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➖ Cryptorank: TRON H2 2024: Dominating Stablecoin Ecosystem While Pioneering New Horizons

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If you’re a Kaito Yapper, struggling to understand how yaps are earned, this guide is for you.

I tried to aggregate everything that is known about Kaito’s algo + my assumptions in one place.

Enjoy, hope it’s helpful!

Orderly Network's total trading volume nears $100B, up $20B since August 2024.

Daily activity is picking up momentum this January.

Even with new SEC leadership, spot market health is critical for ETF approvals.

BTC and ETH dominate liquidity, while SOL accounts for just 24% of BTC’s depth.

Ethereum and Avalanche C-Chain gained momentum last week, with active addresses growing by 10% and 15%, while Bitcoin saw a slight dip of 3%.

Solana, on the other hand, hit a major milestone – its total stablecoin market cap exceeded $10B as Trump-related memecoins pumped liquidity, driving USDC supply up by 51% to 9B.

DeFAI platforms are betting on their ability to compete with Telegram DEX bots.

Despite their speculative nature, their seamless natural language interface and user-friendly approach may be the key to mass adoption.

Aptos has been on an impressive run, expanding its active user base by 774% in just six months.

With transaction volume soaring from 1.9M to 7M, the network is rapidly scaling up.

This is the account of the most active Pumpdotfun dev, with 18,287 tokens launched and 156 tokens graduated.

And still, that is enough to make the daily transfer-out chart look like this.

The casino always wins.

Address:
MNhBbrscBPmeid54buiqSgyWa4D8PY6uKHoK2wJsTJN

The AI agent market is in a correction phase, down 50% from its peak, but development is ramping up across the board.

• Virtuals Protocol is expanding to Solana via LayerZero.

• ai16z rolled out Eliza v2 with better tokenomics, AI agent enhancements, and is now building a $10M AI fund.

• Griffain is integrating Shopify for AI agents to sell directly in stores.

• AIXBT introduced a 10-tier access system, with upcoming features including agent-to-agent collaboration and improved tokenomics.

• arc launched the Handshake Program, funneling value back to $ARC and partnering with Hyperbolic Labs, Soulgraph, and Piotreksol.

Knowing what to track = knowing where to profit.

Here’s the list of 5 key metrics from a16z that will define 2025 in crypto.

Top NFT sales in January.

The most expensive NFT sale amounted to 225 ETH (~$734,000).

Sui ranked as the fastest L1 blockchain at the end of 2024.

By bypassing consensus for simple transfers, Sui can reduce transaction processing time by up to 500ms, ensuring high scalability.