What Should Donald Trump Put Into the US Crypto Strategic Reserve? 📜⚖️📈
Crypto news and key statistics summarized in 90 seconds every weekday on @niftynoon⬇️:
Nifty Thought:
With anticipation building for America’s first crypto summit on Friday, there has been debate on the inclusion of specific assets within the US crypto strategic reserve. Founders for altcoins such as Solana indicated they would prefer transparent criteria for reserve inclusion, even if that results in their preferred coin being excluded from the reserve’s initial allocation. Although the inclusion of Ethereum $ETH and Solana $SOL into the reserve’s initial allocation have not caused much controversy, there has been debate over the inclusion of Ripple $XRP and Cardano $ADA. Critics argue these coins do not offer the necessary liquidity and organic usage to warrant being included in such an important strategic fund. Furthermore, many have speculated that the initial mention of these tokens is the result of backdoor dealings that may point to nefarious and corrupt activity. It is the opinion of NiftyNoon that a strategic reserve should first be anchored around Bitcoin with room for potential initial inclusion of Ethereum and even Solana. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have proven themselves to be durable assets over many market cycles with use cases that have persisted over time. Furthermore, both tokens have sufficiently large market caps and liquidity to support large purchases from the US government. Solana is also a contender for initial inclusion in the reserve but should be considered relative to the chain’s relatively centralized ownership and smaller market cap.
Highlighted News:
📜 Ripple pitched SOL as part of a national reserve in order to make the inclusion of XRP in a reserve seem more legitimate, according to sources familiar with the conversations:
https://t.co/rav4uIzRpg
🟣 Co-Founder of Solana Labs shares thoughts on national reserve:
https://t.co/W51xDBuaJ2
⤵️ March 5th BTC and ETH ETF Update:
https://t.co/a6NtCyVecp
💰 Donald Trump’s project, World Liberty Fi’s wallet just sent $25M USDC to a separate contract which purchased $10M ETH, $10M WBTC and $1.5M MOVE:
https://t.co/0YDeJRmrbX
🎉ETHDenver 2025 was a massive success; check out the highlights:
https://t.co/EafTY5dDbi
📈 The board of Nasdaq-listed BioNexus Gene Lab has approved Ethereum as its primary treasury asset:
https://t.co/s8hDTvUZPW
Project and Community News:
- Japan's 10-year bond yield hits 1.5% for the first time since 2009:
https://t.co/7fKpKj8KW6
- The expected guest list for the crypto summit on March 7 has been revealed:
https://t.co/ODQtjGY3g3
- @bitwise Files S-1 for $APT ETF:
https://t.co/z30H7C53Xj
- It appears that Coinbase will start offering tokenized stocks, beginning with their own, $COIN:
https://t.co/9AoUTty3E2
- Franklin Templeton says Solana DeFi is undervalued despite strong growth:
https://t.co/PUOibXXJ4E
- Arbitrum ($ARB) is now available to trade on Robinhood:
https://t.co/Za4vIyEB0J
- Native USDC is coming to @LineaBuild with the industry’s first bridged-to-native upgrade:
https://t.co/r3yGqBCtIC
- PARSIQ has migrated the (PRQ) ERC-20 token to the Reactive Network native token and wrapped REACT ERC-20 token (REACT):
https://t.co/YtyIqlSnsh
- There’s ~$225B in stablecoins and ~$0 in stocks onchain today:
https://t.co/kYOmRR4abG
- Meet Noble Dollar—USDN—the dollar that pays you for holding it:
https://t.co/Lznm9Qn43X
- Trading firm @jump_ is regrouping its crypto efforts in the U.S. after a pullback from the region in recent years:
https://t.co/KDGajvRkxg
- @BrianBrooksUS joining the Axelar Foundation as an advisor and Canary Capital filing the first ETF for the leading interoperability stack, @axelar:
https://t.co/Liyonng2ms
- Introducing Mobile Trade Vision - a completely redesigned Coinbase Advanced mobile trade experience:
https://t.co/EZQUMEypam
- Punks really heating up with 12 sales in the past 2 hours; 23 in the past day:
https://t.co/xNtOWOy3fg
Quick Stats:
👾 Blur ETH Daily Volume: 686 ETH (▼ 53.10%)
🌊 OpenSea ETH Daily Volume: 793 ETH (▼ 36.89%)
🟠 BTC : $91,428.12 (▲ 1.91%)
🔷 ETH: $2,299.21 (▲ 3.49%)
🟣 Solana: $151.86 (▲ 2.37%)
🟪 Polygon: $0.26 (▲ 0.55%)
Top NFT Sales:
- CryptoPunks #1418: 57.00 ETH
- CryptoPunks #7960: 54.96 ETH
- CryptoPunks #8965: 50.00 ETH
NFT Daily Winners:
🚬 CryptoPunks: 37.88 ETH (▲ 6.70%)
🍭 Mocaverse: 2.10 ETH (▲ 5.25%)
🐧 Pudgy Penguins: 9.96 ETH (▲ 5.17%)
👩🏻 Milady Maker: 3.80 ETH (▲ 3.83%)
🧦 Bitcoin Puppets: 0.04 BTC (▲ 2.58%)
😡 Mad Lads: 49.89 SOL (▲ 1.09%)
🏳🌈 Chromie Squiggles: 3.99 ETH (▲ 1.01%)
🏴☠ Captainz: 0.87 ETH (▲ 0.11%)
NFT Daily Losers:
👾 Tensorians: 4.05 SOL (▼ 0.00%)
🦧 Bored Ape Yacht Club: 13.49 ETH (▼ 0.04%)
⛩ Azuki: 2.71 ETH (▼ 0.44%)
🐱 Quantum Cats: 0.20 BTC (▼ 1.16%)
🐵 NodeMonkes: 0.04 BTC (▼ 3.00%)
💼 Ordinal Maxi Biz: 0.04 BTC (▼ 3.43%)
Notes:
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Uniswap’s Unichain L2 is Finally Here 🦄⛓️📈
Crypto news and key statistics summarized in 90 seconds every weekday on @niftynoon ⬇️:
After a previous false start, Uniswap’s DeFi oriented L2, Unichain, has finally launched. The chain is launching as a “Stage 1 Rollup” with 80 pUnichainand touts its low gas fees and 1-second block times. Most importantly, as part of the Optimism SuperChain, Unichain promises cross-chain liquidity and future upgrades that will make cross-chain transactions seamless.
Highlighted News:
🦄 Unichain mainnet is now live:
https://t.co/5vm37t6tfU
🤖 $VIRTUAL token is now tradeable on Solana - Official LP is now live on @MeteoraAG:
https://t.co/Ih4Kzk04gO
⚖️ SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says “many of the memecoins that are out there probably DO NOT have a home in the SEC under our current set of regulations”:
https://t.co/bsCsUPQwGI
🔶 Binance refutes allegations of selling crypto assets and calls it an adjustment in treasury accounting process:
https://t.co/gN2Ba27VTN
Project and Community News:
- Jerome Powell told the Senate Banking Committee that the Fed is no hurry to lower rates: https://t.co/uTFPKnlQBE
- Hong Kong accepts Bitcoin, ETH as Proof of Wealth for Investment Visas: https://t.co/dlQotyeuk4
- @binance and the @SECGov have just filed a joint motion to stay the agency’s case against the exchange for 60 days, citing the new SEC crypto task force as having a possible bearing on the case: https://t.co/CEBdlZT1TS
- FTX Repayments, Correct info clearing up misinformation: https://t.co/rrJbBqGPsd
- $TON has integrated @LayerZero_Core to connect with 100+ blockchains: https://t.co/Hq8up0jAqq
- KULR has acquired 100 BTC for ~ 10 million at ~ $103,905 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 167% YTD: https://t.co/cAMcyUbCuy
- $ONDO announced a partnership with Trump's DeFi project World Liberty Finance and then deleted again: https://t.co/VyCZo5GA07
- BNB Chain is leveling up in 2025:
https://t.co/AHJ90eVrPl
- The Legacy Mesh by @USDT0_to is now live:
https://t.co/kBo20kKxUC
- Introducing Lido V3 - Ethereum Staking Infrastructure: https://t.co/O1ovP0pDCB
- @punk9059 ran the numbers on Dave Portnoy's trading today: https://t.co/FqUPfW2pok
Quick Stats:
👾 Blur ETH Daily Volume: 1,339 ETH (▼ 16.37%)
🌊 OpenSea ETH Daily Volume: 1,281 ETH (▲ 8.56%)
🟠 BTC : $95,184.45 (▼ 1.67%)
🔷 ETH: $2,601.55 (▼ 1.22%)
🟣 Solana: $192.77 (▼ 2.80%)
🟪 Polygon: $0.30 (▼ 2.54%)
Top NFT Sales:
- CryptoPunks #3713: 42.00 ETH
- CryptoPunks #3052: 41.00 ETH
- CryptoPunks #8340: 37.48 ETH
NFT Daily Winners:
👾 Tensorians: 5.96 SOL (▲ 16.96%)
🚬 CryptoPunks: 37.47 ETH (▲ 5.58%)
⛩ Azuki: 3.38 ETH (▲ 5.39%)
🦧 Bored Ape Yacht Club: 13.85 ETH (▲ 3.37%)
🐵 NodeMonkes: 0.06 BTC (▲ 2.47%)
😡 Mad Lads: 50.50 SOL (▲ 2.23%)
NFT Daily Losers:
🧦 Bitcoin Puppets: 0.05 BTC (▼ 0.18%)
🏳🌈 Chromie Squiggles: 4.38 ETH (▼ 0.43%)
👩🏻 Milady Maker: 4.10 ETH (▼ 0.61%)
🏴☠ Captainz: 1.43 ETH (▼ 2.66%)
🐱 Quantum Cats: 0.23 BTC (▼ 2.89%)
🐧 Pudgy Penguins: 10.20 ETH (▼ 3.80%)
🍭 Mocaverse: 1.98 ETH (▼ 5.91%)
💼 Ordinal Maxi Biz: 0.11 BTC (▼ 7.84%)
Notes:
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The OpenSea Token is Finally Coming 🌊🪙
Crypto news and key statistics summarized in 90 seconds every weekday on @niftynoon ⬇️:
OpenSea, once the leading NFT marketplace, has been caught up in a wave of speculation as users found a supposed foundation token claim website with detailed terms and conditions and information around a Know Your Customer registration. However, the OpenSea founder confirmed this website was not reflective of the final airdrop structure. It is likely this site was a testing environment that was discovered prematurely. In any case, the fact that such a fully functioned test site was live indicates that details on the official token launch could be coming very soon.
Highlighted News:
🌊Co-founder and CEO @opensea addresses token rumors: https://t.co/4BQ4mXH3mI
🪙@EricBalchunas and @JSeyff share relatively high odds of ETF approvals across the board:https://t.co/l0qX9RpS7l
🐶Announcing Operatinon $DOG Domination:https://t.co/rpoZLg2YTT
Project and Community News:
- @Tesla reports increasing its Bitcoin holdings to 11,509 $BTC:
https://t.co/HbiqFhCjtl
- Publicly traded Metaplanet to acquire 21,000 Bitcoin worth $2 billion by 2026:
https://t.co/AgUDJnjbCz
- Trump's World Liberty(@worldlibertyfi) just spent 156,667 $USDC to buy 273,937 $MOVE again:
https://t.co/lCzHCeqmoh
- $MSTR has acquired 7,633 BTC for ~$742.4 million at ~$97,255 per bitcoin:
https://t.co/GsxVZOJiiq
- Florida Senator Joe Gruters introduces bill to invest in Bitcoin:
https://t.co/a6X33pSnJd
- @Grayscale Files for a Cardano $ADA ETF with the New York Stock Exchange:
https://t.co/cQQqcXCWNf
- Speculators have built the largest $ETH short position in history:
https://t.co/nueC3QJ8Rn
- Coinbase will add support for B3 (Base) (B3) on the Base network:
https://t.co/4Pgrl2K9GA
- The Succinct Prover Network Testnet is LIVE:
https://t.co/6lVj4e9G8U
- @SuccinctLabs raised $55m backed by Paradigm:
https://t.co/k5QfsMqcXG
- Introducing The Maker's Mixer; an exclusive Abstract event for builders during NFT Paris 2025:
https://t.co/V5rO7JXpqW
- Introducing $IP, the native token of Story's L1: https://t.co/NIBUbvQvtr
- Introducing Lovable's Supabase Integration 2.0:
https://t.co/zzkDzIRrOG
- @pudgypenguins and $PENGU are joining @Portalcoin Solana Portal Pay network:
https://t.co/IZSt7Sa6yj
- Staking Rewards on Algorand is Live:
https://t.co/hk458FrZWj
- MEXC will list $PAIN @pain on the Pre-Market on Feb 10, 2025, at 5:00 (UTC):
https://t.co/AvKPpc0ePV
- Drosera has raised $3.25M in a seed round led by @greenfield_cap, bringing our total funding to $4.75M:
https://t.co/Wga1Fz74PJ
- Introducing Goblintown - Really Hard Driving Game:
https://t.co/IpQWLGkuMu
- Trust Wallet now supports the XRP Ledger network @RippleXDev:
https://t.co/YaJiLUVm8Q
- We are deeply saddened to share the passing of
Rutherford Chang, the artist who created Cents: https://t.co/8injgXV3fq
Quick Stats:
👾 Blur ETH Daily Volume: 1,601 ETH (▲ 32.73%)
🌊 OpenSea ETH Daily Volume: 1,180 ETH (▲ 3.26%)
🟠 BTC : $97,177.35 (▼ 0.73%)
🔷 ETH: $2,652.99 (▼ 0.54%)
🟣 Solana: $200.06 (▼ 3.24%)
🟪 Polygon: $0.32 (▲ 3.01%)
Top NFT Sales:
- CryptoPunks #9634: 47.50 ETH
- CryptoPunks #8832: 40.25 ETH
- CryptoPunks #4688: 36.50 ETH
NFT Daily Winners:
⛩ Azuki: 3.23 ETH (▲ 4.83%)
🐧 Pudgy Penguins: 10.60 ETH (▲ 3.40%)
😡 Mad Lads: 49.40 SOL (▲ 1.87%)
🚬 CryptoPunks: 35.49 ETH (► 0.00%)
🍭 Mocaverse: 2.10 ETH (► 0.00%)
NFT Daily Losers:
👩🏻 Milady Maker: 4.12 ETH (▼ 1.08%)
🏳🌈 Chromie Squiggles: 4.44 ETH (▼ 1.11%)
👾 Tensorians: 5.10 SOL (▼ 1.92%)
🐱 Quantum Cats: 0.24 BTC (▼ 4.16%)
🏴☠ Captainz: 1.43 ETH (▼ 4.47%)
🐵 NodeMonkes: 0.06 BTC (▼ 4.58%)
🦧 Bored Ape Yacht Club: 13.40 ETH (▼ 5.63%)
💼 Ordinal Maxi Biz: 0.12 BTC (▼ 8.38%)
🧦 Bitcoin Puppets: 0.06 BTC (▼ 9.93%)
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