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As banks gear up to issue stablecoins for payments, 2025 could mark a turning point for stablecoin adoption, Dragonfly Capital’s Haseeb Qureshi predicts. Stablecoins are set to revolutionize small and medium-sized business payments in 2025, shifting from trading and speculation to enabling real-world use cases like instant settlement, according to Dragonfly Capital’s managing partner Haseeb Qureshi. In a Jan. 1 post on X, Haseeb Qureshi shared several predictions for 2025, highlighting a promising future for stablecoins. He suggested that regulatory clarity could pave the way for the U.S. to introduce bank-issued stablecoins by year-end. Still, the Dragonfly Capital managing partner…

Friends, Since the last EF-Supported Teams report, progress has been made across the board. From improved network conditions, to the coming Istanbul release and Eth1.x and Eth2 development, all areas core to the functionality and sustainability of Ethereum are advancing. This series focuses on teams and efforts from the Foundation and larger Ethereum ecosystem that are working to grow and improve Ethereum as a whole. In this edition, we’re covering updates from many teams highlighted in the previous report, fully supported projects that are core elements of the Ethereum ecosystem like Eth2.0 Research, Geth and Solidity, and other ecosystem efforts.…

Homepage > News > Business > The top AI trend of 2025: Why AI agents will take over AI chatbots have dominated the artificial intelligence (AI) industry for the past two years. Behind these chatbots are the models that powered them, which have been locked in a race to provide “the best AI model.” Initially, this playing field was crowded, with various players competing for market dominance. But unsurprisingly, tech giants quickly rose above the competition, capturing the majority of market share. Source: FirstPageSage Their success was largely due to deep pockets and the immense costs of competing in the…

Jan. 7 could mark a turning point, as Usual plans to activate the token fee switch for real value sharing. The real-world asset stable coin protocol Usual (USUAL) has recently hinted at the activation of its token fee switch. The fee switch era begins.2025 marks a turning point for DeFi: real value, real distribution.Get your USUAL ready for January 7th.A new year, a new standard. Let’s make 2025 the year of USUAL. pic.twitter.com/kXQXTrinjK— Usual (@usualmoney) January 1, 2025 This announcement comes at a pivotal time for USUAL, as the protocol has experienced a notable decline in its recent market performance.…

Journalist Posted: December 31, 2024 Coinbase delisted USDT as MiCA guidelines became effective. USDT market cap has dropped by $4B as insiders called the delisting a ‘Tether FUD.’ In mid-December, crypto exchange Coinbase delisted Tether’s USDT from its platform, citing ‘non-compliance’ with EU’s crypto regulation MiCA (Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation), one of the most robust crypto standards that became effective on the 30th of December. As one of the largest USD-pegged stablecoins by market cap, Tether’s USDT has enjoyed dominance until recently, when the market began re-adjusting to MiCA’s guidelines.  According to a recent Kaiko report, Circle’s USDC, the…

In an ongoing series of X updates, Shytoshi Kusama—widely known as the lead developer behind the Shiba Inu (SHIB) project—has shared significant insights into the upcoming launch of TREAT, the fourth and last official token in the Shiba Inu ecosystem. With SHIB: The Metaverse having opened its early access phase on December 25, Kusama’s recent comments suggest that TREAT is poised to become the central focus of the Shiba Inu roadmap in early 2025. TREAT’s Role In The Shiba Inu Ecosystem On December 31, Kusama took to X to offer clarity on TREAT’s functionality. In a now widely circulated post,…

Welcome to this week’s eth2 quick update! tldr; Shasper joins Prysmatic’s testnet Parity’s eth2 client, Shasper, successfully joined Prysmatic’s Sapphire Testnet marking the first public multi-client eth2 testnet. This is the exciting start of many multi-client testnets to come in the next month. You can now pull down the Shasper codebase and with a few commands, and connect to the Sapphire testnet. If you want to give it a shot, follow the instructions here. Eth2 block explorers launch Not one but two (!) eth2 block explorers recently launched. Both of these block explorers currently monitor Prysmatic Labs’ Sapphire Testnet, providing…

Top NFT Collections (Last 24h) Here are the hottest NFT Collections of the day. Rank Name Volume Transactions Chains URL 1 Pudgy Penguins 600.56 ETH 27 ethereum View 2 Azuki 383.60 ETH 31 ethereum View 3 Bored Ape Yacht Club 360.48 ETH 26 ethereum View 4 Lil Pudgys 264.35 ETH 115 ethereum View 5 Azuki Elementals 257.62 ETH 131 ethereum View 6 USDApe 238.00 ETH 538 polygon View 7 CryptoPunks 196.33 ETH 5 ethereum View 8 Fluid Vault 175.00 ETH 1 ethereum View 9 Kaito Genesis 141.08 ETH 12 ethereum View 10 OCH Genesis Ring 98.34 ETH 10 ethereum View…

A proposition to add Bitcoin to Switzerland’s national reserves has been set in motion by the Swiss Chancellery. Proposed by a coalition of ten Swiss crypto advocates, including Tether’s Vice President of Energy and Mining Giw Zanganeh and Swiss think tank 2B4CH founder Yves Bennaïm, the initiative needs 100,000 signatures to advance a constitutional amendment mandating the Swiss National Bank to hold Bitcoin alongside gold as part of its monetary reserves. The proposal was initially submitted on Dec. 5 and officially registered in Switzerland’s Federal Gazette on Dec. 31, marking the beginning of an 18-month window to solicit the required…

ETH outshines BTC An in-depth analysis by AMBCrypto revealed that the percentage of ETH holders who kept their assets for over a year rose from 59% in January 2024 to 75% by December 2024, according to IntoTheBlock data. This contrasted sharply with Bitcoin, where the proportion of long-term holders declined from 70% to 62.3% over the same period. Source: IntoTheBlock The growing retention rate for Ethereum suggested heightened confidence among investors, driven by expectations of future network upgrades and broader utility. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s decline in long-term holders may reflect profit-taking or diversification strategies, indicating a potential shift in market sentiment…