📦 Why DeFi loves giving away billions via airdrops. Link.

5 charts that explain it.

Author: DL News

#research


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Daily Dose of News 🎺
January 10, Friday


General:

• UK exempts crypto staking from collective investment scheme rules. Link.

• Bybit to temporarily restrict services in India, citing regulatory developments. Link.

Product updates:

• Philippine banks collaborate to launch PHPX stablecoin on Hedera. Link.

• Arbitrum DAO opens vote on proposal to implement BoLD protocol on ecosystem chains. Link.

Release:

• Tether's AI strategy will be presented in May at Italian AI Week. Link.

• Coinbase, Google, and ai16z members back new DAO to accelerate crypto and AI. Link.

Listing:

• Bithumb will list SONIC, SAFE, AHT. Link.

• Binance will list AIXBT, CGPT, COOKIE. Link.

Fundraising:

• Alpen Labs, a scaling solution for Bitcoin that uses ZK technology, has raised $8.5M. Link.

• Oh, a project building uncensored AI infrastructure and products, has raised $4.5M. Link.

• Superseed has raised $4.47M. Link.


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🌐 DeFAI: The next big narrative? Link.

DeFAI (DeFi + AI) aims to significantly improve the DeFi user experience by using AI agents that can execute complex tasks on behalf of the users.

Author: The DeFi Investor

#review


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🎳 Did "altseason" already happen? Link.

To kick off 2025, we’re sharing our views on “altseason,” as well as our current thinking on the macro setup for the year ahead.

Author: Michael Nadeau | The DeFi Report

#research


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📷 Protocol in focus: Almanak. Link.

The ultimate platform for DeFAI Era.

Author: 100y.eth

#review


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🕹 Is 2025 the year of gaming x AI? Link.

The momentum is building, with $370M+ raised by companies building AI-powered dev tools since 2022 and major studios experimenting with AI-driven NPCs, gaming has become the perfect sandbox for AI innovation.

Author: Delphi Digital
Chart: Token Terminal

#research


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🥇 Top projects from Solana AI Hackathon by FDV. Link.

Note: FDV is the total value or market capitalization of a cryptocurrency if all issued tokens were in circulation.

Author: DropsTab

#top


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🌐 Weekend with “Curated Crypto”: DeFAI Era

DeFAI (DeFi + AI) aims to significantly improve the DeFi user experience by using AI agents that can execute complex tasks on behalf of the users.

• DeFAI: The next big narrative?

• DeFAI Analysis

Chart: DeFAI tokens by holder count

#DeFAI

Spend your weekend usefully! 🙌🏻


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🔑 The single large-amount unlocking in the next 7d. Link.

The total unlocking value exceeds $2.927B.

Author: Tokenomist

#unlocks


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❤️ Retail interest and altcoin dominance. Link.

Quote: The consistent growth in altcoin trading volume on Binance reinforces confidence in the potential for an altcoin bull market in 2025.

Author: Burak Kesmeci | CryptoQuant

#forecast


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👛 New wallets in projects. Link.

Some crypto projects have seen the strongest growth in networks for the week.

Author: Santiment

#trends


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Daily Dose of News 📺
January 13, Monday


General:

• FTX to begin distributing $1.2B to creditors after Trump inauguration. Link.

• Singapore blocks Polymarket, following Taiwan and France. Link.

• Millions of OpenSea user emails leaked in 2022 now fully public. Link.

• Kenya drafts legislation to regulate cryptocurrencies. Link.

• North Dakota considers crypto reserve as state bitcoin treasuries gain momentum. Link.

Product updates:

• World announces 10 million users verified on World Network. Link.

• Grayscale considers adding BNB, Dogecoin and Tron to its investment instruments. Link.

Listing:

• MEXC & Gate io have announced that Koii Network (KOII) will be listed on Monday. Link.

• Bithumb to list Zerkit ZRC. Link.

Fundraising:

• Helio, a crypto checkouts solutions for e-commerce in Web3, has been acquired for $175M by MoonPay. Link.

• Nevermined, a decentralized AI payments protocol, has raised $4M. Link.


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💾 DeSci ecosystem map (December 2024). Link.

Quote (yesnoerror): Last night, as an experiment, we started contacting scientists and PhDs letting them know about the errors in their papers discovered by our AI agent framework.

Note: Be sure to refresh your memory with this article.

Author: Messari

#research


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🌟 Local tops. Link.

What makes the market go up and down.

Author: Tulip King

#research


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🚘 BlackRock’s BUIDL enabled as collateral for enhanced yield strategies. Link.

The tokenized treasury product was used as collateral in a basis trade via QCP, yielding an 18% APY.

Author: The Defiant
Chart: RWA.xyz

#yield


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🎧 In today’s attention economy, mindshare → influence → value-accrual. Link.

Quote: Attention is finite & more scarce than you might think.

Author: Cheeezzyyyy

#research


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🕹 New AI protocols. Link.

Who to look out for in January 2025.

Author: Stacy Muur

#review


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🏆 Top 10 chains by revenue in 2024. Link.

Be sure to revisit our past two articles on Substack and refresh your memory on the 2024 totals in other categories.

Author: CryptoRank

#top


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📣 Top public sales & launchpools calendar. Link.

Definitely worth marking these dates!

Author: DropsTab

#events


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💱 2024 CEX annual report. Link.

Spot trading volume increased by 139% compared to 2023; derivatives trading volume increased by 91%

Author: Wu Blockchain

#research


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