A user created nearly 18,000 tokens via memecoin launchpad Pump. Fun, raking in almost $3. 8 million in profits from trades, according to Conor Grogan, head of product business operations at Coinbase.
Tether has minted its first batch of USDT stablecoins this year, adding $1 billion to the TRON blockchain. On Jan. 29, data from blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence confirmed the transaction, showing that Tether paid no fees for the large-scale mint.
The official President Donald Trump memecoin called TRUMP launched on Jan. 17 and soared to a $72 billion market valuation within just two days. Backed by the Trump family, the crypto ignited significant public interest while simultaneously becoming a lucrative target for fraudsters.
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the DeFi platform tied to President Donald Trump, has undertaken an aggressive push to diversify its crypto portfolio, spending more than $103 million on a mix of established and emerging digital assets.
Tokens recently listed on Binance are underperforming compared to the rest of the crypto market, suggesting that price discovery movements are happening on decentralized exchanges. At the same time, traders use centralized platforms to exit liquidity.
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon is scheduled to be tried on Jan. 26, 2026, according to a status conference following his extradition to the US, Inner City Press reported on Jan. 8. The court has scheduled a pretrial conference for Mar.
The Polygon community has decided against a proposal to deploy $1. 3 billion in stablecoins from its Proof of Stake (PoS) bridge into yield-generating programs on Morpho, an Ethereum-based DeFi platform.