Pluid Weekly Roundup #45

Tornado Cash wins case against US Treasury as judge blocks smart contract sanctionsPhantom wallet announces support for Base chain Metamask now allows token swaps without needing ETH Chinese court rules Bitcoin and crypto ownership legal SEC Chairman Gary Gensler to resign on January 20th Donald Trump's team consider creating the first ever White House crypto role Kraken to shut down their NFT marketplace Brazil files proposal for establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve The UK are set to officially regulate Cryptocurrency by 2026 Justin Sun purchases $30M worth of Trump's project (WLFI), becomes an advisor Rumble, a streaming platform, announces 'Bitcoin Treasury Strategy' of up to $20M Binance publishes AI x Crypto report, spotlighting GOAT, Virtuals and daos.fun Hong Kong's largest digital bank, ZA Bank, introduces Crypto trading Bitcoin records its highest weekly close ever of $97k Trump's favoured pick for SEC Chair, Teresa, posts: "Make Crypto Great Again." Solana hits a new all-time high market cap at $122B Sui signs a strategic partnership with Franklin Templeton FTX to start distributions no later than March 2025 BTC becomes the 12th largest currency in the world Spot Bitcoin ETF assets surpass the $100bn mark Justin Sun wins duct-taped banana auction at Sotheby's for $6.2M Bitwise officially registers its Solana ETF in Delaware Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy ($MSTR) becomes the most traded stock in the US The top 'How to buy' search suggestions on Google in the US are related to crypto MicroStrategy plans to raise another $2.6bn with convertible notes to buy more BTC Clanker, an AI agent and pump.fun rival on Warpcast, gains traction CHILLGUY memecoin hits a new all-time high despite red market CZ posts saying "meme coins are getting a little weird now" New AI Agent BLOB dumps its own coin to support a new BOOB coin Pump.fun shuts down its livestream feature after a suicide threat during stream Pudgy Toys return to Walmart in 2025 for Season 3 Magic Eden's $ME token launch expected on 10th December 2024 RektCoin $REKT goes live, opens at $50M market cap Magic Eden launches Rune Swaps, letting traders swap BTC for any Rune Official CHILLGUY artist intends a takedown of memecoins using his art Moonshot achieves its highest revenue day ever, reaching $300k+, driven by TikTok memes Shaquille O'Neal agrees to $11M settlement over Astrals NFT lawsuit Vader AI announces vision to be the "Blackrock of AI Agents" A kid creates $QUANT and rugs $30k live on pump.fun Sky Mavis teases a new game while cutting 21% of its workforce Floki Valhalla mainnet launch delayed to Q1 2025 Zentry releases whitepaper, to create a full-stack "Game of Games" Axie Infinity's 'Wings of Nightmare' goes live Fableborne Season 3 goes live InfiniGods launches crypto webstore Seedworld unveils pre-alpha game footage

Tornado Cash wins case against US Treasury as judge blocks smart contract sanctionsPhantom wallet announces support for Base chain Metamask now allows token swaps without needing ETH Chinese court rules Bitcoin and crypto ownership legal SEC Chairman Gary Gensler to resign on January 20th Donald Trump's team consider creating the first ever White House crypto role Kraken to shut down their NFT marketplace Brazil files proposal for establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve The UK are set to officially regulate Cryptocurrency by 2026 Justin Sun purchases $30M worth of Trump's project (WLFI), becomes an advisor Rumble, a streaming platform, announces 'Bitcoin Treasury Strategy' of up to $20M Binance publishes AI x Crypto report, spotlighting GOAT, Virtuals and daos.fun Hong Kong's largest digital bank, ZA Bank, introduces Crypto trading Bitcoin records its highest weekly close ever of $97k Trump's favoured pick for SEC Chair, Teresa, posts: "Make Crypto Great Again." Solana hits a new all-time high market cap at $122B Sui signs a strategic partnership with Franklin Templeton FTX to start distributions no later than March 2025 BTC becomes the 12th largest currency in the world Spot Bitcoin ETF assets surpass the $100bn mark Justin Sun wins duct-taped banana auction at Sotheby's for $6.2M Bitwise officially registers its Solana ETF in Delaware Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy ($MSTR) becomes the most traded stock in the US The top 'How to buy' search suggestions on Google in the US are related to crypto MicroStrategy plans to raise another $2.6bn with convertible notes to buy more BTC Clanker, an AI agent and pump.fun rival on Warpcast, gains traction CHILLGUY memecoin hits a new all-time high despite red market CZ posts saying "meme coins are getting a little weird now" New AI Agent BLOB dumps its own coin to support a new BOOB coin Pump.fun shuts down its livestream feature after a suicide threat during stream Pudgy Toys return to Walmart in 2025 for Season 3 Magic Eden's $ME token launch expected on 10th December 2024 RektCoin $REKT goes live, opens at $50M market cap Magic Eden launches Rune Swaps, letting traders swap BTC for any Rune Official CHILLGUY artist intends a takedown of memecoins using his art Moonshot achieves its highest revenue day ever, reaching $300k+, driven by TikTok memes Shaquille O'Neal agrees to $11M settlement over Astrals NFT lawsuit Vader AI announces vision to be the "Blackrock of AI Agents" A kid creates $QUANT and rugs $30k live on pump.fun Sky Mavis teases a new game while cutting 21% of its workforce Floki Valhalla mainnet launch delayed to Q1 2025 Zentry releases whitepaper, to create a full-stack "Game of Games" Axie Infinity's 'Wings of Nightmare' goes live Fableborne Season 3 goes live InfiniGods launches crypto webstore Seedworld unveils pre-alpha game footage