Daily Dose of News 💿
January 06, Tuesday


♟ General:

• DOJ prosecutors violate Trump's executive order by selling forfeited Samourai Wallet Bitcoin worth $6.3M. Link.

• Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust files S-1 registration statement with SEC. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Lighter's LIT token rises 14% as protocol indicates active buyback. Link.

• 1inch hit $214 bln in total swap volume and 114 mln swaps completed during 2025, with most trading focused on Ethereum, BNBChain, Arbitrum and Base. Link.

🖥 Release:

• Jupiter rolls out native JupUSD stablecoin backed 90% by BlackRock and Ethena's USDtb. Link.

🛍 Incentives:

• The Zama OG NFT Claim Portal is Live. Link.

• Brevis Airdrop Claim is Live. Link.

🍜 M&A:

• The Tie has acquired Stakin. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• Boings Seed Round. Link.

• ​River Strategic Round. Link.

• Block Security Arena Seed Round. Link.

• ZenChain $8.5M Funding Round. Link.

• HabitTrade Series A Round. Link.


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Treehouse Finance is another shining example of VC disappointment.

In April 2025, they closed a Strategic round at a $400M valuation from top funds.

The current FDV is just $17M - a 95.75% drop.


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Note: every time ETH closed in the red in Q4, the first quarter of the following year showed a positive result.


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Crypto VC funding hit ~$50 billion in 2025

Investors shifted to larger checks for proven teams, focusing on infrastructure over speculation

Details: Green But Red

#VC


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Daily Dose of News 💿
January 07, Wednesday


♟ General:

• MSCI concludes review into DAT Index inclusion, decides not to exclude DATs like Microstrategy from indexes. Link.

• Morgan Stanley files for spot Ethereum ETF. Link.

• Barclays invests in stablecoin settlement firm as tokenized infrastructure advances. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Riot sells $162 million in Bitcoin as mining hashprice slumps back toward lows. Link.

• Polymarket to distribute prediction data to Dow Jones outlets. Link.

• Nike sells its NFT and virtual sneakers amid lack of digital art market interest: report. Link.

• HeyElsa Token Added to Coinbase Roadmap. Link.

🖥 Release:

• Rumble and Tether launch crypto wallet for creator economy. Link.

• Bytenova TGE Time Announced. Link.

• Dango Mainnet Alpha is Now Live. Link.

• Flare launches first XRP spot exposure on Hyperliquid via FXRP. Link.

🍜 M&A:

• Fireblocks has acquired Tres Finance. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• xAI $20B Series E Round. Link.

• Babylon $15M Funding Round. Link.

• Ubyx Strategic Round. Link.

• jpeg .fun Angel Round. Link.


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Business model in Defi. Link.

Defi is a young but already fairly large market that positions itself as a yield generating instrument that’s supposed to compete with stocks bonds the equity market and others.

Author: Stitch


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2025 set a record for venture capital in crypto. Link.

Despite a sharp drop in the number of rounds, total capital raised hit nearly $35 billion – outpacing 2023 and 2024 combined.

Author: Green But Red

#VC


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Daily Dose of News 🎧
January 08, Thursday


♟ General:

• Trump crypto venture World Liberty applies for bank charter. Link.

• EU DAC8 reporting now active, exchanges must share user identities and trade histories with tax authorities. Link.

• Among Bitcoin mining pools, Foundry USA, the five-year-old subsidiary of crypto conglomerate DCG, remains the world’s largest, accounting for 30% of the market share. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Optimism announces proposal for OP token buybacks. Link.

• Ethereum staking sees institutional return as validator exit queue collapses. Link.

• Zcash developers quit, form new company after board clash. Link.

• Stablecoins on BNB Chain crossed $15B in total circulating supply. Link.

🖥 Release:

• Solana Mobile sets Jan. 21 launch date for SKR token, confirms airdrop. Link.

• Owlto Tokenomics Officially Announced. Link.

🛍 Incentives:

• Solana Mobile confirms airdrop — Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• Stanford professor raises $15 million for Babylon, a decentralized protocol to turn Bitcoin into collateral. Link.


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Without these guys, we’d never have today’s Web3

Who’s missing?

Author: Green But Red


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What a wonderful way to start the day ☕️

• JPMorgan plans to launch its deposit token, JPM Coin, on Digital Asset's public L1 Canton Network.

• Wyoming also opened the previously launched stablecoin, Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), to the public via the Kraken exchange.


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Remember: "Bad but accurate information is better than uncertainty"

Author: The DeFi Plug


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On-chain data > news headlines

Prediction market’s bet > analytical report

👍 - Yep
👎- Nope

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This is not to be missed!

Year Ahead in Crypto 2026

Author: Delphi Digital

#article


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Daily Dose of News 🎺
January 09, Friday


♟ General:

• Colombia's tax authority mandates crypto exchanges to submit user data. Link.

• Truebit's native token TRU plunges 99.9% after $26 million exploit. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Grayscale BNB ETF registered in Delaware. Link.

• Bitnomial wins U.S. regulator's nod on prediction markets push, joins growing crowd. Link.

• Meteora became the DeFi protocol generating the most fees in 2025, with $1.25 billion. Link.

🗳 Treasures:

• Ethereum treasury firm SharpLink stakes $170M ETH on Linea network. Link.

🛍 Incentives:

• Ethereal Weekly Points Distributed. Link.

• Zama Public Auction: Registration is Now Open. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• Rain $250M Series C Round. Link.

• BlackOpal $200M Debt Financing Round. Link.

• PhotonPay Series B Round. Link.


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🎦 a16z highlighted three key trends for 2026:

Prediction markets, ZK proofs, and new media formats based on verifiable author reputation.

Author: Green But Red

#summary


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GM, fam!

You catching my drift? 😏


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Stablecoin transactions hit an all-time high of $33 trillion in 2025

USDC led the pack with $18.3 trillion in volume

Despite a sluggish market, Q4 alone saw a record $11 trillion, showing that stablecoin adoption isn’t slowing down

Bloomberg estimates total payments via stablecoins could hit $56 trillion by 2030


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👛 Rain just closed a massive $250M Series C at a $1.95B valuation, cementing stablecoin payments as one of the strongest narratives going into 2026!

Rain is positioning itself as the enterprise stablecoin rails layer: it powers compliant cards that work wherever Visa is accepted, fiat–stablecoin conversion, wallets, rewards, and payouts for over 200 partners, processing more than $3B in annualized volume.

The round was led by ICONIQ with backing from Sapphire, Dragonfly, Bessemer, Galaxy, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest, and Endeavor, and comes just months after its Series B and A, with valuation up 17x in ~10 months.

In practice, this is another strong signal that large funds are betting on stablecoins as the default money format for global payments, while Rain’s bet is making the onchain rails “invisible” to end users but indispensable for enterprises.


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...if you think you've figured out a pattern between Nvidia's presentations and AI tokens 😅


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