The Daily Degen - January 9th, 2026
All of today's news/data/alerts...
Happy Friday good frogs! Lots of stuff going on!
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/X!
Market Update
Crypto (from @CryptoBubbles)
Total Crypto Market Cap: $3.18T
QQQ (Nasdaq 100): $627.09
Gold: $4,496.30
Oil (WTI): $59.27
US 10Y Treasury: 4.169%
Crypto Fear & Greed Index (from coinmarketcap(dot)com): 41
Altcoin Season Index (from coinglass(dot)com): 57
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 1000, by 24 hour change)
Spotlight
Take note friends!
@DeFiSaver just published a great ‘Year In Review’ article containing all their thoughts on 2025!
Written by DFS team member Nikola J, it contains lots of great insights on crypto as a whole:
“I think it's still worth pointing out that through all the ups and downs, DeFi simply worked. I feel this has become something we take for granted by now, but that only goes to further show how much the space has matured…”
And on DeFi Saver specifically:
“Honestly, it’s been another great year for DFS…
We deployed and delivered a lot, with new integrations, new features, and even some new bits of the app…”
Once again, DeFi Saver is an extremely cool platform that essentially lets users make “defi recipes” with features such as lending and borrowing, swaps and limit orders and DCA strategies via dex meta-aggregation, leverage management, loan-shifting, DFS automation, custom transaction building, and more!
As per the above article, in 2025 they facilitated 185,483 user-initiated transactions and had 10,284 unique users transacting!
If you want a rundown of their 2025 and a look ahead at what 2026 will bring, make sure to read the article in full - and check out the screenshot from it on their most notable 2025 releases below!
And as always make sure to follow them on Twitter for more updates and visit their site now to take advantage of everything they offer!
Biggest TVL Movers + Other Interesting Data
Chains are mixed today. Fastest-growing top 50 chain on the monthly is Provenance (#17) at +86.37%.
Protocols are also mixed today. Fastest-growing top 50 protocol on the monthly is multichain ‘Onchain Capital Allocator’ Concrete (#49) at +43.02%.
Here’s The Top 12 Fastest-Growing Chains By TVL On The Weekly With At Least $100M TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 12 Fastest-Growing Protocol By TVL On The Weekly With At Least $100M TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 10 Dex’s By 7 Day Volume (from @DefiLlama):
New Projects
(note: this includes new projects we find through combing Twitter each day and going through newly launched protocols added by @DefiLlama, limited primarily to new projects that have at least some TVL or are followed by at least some of our mutuals… Disclaimer: these are not pre-vetted by us so make sure to DYOR!)
-Something new called @mooncake_fi has been added to @DefiLlama, categorized as a derivatives protocol on Solana with $3.17M TVL. Twitter bio states “A Permissionless Tokenized Perp Market, powered by RateX @Ratex_Dex ...” Followed by 14 of our mutuals.
-Something new called @sodex_official has been added to @DefiLlama, categorized as a dex currently on 11 chains, with $1.49M TVL. Twitter bio states “High-performance order-book trading chain for spot & perps built on L1 ValueChain by @sosovaluecrypto ...” Followed by 3 of our mutuals.
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @DefiLlama (no yield tokens, single-exposure, $25M+ TVL only) - note: these lists are just raw data, make sure to always DYOR before interacting with any/all protocols)
Important News And Analysis
-The Supreme Court is apparently likely to rule on the Trump tariff stuff within the next week, Trump apparently said that he won’t pardon Sam Bankman-Fried, and Florida is apparently revisiting the idea of a strategic Bitcoin reserve, h/t @Tyler_Did_It:
-Much speculation about the aforementioned Trump tariff ruling from the Supreme Court, h/t example from @FreightAlley:
-Kraken’s L2 Ink will apparently be doing an airdrop later this year and this is generating much attention on the TL, h/t example from @kai_xbt below:
-US mortgage rates have fallen below 6% for the first time since 2023, amid a multitude of efforts from the Trump administration to get them down. Also interesting fact that over 20% of US home loans are now above 6%. h/t @KobeissiLetter:
-All eyes on token buybacks, both of projects starting them and projects stopping them, h/t @TheDeFinvestor:
-Morgan Stanley is apparently working on their own crypto wallet, h/t this and other headlines from @layerggofficial:
-Is Extended the best tokenless perps dex to farm now? h/t @TheDeFinvestor (click to read rest of tweet, below is just a portion of it):
-Are TON, Bitcoin L2’s, chain tokens, and DePin all contrarian bets for this year? h/t interesting thoughts from @masonnystrum:
-ZCASH drama generating attention, h/t absolutely massive @0xGeeGee tweet full of alfa and rabbit holes to dive into, recommend reading in full (below is only a small portion of it):
-Will 2026 see a bifurcation of crypto projects into a small number of blue chips and a large number of washouts? h/t @andyyy:
-Very interesting tier list of 2026 airdrop opportunities from @DidiTrading, h/t @tobific for the great cheat-sheet for it below (original was just done via logos):
-New @pahueg interview with @DannyDayan5 on various macro topics:
-New episode of Forward Guidance (aired 9 hours ago):
-New Marc Andreesen interview:
-New crypto/macro livestream from @noahseidman (airing live as we publish this):
-New roundtable from @Unchained_pod (aired yesterday):
-Newest NFA Live (aired yesterday):
-New Doomberg interview from two days ago on the situation in Venezuela and various other macro topics:
-New @coinbureau livestream (aired four hours ago):
-“I call this the cringe premium. On the other side of cringe is everything you want out of life.” - parting wisdom from @patfscott:
Conclusion
Happy Friday good degens! Stay alert out there!
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Note
The new Mantle vault on Bybit just hit $100M TVL/AUM!
To quote Mantle:
“New year, new milestone alert.
In under a month since launch, Mantle Vault on @Bybit_Official Onchain Earn has surpassed $100M+ TVL & AUM.
Powered by @CIAN_protocol , this signals strong demand for institutional-grade onchain CeDeFi with Mantle paving the way forward…”
To quote Bybit:
“🚀 Mantle Vault Breaks $100M in AUM
Earn up to 8.5% APR on $USDT and $USDC with Mantle Vault.
No lock-up period. Powered by top-tier protocols…”
Check out the great synopsis from our friend @Slappjakke below, and click here to deposit into it now!
And, as always, make sure to follow Mantle on Twitter for more info, and stay tuned as we continue banging the drum on everything they are doing!
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***Note On Material: The ‘Spotlight’ and ‘Note’ sections 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.