Osprey Funds Launches the First Publicly-Quoted U.S. BNB Fund
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241218683817/en/Osprey-Funds-Launches-the-First-Publicly-Quoted-U.S.-BNB-Fund-Osprey-BNB-Chain-Trust-OTCQX-OBNB
Fuel is making an announcement tomorrow
https://x.com/fuel_network/status/1869374609373700381
Masa has announced strategic funding from Digital Currency Group with participation from FBG Capital.
https://x.com/getmasafi/status/1869386397783662654
Crypto.com has voluntarily withdrawn its lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as CEO met with Donald Trump.
https://decrypt.co/297265/crypto-com-sec-lawsuit-donald-trump
The second batch of 5 Binance Alpha Projects is now live: Cakepie (CKP), Gearbox (GEAR), Stader (SD), SYRUP, FARTCOIN.
https://x.com/BinanceWallet/status/1869351933103988890
The first batch of 5 Binance Alpha Projects are now live: KOMA, CHEEMS, APX, ai16z, aixbt.
https://x.com/binancewallet/status/1869323010332921903
Binance will delist Kaon (AKRO), Bluzelle (BLZ), WazirX (WRX) at 2024-12-25 03:00 UTC.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-delist-akro-blz-wrx-on-2024-12-25-b140faee7cf9482cb10257308abda245
Arthur Hayes has introduced a new article "Trump Truth"
Crypto Forecast:
1. Bitcoin growth to $1 million.
2. Bitcoin may become a way to protect savings from financial repression.
3. Crypto market crash in January 2025 is possible.
https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/trump-truth
Ohio Representative files bill to create strategic Bitcoin Reserve for the state.
https://x.com/watcherguru/status/1869149360895971432
Eric Balchunas: “We expect a wave of cryptocurrency ETFs next year, albeit not all at once. First out is likely the btc + eth combo ETFs, then prob Litecoin (bc its fork of btc = commodity), then HBAR (bc not labeled security) and then XRP/Solana (which have been labeled securities in pending lawsuits) via JSeyff in his outlook today”.
https://x.com/EricBalchunas/status/1869064627591496170
Omni has announced the launch of Omni Core mainnet
https://news.omni.network/omni-core-mainnet-is-live-unifying-ethereum-begins-today/
Fuel Labs is initiating Genesis Drop
1 billion FUEL (10% of total supply), 200,000+ unique addresses.
▫️Phase 1 Pre-Depositors — 287,000,000 FUEL
▫️Testnet Users — 64,200,000 FUEL
▫️NFT Connoisseurs — 125,000,000 FUEL
▫️Fuel Bridgoors — 200,000,000 FUEL
▫️Ecosystem Glass Eaters — 138,800,000 FUEL
▫️Open Source Community — 175,000,000 FUEL
▫️Fuelet Magisters — 10,000,000 FUEL
Checker: https://app.fuel.network/drop/
https://x.com/fuel_network/status/1869029825433993612
Ripple USD (RLUSD) is now live on global exchanges.
https://x.com/Ripple/status/1869011382852878592
🔥 Bitcoin reached its new ATH of $108k.
BTC is now trading at $106.9k.
https://dropstab.com/coins/bitcoin
Donald Trump-backed DeFi platform World Liberty Financial and Ethena are planning a “long-term collaboration” starting with implementing the yield-bearing token, sUSDe.
https://www.theblock.co/post/331436/trump-backed-world-liberty-financial-and-ethena-eye-collaboration-starting-with-susde-implementation
German financial giant Deutsche Bank is launching its own Layer 2 network based on ZKsync technology.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/deutsche-bank-layer-2-blockchain-ethereum-zksync
💧 Recent Funding Rounds Backed by Top Tier Angels
👉 https://dropstab.com/insights/latest-fundraising-rounds
Binance Futures will launch the LUMIAUSDT Perpetual Contract at 2024-12-18 11:30 UTC with up to 75x leverage.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-futures-will-launch-usd%E2%93%A2-margined-lumiausdt-perpetual-contract-with-up-to-75x-leverage-c6420ba80fe54282970e1d69cafa56a4
Spot ETF Flow on 17.12: BTC-ETF +$493.95M, ETH-ETF +$144.74M
https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot
Binance will remove and cease trading on the following spot trading pairs:
At 2024-12-20 03:00 UTC: BNT/ETH, CYBER/TUSD, EUR/AEUR, HMSTR/BNB, SUI/TUSD
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/notice-of-removal-of-spot-trading-pairs-2024-12-20-6d4532716f864947ba21791fd974cad5
Crypto asset manager Bitwise has launched a solana staking ETP in Europe with the ticker BSOL.
https://blockworks.co/news/bitwise-launches-solana-staking-etp-europe
The crypto market is down
BTC Dominance - 56.10%
Market Cap - $3.70T
BTC - $104,760.23 (-1.92%)
ETH - $3,846.14 (-4.57%)
XRP - $2.52 (+1.85%)
SOL - $217.32 (+0.97%)
BNB - $710.89 (-1.61%)
INJ - $26.55 (-5.51%)
TON - $5.82 (-4.59%)
VANA -$16.66 (-28.28%)
SUI - $4.51 (-3.05%)
HYPE - $25.86 (-10.59%)
https://dropstab.com
Saga Launches Mainnet 2.0
https://medium.com/sagaxyz/saga-launches-mainnet-2-0-to-transform-blockchain-economics-partners-with-uniswap-650d48b63ef7
Tether will launch Hadron by early February 2025.
https://x.com/paoloardoino/status/1869040915127705849
Kris Marszalek, Chief Executive Officer of crypto exchange Crypto.com, met with Trump at the Florida golf resort on Monday.
The pair discussed appointments related to the crypto industry, including in financial departments, Congress and the incoming administration, according to a person familiar with the meeting who asked not to be named discussing a private conversation.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-17/crypto-com-ceo-kris-marszalek-met-trump-at-mar-a-lago-as-industry-courts-favor
ENS Labs has partnered with Linea to build Namechain, its Layer 2 solution for scaling ENS to the next level.
https://x.com/ensdomains/status/1869020166794993702
Beam Node Token Mint starts today at 15:00 UTC
📅Mint date
Week 1: December 17-24 — The Node Tokens are available for $1,250 per Node Token.
After week 1: The Node Tokens will be available only at $3,750 per Node Token.
📍Chains to mint on
Week 1: Beam Network, Ethereum, Avalanche, Arbitrum and Base.
Between Week 1 and Horizon Upgrade: Beam and Ethereum.
Node Token supply — Unlimited.
Node Token will be transferable in mid/late January after the launch of Beam L1. They will be sold on Beam's marketplace.
Node validators will earn rewards from Beam.
🔥Use this link to get 5% off: nodes.onbeam.com