts/aethir-and-injective-team-up-to-democratize-ai-with-tokenized-gpu-compute
Top-15 tokens by Current ROI launched in Q4 2024
Among the top performers are OpenServ, a hub to find, curate, and employ AI agents, DeepBook, a liquidity layer providing the infrastructure for financial projects building on Sui, and Shieldeum, an advanced AI powered DePIN Securing.
Bitget announced the merger of BWB and BGB tokens
Following the merger, BGB will become an ecosystem token and is expected to have the infrastructure for PayFi application expansion, payments, and financial solutions. The price of BGB has broken its all-time high recently and entered the top 25 coins by market cap.
👉 bitget.com/support/articles/12560603820403
Crypto Events Recap, December 24-25
👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/crypto-events-recap-december-24-25-2024
0G Labs (0G) launched claim portal for 0G Lunarians NFT License
Users can claim 0G Lunarians NFT License with purchased AI Alignment Nodes via 0G Foundation portal. The Lunarians NFT is the license to operate a 0G AI Alignment Node or delegate operations. 0G is a decentralized AI Operating System (dAIOS).
👉 x.com/0G_labs/status/1871804160208715908
Elon Musk-backed xAI raised $6 billion in Series C funding
Funding participants included a16z, Blackrock, Fidelity Management, MGX, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, Morgan Stanley, QIA, Sequoia and others. In November 2023, xAI introduced its AI chatbot, Grok, designed to compete with models like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
👉 x.ai/blog/series-c
Top-15 Weekly Total Value Locked (TVL) Gainers
Among the top performers are Ostium, a decentralized exchange on Arbitrum, Metropolis, a liquidity book DLMM DEX on Sonic, and Tempest Finance, an omnichain liquidity network.
DeXe Protocol (DEXE) has been listed on Binance Futures
Users can now trade DEXE tokens on Binance Futures with up to 75x leverage. Last week, DeXe and Binance Academy have launched Learn&Earn campaign. DeXe Protocol is a next-generation infrastructure for crafting and steering DAOs.
👉 x.com/DexeNetwork/status/1871494793932779876
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.44T (-0.27%)
BTC Price: $95,885 (-1.14%)
BTC Dominance: 54.9% (-0.20%)
Fear & Greed Index: 73 (Greed)
Total Value Locked: $194B (+3.63%)
Usual closed a $10M Series A funding led by Binance Labs and Kraken Ventures
Other participants include Ethena, Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy, M0, Ondo Finance, X Ventures, Amber, IOSG, GSR, Wintermute, Symbolic Capital, Echo, among others. Usual is an RWA-backed stablecoin issuer, previously launched on Binance Launchpool.
👉 x.com/usualmoney/status/1871213374547370328
MicroStrategy has acquired 5,262 BTC for ~$561 million
The average purchase price per one BTC is $106,662. The total Bitcoin holding is 444,262 BTC acquired for ~$27.7 billion at ~$62,257 per bitcoin.
👉 x.com/saylor/status/1871179886036910278
Big Time Studios has launched a $150M Open Loot Fund
The fund will offer support, advisory, strategic guidance in-game economy design, sales strategy, marketplace optimization, marketing & community building. Open Loot is a gaming distribution platform created to tackle the challenges of crypto gaming scene.
👉 venturebeat.com/games/big-time-studios-launches-150m-open-loot-fund-for-web3-gaming
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.46T (-1.89%)
BTC Price: $95,885 (-1.14%)
BTC Dominance: 54.9% (-0.20%)
Fear & Greed Index: 70 (Greed)
Total Value Locked: $198B (-2.87%)