🔝 Today's leaders #GMT #VISTA #REN

🐶🐳 #DOGE Whales bought over 90M DOGE in the past 48 hours

🔎📊 CoinGecko latest study reveals that #VIRTUAL is the top gainer in 2024 with a 23,079% return, followed by #BRETT at 14,785% and #POPCAT at 10,459%.

⚖ #SOL Stephen Akridge, co-founder of Solana, presumably concealed millions of dollars in cryptocurrency from his ex-wife, according to a lawsuit she filed in California state court.

🌚 #LUNA #LUNC Decision to extradite Do Kwon to the USA signed Minister of Justice of Montenegro

📈🤔 #RWA Bloomberg: Tokenization of real-world assets has become the trend of the year on Wall Street

▪️ Major players like BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, and JPMorgan have already entered the RWA space. This trend is expected to continue, unlocking numerous new business models.
▪️ The excitement resembles the buzz around blockchain technology adoption a few years ago.
▪️ So far, only 0.003% of global assets have been tokenized—leaving plenty of room for growth.
▪️ With Donald Trump returning to power, the demand for cryptography is expected to surge among TradFi companies and investors.

📊 DefiLlama: Bitget's net inflows over the past seven days reached $1.29 billion, ranking first among CEXs.
By comparison, Binance came in second with net inflows of $643 million over the same period.

💰 Crypto Fundraising Sharply Increased in Q4 2024

Thanks to substantial funding rounds, crypto fundraising saw significant growth in the last quarter of 2024. However, this surge was primarily driven by late-stage and OTC funding rounds.

🆕🙋‍♂️ #BNB Binance Wallet added support for 9 new decentralized applications (#dApps).

🇪🇺🧐 From December 30, crypto exchanges in the EU will require additional identity verification for transactions over €1,000.

🕵️ Whale, who earned $11.7 million in profit on #PEPE (sold all tokens on December 19), again bought PEPE for $24.5 million

🔝 Top 10 Chains by Daily Active Addresses in 2024

🇺🇸🥳 #ETH The Trump administration will Make Ethereum Great Again in 2025, thanks to an overhaul of regulations that have slowed ETH's progress, the introduction of staking to the #ETF's, and more. cointelegraph

🔮 #BTC Robert Kiyosaki declared that BlackRock is selling Bitcoin, but at the same time predicts that the price of BTC will reach $350K in 2025.

📈 #VIRTUAL DropsTab: The total revenue from the Virtuals protocol reached $45 million. Volume on DEX - $2 billion. Also, a total of 12,197 #AI agents have been launched.

📈👀 #WLD WorldCoin: By December, the network topped 20 million total participants (including over 9.5 million verified humans) across every continent except Antarctica and was adding as many as 800,000 new World App users and 355,000 new verified World ID holders per week.

That comes out to about one new person joining World Network every 0.75 seconds, including over 8 million monthly active World App users.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: +4,598 BTC ($442.06M) 🟢
Fidelity inflows 2,664 BTC ($256.14M) and currently holds 205,007 BTC ($19.71B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: +32,876 ETH ($111.02M) 🟢
Fidelity inflows 25,000 ETH ($84.43M) and currently holds 460,000 ETH ($1.55B).

🔝 Top 15 Total Value Locked gainers in Q4 2024

Among the top performers are #BNSOL, the tokenized representation of #SOL staked by Binance, Fenix Concentrated Liquidity, a cutting-edge modular AMM architecture, and Euler V2, a modular lending platform.

🇺🇸👀 The IRS will require #DeFi brokers to report digital asset transaction proceeds and issue Form 1099, collecting user data like names and addresses. These rules, effective January 1, 2027, apply to front-end service providers but exclude protocols, aligning DeFi brokers with traditional securities tax reporting. source

🕵️ 7,999 #BTC (~$752 million) transferred from Coinbase to unknown new wallet