A recurring @AbstractChain VOTE quest is now live!
This quest will reset every Monday allowing users to vote and claim 10,000 points per week on MYRIAD. The best part is, these don't count towards your daily cap 🫵
Introducing our first community event for 2025 in partnership with @WalletConnect!
With 150,000 WCT up for grabs, predictors can jump into the event now and participate in a variety of WC and WCT-related markets.
What's new?
• Bitcoin $82K
• Total crypto market cap now below 2021 peak
• Uniswap introduced a fiat offramp
• Base intro'd Flashblocks as 10x improvement in speed
• SEC declares memecoins aren’t securities, says crime will still be prosecuted
USDC Markets are now available on MYRIAD!
Use your USDC on @AbstractChain and predict on several brand-new money markets with more opening up across the week.
Predict now at https://t.co/bBe1gBpjgg
What's new?
🔹Trump announces that the Crypto Strategic Reserve will include: BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, & ADA
🔹 White House announces: first-ever crypto summit taking place this Friday
🔹XRP briefly flips ETH FDV
🔹BTC prints its largest daily candle of $10k
🔹BlackRock added BTC ETF to their official model portfolio (1-2%)
🔹Runes catch some volume with the launch of Odin(dot)fun
What's new?
🔹SEC drops case against Kraken & Yuga Labs
🔹Bybit hackers launder $1M+ through THORchain
🔹ZORA announces its token launch on Base
🔹“Reserve coins” all dump 20%+
🔹Snoop Dogg abandons Spotify for a Web3 platform
🔹MegaETH testnet launches this week
For every Upvote that MYRIAD gets on the @AbstractChain portal, your chances of making the right predictions increase by 18% (apparently).
Do it https://t.co/bHdTVKwO74 ✳️
🚨 The SZN 1 leaderboard is now online!
Go check your current position, get grinding and prepare for PRE-SZN account mergers coming next week!
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Wintermute caught!
Instead of stabilizing the market as promised, Wintermute systematically dumped supply daily of multiple projects, manipulating the price downward to fill their own pockets.
Blockchain data and trade logs align perfectly with the timeline, revealing a pattern of intentional price suppression rather than liquidity provision. The very coins that were meant to support projects were used as a weapon against them.
A Clear Case of Market Manipulation
• Evidence shows Wintermute offloaded large portions consistently, creating artificial sell pressure.
• Instead of holding liquidity to stabilize the market, they aggressively dumped tokens, accelerating the price drop.
• Wallet movements confirm Wintermute received project funds intended for market support—only to turn around and sell them off.
This is not just bad trading behavior—this is a coordinated betrayal of trust. Market makers are meant to help projects thrive, not destroy them for profit.
The evidence is clear: Wintermute is not stabilizing markets. They are manipulating them.
This revelation raises urgent questions:
• How many other projects have been victims of this strategy?
• Who else is complicit in allowing these unchecked manipulations to continue?
• What regulatory actions, if any, will be taken against these exploitative practices?
The Morning Minute (2.6)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors chop while alts continue to bleed
-FDIC exposes Operation Chokepoint 2.0, plans to revise guidelines to allow banks to enter crypto
-Saylor’s MicroStrategy rebrands to Strategy, launches new stock STRK on NYSE
-Berachain mainnet and airdrop officially go live this morning
-Memecoin market sees $44B wiped out in 3 weeks
🌎Macro
-Crypto majors chop, Sol underperforms; Bitcoin at $98,450; ETH at $2,780; SOL -3% at $198
-The FDIC is planning to revise crypto guidelines for banks allowing them to conduct activities in this sector without regulatory permission, while also revealing documents showcasing Operation Chokepoint 2.0
-Messari reports highlights Solana’s explosive Q4 and rapid growth
-Saylor’s MicroStrategy rebrands to Strategy, STRK convertible preferred stock to launch on NYSE today
-The SEC reassigns top crypto litigator to their IT department
-Stripe acquired stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1B, its largest crypto acquisition to date
-BlackRock announced the launch of a BTC ETP in Europe
-CFTC to review regulatory approach to prediction markets in coming weeks
-Semler Scientific adds 871 BTC to its Corporate Treasury
💰Tokens, Protocols & Airdrops
-Berachain released its tokenomics and airdrop checker ahead of today’s mainnet launch and TGE, now live
-Ondo Finance launched Ondo Global Markets, its new tokenization platform for U.S. securities such as stocks, bonds and ETFs
-MegaETH announces vote for NFT distribution, either FCFS or RNG
-Socket announced a strategic partnership with Polygon Agglayer to advance chain abstraction
-Kaito added Pengu to its post-TGE leaderboard after teasing a collab of some kind
🤖AI
-Total market cap fell 15% to $6.6B, with most leaders down 15-30% in brutal drawdown
-VIRTUAL (-15%), FARTCOIN (-30%), AI16Z (-27%), FAI (+1%), AIXBT (-17%) and ARC (-28%)
-Notable gainers include BNKR (+29%), HENLO (+26%), VVV (+17%) and VADER (+15%)
-HENLO leads in mindshare, followed by SAI and Fartcoin
-Parallel shared a major update spanning its mobile app, Colony game, and Wayfinder and teased Q3/Q4 for new releases (PROMPT still expected q1)
📰Memes and NFTs
-Meme leaders were red with DOGE -3%, Shiba -4%, PEPE -4%, TRUMP -4%, BONK -5% & PENGU -13%
-Jupiter’s X account was hacked with a meme ticker displayed briefly
-Pudgy Penguins burn 13.69% of PENGU token supply
-ETH NFT leaders were mostly red tho Berachain NFTs saw big green; Punks -4% at 38 ETH, Pudgy even at 10.8 and BAYC +2% at 12.95
-Bond Bears jumped 11% to 115 ETH, Boo Bears +17% to 55 ETH, Baby Bears +9% to 28.4 ETH, Band Bears +7% to 13 ETH and Bitcoin Bears +15% to 7.6 ETH
-Sproto Gremlins (+50%) and OCH Genesis Rings (+30%) were other notable movers
-BTC Ordinals were red with leaders up 1-5%; Quantum Cats -1% 0.254 BTC, OMB even at 0.126, Nodes -2% at 0.063 and Puppets -5% at 0.061
-Runes were red, with DOG -5% to $300M, PUPS -2% to $35M, and BDC -3% to $22M
Two banger episodes in January and we're wrapping it up with @Tradermayne tomorrow at 12 PM ET!
Can Mayne save our bags? Is the AI cycle over? Tune in!
@KeyboardMonkey3@rektmando@osf_rekt
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What's new?
• Bitcoin $98K
• Majors stable but BTC dominance continues to rise
• MicroStrategy rebrands to ‘Strategy’
• Eric Trump promotes BTC after ETH shout-out
• Blackrock to launch BTC ETP in Europe