Crypto Morning News: OKX to Launch SONIC Spot Trading; S&P 500 and Nasdaq Drop for Fifth Consecutive Day
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Crypto Morning News: OKX to Launch SONIC Spot Trading; S&P 500 and Nasdaq Drop for Fifth Consecutive Day
Today marks the 16th anniversary of the creation of Bitcoin's genesis block.
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Today marks the 16th anniversary of Bitcoin’s genesis block
Bitcoin’s genesis block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3, 2009 (Beijing time: January 4, 2009, 02:15:05), with a block reward of 50 BTC. As of today, it has been 16 years since its creation, and the total Bitcoin block height has reached 877,566.
In the genesis block, Satoshi embedded the front-page headline of The Times into the CoinBase data: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."
Restaking protocol Solayer announces foundation launch and governance token LAYER
According to an official announcement, restaking protocol Solayer has established a foundation and will launch its governance token LAYER. LAYER will be an SPL-2020 token, initially serving as the governance token for the restaking platform to accelerate ecosystem growth and protocol development.
Additionally, LAYER token distribution will occur in three phases. The first phase will target all eligible participants and protocol partners, focusing particularly on the following categories:
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Solayer Staking (sSOL, endo, and exo AVS);
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sUSD participants;
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Whitelisted ecosystem partners.
Binance to list perpetual contracts for GRIFFAIN, AI16Z, and ZEREBRO
On January 2, Binance announced it will launch perpetual contracts for GRIFFAINUSDT, AI16ZUSDT, and ZEREBROUSDT, with up to 75x leverage.
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January 2, 2025, 21:30 (UTC+8): GRIFFAINUSDT perpetual contract
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January 2, 2025, 21:45 (UTC+8): AI16ZUSDT perpetual contract
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January 2, 2025, 22:00 (UTC+8): ZEREBROUSDT perpetual contract
Data: Over the past 30 days, aixbt’s Twitter-published tokens achieved a win rate of 67.28%, with an average peak return of 52.32%
According to cryptohunt data, over the past 30 days, tokens promoted by aixbt on Twitter achieved a win rate of 67.28%, with an average peak return of 52.32% and an average current return of 14.91%.
The top five tokens by current return are: SWARMS (460.31%), COOKIE (363.29%), AI16Z (302.96%), FDREAM (277.37%), and ARC (238.36%).
OKX to launch SONIC (Sonic SVM) spot trading
OKX will soon launch spot trading for SONIC (Sonic SVM). Key schedule details are as follows:
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SONIC deposit opening: 8:30 PM, January 2, 2025 (UTC+8);
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SONIC auction period: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM, January 7, 2025 (UTC+8);
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SONIC/USDT spot trading commencement: 8:00 PM, January 7, 2025 (UTC+8);
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SONIC withdrawal opening: 12:00 PM, January 7, 2025 (UTC+8).
Previous report: Sonic SVM revealed its tokenomics—$SONIC has a total supply of 2.4 billion, with 57% allocated to the community.
Binance Alpha adds swarms, TAOCAT, degenai
On January 2, Binance Alpha unveiled its latest batch of projects, including: swarms, TAOCAT, degenai.
Data: S&P 500 and Nasdaq fall for fifth consecutive day; Tesla drops over 6%
According to Securities Times, at market close on January 2, the Dow fell 0.36%, Nasdaq dropped 0.16%, and the S&P 500 declined 0.22%, marking five straight days of losses for both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.
Tesla plunged more than 6%, losing $78.8 billion in market value (approximately RMB 575.2 billion), closing at its lowest level since December 6, marking five consecutive daily declines. Tesla’s full-year 2024 sales totaled 1.79 million vehicles, down 1.1% from 1.81 million in 2023—the first annual sales decline since 2015, and below analysts’ consensus forecast of 1.8 million units.
Holoworld AI founder: Agent Market to launch on Solana, enabling no-code agent creation and multimodal interaction platform
Tong, founder of Holoworld AI, announced on social media that Agent Market will soon go live on Solana. Agent Market is Holoworld’s first agent publishing platform and marketplace, featuring:
- No-code agent + 3D avatar builder;
- Multimodal capabilities: image, avatar, voice, video, livestreaming;
- Agent plugin/skill marketplace;
- Multi-platform support: X, Telegram, TikTok, IG, YouTube;
- Multi-chain + wallet integration;
- Private chat + group chat + proof of consciousness.
One platform to launch, interact with, and trade multimodal agents with upgradeable functionality.
Holoworld simplifies agent creation so non-developers can easily build agents just like creating video game characters, accelerating agent adoption. Ideal for content creators, IPs/fan communities/NFT communities, video games, and Gen Z/Gen Alpha.
Holoworld’s Agent Studio will be natively integrated into Agent Market. Every agent creator on Holoworld can seamlessly access all Agent Studio features by burning AVA tokens. However, Agent Studio will remain a platform-agnostic tool open to all Holoworld partners, including Top Hat, Virtuals Protocol, vvaifu.fun, and Act I: The AI Prophecy. Multiple projects have already launched or been incubated through Agent Market and the Holoworld ecosystem. More announcements will follow in the coming weeks.
Foreign media: Morgan Stanley’s E-Trade exploring crypto trading services
According to THE INFORMATION, two sources familiar with the matter revealed that E-Trade, Morgan Stanley’s online stock trading division, is exploring the addition of cryptocurrency trading amid expectations of a more favorable regulatory environment under the incoming Donald Trump administration. If Morgan Stanley proceeds, E-Trade would become one of the largest mainstream financial firms offering crypto trading, positioning the traditional brokerage giant to compete directly with Coinbase and other crypto exchanges.
Dragonfly Managing Partner: “AI Agent” hype will last into 2025 but eventually fade
According to The Block, Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi predicts that the “AI agent” craze will dominate this year but will eventually lose momentum. He notes that these so-called agents are essentially chatbots paired with meme coins, lacking true agency and often operated behind the scenes by humans—whereas Freysa represents a genuine autonomous AI. Qureshi expects chatbots to accelerate the replacement of human crypto influencers, and meme coins to be supplanted by “AI agent” tokens. However, by 2026, chatbots may become oversaturated and tiresome, leading to a resurgence of human creators. Chatbots might then disguise themselves as human influencers or evolve into “scam bots” to adapt. Qureshi emphasizes that AI’s real long-term impact won’t be in social or trading spaces—it won’t give everyone a personal “trading agent” or mini hedge fund—but rather scale individual capabilities, especially benefiting trading firms already possessing capital and large-scale data. Over time, AI will make markets—including smaller, niche ones—extremely efficient, making it increasingly difficult for ordinary traders to profit.
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