Daily | OKX Jumpstart will launch ANIME (Animecoin) staking mining on January 20; Binance CEO: Currently more than 562 million people in the world own cryptocurrency; Ripple spokesperson denies rumors related to Trump criticizing it for not supporting the
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01/17/2025·14days agoOrganized by: Luan Peng, ChainCatcher
Important information:
- Crypto wallet Phantom completed a $150 million Series C round of financing at a valuation of $3 billion, with Sequoia Capital and Paradigm co-leading the investment
- People familiar with the matter: Trump plans to issue executive order to make cryptocurrency a national policy priority
- Ethereum developers plan to upgrade Pectra mainnet in March
- Binance will launch U-based ARC and AVAAI perpetual contracts
- Kraken chief legal officer Marco Santori announces resignation
- Changpeng Zhao: What is good for Bitcoin will also be good for altcoins
- Binance will launch SOLV 1-75x U-margined perpetual contract
- OKX Jumpstart will launch ANIME (Animecoin) staking mining on January 20
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Crypto wallet Phantom completed a $150 million Series C round of financing at a valuation of $3 billion. Sequoia Capital and Paradigm co-led the investment, with participation from a16z and Variant.
Since its launch in 2021, Phantom has reached 15 million monthly active users and manages $25 billion in self-custody assets.
According to RootData , Phantom is a friendly crypto wallet that allows users to safely and easily store, buy, send, receive, trade tokens and collect NFTs on the Solana blockchain.
According to Bloomberg, people familiar with the matter revealed that U.S. President-elect Trump plans to issue an executive order to elevate cryptocurrency to a national policy priority. The executive order is expected to position cryptocurrency as a "national priority", aim to guide government agencies to cooperate with the industry, and will establish a cryptocurrency advisory committee to speak out for industry policies.
Ethereum developers plan to upgrade Pectra mainnet in March
According to The Block, Ethereum developers plan to launch the Pectra upgrade of the network in March 2025 and set specific milestones before the mainnet fork.
New clients for upgrades and hard forks for the Ethereum test networks Sepolia and Holesky are expected to be released in February, following coordination with the client software team, according to a core developer conference call on Thursday. If the fork on the testnet goes as planned, the mainnet will launch next month.
Binance will launch U-based ARC and AVAAI perpetual contracts
The Binance Futures platform will launch ARCUSDT and AVAAIUSDT perpetual contracts, with a maximum leverage of 25 times.
Kraken chief legal officer Marco Santori announces resignation
Kraken chief legal officer Marco Santori has announced his resignation. The veteran lawyer has led Kraken's legal department for nearly five years and said he will continue to serve as a senior advisor to the company and help Kraken establish a "global advisory board."
Changpeng Zhao: What is good for Bitcoin will also be good for altcoins
Changpeng Zhao posted on the X platform: "What is good for Bitcoin will also be good for altcoins."
Binance will launch SOLV 1-75x U-margined perpetual contract
Binance will launch the SOLV 1-75x U-margined perpetual contract at 20:15 on January 17, 2025 (Eastern Eighth District time).
In addition, Binance Financial Management, one-click coin buying, flash swap trading platform, leverage, and fixed investment platform will be launched on Solv Protocol (SOLV).
OKX Jumpstart will launch ANIME (Animecoin) staking mining on January 20
The OKX Jumpstart staking mining activity will start at 14:00 (Beijing time) on January 20, 2025. OKB and BTC holders can mine ANIME tokens in return by staking OKB and BTC. The event will last until 14:00 on January 23.
The total OKB prize pool for this event is 53,333,334 ANIME, and the total BTC prize pool is 26,666,666 ANIME. There is no minimum limit for personal staking. The upper limit for OKB pledge is 600 OKB and the upper limit for BTC pledge is 0.3 BTC. Staking and unstaking are supported at any time. ANIME token is expected to be launched for online trading on January 23, and the specific time will be notified separately.
The Central Political and Legal Work Conference was held in Beijing from the 12th to the 13th. The meeting made arrangements to promote comprehensive rule of law and strive to build a higher level of rule of law in China. The meeting requested that the Ministry of Justice be good at solving new problems through scientific legislation. The Ministry of Justice should proactively study and propose legislative suggestions for key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related areas, such as unmanned driving, low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, virtual currency, data ownership and other new issues. To solve the problem, it is necessary to study the adoption of legislation to regulate platform behavior and strengthen the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of new employment groups.
According to the official account of the Suqian Court, the court disclosed an online pyramid scheme case in the name of investing in a virtual currency financial management project. The suspect created the "ACORNS" online platform and issued virtual currencies such as "ACO" and promoted it without actual business projects. This virtual currency can be used as a bait to participate in financial management to obtain high returns, and members are required to pay 100 USDT for financial management as a threshold to obtain static returns. As of the incident, the platform had more than 3,000 active recharging members and had attracted a total of nearly 3.16 million USDT.
After trial, the Sucheng Court sentenced the defendant in this case to a prison term ranging from five years and three months to three years for organizing and leading pyramid schemes, and fined him a fine ranging from 170,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan.
Ripple spokesperson denies rumors that Trump criticized it for not supporting the election
According to Unchained, Trump criticized the blockchain company Ripple for not supporting him during the election and instead providing financial support to Kamala Harris. The report quoted an Axios article as saying that Trump once said in a meeting with a representative of an unnamed company that the company did not stand by him at a critical moment. Sources refer to the company as Ripple.
However, a Ripple spokesperson denied this and said that the relevant rumors were “completely untrue.”
RootData releases the "2024 Web3 Industry Investment Research Report". The report shows that the popular TGE projects in the first half of 2025 are mainly BTC, artificial intelligence and high-performance chains.
2025 H1 popular TGE financing overview (*represents TGE that has been carried out):
- Projects with total financing exceeding US$100 million include Monad, Farcaster, *EigenLayer, *Magic Eden, and Berachain;
- Projects with total financing between US$50 million and US$100 million include Babylon, *Scroll, Morpho, and Eclipse;
- Projects with total funding between US$10 million and US$50 million include Sahara, Nillion, *Movement, *Puffer, Initia, Walletconnect, *Usual, Lombard, Solayer, *Bio, Sophon;
- Projects with total funding of less than $10 million include Roam, Symbiotic, *deBridge, *Grass.
In addition, the OTC market quotation amount increased overall, with the total transaction volume reaching 262 orders, a month-on-month decrease of 3%; the total order quotation amount reached US$1.2 billion, a month-on-month increase of 29%, and the average transaction volume per transaction was US$5.2 million, a month-on-month increase of 34%. The buyer Accounting for 41.98%, sellers accounted for 58.02%. In the first half of 2025, the OTC market will be led by Solana in the Move series' high-performance narrative.
Binance CEO: Over 562 million people around the world currently own cryptocurrency
Binance CEO Richard Teng posted on X that according to Triple-A data, more than 562 million people around the world currently own cryptocurrency.
RootData released the "2024 Web3 Industry Investment Research Report". The report shows that early-stage investment (under US$5 million) will continue to dominate in 2024, with 627 financing events occurring throughout the year, an increase of 20.6% from 520 projects in 2023. Mid-term investment (US$5 million to US$10 million) has shown steady growth, with 244 projects completed in 2024, an increase of 24.5% from 196 projects in 2023. Late-stage and large-scale investment (more than US$10 million) will complete 188 projects, an increase of 24.5% from 196 projects in 2023. The 175 projects in 2023 are up slightly.
Judging from the ranking of leading investment activity, Polychain ranks first with 30 leading investments, and its investment focus is obviously focused on infrastructure and DeFi. Among Hack VC’s 24 leading investments, 17 were in the infrastructure field. Eight of Animoca Brands' 17 leading investments have been in gaming projects, showing its professional layout in the gaming industry. Generally speaking, NFT, DAO and other fields are lukewarm in terms of leading investments, and most institutions have zero lead investments in these fields.
Among the top 10 active investment institutions in 2024, OKX Ventures ranks first with 72 investments, and its investment direction is mainly concentrated in the infrastructure and DeFi fields. It is worth noting that OKX Ventures is active in the gaming circuit, making a total of 34 shots. It was followed by MH Ventures and Cogitent Ventures, both with 56 shots.
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Public chain Lego: Connecting layer 1 and layer 0 blockchains to reshape the market structure
In the past few cycles, whenever Ethereum fell into a "performance" dilemma, there was always an "Ethereum killer" popping up. The “Ethereum killer” refers to the Layer 1 blockchain, and the competitor is the Layer 2 solution proposed by Ethereum.
However, since Ethereum completed the Cancun upgrade this year, the narrative volume of Ethereum Layer 2 has been higher than that of Layer 1, and has even replaced Layer 1 as the mainstream narrative. On the one hand, the competitive landscape of Layer 1 has not changed. From the perspective of market value, (excluding BTC) ETH, BNB and Solana have formed a tripartite situation, with ETH being the dominant one. On the other hand, there is a problem, that is, here Why are there almost no new Ethereum killers emerging in this cycle?
Interestingly, Ethereum also seems to be stuck in Layer 2 troubles. Token Terminal data shows that ETH Layer 1 revenue has dropped sharply, down 99% since March 2024. At the same time, in August this year, Multicoin Capital bombarded Ethereum Layer 2 on Bankless’s program. Later, Ethereum Foundation researchers stated in an AMA that Ethereum is still exploring Layer 1, rather than relying entirely on Layer 2.
As a result, problems that had been obscured by the Layer 2 boom began to surface.
Galaxy 2024 Q4 Crypto Venture Capital Report: $3.5 billion invested; VC situation remains difficult
While Bitcoin is hitting new all-time highs, crypto venture activity is well below previous cycle highs.
Notably, the SEC has never considered Litecoin a security. With the Trump administration about to take office, the market is full of expectations for the future regulatory direction of altcoin ETFs, especially regarding the approval of altcoin ETFs such as Litecoin, Solana and XRP.
Meme Hot List
According to the Meme token tracking and analysis platform GMGN market data, as of 19:50 on January 17:
The top five popular Ethereum tokens in the past 24 hours are: Yilongma , SXR , SPX , LINK , PEPU
The top five popular Solana tokens in the past 24h are: TRUMP , SHIKOKU , AGiXT , GSB , SPY
The top five popular tokens in the past 24h Base are: VIRTUAL, AIXBT , TOSHI, AERO, BABYXBT