Happy Monday good degens! Start of another big week!
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: $3.77T
Gold: $2645.10
Oil (WTI): $74.52
US 10Y Treasury: 4.634%
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 1000, by 24 hour change)
Spotlight
We have been helping spread the word about what the team at @silentdao_ is building… and their long hard work is finally moving towards fruition!
Once again, Silent is building…
“…a compliant, composable, highly efficinet, scalable, performant and modular privacy system with the vision to create an anonymous computational access layer….”
This utilizes their custom EZEE framework:
“…EZEE, or Economical Zero Knowledge Execution Environment, as the name suggests, allows users to create a framework that lets users interact with blockchain applications privately and efficiently by separating private account data from public transactions while allowing applications to work together seamlessly....”
Learn more from their new article (also linked in the tweet below!) and make sure to follow them on Twitter for more updates!
Biggest TVL Movers + Else
Chains are quite green today. Fastest-growing chains on the weekly with at least $10M TVL are Sonic, Zircuit, and ZKsync Era.
Protocols are also quite green today. Fastest-growing protocols on the weekly with at least $10M TVL are Factor, WAGMI, Splash Protocol, Koi Finance, and Adrastea Finance.
Here’s The Top 12 Chains By TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 12 Protocols By TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 12 Entities By 24 Hour Revenue Generation (from @DefiLlama):
Bitcoin Fear/Greed Index:
(from @BitcoinFear)
Chart Of The Day
(Courtesy of our Official Sponsor @vertex_protocol)
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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!)
-New project called @bankrbot. Twitter bio states “Your Friendly AI-Powered Crypto Companion. Buy, sell, swap, place limit orders, and manage your wallet effortlessly—just by sending a message.” Followed by 8 of our mutuals. h/t @redphonecrypto:
-Something new called @neur_sh. Twitter bio states “The Intelligent Copilot for @solana $NEUR 3N2ETvNpPNAxhcaXgkhKoY1yDnQfs41Wnxsx5qNJpump”. Followed by 46 of our mutuals. h/t @0xGumshoe:
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
-Saylor announced a new (very small) round of $BTC purchases:
-Update on the ‘Coinbase App Store Indicator’ from @DaanCrypto:
-@cryptoklotz on Bitcoin-dominance:
-AI headlines continuing to generate massive attention, h/t @WClementeIII:
-Additional headlines from @blocmatesnews:
-35k AI Agents have apparently been launched so far, h/t @NPC_68:
-Interesting story re: @movementlabsxyz and @_kaitoai, h/t @alpha_pls:
-Thoughts on @MustStodMurad’s situation, from @CryptoKaduna:
-Chinese bond market continuing to generate much attention, h/t @fejau_inc:
-Good AI Agents overview from @Dynamo_Patrick:
-Macro thoughts from @LDNCryptoClub:
-New video of TA and market analysis from @DaanCrypto:
-New crypto news overview from the @coinbureau channel:
-New video going over various 2025 predictions, from @BanklessHQ:
-Parting thoughts from @hansolar21:
Conclusion
Happy Monday friends! Stay alert out there!
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