💧 Top Projects from Solana AI Hackathon by FDV
👉 https://dropstab.com/categories/ai-hackathon
A new batch of Binance Alpha Projects is now live: VERTAI and FAI.
https://x.com/BinanceWallet/status/1877294242789462093
Spot ETF Flow on 08.01: BTC-ETF -$582.9M, ETH-ETF -$159.34M
https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot
In 2025 Kava becomes the first DeAI blockchain.
Coming in January:
1. DeAI Lightpaper
2. 2025 AI Roadmap
3. AI product launch that lets anyone embed AI into a dApp
https://x.com/KAVA_CHAIN/status/1877269512375910603
Grayscale Announces Rebalancing of Multi-Asset Funds for Fourth Quarter 2024
Added: LPT, CRV, ADA and SUI.
Removed SNX, AVAX.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/01/08/3006697/0/en/Grayscale-Investments-Announces-Rebalancing-of-Multi-Asset-Funds-for-Fourth-Quarter-2024.html
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is eyeing crypto-friendly names to be the next chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Among those reportedly in contention are Summer Mersinger, a current CFTC Commissioner; Brian Quintenz, a16z crypto policy chief and former CFTC commissioner; and Marco Santori, Kraken’s chief legal officer.
https://cryptoslate.com/kraken-a16z-execs-in-the-running-for-cftc-chair-role/
The criminal trial of Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has been tentatively scheduled for late January of next year.
https://www.theblock.co/post/333712/judge-sets-terraform-founder-do-kwons-trial-for-january-2026-in-unprecedented-move-urges-plea-negotiations
The crypto market is down
BTC Dominance - 56.06%
Market Cap - $3.33T
BTC - $94,289.29 (-1.98%)
ETH - $3,329.96 (-0.35%)
XRP - $2.35 (+1.67%)
BNB - $697.71 (+0.51%)
SOL - $194.64 (-1.07%)
INJ - $21.47 (-8.61%)
TON - $5.29 (+1.93%)
SUI - $4.78 (+1.56%)
https://dropstab.com
StarkWare Launches Appchains on Starknet with New Developer Toolkit
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/01/07/starkware-launches-appchains-on-starknet-with-new-developer-toolkit
Pichai to launch cryptocurrency pilot project in Phuket this year
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/policy/40044945
Xterio (XTER) trading has started on Bybit, Kucoin, Bitget and others.
XTER is now trading at ~$0.4
FDV $400M
https://www.bybit.com/en/trade/spot/XTER/USDT
Hyperliquid has cleared up a number of issues reported by the community. Code will be open source when it’s secure to do so.
https://x.com/hyperliquidx/status/1876877201976737914
Spot ETF Flow on 07.01: BTC-ETF +$52.39M, ETH-ETF -$86.79M
https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot
Czech Republic Central Bank considers purchasing Bitcoin as a reserve asset.
https://x.com/watcherguru/status/1876667085314810289
Lava Network (LAVA) trading has started.
LAVA is now trading at ~$0.175
FDV: ~$175M
https://www.bybit.com/en/trade/spot/LAVA/USDT
Eliza Labs and IoTeX Announce Strategic Partnership to Unlock Sentient AI Capabilities with DePIN Integration
https://iotex.io/blog/eliza-labs-and-iotex-announce-strategic-partnership-to-unlock-sentient-ai-capabilities-with-depin-integration/
Phala, a Polkadot-based parachain and computation platform, has launched a new Layer 2 network on Ethereum.
The launch took place in collaboration with infrastructure providers Succinct Labs and Conduit.
https://www.theblock.co/post/333755/polkadot-based-phala-network-launches-ethereum-layer-2-rollup
Movement Labs is close to raise $100M Series B
CoinFund and NovaFund will lead the round.
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/01/08/movement-labs-series-b-100-million-coinfund-brevan-howard/
The US Govt has been given the greenlight to liquidate 69,000 BTC ($6.5B) from Silk Road.
https://x.com/tier10k/status/1877176406905356670
Billionaire Mark Cuban says he'd rather own Bitcoin than gold if something bad happens to the economy.
"I think it has more value."
https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1877110720455696802
Binance has published its annual end-of-year report, which highlights its key areas of progress and quantitative indicators of growth. In 2024, the world’s largest crypto ecosystem crossed the mark of 250M – quarter of a billion – registered users in 2024.
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binances-2024-endofyear-report-wrapping-a-transformative-year-quarter-of-a-billion-users-strong-7581605994538648935
Sonic SVM launches multimillion-dollar fund for Web3 gaming, AI agents.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sonic-svm-launches-million-dollar-fund-for-web3-gaming-amid-ai-agent-hype
💧 Top 20 Potential TGE in Q1 by Total Funds Raised
👉 https://dropstab.com/tab/potential-tges-in-q1-2025-pu4qir1v8a
A new batch of Binance Alpha Projects is now live: LMT, PAAL, and SNAL.
https://x.com/BinanceWallet/status/1876932184226861144
Virtuals Discord server has been compromised.
https://twitter.com/virtuals_io/status/1876921173340246492
Ark Invest’s digital assets head Yassine Elmandjra announced his resignation.
https://x.com/yassine_elman/status/1876757022454038946
Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined SONICUSDT Perpetual Contract With up to 75x Leverage
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-futures-will-launch-usd%E2%93%A2-margined-sonicusdt-perpetual-contract-with-up-to-75x-leverage-6bc1e2d898e7449da0f94fb63b7ff952
A New York district court judge has granted Coinbase's move to appeal, putting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against the exchange on pause.
The SEC sued Coinbase in 2023 for allegedly operating as an unregistered exchange, broker, and clearing agency.
https://www.theblock.co/post/333509/ny-judge-grants-coinbases-move-for-an-interlocutory-appeal-putting-secs-case-on-pause
President-elect Trump says "we will cut taxes, slash regulations, raise wages and boost incomes at a pace the world has not seen before."
https://x.com/watcherguru/status/1876674519563448627