🚘 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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🎦 9 catalysts to watch this week. Link.

10 major upcoming crypto events, new tool for tracking narratives and 6 alpha threads.

Author: The DeFi Investor

#research


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Daily Dose of News 💿
January 14, Tuesday


General:

• Tether moves HQ to Bitcoin-friendly El Salvador. Link.

Product updates:

• Uniswap Labs to integrate API with Ledger Live for DeFi swaps. Link.

• World rival Humanity inches closer to mainnet with foundation launch. Link.

Release:

• Sony’s public blockchain platform Soneium launches on mainnet. Link.

• Solana launches Roam, a decentralized roaming WiFi network. Link.

• Bubblemaps, a blockchain-based data visualization platform, will launch a BMT token. Link.

Listing:

• Coinbase to list PNUT. Link.

• Bithumb to list A8, DRIFT. Link.

Incentives:

• Polygon community grants program announces season 2 with 35M POL. Link

Fundraising:

• ​​Alterya, a project focused on preventing payment fraud, has been acquired for $150M by Chainalysis. Link.

• Sygnum, a globally operating Digital Asset Bank, has raised $58M. Link.


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📰 Weekly Market Pulse: The Calm Before the Storm

The ultimate weekly digest for traders, investors, and airdrop seekers—packed with market insights and key updates.

👉 Read it on Substack 👈

Here’s what you’ll learn:

Market Sentiment: Retail activity in Bitcoin has dropped 21.7%, hinting at a shift toward accumulation, while Ethereum’s institutional appeal remains strong due to high developer activity and ETF integration. Meanwhile, altcoin trading dominance on Binance hit 78% in January 2025, suggesting growing retail interest and a potential altcoin bull market.

Yield Opportunities: BlackRock uses its tokenized treasury BUIDL for 18% APY, while Berachain’s SolvBTC.BERA offers Bitcoin holders enhanced yield, with over $1B in pre-deposits.

New Airdrops: Azuki has partnered with Hyperliquid for an ANIME airdrop to HYPE stakers. Berachain launched its BERA airdrop for ecosystem projects, with participating projects offering tokens. Derive announced its DRV token airdrop, allocating 5% of the supply to ENA stakers.

Upcoming TGEs and Token Sales: The upcoming Q1 2025 public sales and listings include CORN, SOON (Jan 14), XYRO, NC, SYNTH (Jan 14), DRV (Jan 15), LAYER (Jan 16), TIME (Jan 17), and SOLV (Jan 17), offering early investment opportunities in emerging projects.

Key Developments: New Solana proposal aims to fix scalability issues with ‘lattice’ system; Starknet releases SN Stack for appchain development.

Special note: Top Programmable Cryptography Projects by fundraising.


Look for the full version on our Substack 👉


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🎺 Major blockchain events in Q1 2025. Link.

Main crypto summits around the world

Author: CryptoRank

#events


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🕹 Thread about AI-related tokens. Link.

Agent tokens on Base have seen upwards of $300m in daily volume following 2 months of rapid growth.

Author: Blockworks Research

#research


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🌐 How Berachain works. Link.

Proof-of-Liquidity & BGT flow

Author: Pavel Paramonov

#review


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📺 Project spotlight / Week 2/2025. Link.

Here are 9 handpicked projects you'll want to explore.

Author: Eli5DeFi

#projects


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🥇 Top gainers of the week. Link.

Who distinguished themselves in the second week of the year.

Author: CryptoDep

#top


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🎮 3 years ago, the biggest categories were Dexes, Lending and CDPs. Link.

Now, Liquid Staking, Lending, and Bridges are at the top, followed by Dexes, Restaking and Liquid Restaking

Author: DefiLlama

#trends


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🌐 DeFai = DeFi + Ai. Link.

Once again, we call your attention to a new trend.

Author: Poopman
Chart: DropsTab

#research


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Azuki Airdrop is Coming Soon! Link.

50.5% of the total supply will go to the community. Of this, 2% is allocated for:

• Hyperliquid (HYPE stakers)
• Kaito yappers
• Arbitrum users

Author: Airdrop Adventure

More on airdrops in our latest article on Sabstack!

#airdrops #incentives

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Daily Dose of News 💿
January 15, Wednesday


General:

• Germany's second largest stock exchange, Boerse Stuttgart, has now received a license for cryptocurrency custodial services. Link.

• Thailand mulls allowing first bitcoin ETF in bid to boost sector. Link.

• Malaysia mulls crypto policy after talks with UAE and Binance founder CZ. Link.

Product updates:

• Thailand proposes banning Polymarket amid online gambling crackdown. Link.

Release:

• Nubank expands USDC rewards program to all customers. Link.

Listing:

• Binance Alpha announced the next batch of projects: GRIFT, VITA, AIMONICA. Link.

• Binance Futures to launch PROM futures. Link.

• Bithumb to list GAME2. Link.

Fundraising:

• Dfns, a Wallet-as-a-Service platform for digital assets, has raised $16M. Link.

• Litas, a platform for anonymous payments and crowdfunding, has raised $20M. Link.

• Reown (ex WalletConnect), an on-chain UX platform providing developers with tools, has raised $13M. Link.


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🕹AI Agents Landscape: January 2025. Link.

Six categories: from meme agents to advanced multi-agent systems.

Author: DeFi Warhol

#review


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🛍 When to sell crypto. Link.

A guide to smart exit strategies.

Author: Cointelegraph

#guide


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🔥 Infrastructure Giants: Sui Network (Parallel execution). Link.

SUI outpaced L1 tokens with a 542% one-year return with 7.5B transactions and $2B TVL!

Author: CoinMarketCap
Chart: The Block Pro

#top


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