The Morning Minute (2.20)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors grind up, BTC leads at $97,500
-Kaito token launches, hits $1.5B FDV in early trading
-Virtuals launches foundation for autonomous agentic economy
-Memeland announces new roadmap, MemePay and Meme Strategy
-Monad testnet goes live, Fantasy Top launches free-to-play game there
🌎 Macro Crypto and Memes
-Crypto majors are green; BTC +1% at $97,200, ETH +1% at $2,740, SOL +1% at $174
-IP (+30%), BERA (+23%), TIA (+17%) and TAO (+12%) lead alts
-The SEC acknowledged the 21shares filing for staking for its ETH ETF
-Meanwhile a former SEC attorney said they expect regulators to halt crypto cases and investigations, while the SEC also voluntarily dismissed their appeal to expand securities law to cover DeFi
-Binance US resumed its US dollar deposits for the first time since 2023
-Nigeria sued Binance for $81.5B related to unpaid taxes
In Memes
-Memecoin leaders were mixed with DOGE +1%, Shiba +1%, PEPE +1%, TRUMP +1%, BONK +1% & PENGU +4%
-The PAIN meme launched and reached a $250M market cap before settling at $170M
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-Kaito officially launched its KAITO token and tokenomics, opening at a $1.3B FDV
-Walrus, a next-gen decentralized data storage protocol on Sui, announced its mainnet launch coming in March along with their WAL token
-Memeland announced a new roadmap coming, the launch of MemPay as their new crypto credit card and the introduction of Meme Strategy at Consensus on Thursday
-Monad’s testnet went live, with Fantasy Top opening up a free-to-play fantasy game on Monad to celebrate
-UMA is working with Polymarket and Eigen to build a “next-gen” prediction market oracle
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap is up 5% at $6.1B, leaders all green
-VIRTUAL (+1%), FARTCOIN (+7%), ai16z (+9%), ARC (+18%), FAI (+25%)
-CLANKER (+110%), DOGEAI (+88%) and TSOTCHKE (+88%) were top movers
-CLANKER leads mindshare after a surprise Coinbase listing, VIRTUAL & BNKR saw biggest increases
-Virtuals introduced its Agent Commerce Protocol as a decentralized, open source protocol for agent-to-agent and agent-to-human onchain interaction and commerce
-ai16z is debuting its first episode of “Clank Tank” this weekend where users can pitch AI-powered judges on their products
-Nifty Island integrated AI Agents into its gaming ecosystem
🚚 What is happening in NFTs?
-ETH NFT leaders were mixed on the day; Punks even at 35.5 ETH, Pudgy even at 8.7, BAYC +5% at 13.7 ETH, Azuki -1% at 2.8 ETH; Doodles +1% at 3.8
-Kaito Genesis NFTs fell 30% to 3 ETH after tokenomics were released (more below)
-BTC NFT leaders were mostly green; Bitcoin Puppets +3%, NodeMonkes +4%, OMB +3%, Quantum Cats +5%
-Quantum Cats told their owners to get their cats out of Liqudium loans ahead of “The Funeral” coming up soon
-The Runes leaders were mostly red; DOG -13% at $282M mc, PUPS +1% at $35M, Magic Internet Money -15% at $52M
-Botto and Keke (AI Artists) are making up 90% of digital art sales this past week
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