🥇 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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🗳 Bitcoin gains as safe haven amid korea turmoil. Link.

South Korea's impact on bitcoin and the crypto market in general

Author: Kaiko

#research


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👻 zkVM: a new paradigm for web3 computing. Link.

Focus area: Zero-knowledge virtual machines

Author: Four Pillars

#research


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🎦 PerpAI in focus. Link.

At the crossroads of Perps and AI (DeFAI v1.2).

Author: Stacy Muur

#review


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