1. Popular currencies on CEX
CEX top 10 trading volume and 24-hour rise and fall:
BTC: +3.72%
TRUMP: +22.95%
SOL: +5.37%
ETH: +2.13%
DOGE: +4.84%
XRP: +1.42%
PEPE: +1.08%
SUI: +4.73%
VTHO: +208.90%
ADA: -0.59%
24-hour price increase list (data source: OKX)
TRUMP: +34.64%
CLV: +32.72%
ELON: +28.90%
S: +22.04%
PRQ: +15.10%
LQTY: +14.81%
BANANA: +11.21%
ULTI: +11.16%
GOG: +11.04%
WLD: +10.11%
2. Top 5 popular memes on the chain (data source: GMGN ):
Stargate
MOLLIE
HSM
IVANKA
clams
3. 24-hour hot search currencies
ZACHXBT: A meme coin with the same name based on the ID of the on-chain detective ZachXBT. It was recognized by the market and caused controversy because ZachXBT sold it for profit by adding liquidity pools.
ROSS: Free Ross themed concept meme coin, which has attracted a lot of attention due to Trumps previous promise to pardon Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.
Headlines
Trump responds to coin issuance: I launched the TRUMP coin but I don’t know if it is profitable . Even if it attracts billions of dollars, it is just a drop in the bucket for tech giants.
Trump responded to the coin issuance: I dont know if it (TRUMP coin) is profitable. I dont know much about it. I only know that I launched it. I heard it was very successful. When reporters said that TRUMP had attracted billions of dollars in the past few days, Trump joked, Billions? Thats just a drop in the bucket for these people, he said, referring to SoftBanks Masayoshi Son, OpenAIs Sam Altman and Oracles Larry Ellison who were present at the time.
Trump has signed a pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht
Trump announced that he had signed a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web Silk Road.
US SEC: New cryptocurrency task force will develop a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said the new cryptocurrency task force will work to develop a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets. Senior advisers Gabbert and Asher will serve as chief of staff and chief policy adviser for the task force, respectively.
Hester Peirce to lead SEC’s new cryptocurrency task force
Mark Uyeda, acting chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has established a cryptocurrency task force to develop a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for cryptocurrency assets. Commissioner Hester Peirce will lead the task force. The focus of the task force will be to help the Commission draw clear regulatory boundaries, provide a practical registration path, develop a reasonable disclosure framework, and wisely deploy enforcement resources.
Industry News
On January 21, 2025, Canaan Creative (NASDAQ: CAN) released its Bitcoin mining situation in December 2024 and financial guidance for fiscal year 2025. The company expects total revenue in fiscal year 2025 to be between US$900 million and US$1.1 billion. In December 2024, the company produced a total of 62 Bitcoins.
Telegram has reached a new cooperation with the TON Foundation. Telegram will stop supporting blockchains and cryptocurrencies other than TON. TON will become the only blockchain infrastructure for the Telegram mini-app ecosystem. Telegram will continue to only accept Toncoin for non-fiat currency payments (such as Telegram Stars, Telegram Premium, Telegram Ads and Telegram Gateway). TON Connect will become the only protocol connecting Telegram mini-apps with blockchain wallets.
Riot Platforms, one of the leading publicly traded bitcoin miners, is launching a formal process to evaluate the feasibility of using approximately 600 megawatts (MW) of remaining power capacity at its Corsicana, Texas, mine for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing purposes.
Bitcoin miners are increasingly diversifying their operations from pure crypto mining to hosting AI and HPC infrastructure, a trend that is set to accelerate after Bitcoin’s fourth halving event in April 2024.
Binance saves users $1.75 billion in remittance fees since 2022
On January 21, Binance CEO Richard Teng revealed at the Davos Forum that Binance users saved up to $1.75 billion in remittance fees through instant cryptocurrency remittances between 2022 and 2024, and the total amount of these remittances reached $26 billion.
In 2024, the average cryptocurrency remittance amount between international users on the Binance platform was US$470. In addition, according to Binance data, more than 500,000 female users participated in more than US$4 billion in domestic and international cryptocurrency remittances in 2024, further demonstrating the huge potential of cryptocurrency as a financial inclusion and empowerment tool worldwide.
Project News
Jupiter: Airdrop claim will start at 23:30 Beijing time today
Jupiter posted that the Jupuary airdrop claim will start at 23:30 Beijing time today. The airdrop claim will last for three months. If you are marked as a witch, you can file an appeal after January 27. Users must create a Jupuary profile to receive it.
Aethir and the Avalanche Foundation announced a strategic partnership to promote AI innovation within the Avalanche ecosystem. Aethir has $91 million in annual recurring revenue and has powerful computing resources such as over 400,000 GPU containers. Through the cooperation between the two parties, Aethir will use the $100 million ecological fund to provide computing resource support for AI innovation projects within the Avalanche ecosystem. Aethir will also join the infraBUIDL (AI) project committee to help screen funding projects and promote the integration of AI and decentralized infrastructure.
Investment and Financing
ZKsync-based crypto exchange GRVT completes $5 million in financing
Further Ventures, a venture capital firm backed by Abu Dhabis sovereign wealth fund ADQ, invested $5 million in GRVT, a hybrid crypto exchange based on ZKsync. GRVT recently launched the Alpha version of the mainnet, initially focusing on perpetual contract trading. It currently has an average daily trading volume of $50 million, 800 active traders and 55 institutional clients. This round of financing brings GRVTs total cumulative financing to $14.3 million, which will be used to expand spot and options trading, upgrade its Bermuda crypto business license, and seek more regulatory approvals in the European Union, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi. In addition, GRVT plans to issue its tokens in the second half of 2025.
Hamilton, a Bitcoin ecosystem tokenized RWA protocol, announced the completion of a $1.7 million seed round of financing, led by DisrupTech Ventures, with participation from CMS, DeSpread, Hyperithm, Core Ventures and other strategic investors. Hamilton will launch three flagship products: HUSD, a Bitcoin native stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasury bonds; HUST, a tokenized U.S. Treasury bond; and Publius, a platform that authorizes financial institutions to tokenize any asset on Bitcoin.
TON ecosystem DeFi lending platform EVAA Protocol completed US$2.5 million in private financing, with participation from Polymorphic, TON Ventures, Animoca Ventures, CMT Digital, Mythos Ventures, Wagmi Ventures and several angel investors.
EVAA Protocol provides lending, borrowing, shorting, leveraged staking and other DeFi services for the TON network. The platform aims to use the new financing to launch the native token EVAA, with the overall goal of expanding TONs DeFi landscape.
Character Voice
Bank of America CEO: Financial Industry Ready to Adopt Crypto Payments If Regulators Approve
The financial industry is ready to adopt crypto payments if regulators give the green light, according to Bank of America’s CEO.
Vitalik posted: I support providing ETH holders with a gadget similar to anonymous broadcasting. If you confirm through ZKP that you hold N ETH, you can publish a message every (120 million/N) seconds. In this way, we can avoid social media volume distortion, but we can get the actual public voice representing the ETH holder community, and we can use our own technology. Hopefully Farcaster or Lens Protocol can build smart contract-friendly logic so that the entire mechanism can run without intermediaries on their platform. Everyone is a winner. In addition, he said , I am the one who decides the new EF (Ethereum Foundation) leadership team. One of the goals of the ongoing reforms is to provide EF with a proper board of directors, but until then, the decision is mine.
