1. CEX popular currencies
CEX Top 10 Trading Volume and 24-hour Change:
BTC：- 4.69%
ETH：- 7.60%
XRP：- 3.58%
DOGE：- 10.46%
BNB：- 3.35%
SUI：- 4.94%
THERE IS：- 8.26%
BABY:- 9.52%
LINK：- 9.22%
TRX：- 5.76%
24H increase list (data source: OKX):
SONIC: +4785.45% (yesterday's opening)
ICE：+ 18.45%
GALFT：+ 5.87%
G：+ 0.92%
VELO：+ 0.44%
XAUT: +0.22%
2. Top 5 popular memes on the chain (data source: GMGN):
swarms
MPLX
BUZZ
MAX
ALCH
3. 24-hour hot search currencies
MAX: AI Agent concept token, its market value once exceeded 160 million US dollars, and its current market value is temporarily reported at 125 million US dollars.
ALCH: AI Agent conceptual token, Binance announced yesterday that it will launch U-denominated ALCH perpetual contracts, with a current market value of approximately $190 million.
Headline
Trump met with Ripple executives at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Monday night for dinner.
BTC falls below 97,000 USDT.
OKX market data shows BTC has fallen below 97,000 USDT, with a 24H decline of 5.02%.
Backpack Exchange acquires FTX EU for $32.7 million and will be responsible for distributing $55 million in FTX bankruptcy claims.
Backpack Exchange, founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, acquired the bankrupt FTX former European entity for $32.7 million to expand its derivatives business in the region. FTX EU was one of the business units that went bankrupt after FTX's collapse in 2022. As part of the acquisition, Dubai-based Backpack will be responsible for distributing approximately €53 million ($55 million) in FTX bankruptcy claims previously approved by the court to FTX EU customers. The FTX bankruptcy asset managers filed a lawsuit attempting to recover millions from FTX EU's original owners. The lawsuit was eventually withdrawn as part of a settlement agreement, which involved reselling the unit to FTX Europe co-founders Patrick Gruhn and Robin Matzke. Backpack purchased the company from the co-founders.
Binance Alpha adds HAT, AIXCB, and NEUR.
According to the official page, Binance Alpha adds HAT, AIXCB, and NEUR.
Industry news
One of Portugal's major banks, BiG, terminates fiat transfers to crypto platforms to comply with regulations.
According to a notification shared by Delphi Labs co-founder José Maria Macedo, one of Portugal's largest banks, Investimentos Globais (BiG), has begun blocking fiat transfers to crypto platforms. The notice states that this move is to comply with guidelines issued by the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Banking Authority (EBA), and the Bank of Portugal regarding the risks associated with digital assets. Additionally, this decision is necessary to ensure compliance with the country’s anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing laws.
Insiders: Major banks in Spain are actively formulating regulatory and operational frameworks to provide cryptocurrency ETPs.
Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley retweeted insider Luis Berruga's disclosure: 'Confirmed. Major banks in Spain are actively formulating regulatory and operational frameworks to offer cryptocurrency ETPs. Some platforms, such as MyInvestor, have already started doing so. Adoption across Europe should accelerate in the coming months.'
Bloomberg: Surge in stablecoin adoption in the Middle East, several local companies optimistic and involved in the field.
Raafi Hossain, co-founder and CEO of Middle Eastern fintech company Fasset, which aims to enter the stablecoin space, introduced several examples of clients using stablecoins, including selling a $8 million Dubai property, Tanzanian buyers purchasing Indonesian edible oil, renting out a villa on Palm Jumeirah for $100,000, and private yacht rentals. Fasset is a Dubai-based 'super app' focused on markets from Morocco to Malaysia. Dubai’s Careem Networks FZ LLC and Abu Dhabi’s Astra Tech's communication app Botim are also exploring the launch of payment tools supported by stablecoins.
Coinbase's interim appeal motion approved by the judge, will appeal SEC charges to the Second Circuit Court.
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer paulgrewal.eth stated on X platform that U.S. Judge Failla approved Coinbase's proposed interim appeal motion and paused the district court's lawsuit, meaning Coinbase can appeal the SEC charges against it to the Second Circuit Court. Previously, Coinbase was sued by the SEC for allegedly acting as an unregistered exchange, broker, and clearing agency. The regulator also questioned Coinbase's staking and wallet services.
Project news
pump.fun deposited $20 million SOL into Kraken 7 hours ago, with a total deposit of $340 million SOL.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, pump.fun deposited 98,593 SOL, worth $20 million, into Kraken again 7 hours ago. So far, it has deposited a total of 1,662,648 SOL, worth $340 million, into Kraken. pump.fun's current total revenue is 2,127,036 SOL, valued at $431.51 million.
Aptos TVL grows over $100 million in the first week of 2025, with total wallet users exceeding 43 million.
On-chain analyst Azin stated on the X platform that in the first week of 2025 (December 30, 2024 - January 5, 2025), Aptos TVL increased by over $100 million, reaching $1.074 billion. Additionally, there were 4.3 million active wallet addresses this week, with a total of over 43 million Aptos ecosystem wallet users; transaction volume reached 39.3 million; the number of new wallet addresses reached 1.55 million; and Gas consumption reached 4,300 APT.
Solayer releases the 2025 roadmap: introducing the infinitely scalable multi-execution cluster architecture Solayer InfiniSVM.
Solana re-staking platform Solayer releases the 2025 roadmap, introducing the hardware-accelerated SVM blockchain Solayer InfiniSVM, an infinitely scalable multi-execution cluster architecture. Connected via SDN and RDMA, it can achieve 100 Gbps while maintaining atomic state. Solayer InfiniSVM dynamically shards a single execution machine of SVM to an infinite number of machines based on application needs using SDN switches and RDMA. By offloading to hardware circuits and kernels across ingress, sorting, scheduling, banking to storage, it can achieve 1 ms transaction confirmation.
Voices of the people
VanEck: Hyperliquid has not attracted a large number of developers, and its market cap is at risk.
Asset management firm VanEck released a research report on January 6 stating that the Layer-1 blockchain network Hyperliquid has become one of the most valuable blockchains since launching the HYPE token through an airdrop in November, with a market cap of around $25 billion. However, VanEck pointed out that Hyperliquid's emerging smart contract platform 'has not attracted a large number of developers.' VanEck warned: 'If Hyperliquid cannot meet the growth expectations of its community, many newly wealthy HYPE holders may face a rapidly collapsing prisoner’s dilemma.' They added: 'We are seeing another Icarus-like tale of cryptocurrency arrogance.'
Institutions: The pace of labor market weakness is expected to outpace the Federal Reserve's expectations.
Pantheon macro analyst Samuel Tombs stated that the Federal Reserve will soon be concerned about 'excess labor supply and undesirable weak wage growth.' He noted that the increase in job openings in November's JOLTS report was unexpected, but there are signs that employment costs are cooling down. Tombs pointed out that the resignation rate fell from 2.1% to 1.9%, 'indicating a larger slowdown in (employment costs) growth.' 'Thus, the average hourly wage has grown by 0.4% for two consecutive months, appearing to be noise around a trend that is still slowing.' Tombs expects average hourly wages to slow in the non-farm employment data to be released on Friday.
Trump: U.S. inflation is too high and continuously surging; interest rates are excessively high.
U.S. President-elect Trump stated that inflation is too high and continuously surging; interest rates are excessively high. Real estate development company Damac Properties will invest $20 billion in the U.S. to support the development of data centers. According to reports, Damac Properties founder and chairman Hussain Sajwani stated that they would invest more if market opportunities allow. However, they are currently planning a $20 billion data center to meet the AI and cloud business demands of hyperscale enterprises.
Michael Saylor: MicroStrategy acquired 258,320 BTC in 2024.
MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor stated on the X platform that MicroStrategy acquired 258,320 BTC in 2024, achieving a 74.3% BTC yield, holding 189,150 BTC at the beginning of the year, yielding 140,630 BTC. If calculated at $100,000/BTC, it means creating $14.06 billion in value for shareholders in 2024, equating to $38.5 million per day.
NVIDIA founder: AI Agents are expected to become the next robotics industry, with an industry scale of trillions of dollars.
NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang mentioned at the CES 2025 Consumer Electronics Show, 'Over 30 million developers globally will have their own software assistants in the future, or they will fall behind their peers. Furthermore, AI Agents are expected to become the next robotics industry, with an industry scale of several trillion dollars.'
