1. Total market value of DeFi tokens: 116.685 billion US dollars
DeFi total market value data source: coingecko
2. The trading volume of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours was 5.72 billion US dollars
Top ten rankings of DeFi projects with locked assets and locked-in amounts Data source: defillama
1. Total market value of NFT: US$35.424 billion
NFT total market value, market value ranking of the top ten projects Data source: Coinmarketcap
2. 24-hour NFT trading volume: 2.942 billionUS dollars
NFT total market value, market value ranking of the top ten projects Data source: Coinmarketcap
3. Top NFTs in 24 hours
The top ten NFTs with the highest sales growth in 24 hours Data source: NFTGO
Sonic Labs releases details of S token airdrop plan
Sonic Labs (formerly Fantom) released details of the S token airdrop plan. Users can obtain points through three ways: The first type is passive points. Users can use Web3 wallets (such as Rabby, MetaMask and hardware wallets), but positions in centralized exchanges are not counted; the second category is activity points, which are obtained by providing whitelist assets as liquidity in participating projects; the third category is DApps points, where developers can compete for allocations called "Sonic Gems" and distribute S tokens to users through a custom points plan. The project team emphasized that the first two types of points have nothing to do with the specific applications used, and users can increase their income by finding applications with the best points plan. Among them, scUSD and scETH are provided by Rings Protocol.
1. Yuga Labs Co-founder Denies Rumors of CryptoPunks Copyright Sale
Golden Finance reported that Greg Solano, co-founder of Yuga Labs, publicly denied rumors that the company planned to sell the copyright of the CryptoPunks series. This speculation was originally proposed by NFT researcher Wale Moca and sparked widespread discussion and controversy in the Web3 community.
2. Report: NFT transaction volume and number of transactions both fell by nearly 20% in 2024
On January 15, according to the "2024 Dapp Industry Report" recently released by DappRadar, NFT transaction volume in 2024 fell 19% from 2023 to $13.7 billion, while the number of sales fell 18% to just under 50 million, "making 2024 one of the worst performing years since 2020." DappRadar added that the NFT market has seen significant fluctuations, with transaction volume in the first quarter up 4% to $5.3 billion compared to the first quarter of 2023. However, "the momentum was short-lived" as transaction volume fell to $1.5 billion in the third quarter and rebounded to $2.6 billion in the fourth quarter. In addition, NFTs had their best year ever in 2022, when they first entered the mainstream, with trading volume reaching $57.2 billion and the number of transactions reaching 121.7 million. In addition, NFTs had their best year ever in 2022, when they first entered the mainstream, with trading volume reaching $57.2 billion and the number of transactions reaching 121.7 million.
1. Hong Kong Court Issues Tokenized Legal Notices to Two Illegal Wallets on the Tron Network
Golden Finance reported that the Hong Kong Court can now serve tokenized legal notices to the owners of anonymously held illegal wallet addresses through the blockchain. A court injunction shows that two wallet addresses on Tron have received tokenized legal notices requiring the freezing of their assets.
2. Virtuals Protocol updates value accumulation mechanism, including the introduction of an agent partner mechanism
Golden Finance reported that on January 15, Virtuals Protocol announced an update to the value accumulation mechanism to better support the builders of the Virtuals ecosystem. 1. Post-bonding transaction taxes will be distributed as follows: 30% to agent creators, 20% to agent partners, and 50% to agent sub-DAOs for future governance decisions. 2. Creators' rewards will be sent directly to agent deployer wallets. 3. Introduce an agent partner mechanism to coordinate incentives between trading platforms/interfaces (such as TG robots) and the Virtuals ecosystem; when these platforms become agent partners, they will receive 20% of the post-bonding transaction taxes on the transactions they facilitate - these funds can be used to reward their communities or other initiatives. In addition, Virtuals Protocol stated that since October 16, 2024, Virtuals has accumulated 12,990,427.85 VIRTUAL from post-bonding transaction revenue. These funds will be used to repurchase and destroy the corresponding proxy tokens through the time-weighted average price (TWAP) mechanism within the next 30 days.
3. Solv Protocol: SOLV airdrop qualification query will be open at 17:00 on January 16
On January 15, the Bitcoin staking protocol Solv Protocol announced that the SOLV token airdrop will open airdrop qualification verification at 17:00 on January 16 (Beijing time), and will be officially open for collection at 17:00 on January 17. SOLV tokens will be listed on exchanges such as Binance, Bybit and Hyperliquid at 18:00 on January 17. Unclaimed tokens will be returned to the community rewards and DAO treasury after 17:00 on March 18.
4. Trump's son Eric Trump has followed Sui Network's official X account
Golden Finance reported that according to Twitter (X) information, Trump's son Eric Trump has followed Sui Network's official X account.
5.Startale established an investment department Startale Ventures to promote the development of Soneium and Astar ecosystem
On January 15, Web3 infrastructure Startale Group announced the establishment of a new investment department Startale Ventures, which will mainly invest in Sony's L2 network Soneium and Astar ecosystem projects. In addition to providing funding, it will also provide comprehensive support including marketing, business development and strategy formulation, and will be able to use cloud infrastructure such as RPC nodes and account abstraction provided by Startale cloud services to improve Web3 development efficiency.
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In January 2024, hacker Eric Council Jr. used a SIM swapping technique to hijack the SEC's X account and post a fake Bitcoin ETF approval, causing wild price swings in Bitcoin. He was arrested in October 2024 and charged with identity theft and fraud.
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