UNDER Exposed EP8 – AI Coins and the Future Under a Bitcoin Presidency
MoonPay has acquired Solana-native crypto payment processor Helio for $175 million. The Jupiter team has introduced a new onboarding method that allows you to gift SOL to friends with just a few clicks of a button. More than 8 million HYPE was staked on the first day after ANIME announced that some tokens would go to HYPE stakers. Chainalysis has acquired fraud detection company Alterya for $150 million to bolster its efforts to stop scammers. Layer Zero went live on Soneium, Sony’s new EVM L2. Tether is moving to El Salvador after acquiring a Digital Asset Service Provider license in the Bitcoin-friendly country. According to the Washington Post, Donald Trump is expected to issue several Crypto-focused executive orders on his first day in office, including a repeal of a Crypto accounting policy (SAB 121) and the debanking of Crypto companies. Donald Trump’s inauguration will feature a ‘Crypto Ball’ honoring him as the ‘first Crypto President’, with tickets available for $5,000 per person. A US court demanded that the SEC provide an explanation for denying Coinbase’s requests regarding crypto regulations. MicroStrategy bought another $243 million worth of Bitcoin last week at an average of $95,972. A BlackRock report states that crypto has “outpaced the growth of mobile phones and the Internet” in its race to 300 million users.
