The total value locked in BTCFi soared in mid-December, driven by a weeklong opening of staking platform Babylon, which accounted for 80% of the volume.

Sam Kazemian, founder of Frax Finance, outlined the development and goals of FraxUSD, a decentralized stablecoin designed to integrate with both traditional finance and decentralized ecosystems.

The President-elect’s social media accounts promoted the TRUMP token as crypto industry executives gathered in Washington for a Crypto Ball.

Coinbase’s Base Layer 2 chain sets “big, hairy, audacious” goals for this year.

Mainnet is slated to launch before the end of January, and Abstract just announced its version of a points program.

Hard forks on Ethereum test networks have been scheduled for February ahead of the mainnet launch.

The token is the latest AI Agent infrastructure token to launch on PumpFun.

Tether launched USDT0 on Kraken’s Layer 2, Ink.

Our chart of the week is XRP.

Trends to Watch (Hyperliquid ecosystem, AI agent froth)