The Morning Minute (1.22)
⏰Top News:
-Crypto majors green, SOL leads +7% to $257
-Trump delivers on crypto promise, frees Ross
-SEC sets up crypto task force aimed at regulatory framework
-AI sector rebounds 20% amidst $500B Stargate Project news
-$600M JUP airdrop lands this morning
📰NFT Headlines:
-ETH NFT leaders were mostly green; Punks even at 38 ETH, Pudgy +2% at 20.3, BAYC -2% at 13.25 ETH, Azuki +3% at 12 ETH, Doodles +3% to 4.59 ETH
-Imaginary Ones (+30%) and 2049 / Reflections (+30%) led notable top movers
-Binance announced Azuki's ANIME is coming to its Hodlers
-BTC NFT leaders were mostly red; Bitcoin Puppets -6%, NodeMonkes -4%, OMB +1%, Quantum Cats -9%
-The Runes leaders were mostly red; DOG -7% at $464M mc, PUPS -5% at $69M, BDC +3% at $44M, GIZMO even at $12M
-The RSIC team posted on its 1-year anniversary "Block 888,888" in an announcement of an announcement
-The NBA Top Shot Sotheby's auctions wrapped up yesterday, with the Yves Missi 1/1 fetching the top big of $3,120
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
-Jupiter's $630M airdrop is set to go live at 10:30 am today (JUP -3% at $0.86)
-Moonshot enabled deposits via Robinhood
-Myriad announced its pre-SZN will end on Friday at 2 pm ET as they gear up for launch on Abstract mainnet
-Kaito introduced its Yapper Launchpad where yappers and NFT holders will be able to vote on new project launches 3x per week
🤖 AI x Crypto
-OpenAI announced the new Stargate Project which will see $500B in capital injected into the AI sector
-Overall market cap jumped 18% to $16.58B, adding nearly $3B in market cap on the day
-Most leaders up 15-40%: VIRTUAL (+14%), ai16z (+35%), FARTCOIN (+3%), AIXBT (+34%), ARC (+48%) and GRIFFAIN (+13%)
-Top movers include Project89 (+120%), LEA (+120%), AICMP (+111%), DAIGE (+80%), PIPPIN (+80%), AGIXT (+74%) and AVB (+68%)
-DogeAI debuted and has run to $58M in its first 36 hours of trading
-MakeAI's MAI token debuted and ran to $10M
🌎 Macro Crypto and Web3
-Crypto majors are slightly green; BTC +1% at $105,000, ETH +1% at $3,310, SOL +7% at $257, XRP +4% at $3.21
-ai16z (+35%), VIRTUAL (+17%), WLD (+16%) an HYPE (+13%) led alts
-Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht with an Executive Order on Tuesday, fulfilling his campaign promise
-Crypto-related apps reached 8 of the top 10 spots in the Finance app category of the iOS store
-The SEC launched a crypto task force headed by crypto-friendly Hester Peirce dedicated to developing a clear crypto regulatory framework for crypto assets
-Crypto dot com is relaunching its US central crypto exchange with Trump in the White House
-Circle acquired the world's largest tokenized money market fund USYC, which is backed by U.S. Treasury Debt and reverse repurchase agreements
Memes
-Memecoin majors are mixed led by TRUMP; DOGE -6%, SHIBA -1%, TRUMP +12%, PEPE +2%, PENGU even, BONK +10%, FARTCOIN +5%
-Rex filed for DOGE and TRUMP ETFs on Tuesday, and because of their filing process chosen, they could potentially be approved ahead of the SOL and XRP ETFs
-New meme Heart Sparkle Mermaid (HSM) ran to $25M in its debut on $150M volume (now $16M)
-STARGATE also debuted after the OpenAI announcement and ran to $