January, 2025

January, 2025

Memecoins Struggle Amid AI Mania
Established memecoins like PEPE and WIF underperformed in December as attention shifted to AI agents....

Telegram Rolls Out Feature to Turn Digital Gifts into NFTs
The new feature reflects the growing trend of integrating digital assets into mainstream platforms....

Bitcoin's Hash Rate Hits 808 EH/s, Price Climbs to $97,000 with Difficulty Up 1.16%
Bitcoin's hash rate has reached a historic milestone, surpassing 800 quintillion hashes per second (800 EH/s) as of December 31, 2024...

Morgan Stanley’s E-Trade Seeks Fed Approval to Offer Bitcoin Trading Amid Trump-Era Regulatory Shift
Morgan Stanley's E-Trade is exploring offering spot cryptocurrency trading services, including Bitcoin, pending approval from the Federal Reserve, according to The Information...

Tether's Market Cap Sheds $3 Billion as Europe’s MiCA Regulations Take Effect
This is USDT’s sharpest decline since the FTX crash, falling from $140 billion to $137 billion amid growing regulatory pressure in the EU....

Fartcoin Surges to $1.5 Billion Market Cap, Becomes 77th Largest Cryptocurrency
Fartcoin, a Solana-based AI memecoin, has emerged as the biggest 24-hour gainer among the top 100 tokens by market capitalization, reaching new all-time highs...

Vitalik Buterin Calls Elon Musk’s ‘Banhammer’ a Threat to Free Speech
Ethereum’s founder also called on the world’s richest man to tone down the rhetoric after his four-letter defense of special visas for foreign tech workers....

Drift Protocol Season 2 Airdrop Scheduled for May 2025
It will be the perpetuals trading platform’s second airdrop, following its token launch in May 2024, where 120 million tokens were distributed....

T3 Financial Crime Unit Freezes $100 Million in USDT, Including $3 Million Linked to North Korea, Across Five Continents
The T3 Financial Crime Fighting Unit, established in September 2024 by Tron, Tether, and TRM Labs, has successfully frozen $100 million in USDT linked to illicit activities on the Tron blockchain...

AI Token Infrastructure Outperforms Agents and Memecoins
The market has shifted from agent-specific tokens, towards AI agent frameworks....

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