💥World Premiere💥
📢 New Listing
@navigate_ai#NVG8 Gets Listed on #KuCoin!
💎Pair: NVG8/USDT
💎Deposit: now open (network: BASE-ERC20)
💎Trading: 12:00 on February 26, 2025 (UTC)
What's new?
• Crypto majors dip ahead of CPI, Bitcoin at $96,000
• Trump WLFI project debuts ‘Macro Strategy’
• Trump selects a16z Crypto’s Head of Policy for CTFC chair
• Uniswap debuts Unichain as stand alone L2 for DeFi
• Powell: "US has no plans for a digital dollar"
The Morning Minute (2.12)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors dip ahead of CPI, Bitcoin at $96,000
-Trump WLFI project debuts ‘Macro Strategy’
-Trump selects a16z Crypto’s Head of Policy for CTFC chair
-Uniswap debuts Unichain as stand alone L2 for DeFi
-Powell confirms the US has no plans for a digital dollar
🌎 Macro Crypto and Memes
-Crypto majors are red this morning ahead of CPI; BTC -2% at $96,300, ETH -2% at $2,640, SOL -2% at $198
-Trump selected the current Head of Policy at a16z Crypto, Brian Quintenz, as head of the CFTC
-SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce said that memecoins will likely not be under SEC purview and likely would be under the CFTC on Tuesday
-Jerome Powell confirmed that the US has no plans for a digital dollar
-Trump’s WLF announced a new Macro Strategy for a token reserve featuring Bitcoin, Ethereum and other tokens along with RWAs in partnership with TradFi
-WLF also announced a strategic partnership with Ondo Finance to promote real world asset (RWA) adoption
-Japanese mobile game developer Gumi shared plans to acquire $6.5M in Bitcoin, while publicly traded KULR added another 100 Bitcoin for $10M
In Memes
-Memecoin leaders were mostly red with DOGE -2%, Shiba +1%, PEPE -5%, TRUMP -3%, BONK -4% & PENGU -5%
-Jason Calacanis asked the SEC to ban memecoins
-Dave Portnoy’s JAILSTOOL led volume jumping 115% on the day to $75M
-DUO the Duolingo Owl was the runner of the night, reaching $12M on $95M volume
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-MoonPay revealed that it borrowed $160M in funds to finance the launch of the TRUMP coin opening weekend
-Uniswap launched its Eth L2 Unichain on Tuesday aimed at making “DeFi faster, cheaper, more decentralized”
-Tether led a strategic investment in Zengo Wallet, a stablecoin-focused self-custody wallet
-Phantom flipped Ethereum in 7-day revenue
-Wasabi opened up Magic Eden ME token staking pools with variable APRs along with up to 6x levered trading
-a16z announced a $15M seed round investment in Legend to “simplify DeFi and help bring the next 100M users onchain”
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap is down 9% to $7.1B, with most leaders down 5-15%
-Leaders are mostly red, ARC leads: VIRTUAL (-2%), FARTCOIN (-12%), ai16z (-15%), ARC (+1%), FAI (-5%), and AIXBT (-12%)
-ai16z had the most new capital inflows from smart money over the past week with $9563k
-Virtual claimed top mindshare spot after its move to Solana; ai16z and KWEEN biggest gainers
-Virtuals officially went live on Solana, with its agents live for buying, trading and creation on SOL
-Parallel’s Wayfinder announced that it’s adding Avatar Badges to reward holders of Parallel Avatars, with a single snapshot applying scores and modifiers
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders were mixed on the day; Punks +1% at 37 ETH, Pudgy -4% at 10.2, BAYC +2% at 13.8 ETH, Azuki +3% at 3.1 ETH; Kaito +10% at 8.3 ETH
-Parallel Avatars (+69%) and LinksDAO (+60%) top movers
-BTC NFT leaders were red; Bitcoin Puppets -8%, NodeMonkes -2%, OMB -9%, Quantum Cats -3%
-The Runes leaders were mixed; DOG -6% at $290M mc, PUPS -15% at $32M, BDC -10% at $18M
-Sam Spratt released a trailer for his upcoming Masquerade which showed glimpses of the 1/1 piece to be released alongside
-LinksDAO announced its plans to buy its first Gold Course
-Azuki’s Animecoin announced a partnership with Parrot Analytics to publish a monthly top-40 chart for Anime
Steady @madlads, @steadyteddys are gonna send @berachain NFTs to the moon with their unique art, active community, and just vibes approach. WAO! Tedism!
AI agents represent one of the most significant leaps in automation and efficiency in human history, further amplified by crypto rails
This technology has the potential to redefine how we interact with tech, challenging and disrupting the traditional 'app layer'
Y Combinator predicts that the rise of AI agents could surpass the SaaS vertical in both impact and scale
Why navigate complex interfaces or click through countless buttons when you can simply instruct an autonomous agent to handle it for you?
This is a paradigm shift, not a passing trend.
I’m thrilled to have been one of the ten winners of a Memory NFT by @NeuraADND!
I just received my piece, and it’s amazing. Shoutout to @photonisdead and @etienecrauss.
Huge thanks to @BambooADND for hosting the raffle!