The Morning Minute (1.24)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors green, SOL and ETH lead
-Trump signs Crypto Exec Order to build regulatory framework & evaluation reserve
-SEC repeals SAB121 as Banks express interest in crypto
-Vitalik publishes blog aimed at making ETH the core focus of L1+L2 economy
-Crypto Czar David Sacks says memecoins and NFTs are collectibles, not securities
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders were very red on the day following Azuki's ANIME airdrop; Punks even at 40 ETH, Pudgy -14% at 17.5, BAYC -7% at 13.9 ETH, Azuki -66% at 4 ETH
-Top movers included Abasho (+100%) and OnchainMonkey (+23%)
-BTC NFT leaders were mostly red; Bitcoin Puppets -6%, NodeMonkes 19%, OMB -5%, Quantum Cats +17%
-The Runes leaders were mixed; DOG +2% at $434M mc, PUPS -15% at $58M, BDC +10% at $36M
-The Yuga team fixed an 'issue' with the Punks marketplace allowing min bids to be surfaced, now with a 1 ETH threshold
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-The Azuki ANIME airdrop claim went live and has opened at $0.068 ($380M mc)
-Blast debuted its new mobile app, with 50% APY for USDC staking, and also opened its claim for BLAST for points/gold holders (BLAST -8% at $0.0067 and $165M mc)
-Wasabi opened up staking for VINE, the Solana memecoin runner of the day, as they continue to move deeper into meme staking and trading options
-NBA Top Shot launched a new Community Grants program to help fund meet ups and grow the community
-Thorchain's RUNE token falls 30% amidst reports the protocol is insolvent
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap was up 1% to $14.4B on a roller coaster day
-Most leaders are mixed, trading within a 5% range: VIRTUAL (+3%), ai16z (-4%), FARTCOIN (+6%), AIXBT (+2%), ARC (-4%) and GRIFFAIN (-5%)
-Top movers include LIMBO (+100%), AIMONICA (+18%), KEKE (+20%) and HENLO (+15%)
-FARTCOIN reclaimed the top spot in mindshare;
-REKT saw the biggest jump in mindshare as the new RektAI agent begins to rollout more of its automated art creations and launched its first auction
-FartStrategy, a memecoin dedicated to buying Fartcoin a la MicroStrategy and Bitcoin, was featured by Bloomberg writer Matt Levine, causing it to spike to $40M
-Trump said America will be the world capital for AI and crypto
-OpenAI demo'd its AI Agent features for the first time yesterday with their first agent Operator
-KEKE debuted its genesis release piece in partnership with Fellowship
🌎 Macro Crypto and Web3
-Crypto majors are green this morning; BTC +3% at $105,300, ETH +6% at $3,400, SOL +9% at $266, XRP +4% at $3.19
-LDO (+19%), ONDO (+17%) & ENS (+10%) lead alts
-Morgan Stanley's CEO said the bank wants to get deeper into crypto by working with regulators to allow crypto transactions for their customers
-Crypto Czar David Sacks considers memecoins and NFTs as collectibles, as expressed during an interview on Fox Business
-Senator Cynthia Lummis was appointed as the chair of the Digital Assets Subcommittee
-Vitalik shared a post calling for L2 to to start supporting Ethereum and cement ETH as the primary asset of the "greater (L1 + L2) Ethereum economy"
-The Trump WLF team bought another $10M of ETH on the day
Memes
-Memecoin majors are mostly green; DOGE +4%, SHIBA +3%, TRUMP -3%, PEPE +7%, PENGU +5%, BONK +4%, FARTCOIN +6%
-A memecoin ALON named after the founder of Pump Fun ran from $1M to $200M in 20 minutes after an endorsement (now back to $50M)
-SAFEMOON was another memecoin runner of the night, soaring to $80M at peak within hours of launch, now back to $50M
-TOSHI was a huge winner on Base, pumping 73% to $235M after going live on Coinbase
The Morning Minute (1.27)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors dip as Nasdaq opens down 5%; BTC at $99,500
-Elon's DOGE explores public blockchains for government operations
-Eric Trump teases tax free American crypto
-Solana has huge weekend with major Jupiter, AI and ETF news
-Abstract Mainnet launches today at 1 pm ET
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders were very red on the day; Punks even at 40 ETH, Pudgy -8% at 15.3, BAYC -4% at 13.6 ETH, Azuki even at 3.9 ETH
-Top movers included CDBs (+20%) and Plooshies (+20%)
-BTC NFT leaders were also very red; Bitcoin Puppets -15%, NodeMonkes -14%, OMB -4%, Quantum Cats -2%
-The Runes leaders were red; DOG -6% at $343M mc, PUPS -8% at $39M, BDC -15% at $24M
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-Jupiter acquired Moonshot and added a Buyback program using 50% of fees
-Abstract announced that its mainnet goes live today at 1 pm ET, along with new details for streamers
-Pump Fun set a new ATH in daily revenue with $15M
-Tribe launched as the newest SocialFi app on Solana, seeing nearly 100k signups in its first weekend
🤖 AI x Crypto
-Overall market cap is down 25% to $9.7B, a full 50% drawdown from local highs
-Most leaders are down 15-30%; VIRTUAL (-1%), ai16z (-22%), FARTCOIN (-25%), AIXBT (-20%), ARC (-20%) and GRIFFAIN (-32%)
-Top movers include CLOUDY (+100%) and GAMBLE (+25%)
-AIXBT regained top mindshare spot
-Virtuals announced plans to expand to Solana, targeting the first week of Feb
-The ai16z team announced Eliza v2 along with $10M fund for open-source AI startups
-Parallel's Wayfinder team teased that they've been using DeepSeek since January to power their agent
-CLOUDY soared 300% to $60M after releasing newly AI-created music and a successful X space
🌎 Macro Crypto and Web3
-Crypto majors are red this morning as broader markets sell off to open the week; BTC -5% at $99,000, ETH -7% at $3,060, SOL -11% at $226, XRP -10% at $2.80; JUP leads alts, +18% on the day to $1.09
-Analysts point to the launch of the DeepSeek model (along with FOMC concerns) as the driver for the market sell off, with the NASDAQ opening down 5% and NVDA down 12%
-Elon's DOGE is exploring using public blockchains to cut costs in the U.S. government
-The CEO of Bitwise said they are seeing more interest in crypto from $10B+ firms than ever before
-Fidelity posted a job for a blockchain engineer, signaling potential plans for expansion into crypto
-Eric Trump teased no capital gains tax on crypto, though this it is still very unclear if and how this would be implemented
-Grayscale filed for Solana ETF
Memes:
-Memecoin majors are also red; DOGE -10%, SHIBA -10%, TRUMP -9%, PEPE -16%, PENGU -13%, BONK -15%, WIF -13%
-TOSHI soared 100% to $800M on Sunday, just a few days after being listed on Coinbase
-The FAFO meme tied to a Trump post soared to $90M on $400M volume in it's debut (now $30M), and SEEK (tied to DeepSeek) jumped 740% to $28M
The Morning Minute (1.28)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors rebound after DeepSeek dip
-Trump WLF team stacks ETH, up to $180M
-Kucoin founders step down amidst $300M settlement
-Abstract mainnet launches; streaming, apps, trading all go live
-VVV leads AI rebound, soars to $2B fdv in debut
Macro
-Crypto majors are green, led by XRP and Solana
-BTC +4% to $102,750, ETH +4% to $3,180, XRP +12$% to $3.14, SOL +% to $238
-XDC (+20%), RAY (+15%) an JUP (+13%) led alts
-KuCoin co-founders have stepped down after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitter and paying $300M in fines
-SoFi said it would aggressively return to crypto under Trump and the new SEC
-The Trump WLF team bought another $10M of ETH, now holding $182M of ETH
-MetaPlanet to raise $745M to buy more Bitcoin
-Tuttle Capital applies for Chainlink, Cardano and Polkadot ETF
Tokens, Protocols & Airdrops
-Abstract debuted its mainnet, launching its new XP system, dozens of apps, streaming, memecoin trading and more
-OpenSea opened its v2 beta for holders of Gemesis and select members from their waitlist
-Symbiotic shared a cryptic post on X that alludes to a potential airdrop coming today
-The Sui team demonstrated capability to send Sui transactions by SMS
-Myriad Markets officially launched on Abstract Mainnet
-Boyco for Berachain opened briefly but crashed after big demand
AI
-Total market cap jumped 15% to $11B though largely aided by the addition of VVV
-Most leaders see slight green, ARC (+19%) FAI (+20%) and ANON (+30%) outperform
-Top movers include GAMBLE (+80%), HEU (+73%), YNE (+60%) & ORBIT (+41%)
-VVV launched and ran to $22 at peak and $2.2B fdv (now $16); token tied to Eric Voorhies’ Venice platform for private, uncensored AI and got listed on Coinbase day 1
-Truthchain launched and hit $14M at peak (now $9M), a decentralized fact checker for LLMs
-DeepSeek released a new model that does image generation (like DALL-E), amidst growing speculation that they have more CPU power than disclosed
-rektguyAI cleared over $25k in its first AI-generated 1/1 auction
Memes and NFTs
-Meme leaders were mostly green with DOGE +6%, Shiba +5%, TRUMP +12%, PEPE +3%, BONK +5% & PENGU -18%
-MLG was a big winner, jumping 50% to $140M
-SPX and GIGA rebound 10-15%, leading Murad memes
-ETH NFT leaders are very red with Pudgy -25% to 11.46 ETH, Azuki -3% to 3.78 ETH and BAYC -3% to 13.2; Punks steady at 40.8
-BTC Ordinals were mostly green, with Puppets +14%, Nodes +11%, Quantum Cats -8% and OMB +3%
-Runes were also green, with DOG +15%, BDC +12%, and PUPS +14%
The Morning Minute (1.29)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors chop ahead of FOMC today, BTC leads
-Lummis promotes BTC strategic reserve on Fox Business
-Czech Central Bank to vote on 5% allocation to BTC
-Aerodrome suspends 2 employees tied to VVV insider trading
-ai16z to rebrand, ARC announces deeper partnership with Solana as AI leaders rebound
🌎 Macro Crypto
-Crypto majors are slightly red ahead of FOMC today, BTC leads at $102,400;
-ETH -2% to $3,120, XRP -3% to $3.08, SOL -3% to $230
-MOVE (+12%) and TAO (+8%) led alts
-Senator Lummis went on Fox Business to promote the BITCOIN act and why the US should seek to acquire 5% of the Bitcoin supply for a strategic reserve over the next 5 years and hold for 20 years
-Czech Central Bank meets tomorrow to vote on allocating 5% of its reserves to Bitcoin
-Nuuve became the latest company to announce plans for a Bitcoin reserve, allocations 30% of its cash reserves to purchase BTC
-France is investigating Binance for potential money laundering, tax fraud allegations
-Aerodrome suspends 2 of its employees tied to insider trading the VVV token on its Coinbase launch
💰Tokens, Protocols & Airdrops
-Movement Labs announced Cornucopia as a program to jumpstart DeFi liquidity, meanwhile the MOVE token spiked after rumors tied to WLF and Elon’s DOGE looking into the platform surfaced
-Syndicate Chain announced its testnet went live
🤖 AI
-Total market cap fell about 5% to $10.25B
-Leaders are mixed, FARTCOIN & ARC lead; VIRTUAL (-1%), FARTCOIN (+10%), AI16Z (-6%), AIXBT (-9%), FAI (-6%), ARC (+17%)
-Top movers include GAMBLE (+30%), DOGEAI (+26%), NFTXBT (+16%) & POLY (+16%)
-FARTCOIN reclaims top spot in mindshare, VVV in 2nd after fud related to team members selling
-ai16z announced it will rebrand to ElizaOS after a request from a16z, with a new ticker to be voted on by the DAO soon
-arc announced a partnership with Solana to accelerate AI innovation on Solana and award grants to devs building rust-based agents with technical mentorship from the solana team
-Mode launched a Synth Subnet on TAO to create synthetic price layer for DeFi and help predict prices
-Cygaar teased an AI SZN coming to Abstract soon, featuring Holoworld, Arc, Virtuals, Cookie, HeyAnon, Orbit and more
-Jack Dorsey announced his new open source AI Agent project “Goose”
-Kraken adds Virtual token to its roadmap before Coinbase
📰Memes and NFTs
-Meme leaders were mostly red with DOGE -3%, Shiba -5%, TRUMP -9%, PEPE -1%, BONK -7% & PENGU -9%
-Bitwise filed for a Dogecoin ETF
-Dogwifhat teased plans to finally make its Sphere appearance in Las Vegas (WIF +30% off local bottom)
-Dave Portnoy, founder and CEO of Barstool Sports, continues to share plans related to a memecoin launch
-Two new Pump Fun competitors hit scene with GFM and PKIN
-ETH NFT leaders are mostly green led by Pudgy and BAYC; Pudgy +10% to 12.5 ETH, Azuki -9% to 3.43 ETH and BAYC +5% to 13.4; Punks -5% at 38.5
-Doodles announced that Burnt Toast is stepping to the CEO role with Julian Holguin stepping aside (Doodles -2% at 4.4)
-BTC Ordinals were mixed, with Puppets even, Nodes -9%, Quantum Cats +10% and OMB -1%
-Runes were red, with DOG -9%, BDC -6%, and PUPS -1%
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
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