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.

Each time a celebrity comes to crypto, they come to grind.

RIP $JENNER
RIP $MOTHER

So what makes you think $MELANIA or $TRUMP will be different?

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

Solana is experiencing another rally fueled by the $TRUMP craze:

– On January 19, $SOL reached a new ATH of over $294.
– Trading volume on DEXs in January has already exceeded $158 billion, with the month not yet over (the previous record was $140 billion in 2021).
– Phantom is processing over 8 million requests per minute amid this activity.
– Google search trends also reflect Solana's surging popularity these days.

The number of AI agents launched on Virtuals Protocol increased by an astounding 186,000% over the past three months.

Currently, the total number of agents on the platform exceeds 16,700.

As always, new research is ready for you! 💫

General
➖ Cryptorank: AI-agent Platforms: Comparative Analysis
➖ CoinShares: Digital Asset Bi-Weekly Digest - January 20th 2025
➖ Crypto.com: Performance Review for 2024 Highlighted Projects
➖ The Defiant: KPI Driven Rewards. The Meta after Airdrops
➖ Galaxy: Crypto & Blockchain Venture Capital – Q4 2024
➖ Galaxy: Ethereum All Core Developers Execution Call #203 Writeup
➖ Galaxy: Weekly Top Stories - 1/17

Market
➖ Crypto.com: Crypto Market Sizing Report 2024
➖ Coinbase: Weekly: Facing the Future
➖ SSRN: The $TRUMP Meme Coin: Genius, Greed, or Grift?
➖ Glassnode: Seeking Liquidity
➖ Galaxy: Bitcoin and Market Dynamics: Responding to the Latest CPI Inflation Report

DeFi
➖ Cointelegraph: Advancing IoT Connectivity with DePIN

Blockchains & networks
➖ 4pillars: Safe: Towards the Ownership Layer of Blockchain
➖ CoinHecko: Blockchains Earned Over $6.9B Transaction Fees in 2024

Okie guys, I have 20 WLs for the second phase of Sahara AI’s closed beta testnet.

If interested, drop these two things in the commentaries below:
– EVM address
– Email

As usual, it’s a FCFS, I will share the list of first 20 people to drop their info with Sahara AI for whitelisting.

BNB Chain introduced the AI Agent Solution, enabling developers to create, scale, and monetize AI agents for Web3 apps.

The solution is powered by customizable Agent Kits such as ai16z Eliza, ShellAgent, TermiX, and REVOX Studio.

More details in their announcement.

Despite the popularity of the DeFi sector, insurance accounts for only about 1% of it.

Learn more about this sector in the Three Sigma report.

In 2024, L1 and L2 blockchains earned over $6.89 billion from transaction fees.

Specifically, L1s recorded $6.60 billion in fees across 21 blockchains, while L2s generated $294.92 million across 12 blockchains.