Happy Wednesday friends! 2025 is here!!!
Let’s dive in!
As always… stats/alerts/etc at top and tweets/news/links/videos/etc at bottom… and all tweets are hyperlinked so just click on them to pull them up on Twitter!
Market Update
Crypto (from @CryptoBubbles):
Total Crypto Market Cap: $3.40T
Gold: $2639.30
Oil (WTI): $71.87
US 10Y Treasury: 4.573%
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 1000, by 24 hour change)
Spotlight
Take note friends! Our official sponsor @vertex_protocol had an absolutely massive year in 2024 and 2025 is looking even more bullish!!!
Here’s everything that’s going on:
-Upgrades to produce even deeper omnichain liquidity via their custom infra @EdgeLayer…
-New deployments on Sonic and Botanix…
-Major rewards for users on SEI…
-Equally big rewards for users on Base…
-More lucrative competitions for traders…
-Absolutely MASSIVE APR’s for LP’s and VRTX stakers!
-And much more that is yet to be announced!!! :)
Get started trading 50+ perps and spot markets and/or APR-maxxing now at app.vertexprotocol.com and make sure to follow them on Twitter for more updates!
Biggest TVL Movers + Else
Chains are mixed today. Only top 25 chains green on the weekly are Hyperliquid (#8), Zircuit (#14), and dYdX (#22).
Protocols are mixed today as well. Only top 25 protocols green on the weekly are Morpho (#13), and Hyperliquid (#17).
Here’s The Top 12 Fastest-Growing Chains By TVL On The Monthly With At Least $100M TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 12 Fastest-Growing Protocols By TVL On The Monthly With At Least $100M TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 12 Entities By 24 Hour Fee Generation (from @DefiLlama):
Bitcoin Fear/Greed Index:
(from @BitcoinFear)
New Projects
(note: this includes new projects we find through combing Twitter each day, and we also include or re-include every newly launched protocol added by @DefiLlama that has at least some TVL or is followed by at least some of our mutuals - hence disclaimer: these are not pre-vetted by us so make sure to DYOR!)
-Something new called @sentio_ai. Twitter bio states “Build powerful autonomous on-chain AI agents. No-Code Required. Team @NodeAIETH”. Followed by 6 of our mutuals.
-New lending protocol on Sonic called @machfi_xyz has been added to @DefiLlama. Twitter bio states “Borrow/Lending with 1-Click-Leverage | @SonicLabs Boom Ruby Gem Winner 💥 “ Followed by 4 of our mutuals.
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @DefiLlama (all types, $20M+ TVL only) - note: these lists are just raw data, make sure to always DYOR before interacting with any/all protocols)
Security Alerts
-No security alerts today.
Important News And Analysis
-Bitcoin concludes 2024 with its highest yearly close ever:
-Dollar also up though which is not a bullish sign for our crypto bags, h/t @noahseidman:
-List of potential upcoming Q1 token launches, h/t @WuBlockchain:
-Polymarket volumes have actually held up reasonably well since the election, h/t @EffortCapital:
-Story re: Usual Protocol from @WuBlockchain:
-$PENGU generating lots of attention on the TL, h/t @0xENAS:
-Interesting thoughts on AI Agent meta, from @himgajria:
-End of year ETF stats from @LDNCryptoClub:
-Very interesting thread of 2025 predictions from @hosseeb (well-worth reading):
-Thread of AI Agent updates/news from @S4mmyEth:
-Interesting macro chart from @LukeGromen:
-New @phtevenstrong video on everything yield-farming:
-New video of cycle/market analysis from @Dynamo_Patrick:
-Parting wisdom from @crypto_linn:
Conclusion
Happy Wednesday friends! Here’s to a huge 2025!!!
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Note
The team at @silentdao_ is continuing to develop their revolutionary new on-chain privacy architecture… which is essentially meant to be a middleware privacy/encryption layer:
“Silent Protocol is building the ghost layer, a modular layer 1.5 providing compliant privacy built on the EZEE framework to become that structured playground for institutions and retail users that can provide compliant, secure and privacy preserving access to ethereum native and cross chain liquidity along with enabling access to applications.”
Our editor @rektdiomedes is helping bang the drum about everything @silentdao_ is working on, so make sure to follow them on Twitter for more updates and check out the great thread on them from @kenodnb below!
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***Note On Material: The ‘Spotlight’ and ‘Note’ sections and info on our Official Monthly Sponsor @vertex_protocol are the only parts of The Daily Degen that are sponsored/promotional. Everything else is chosen 100% organically based on what info/stories/etc seem likely to be the most newsworthy/important/valuable to readers.