📰 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.

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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.


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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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💰 Slowdown in Stablecoin minting. Link.

It could lead to continued crypto market consolidation

Author: Matrixport

#trends


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♟ 2024 TRON Network Review. Link.

From USDT powerhouse to DeFi hub.

Author: CryptoQuant

#review


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🎴 Protocol in focus: Bubblemaps. Link.

From exposing wallet clusters to detecting token supply manipulation.

Author: DL News
Addition: Cointelegraph
Chart (most viral new CT ticker mentions in the last 48h): DexuAI

#review


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🛒 Solayer made several changes to its token sale. Link.

Note: The sale starts on Jan 16 at 10:00 AM (UTC) on Buidlpad.

Read about other top public sales in our latest article on Substack

Author: DropsTab

#TGE


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🎮 15 new quests across 7 top protocols. Link.

That's 15 new ways to earn crypto in just a few minutes.

Author: Flipside

#yield


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🌻Pantera Capital forecasts bitcoin surge in 2025. Link.

Investors watch bitcoin market ahead of Trump's inauguration impact.

Author: CoinMarketCap

#sentiment


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Daily Dose of News 🎧
January 16, Thursday


General:

• Upbit, South Korea's largest crypto exchange, may face sanctions in the country. Link.

• Swiss state-owned bank postfinance expands in crypto with Ethereum staking. Link.

• eToro confidentially files for US IPO targeting $5 billion valuation. Link.

Product updates:

• XRP price breaks all-time high as futures open interest hits record $7.7B. Link.

• Trump receptive to include US-based coins in ‘America-first’ crypto reserve. Link.

Listing:

• Bithumb to list AGLD, CBK, HPO. Link.

• Binance Alpha announced the next batch of projects: LLM, SEKOIA, PYTHIA. Link.

Incentives:

• The SOLV Airdrop checker is live. Link.

• Ronin offers $10M grant program for Web3 developer growth. Link.

Fundraising:

• Komainu has raised $75M in Series B round. Link.

• 1Money raises over $20 million in seed funding. Link.


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📣 Plume’s airdrop registration is live! Link.

Plume is bringing the entire RWA sector together and they will be airdropping to close communities like Ondo, Polymarket, AIXBT, and select users from Dinari and SwarmX.

Author: CyrilXBT
Plume Network review (Four Pillars): How to bring real world into crypto

#incentives #review


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