3 notable cryptocurrency stories in January 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The AI ​​boom of 2024 continued into January 2025. AI tokens such as TAO and FET saw impressive growth of 61% and 71% respectively. VIRTUAL, with a market capitalization of 3.3 billion USD, becomes the second largest AI token, behind only RENDER. The development of AI agents in the cryptocurrency sector is predicted to continue to drive the growth of related projects, including VIRTUAL, ai16z, and ZEREBRO.

DEX Derivatives Exchange

Hyperliquid leads the growth trend of derivatives DEX, with weekly trading volume reaching 98 billion USD. This success is clearly demonstrated by the fact that the platform's HYPE token entered the top 20 largest cryptocurrencies. Other exchanges such as DYDX, Drift and Injective still play an important role in the market.

Trading bot

Trading bots that integrate with Telegram, such as Trojan, Banana, and Bonkbot, record hundreds of millions of USD in trading volume every week. If this trend continues, tokens like BANANA and BONK have strong growth potential. The majority of these bots operate on Solana, through the Pumpfun platform.