Raydium (RAY) launched perpetual futures beta
The platform offers gas-free trading and access to 70+ trading pairs with up to 40x leverage, featuring maker fees of 0% and taker fees of 0.025%. With 8.4M active users including over 600,000 daily active traders, Raydium is a dominant force in Solana spot trading.
👉 x.com/RaydiumProtocol/status/1877415113428447239
Binance to list AIXBT, COOKIE and CGPT on January 10, 13:00 UTC
The seed tag will be applied to AIXBT, CGPT, and COOKIE. New trading pairs include: AIXBT/USDC, AIXBT/USDT, CGPT/USDC, CGPT/USDT, COOKIE/USDC, and COOKIE/USDT.
👉 binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-list-aixbt-cgpt-cookie
Verifiable AI project Rena Labs raised $3.3 million led by Paper Ventures
Other investors in the Pre-Seed funding include Lightspeed Faction, Eterna, Lyrik Ventures, Mapleblock, Selini and Keyrock. Rena Labs develops the abstraction middleware called Trusted Execution Environment to supercharge verifiable on-chain AI use cases.
👉 theblock.co/post/333676/web3-ai-firm-rena-labs-raises-3-3-million-in-pre-seed-funding
MANTRA to tokenize $1 billion of real-world assets for UAE-based property firm DAMAC
The agreement with property conglomerate DAMAC will bring at least $1 billion of the firm's assets to blockchain rails in early 2025. The deal will allow investors to finance DAMAC's portfolio companies including real estate, hospitality and data centers.
👉 coindesk.com/business/2025/01/09/mantra-blockchain-to-tokenize-1-b-of-real-world-assets
Phala Network (PHA) has launched its Layer 2 rollup
The Layer 2 rollup has both optimistic and zero-knowledge proofs, leveraging what's known as "OP Succinct." The Phala Network is a blockchain co-processor. While Phala operates as a Polkadot parachain, the move will expand its offering to Ethereum.
👉 x.com/PhalaNetwork/status/1877052813383184606
❗️Dear community, CryptoDiffer will hold an AMA with Alpaca Network on January 9th at 3:00 PM UTC in the CryptoDiffer Telegram Chat!
The reward pool for the best questions is $100 USDC!
(Questions from previous AMAs are strictly forbidden and people will be disqualified from participating in the reward distribution.)
CHAT 🗣 https://t.me/joinchat/Brbs51k5cWoRBKtsgmb6Ew
Crypto Events Recap, January 7-8
👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/crypto-events-recap-january-7-8-2025
Top-15 tokens by Current ROI launched last year
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 TARS AI, an AI Infrastructure Protocol on Solana.
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.50T (-8.27%)
BTC Price: $95,654 (-5.98%)
BTC Dominance: 54.2% (+0.40%)
Fear & Greed Index: 70 (Greed)
Total Value Locked: $189B (-8.95%)
CARV (CARV) has launched testnet of its SVM Chain
SVM Chain, an AI agentic infrastructure that extends SVM's capabilities onto Ethereum, enables AI agents to autonomously manage & interact with data end-to-end. CARV Protocol is a modular data layer for gaming and AI.
👉 x.com/carv_official/status/1876539803724046350
Crypto Events Recap, January 1-6
👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/crypto-events-recap-january-1-6-2025
DeXe Protocol (DEXE) expands its solution to the Ethereum
DeXe DAO deployment on Ethereum enables multi-chain governance, transparent treasury management, and advanced decision-making, among other features. DeXe Protocol is a next-generation infrastructure for crafting and steering DAOs.
👉 dexenetwork.medium.com/dexe-protocol-officially-launches-on-ethereum-0ef01d721ab9
Nakamoto Games (NAKA) secured $10M investment from Make It
The funding will be used for workforce expansion, advanced smart contract and AAA game development, liquidity enhancements, and Web2 studio acquisitions. Nakamoto Games is a P2E gaming infrastructure that offers access to blockchain-based games.
👉 x.com/NakamotoGames/status/1875448865287213059
Top-15 Projects by Daily Active Addresses (DAA) growth in the last 30 days
Daily Active Addresses is the number of distinct addresses that participated in a transfer for the given asset on any given day. Each address is counted only once for the day.
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.46T (+0.85%)
BTC Price: $94,831 (+0.45%)
BTC Dominance: 54.3% (+0.20%)
Fear & Greed Index: 50 (Neutral)
Total Value Locked: $188B (+0.45%)
Ozean has announced Lido’s wstETH integration to Oxygen (O2)
wstETH is one of assets introduced to O2 alongside Ethena's USDe & sUSDe, Agora's AUSD, Mountain Protocol's USDM. These assets support key functionalities like swaps, lending, collateralization. Ozean is an L2 blockchain for RWA yield powered by Clearpool.
👉 x.com/ClearpoolFin/status/1877324450972184794
Push Chain (PUSH) has announced an integration with Aptos
The collaboration unlocks seamless cross-chain interactions using Push, Web3-native communication, and shared experiences through EVM and non-EVM ecosystem bridging. The Push Chain Testnet is expected in Q1 2025.
👉 push.org/blog/push-chain-joins-forces-with-aptos
Sonic SVM (SONIC) launched an ecosystem fund - G.A.M.E.
The fund aims to accelerate the development of Web3 games, AI agents and social media content creation tools and will offer up to $1M worth of support per project. Sonic is a first atomic SVM Layer 2 for gaming built on the Solana blockchain.
👉 x.com/SonicSVM/status/1877008297397502320
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.43T (-2.40%)
BTC Price: $93,550 (-2.27%)
BTC Dominance: 54.1% (-0.10%)
Fear & Greed Index: 69 (Greed)
Total Value Locked: $188B (-0.98%)
The biggest Fundraising Rounds conducted in 2024
Projects that received the most funding are Rumble ($775M), an online video platform, web hosting, and cloud service, Praxis Society ($525M), a decentralized Network State platform, and Avalanche ($250M), a Layer 1 blockchain with a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm.
SoSoValue has closed a $15M Series A funding round
The funding round was co-led by HongShan and SmallSpark, with participation from Mirana Ventures and SafePal. The funds raised will be allocated to expanding team. SoSoValue is a one-stop financial research platform tailored for cryptocurrency investors.
👉 eqs-news.com/news/corporate/ai-driven-crypto-research-platform-sosovalue-raises-15-million-series-a-to-launch-the-investible-spot-index-protocol-ssi/2197201
SYNTHR (SYNTH) to be initially listed on KuCoin on January 14
Moreover, SYNTH token launches on KuCoin GemPool. Users can stake KCS or USDT in dedicated pools to farm SYNTH tokens. Total Rewards: 4,347,826 SYNTH. Synthr is an interoperable omnichain liquidity protocol that enables slippage-free cross-chain transfers.
👉 kucoin.com/announcement/en-synthr-synth-gets-listed-on-kucoin-world-premiere
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.75T (+1.43%)
BTC Price: $101,723 (+2.78%)
BTC Dominance: 53.8% (+0.40%)
Fear & Greed Index: 78 (Extreme Greed)
Total Value Locked: $207B (+0.12%)
GraphLinq (GLQ) has rolled out its no-code platform – GraphLinq IDE
GraphLinq IDE is designed to build dApps, bots, and other apps with no-code experience. Platforms offer pre-built components, AI assistance, and step-by-step guidance. GraphLinq is a no-code blockchain for Web3 automation, dApps and AI.
👉 x.com/graphlinq_proto/status/1875181244801007894
Sonic SVM (SONIC) will hold its initial token listing tomorrow
OKX, KuCoin, Bybit, Bitget, Hashkey, Gate & MEXC already announced the listing. Valuation of the last round is $100M. 7% of total supply allocated to community. Sonic is a first atomic SVM Layer 2 for gaming built on Solana.
👉 x.com/SonicSVM/status/1876237278495830114
Solv Protocol (SOLV) gets listed on Binance on Jan 17, 10:00 UTC
Binance will open trading for USDT, BNB, FDUSD and TRY markets. Solv is the 3rd project that launches via Megadrop, a platform with airdrops and Web3 quests. Solv Protocol enables BTC holders to utilize assets & earn yield through Decentralized Bitcoin Reserve.
👉 binance.com/en/announcement/solv-protocol-megadrop
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $3.68T (-1.13%)
BTC Price: $99,137 (+1.28%)
BTC Dominance: 53.4% (+0.30%)
Fear & Greed Index: 76 (Extreme Greed)
Total Value Locked: $207B (+1.98%)