Pluid Weekly Roundup #52

Trump’s inauguration will feature a Crypto Ball to honour him as the first pro-crypto President Moonpay acquires Helio in a $175M deal Animecoin confirms $ANIME token launch in January, revealing tokenomics Aiccelerate DAO hits a $300M valuation after a $150K raise, sparking controversy over distribution DOJ gets approval to sell $6.5B in Bitcoin seized from Silk Road Trump plans to sign executive orders on crypto policies on his first day in office Tether relocates its headquarters to El Salvador Kern Protocol to airdrop KERN tokens to users of Jupiter, Drift, Jito, and memecoin communities Mantra partners with UAE real estate giant DAMAC to tokenize $1B in property CFTC demands Coinbase hand over Polymarket user data Ooga Booga DEX raises $1.5M to build on Berachain, led by Primal Terra founder Do Kwon’s trial scheduled for January 2026 Movement Labs raising $100M in Series B funding from CoinFund and Nova Fund Blast teases mobile app launch and tokenomics reveal coming soon Bubble Maps announces airdrop to reward active v2 users Coinbase adds Base memecoin TOSHI to its listing roadmap Virtuals Protocol launches GAME SDK with customisation and plugin options for developers Shaw hints at ai16z v2 release later this week Cygaar tests AI agents controlling their own Abstract Global Wallet Binance lists AIXBT, CGPT, and COOKIE for spot trading Kaito Genesis NFTs hit a 7 ETH floor price Ronin launches its first AI agent, JAIHOZ, on Virtuals Eliza expands its software support to Ape Chain Seedify launches presale for mystery AI agent DTRXBT at a $1M FDV valuation Trump Bitcoin Trading Cards go live with a 0.222 BTC floor price Virtuals Protocol partners with Animoca Brands to invest in AI gaming Fantasy Top teams up with Moonshot to release a game called Coin Rush Smolworld introduces the first AI agents powered by Eliza for its metaverse game Yuga Labs confirms Otherside Meta will launch its first persistent virtual world in June Avarik partners with Virtuals Protocol to explore AI-driven gaming and anime

Trump’s inauguration will feature a Crypto Ball to honour him as the first pro-crypto President Moonpay acquires Helio in a $175M deal Animecoin confirms $ANIME token launch in January, revealing tokenomics Aiccelerate DAO hits a $300M valuation after a $150K raise, sparking controversy over distribution DOJ gets approval to sell $6.5B in Bitcoin seized from Silk Road Trump plans to sign executive orders on crypto policies on his first day in office Tether relocates its headquarters to El Salvador Kern Protocol to airdrop KERN tokens to users of Jupiter, Drift, Jito, and memecoin communities Mantra partners with UAE real estate giant DAMAC to tokenize $1B in property CFTC demands Coinbase hand over Polymarket user data Ooga Booga DEX raises $1.5M to build on Berachain, led by Primal Terra founder Do Kwon’s trial scheduled for January 2026 Movement Labs raising $100M in Series B funding from CoinFund and Nova Fund Blast teases mobile app launch and tokenomics reveal coming soon Bubble Maps announces airdrop to reward active v2 users Coinbase adds Base memecoin TOSHI to its listing roadmap Virtuals Protocol launches GAME SDK with customisation and plugin options for developers Shaw hints at ai16z v2 release later this week Cygaar tests AI agents controlling their own Abstract Global Wallet Binance lists AIXBT, CGPT, and COOKIE for spot trading Kaito Genesis NFTs hit a 7 ETH floor price Ronin launches its first AI agent, JAIHOZ, on Virtuals Eliza expands its software support to Ape Chain Seedify launches presale for mystery AI agent DTRXBT at a $1M FDV valuation Trump Bitcoin Trading Cards go live with a 0.222 BTC floor price Virtuals Protocol partners with Animoca Brands to invest in AI gaming Fantasy Top teams up with Moonshot to release a game called Coin Rush Smolworld introduces the first AI agents powered by Eliza for its metaverse game Yuga Labs confirms Otherside Meta will launch its first persistent virtual world in June Avarik partners with Virtuals Protocol to explore AI-driven gaming and anime