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The Morning Minute (2.26)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors fall then rebound, BTC back at $88k
-BTC ETFs see worst 2-day stretch with 1.5B in outflows
-SEC drops case against Uniswap
-Hyperliquid beats all chains and DEXes in 24-hour revenue
-PayPal plans to ramp up adoption of its stablecoin this year, more product integrations
🌎 Macro Crypto and Memes
-Crypto majors are mixed after another big sell off; BTC -1% at $88,000, ETH +1% at $2,450, XRP +4% at $2.27, SOL -2% at $137
-IP (+31%), XDC (+22%), BERA (+18%), TIA (+17%) and MKR (+12%) led alts
-The Bitcoin ETFs saw their largest day of outflows with $1B, now $1.5B in outflows on the week
-The SEC dropped its case against Uniswap, the latest in high profile cases dropped
-PayPal plans to ramp up adoption of its stablecoin in 2025 and integrate into more products
-Bybit is offering $140M in bounties to anyone who can help track down its stolen ETH from last Friday’s hack
-The Ethereum Foundation director, Aya Miyaguchi, is shifting from its Executive Director to President amidst calls for leadership changes
-Bitwise shared that 53% of 350 wealth managers surveyed plan to allocate to crypto in client accounts
-Gamestop’s CEO received a letter urging the company to buy $5B worth of Bitcoin
-Grayscale filed for a Polkadot ETF while its staked ETH ETF was acknowledged
-Senator Lummis teased that today’s Senate Banking Subcommittee hearing on Bitcoin will be “a big deal”
In Memes
-Memecoin leaders were mostly green with DOGE +1%, Shiba +3%, PEPE +3%, TRUMP -2%, BONK -10% & PENGU +7%
-FWOG and UFD each rebounded 25% on the day, now at $73M and $50M respectively
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-Hyperliquid beat all other chains and DEXs in 24 hour revenue on Tuesday with $3.5M
-Sui launched a new feature allowing for private connections using video, audio or text powered by Sui and Walrus
-Kaito continued to soar with its token jumping 13% to $2 as staked KAITO voting goes live today
-Monad teased that its “last day to be an early user” of its testnet
-Geodnet, a Solana DePin project offering location data for drones and robots, raised $8M led by Multicoin
-Hamster Kombat launched its own TON layer-2 for its game
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap rebounded 5% to at $6.1B as most leaders chopped
-VIRTUAL (+4%), ai16z (-1%), FARTCOIN (-1%), ARC (+1%), FAI (+4%)
-DOGEAI (+95%), AVB (+92%) and ALCH (+27%) led notable movers
-Fartcoin leads mindshare; ARC top mindshare mover
-Virtuals introduced Virtuals Ventures as the new Ecosystem Fund for the Virtuals Protocol, aimed at helping AI teams with funding and launch support
-AssetDash teased its final touches on the Moby whitepaper, coming later this week
-Activision admitted that its Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 game was built using generative AI
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders are mostly green; Punks -1% at 34 ETH, Pudgy +6% at 9, BAYC +1% at 13.1 ETH, Azuki -2% at 2.78; Kaito Genesis +13% to 3.45
-V (+55%), Wassies (+31%) and Mintify Genesis (+25%) led top movers
-BTC NFT leaders were mixed; Bitcoin Puppets -15%, NodeMonkes -12%, OMB +17%, Quantum Cats +7%
-OMB completed a $6.7M primary sale for its Black Eyes Ordinals, selling 3,575 OMBs for 0.021 BTC each (floor now 0.029)
-OCH Genesis Heroes soared 50% back to a 0.54 ETH floor, with the Genesis Rings up 38% to 1.69
The Morning Minute (2.27)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors fall further on Trump Tariffs, then rebound
-Fear and Greed hits lowest level in 18 months
-BTC ETFs see another $750M in outflows
-Kaito soars another 30% leading alts
-Bank of America plans to enter the stablecoin game under crypto-friendly Trump
🌎 Macro Crypto and Memes
-Crypto majors are red but up from a local bottom; BTC -2% at $86,400, ETH -5% at $2,350, XRP -2% at $2.23, SOL +1% at $139
-KAITO (+30%), STX (+11%), APT (+9%), OP (+8%) and MKR (+7%) led alts
-Trump announced 25% tariffs on the European Union for cars and “other things”, spooking markets yesterday and sending crypto majors down
-Bybit CEO Zhou issued a statement regarding the results of their internal audit related to the hack, showing that the root cause was on Safe Wallet’s end and not Bybit
-The FBI said that North Korea being responsible for the $1.5B Bybit hack means that private companies should block transactions of those who were involved in any laundering of funds from the incident
-Bank of America’s CEO said that stablecoins are coming very soon and a business they plan to enter in the latest sign of major institutional adoption
-The SEC dropped its case against Gemini with no enforcement action
-Zachxbt announced he’s joining Paradigm as an incident response advisor
-Polymarket odds on the Epstein List being revealed shot up to 95% after reports that it will be revealed today
In Memes
-Memecoin leaders were mostly green with DOGE -1%, Shiba +3%, PEPE +3%, TRUMP +1%, BONK +3% & PENGU +4%
-Pump Fun briefly had its X account hacked, recovered within a few hours
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-Avax launched the Avalanche Card as its new crypto credit card allowing holders to spend against their crypto assets wherever Visa is accepted
-Phantom acquired the token data platform Simple Hash
-Wolves DAO launched an application for an Avax airdrop
-Luca Netz told the Pudgy Penguin ecosystem that they “will eat at [Abstract] TGE”
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap jumped another 5% to at $6.4B as most leaders saw green
-VIRTUAL (+4%), ai16z (+9%), FARTCOIN (+12%), ARC (+9%), FAI (+11%)
-ALCH (+50%), COOKIE (+26%) and MOBY (+25%) led notable movers
-Fartcoin leads mindshare; Myshell, OpenLedger and Moby top mindshare movers
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders are mostly even; Punks even at 34 ETH, Pudgy +2% at 9.2, BAYC even at 13.1 ETH, Azuki -2% at 2.7
-Smowls (+25%) and Honey Combs (+25%) led top movers
-BTC NFT leaders were mostly green; Bitcoin Puppets +11%, NodeMonkes even, OMB +19%, Quantum Cats -3%
-Abstract NFTs saw more big green with OCH Heroes even at 0.5 ETH, SegMint +35% to 0.088 and Gigaverse +11% to 0.061
-The Observation round of Sam Spratt’s Masquerade is set to end later today as the game will then move on to its final phase
-NBA Top Shot teased a new version of its Showcases allowing collectors to arrange their favorite Moments more easily
The Morning Minute (2.28)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors tumble as Bitcoin hits $78k
-Total crypto market cap now below 2021 peak
-Uniswap introduced a fiat offramp
-MetaMask announced a major product overhaul including BTC & SOL support
-Base intro'd Flashblocks as 10x improvement in speed
-SEC declares memecoins aren’t securities, says crime will still be prosecuted
🌎 Macro Crypto
-Crypto majors are very red after another bloody night; BTC -7% at $80,200, ETH -10% at $2,120, XRP -9% at $2.03, SOL -4.5% at $134
-Stablecoins are 6 of the top 8 movers
-Uniswap added a fiat offramp, allowing users to swap tokens to USDC then offramp to cash in the bank within seconds via MoonPay, Robinhood and Transak
-The SEC dropped (or is in process of dropping) its cases against Coinbase and Consensys
-Texas passed legislation for its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve through its Business and Commerce Committee, now on to the Senate
-Bitmex is reportedly shopping for a buyer according to Coindesk
-House Democrats have introduced the MEME Act to prohibit the President and his family from launching, sponsoring or endorsing any kind of digital asset
In Memes
-Memecoin leaders were mostly red with DOGE -11%, Shiba -10%, PEPE -11%, TRUMP -14%, BONK -10% & PENGU -7%
-The SEC released a statement stating that meme coins are not securities, with a few exceptions and caveats
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-MetaMask introduced a major overhaul for their wallet product including Native Bitcoin & SOL support, a new home screen UI, Abstracted gas (pay in any token), Smart account features and more
-Base introduced Flashblocks as a new method to enhance speed, moving from 2 second blocks to 200 milliseconds
-Mintify announced their MINT token and tokenomics, launching on Solana and kicking off a rewards season with 60M tokens up for grabs
-Portal and Wasabi launched a partnership with the PORTAL Games trading competition set to start March 4 (free to play, 200 SOL in prizes)
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap fell 5% to $6.1B as most leaders saw red
-VIRTUAL (-11%), ai16z (+6%), FARTCOIN (-14%), ARC (-12%), FAI (-26%)
-ALCH (+25%) led notable movers
-Fartcoin leads mindshare; Kira and ai16z top mindshare movers
-OpenAI revealed Chat GPT-4.5 at a 1300% price increase compared to GPT4
-Sui-native FanTV raised $3M to transform content creation via AI Agents, led by Prashan Agarwal whio previously was the CEO of Gaana (an India-based streaming platform which saw 180M users)
📰NFT Headlines
-ETH NFT leaders are mostly even; Punks even at 34 ETH, Pudgy -1% at 9.13, BAYC -4% at 12.6 ETH, Azuki +2% at 2.77
-Band Bears (+33%) and Deadfellas (+25%) led top movers
-BTC NFT leaders were mostly red; Bitcoin Puppets -7%, NodeMonkes -4%, OMB -11%, Quantum Cats -5%
-Abstract NFTs were mixed with OCH Genesis and SegMints down a bit, but Bearish (+26%) and Captain & Company (+16%) seeing green
-A controversial 1/1 from Botto called “The Giraffe” sold for 54 ETH ($127,575) at Verse on Thursday
The Morning Minute (2.25)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors fall in major selloff, BTC touches $87,500
-Alts and memes fall even further with many down 10%+
-The Citadel announces it will enter crypto via market making
-Ethena raised $100M for a new TradFi-focused stablecoin
-DOJ orders OKX to forfeit $421M in fees, $84M fine
🌎 Macro Crypto and Memes
-Crypto majors are red after another big sell off; BTC -7% at $89,000, ETH -10% at $2,420, XRP -11% at $2.21, SOL -12% at $139
-IP (+17%) and DEXE (+5%) led alts
-The DOJ ordered OKX to forfeit $421M in fees from US users and pay an $84M penalty
-Citadel Securities is planning to enter crypto via market making for major exchanges like Coinbase, Binance and Crypto dot com
-Michael Saylor shared a foundational Digital Assets framework doc with the SEC’s Crypto Task Force on Friday
-CZ Binance disclosed his personal portfolio containing 98.6% BNB with about 1.3% Bitcoin along with a handful of stables
-Crypto neo-bank Infini lost $49.5M in a hack by a former developer
-Ohio introduced a bill to remove states taxes on Bitcoin payments
-Germany’s DekaBank launched Bitcoin and crypto trading + custody for institutional clients
-Metaplanet bought another 135 Bitcoin adding to its stores
In Memes
-Memecoin leaders were very red with DOGE -10%, Shiba -7%, PEPE -12%, TRUMP -14%, BONK -13% & PENGU -10%
The overall memecoin market cap is now down $80B from its December peak, now at $56B
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-Ethena raised $100M from Franklin Templeton and others to launch a Tradfi-focused stablecoin
-Metamask teased a physical Metamask credit / debit card coming soon
-Myriad reached #2 on DappRadar’s Gambling leaderboard with 354k weekly active user
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap is down 12% at $5.6B, a new local low
-Leaders are down 3-7% with VIRTUAL (-7%), ai16z (-4%), FARTCOIN (-7%), ARC (-4%), FAI (+14%)
-ALCH (+39%), pippin (+18%) and ACT (+15%) led notable movers
-AIXBT and Fartcoin lead mindshare; Keke top mindshare mover
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders are mostly red; Punks even at 34.5 ETH, Pudgy -6% at 8.5, BAYC -6% at 13 ETH, Azuki -2% at 2.8
-V (+55%), Wassies (+31%) and Mintify Genesis (+25%) led top movers
-BTC NFT leaders were mixed; Bitcoin Puppets -15%, NodeMonkes -12%, OMB +17%, Quantum Cats +7%
-Several Abstract NFT collections saw big green in the wake of OCH Heroes, including Roach Racing, Pixelady Maker and Canna Sapiens
-Yuga Labs announced that Dookey Dash will be sunsetted at end of February
The Morning Minute (2.24)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors fall in Sunday selloff, ETH and SOL lag
-Bybit announces full recovery of funds from historic hack
-SEC drops case against Robinhood Crypto
-Pump Fun launches its own liquidity pools, RAY falls 35%
-KAITO soars 30% after announcement of new rewards tiers
🌎 Macro Crypto and Memes
-Crypto majors are red after a Sunday night sell off; BTC -1% at $95,800, ETH -4% at $2,680, XRP -3% at $2.48, SOL -6% at $159
-Sonic (7%) and SEI (+5%) led alts
-Bybit reported it has closed the gap from its ETH hack with customer funds now fully backed
-Saylor bought another 20k Bitcoin at a $97k+ average
-Canary filed for an HBAR ETF which according to Bloomberg ETF analysts means LTC and HBAR are in pole position for the ETF approval
-Montana rejected a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve proposal, one of the first states to do so
-Sonic jumped into the top 10 in weekly volumes with $850M
In Memes
-Memecoin leaders were red with DOGE -6%, Shiba -5%, PEPE -5%, TRUMP -5%, BONK -6% & PENGU -2%
-Avax memecoin presale BLUB received over 100k applications as applicants are antsy to chase KET and WINK-like gains
-No Kanye memecoin was launched amidst reports the rapper has sold his X account (not fully confirmed)
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-Pump Fun is reportedly launching its own liquidity pools for its tokens via https://t.co/umFZefeW9D, no longer being dependent on Raydium’s pools (RAY -34% to $2.83)
-Pump Fun also removed a token which graduated yesterday which was tied to the Lazarus hacker group and was seemingly being used to launder money
-Kaito announced tiered social cards based on amount of KAITO airdrop held and staked
-Arkham launched spot trading markets in several US states
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap is down 7% at $6.4B, leaders all red
-VIRTUAL (-3%), FARTCOIN (-5%), ai16z (-6%), ARC (-5%), FAI (-25%); not many notable movers
-New sports betting AI Agent Billy Bets was one of the biggest winners of the weekend, jumping to $14M after revealing a $100k bankroll for betting and having a successful first weekend
-BUDDY and BILLY lead mindshare growth
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders mostly chopped over the weekend; Punks -1% at 34.5 ETH, Pudgy even at 9.04, BAYC +-% at 13.8 ETH, Azuki even at 2.9
-Pixl Pets (+35%), Infinigods (+31%) and AlphaSharks (+28%) led top movers
-Meebits jump 50% on the week to 0.94 ETH
-BTC NFT leaders were mostly red; Bitcoin Puppets -3%, NodeMonkes -5%, OMB -1%, Quantum Cats even
-Abstract saw its first big NFT runner with OCH Genesis Heroes running to a 0.6 ETH floor at peak over the weekend (now back at 0.355)
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What's new?
🔹Majors continue to rally with $ETH leading & $BTC holding $90K+
🔹Coinbase pushes forward on tokenized stocks
🔹Sui joins @worldlibertyfi's DeFi push with $SUI in its reserve
🔹@cryptopunks see 20 sales, biggest day in weeks
🔹Jump's restoring its crypto business to full operation
→ after having been hit by the Market + FTX in 2022
🔹@RobinhoodApp partners with @hqtrivia host for new game with crypto prizes
→ $1M was split between 1.6k winners w/more to come
The Morning Minute (3.3)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors and alts soar after Trump Strategic Reserve post
-White House to hold first-ever Crypto Summit this Friday
-BlackRock adds BTC ETF to its Model Portfolio with 1-2% allocation
-Kalshi designated as a covered exchange by the CFTC
-Onchain Heroes introduce The Dungeons, NFTs and HERO token rallies
🌎Macro Crypto:
-Crypto majors are very green after Trump’s big post; BTC +8% at $93,000, ETH +6% at $2,370, XRP +18% at $2.67, SOL +14% at $163
-ADA (+50%), XCN (+26%), XRP (+18%) and CRV (+15%) led alts
-President Trump issued a new post stating that the Crypto Strategic Reserve to include XRP, SOL and ADA in addition to BTC and ETH
-The White House announced its first-ever Crypto Summit taking place his Friday, chaired by David Sacks with founders, CEOs, investors and the core Working Group members in attendance
-BlackRock added its Bitcoin ETFs to its Model Portfolio for the first time, adding a 1-2% allocation opening the doors for 100s of billions in copy trading
-The Bitcoin ETFs saw their biggest day of inflows in weeks on Friday with $94M
-Arizona’s Senate passed its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill, now on to its House
-Metaplanet bought another $13M worth of Bitcoin as it continues to stockpile
In Memes
-Memecoin leaders were mostly green with DOGE +7%, Shiba +3%, PEPE +7%, TRUMP +13%, BONK +6% & WIF +17%
-The Libra scandal made the front page of the New York Times on Saturday
-Ronaldhino’s STAR10 memecoin dropped on BNB and reached $32M in market cap ($280M fdv)
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-Kalshi was designated as a “covered exchange” by the CFTC
-Cronos is considering a proposal to reissue 70B CRO tokens that were previously burned
-Infinex announced self-sovereigh Bitcoin vaults with multisig
-Runes pumped across the board as the launch of Odin dot Fun has brought new liquidity into the BTC ecosystem, with PUPS and DOG set to integrate this week
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap jumped 8% to $6.5B as most leaders saw big green
-VIRTUAL (+4%), ai16z (+19%), FARTCOIN (+42%), ARC (+11%), AIXBT (+8%)
-ACOLYT (+52%), FARTCOIN (+45%), GRIFFAIN (+34%) AND ALCH (+31%) led notable movers
-Fartcoin leads mindshare; ALCH and Naval top mindshare movers
-Hey Anon introduced its “Ask Anon” interface as a chatGPT-type solution geared towards crypto questions
-Kween passed the Turing Test being featured on BBC Introducing London
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders are very green; Punks +2% at 35.5 ETH, Pudgy +8% at 10.15, BAYC +4% at 13.9 ETH, Azuki even at 2.77
-Topia Worlds (+38%) and Winds of Yawanawa (+35%) led top movers
-BTC NFT leaders were mostly green; Bitcoin Puppets +5%, NodeMonkes even, OMB +23%, Quantum Cats -1%
-Abstract NFTs were mixed with OCH leading the way at 0.58 ETH floor
-Onchain Heroes introduced The Dungeons as the next phase of their p2e game
-Luca Netz teased something coming for American-made JPEGs coming out of the Strategic Reserve news
The Morning Minute (3.4)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors fully retrace Sunday pump, BTC back to $83,500
-SEC drops cases against Kraken and Yuga Labs
-Bybit hackers launder over $1B of stolen funds via Thorchain
-ZORA announces token launch coming to Base
-MegaETH says public testnet coming this week
🌎Macro Crypto
-Crypto majors are down big after one of the worst days in recent history; BTC -10% at $83,500, ETH -12% at $2,090, XRP -12% at $2.35, SOL -17% at $136
-More tariff news and broad weakness in the stock market seem to have been factors in pulling down crypto markets, as the Strategic Reserve pump from Sunday fully retraced
-The Bybit hackers have successfully laundered $1.2B of ETH via Thorchain, with 83% converted into BTC (though 77% of funds are still traceable)
-The SEC closed its investigations into Yuga Labs and Kraken, its latest high profile case drops
-The US Senate is set to vote this week on repealing an IRS rule on crypto and DeFi
-A new Crypto Caucus was spun up to help support crypto innovation in the US
-Nasdaq filed with the SEC to list and trade the Grayscale Hedera ETF
-The UFC signed a sponsorship deal with VeChain
-Snoop Dogg partnered with web3 music platform https://t.co/kZLu3uy8qr after a dispute with Spotify
In Memes
-Memecoin leaders were very red with DOGE -13%, Shiba -10%, PEPE -17%, TRUMP -19%, BONK -18% & WIF -24%
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-Zora revealed token airdrop plans with ZORA coming on Base this spring
-Henlo executed its latest airdrop on Berachain for eligible users, briefly reaching $100M before falling to $25M
-MegaETH announced its public testnet will be deployed on March 6 for builders and March 10 for users
-Hyperliquid announced its mainnet validated will become fully permissionless after the next network upgrade
-Parallel crowned its first TCG World Champion along with $100k for first place
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap fell 20% to $5.2B as most leaders fell significantly
-VIRTUAL (-20%), ai16z (-30%), FARTCOIN (-35%), ARC (-28%), ACT (+3%)
-No notable movers
-Henlo leads mindshare after its airdrop; KEKE top mindshare mover
-Virtuals is powering Robots dot Fun, a new launchpad for Robotics AI with AI Agents
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders are mostly red; Punks +2% at 36 ETH, Pudgy -7% at 9.5, BAYC -1% at 13.75 ETH, Azuki -6% at 2.65
-BTC NFT leaders were also red; Bitcoin Puppets -7%, NodeMonkes -1%, OMB -11%, Quantum Cats -4
-Abstract NFTs were mostly red as well, giving back some recent gains; Plooshy Houses were the top mover up 23% to 0.2 ETH
-SuperRare announced a new focus on curation, streamlined RARE staking incluing a partnership with Transient Labs, and the launch of a private sales team to go find more real-world collectors for digital artists
What's new?
🔹 The U.S. govt. signaled a willingness to ease tariffs on Mexico & Canada
🔹 Majors soar 6-10% with the above news ^
🔹 Lutnick: Trump to announce Bitcoin Reserve on Friday, while other tokens will be treated differently
🔹 Reddit co-founder announced he wants to buy TikTok and bring it onchain
🔹 Hyped AVAX token, $Blub, launched & briefly hits $100M FDV
🔹 Mexican billionaire Salinas allocated 70% of his net worth to Bitcoin ($3.5B+)
🔹 $USDC became the first and only stablecoin approved for use in Japan