Key sectors on Solana in the past 7 days include DEX, derivatives & infrastructure, and gaming/staking/NFTs.
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The ultimate weekly digest for traders, investors, and airdrop seekers—packed with market insights and key updates.
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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This Week in Web3: The Calm Before the Storm
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This week, the Bitcoin balance on CEXs dropped to 2.4 million BTC, nearing a seven-year low.
Institutional investors, including hedge funds, are driving this trend by buying Bitcoin during price dips.
Institutional investors, including hedge funds, are driving this trend by buying Bitcoin during price dips.
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General
➖ 4pillars: Solana's AI Surge Begins: Hackathon Highlights
➖ Crypto.com: Alpha Navigator: Quest for Alpha [December 2024]
➖ CoinGecko: 2024 Annual Crypto Industry Report
➖ Footprint: 2024 Global Web3 Security Report | Footprint Analytics × Beosin
➖ Galaxy: Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus Call #148 Writeup
➖ Galaxy: Weekly Top Stories - 1/10
Market
➖ Coinbase: Weekly: Resolutions 2025
➖ Galaxy: Fed Moves Shake Up Markets as 2025 Begins
Blockchains & networks
➖ CoinMarketCap: What Is Virtuals Protocol: The Project Turning Digital Characters into Revenue-Generating Assets
General
➖ 4pillars: Solana's AI Surge Begins: Hackathon Highlights
➖ Crypto.com: Alpha Navigator: Quest for Alpha [December 2024]
➖ CoinGecko: 2024 Annual Crypto Industry Report
➖ Footprint: 2024 Global Web3 Security Report | Footprint Analytics × Beosin
➖ Galaxy: Ethereum All Core Developers Consensus Call #148 Writeup
➖ Galaxy: Weekly Top Stories - 1/10
Market
➖ Coinbase: Weekly: Resolutions 2025
➖ Galaxy: Fed Moves Shake Up Markets as 2025 Begins
Blockchains & networks
➖ CoinMarketCap: What Is Virtuals Protocol: The Project Turning Digital Characters into Revenue-Generating Assets
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Top bridges by fees accumulated over the past month:
• Across: $1.2M
• deBridge: $601.3K
• Allbridge Core: $267.4K
• Hop Protocol: $188.4K
• Synapse: $65.7K
• Across: $1.2M
• deBridge: $601.3K
• Allbridge Core: $267.4K
• Hop Protocol: $188.4K
• Synapse: $65.7K
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Last week, Binance's bnSOL recorded the highest-ever weekly LST inflow in Solana's history, adding 1,318,241 bnSOL to its supply – equivalent to approximately $248 million.
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Hundreds of thousands of wallets are active in the Virtuals ecosystem, but many hold only minimal balances.
For example, 90% of $LUNA wallets, 88% of $GAME wallets, and 86% of $SEKOIA wallets contain less than $1.
For example, 90% of $LUNA wallets, 88% of $GAME wallets, and 86% of $SEKOIA wallets contain less than $1.
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Speculation around the approval of an XRP ETF pushed the cryptocurrency to a new ATH, its first since 2018.
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In Q4 2024, the top 10 CEXs reached $6.5 trillion in spot trading volume, marking a 111.7% QoQ increase.
This was the first time quarterly trading volumes exceeded $6 trillion, with total 2024 volumes reaching $17.4 trillion, compared to $7.2 trillion in 2023.
This was the first time quarterly trading volumes exceeded $6 trillion, with total 2024 volumes reaching $17.4 trillion, compared to $7.2 trillion in 2023.
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Sui Bridge set a remarkable milestone, processing $5 billion in transactions within just 24 hours.
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NFT trading volumes in 2024 dropped 19% compared to 2023, totaling $13.7 billion, while the number of sales declined by 18% to just under 50 million.
This makes 2024 one of the weakest years for NFTs since 2020.
This makes 2024 one of the weakest years for NFTs since 2020.
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Winners of the Solana AI Hackathon include innovative startups like:
• The Hive: A modular network of interoperable DeFi agents. Learn more
• FXN: A resource-sharing network for AI agents. Learn more
• JailbreakM: The first open-source dApp where users earn rewards by testing and jailbreaking AI models. Learn more
• The Hive: A modular network of interoperable DeFi agents. Learn more
• FXN: A resource-sharing network for AI agents. Learn more
• JailbreakM: The first open-source dApp where users earn rewards by testing and jailbreaking AI models. Learn more
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In December, spot and derivatives trading volumes on CEXs surged by 7.58%, hitting a record $11.3 trillion – a new high for digital asset trading activity.
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