Has the crypto 'arms race' 💪🏼 begun?

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Tracey Plowman
January 15, 2025

This Week in Crypto

🎙️Australia’s No.1 Crypto Podcast has hit 160 episodes! This week is jam packed with:

  • Market Moves It’s getting muddy again!

  • AI Agents Becoming VC's? AI16Z and Sekoia specifically

  • Stablecoin Wars In a galaxy, far, far away!

The big question is - are you Crypto Curious, A Seasoned Addict or an Industry Insider?

Crypto Curious Archives - Equity Mates Media

Are you crypto curious? Do you hear NFT and think WTF? Have you heard about Bitcoin and Ethereum but unsure where to start?

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Markets at a glance.

X marks the spot.

Good articles.

Bitcoin Owners: Devastating California Fires Are A Wake-Up Call

Amid this devastation lies a less-discussed but equally important casualty: bitcoin self-custody. The cryptocurrency community has long championed the mantra “not your keys, not your coins,” but natural disasters like these expose a critical flaw in common storage practices.

Bitcoin Owners: Devastating California Fires Are A Wake-Up Call

Why Bitcoin is outshining gold in the digital era

Bitcoin's unique blend of qualities — being finite, a currency, a store of value, and a groundbreaking technology — has led it to outperform gold by a factor of four over the last year.

Why Bitcoin is outshining gold in the digital era

Will There Be A DeFi Cycle In This Crypto Bull Run?

As the crypto market enters a new phase of bullish momentum, the question on everyone's mind is whether Decentralized Finance (DeFi) will once again take center stage.

Will There Be A DeFi Cycle In This Crypto Bull Run?

Artificial Intelligence. Augmented Reality. Crypto. Three of the most hyped buzzwords of modern tech have been weaved together in a way no one saw coming. 

Crypto things you didn’t know you didn’t know.

The FBI created its own shitcoin.

In May, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) created a fake AI-related token to catch fraudsters engaged in market manipulation.

The “trap token,” NexFundAI (NEXF), was designed to act as bait, targeting people engaged in fraudulent cryptocurrency activities, particularly pump-and-dump schemes. 

The FBI, masking as scammers, told traders it wanted help in manipulating the token’s trading volume to fool investors into believing that NEXF was more popular than it was.

At least 18 people have been charged from the FBI’s sting operation.

The FBI may have engaged in copyright infringement, as the source code it used wasn’t licensed, Rikka Law managing partner Charlyn Ho told Cointelegraph.

Source: Cygaar

But the FBI would probably be fine if an action were brought against it in court, as the MIT license it used was “broadly designed to give people broad rights to use the software.” (story via Cointelegraph)

In Other Crypto News!

Singapore Cracks Down: Polymarket Blocked Amidst Global Scrutiny of Unlicensed Gambling Platforms

Singapore’s gambling regulator blocked access to Polymarket, a predictions market, considering it online gambling under their law.

Singapore Cracks Down: Polymarket Blocked Amidst Global Scrutiny of Unlicensed Gambling Platforms – Featured Bitcoin News

Fartcoin’s Surge: Investors Eye Remarkable Price Targets

Fartcoin has gained popularity among meme coins with its entertaining name and gas-themed jokes, attracting investors and providing them with enjoyment.

COINTURK NEWS - Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency News and Analysis

Big Defeat for SEC’s Gensler: Coinbase Secures Partial Win

In a major legal development, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), led by Gary Gensler, has suffered a setback in its ongoing battle with Coinbase.

Big Defeat for SEC’s Gensler: Coinbase Secures Partial Win

How do you like them Apple(s)?

Sony Debuts Singapore-Based Public Blockchain Platform Soneium.

Sony has launched the Soneium mainnet, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built with Optimism's OP Stack, bridging Web2 and Web3 seamlessly.