Under exposed EP8 – AI coins and the future under the presidency of Bitcoin
MoonPay has acquired Solana-based crypto payment processor Helion for $175M. The Jupiter team developed a new onboarding method that allows friends to gift SOL with just a few clicks of a button. After ANIME's announcement that some tokens would go to HYPE shareholders, more than 8M HYPE shares were held on the first day. Chainalysis acquires fraud detection firm Alterya for $150M to aid efforts to stop fraudsters. Layer Zero goes live on Sony, Sony's new EVM L2. Tether is moving to El Salvador after securing a digital asset service provider license in the Bitcoin-friendly country. According to the Washington Post, Donald Trump is expected to issue several crypto-specific executive orders, including the crypto accounting policy (SAB 121) and de-banking of crypto companies. Donald Trump's Inauguration “Crypto Ball” offers tickets for $5,000/person to celebrate as the “First Crypto President”. A US court has asked the SEC to explain itself after it blocked Coinbase's claims related to crypto regulations. MicroStrategy bought another $243M worth of shares this past week at an average of $95,972. A BlackRock report said the crypto “outpaces the growth of mobile phones and the Internet” in its run to 300 million users.
