Shaw, the founder of ai16z, posted on the X platform: "Regarding the latest developments of aiPool (@aipool_tee) and 123skely (@123skely), ① the aiPool project has been launched; ② the founder of aiPool, Skely, is still trying to retrieve his account. Any Skely account other than @123skely is a fraudulent account, be careful to lose money. There is no pre-sale for this project."
Glassnode: Solana has maintained positive net capital inflows since early September 2023
Glassnode posted on the X platform: “Solana has maintained positive net capital inflows since early September 2023, with only small outflows during this period. This continued influx of liquidity has helped stimulate Solana’s growth and price increases, reaching a significant peak of $776 million in new capital inflows per day.”
Founders Fund is raising about $3 billion for its third growth equity fund
Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, is raising about $3 billion for its third growth equity fund, Axios has learned from multiple sources. Founders Fund has not yet provided potential investors with an official size target for the new fund, but said $3 billion would be the approximate size. Founders Fund has invested in some of the world's most valuable tech startups, including SpaceX and Stripe. It will also have a chance to enter the incoming White House due to Thiel's long-term support for President-elect Trump and the company's multiple investments with Musk. Founders Fund has also invested in multiple crypto projects, including Pudgy Penguins parent company Igloo, Inc., Bitcoin lending platform Lava, Bitcoin rollup project Citrea, etc. Founders Fund successfully raised $3.4 billion for its second growth equity fund in 2022, while raising $1.8 billion for its eighth early-stage fund. However, at the beginning of last year, they decided to split the early-stage fund in two because they perceived relatively few investment opportunities in the market. But as of now, they have not yet started investing in what is now called the "ninth fund." In addition, while there was discussion of spinning off the growth fund, it never happened, and now the majority of the fund’s capital is deployed, including in capital-intensive AI companies.
Coinbase International's weekly trading volume hits a record high of $119 billion
Coinbase International saw total trading volume of over $119 billion last week, a record high. The weekly total was 124% higher than the previous week’s total, while the daily average for the past week was 164% higher than the daily average for the previous week. Coinbase International’s average daily trading volume in November was just $2.5 billion. As of December, the exchange’s average daily trading volume was close to $10 billion. The top five trading pairs on Coinbase International include perpetual futures for BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and DOGE, accounting for 99.8% of the exchange’s total trading volume. BTC-PERP accounted for 57% of the total trading volume, followed by ETH-PERP at 34%.
According to Cointelegraph, the total transaction volume of decentralized exchange (DEX) PancakeSwap reached $310 billion in 2024, an increase of nearly 179% year-on-year from $111 billion in 2023. PancakeSwap reported that mainly due to L2 networks Arbitrum and Base, the cryptocurrency transaction volume on Arbitrum increased by 3,656% year-on-year to $13.2 billion, while the cryptocurrency transaction volume on Base increased by 3,539% year-on-year to $11.6 billion by 2024. In addition, PancakeSwap's transaction volume increased by 179% year-on-year, reflecting positive market sentiment and increased activities in the DeFi and DEX fields.
According to Naver, Bank of Korea data showed that as of the end of November, the number of cryptocurrency investors in South Korea reached 15.59 million, an increase of 610,000 from October. This figure accounts for more than 30% of the country's total population, reflecting the increase in market activity after US President-elect Trump pledged to support the cryptocurrency industry. The rise in Bitcoin prices also contributed to the growth of this trend. As of the end of November, the total cryptocurrency holdings of Korean investors totaled 102.6 trillion won (about 70.8 billion US dollars), compared with 58 trillion won (about 40 billion US dollars) in October. The average daily trading volume in November reached 14.9 trillion won (about 10.288 billion US dollars), which is equivalent to the sum of the average daily trading volume of the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) market and the Korea Stock Market Index (KOSDAQ) market in the same month.
Telegram Premium subscribers exceed 12 million
According to the official channel of Telegram Premium, the number of Telegram Premium subscribers has exceeded 12 million. The official expressed gratitude to all subscribers for their support, saying that they have helped Telegram continue to develop powerful features and change the way nearly 1 billion users communicate. Users can subscribe to Premium services through the platform or give subscriptions to relatives and friends.
HIVE Digital invests $30 million to deploy H100 and H200 GPU clusters in Quebec
HIVE Digital Technologies has invested $30 million to purchase and deploy NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPU clusters to support the rapidly growing demand for artificial intelligence, according to an announcement. These high-performance computing (HPC) clusters will be deployed in Quebec, Canada, and will be powered entirely by renewable energy. Deployment details: • H100 cluster: Contains 248 GPUs, will be online by the end of 2024, and is expected to generate approximately $15 million in revenue per year. • H200 cluster: Contains 508 GPUs, is expected to be installed in the first quarter of 2025, and will be officially online in the second quarter of 2025, with annual revenue expected to exceed $20 million.
There are less than 1.2 million bitcoins to be mined, and the circulation has exceeded 19.8 million
CloverPool data shows that the current circulation of Bitcoin has reached 19,800,490.63 BTC, and the amount to be mined is 1,199,509.375 BTC. The current block reward for Bitcoin mining is 3.125, and the average daily output is about 450 BTC.
Musk: Grok can recognize and interpret almost any image
Elon Musk just posted that Grok can recognize and interpret almost any image, from medical records to World War II aircraft to internet memes.
Binance Alpha adds 5 new projects: GAME, UFD, GEL, GOUT, and YNE
The Binance Alpha page shows that a new batch of 5 projects have been added, namely GAME, UFD, GEL, GOUT and YNE. The introduction is as follows. As of now, there are 38 Binance Alpha projects.
Cumberland deposited 16,201 ETH to Coinbase 20 minutes ago, worth about $55 million
According to Lookonchain monitoring, Cumberland deposited 16,201 Ethereum (ETH), worth approximately $55 million, to Coinbase 20 minutes ago.
A whale that received 116.7 million PENGU airdrops purchased $1 million worth of PENGU tokens today
According to Lookonchain statistics, a whale bought 34.42 million $PENGU tokens with 5,250 SOL (about $1 million) today. He had previously received 116.7 million $PENGU (worth about $3.52 million) through airdrops. Currently, the whale holds a total of 151.12 million $PENGU, with a total value of about $5.08 million, and has not sold any $PENGU tokens.
An address with a balance of approximately 13.14 million USDT on the Ethereum chain was frozen
According to Whale Alert monitoring, at around 06:36 Beijing time today, an address with a balance of 13,145,135 USDT on the Ethereum chain was frozen.
An anonymous user pledged 10,000 BTC on Babylon 10 days ago, worth over $1 billion
Bitcoin pledge protocol Babylon disclosed in its official blog that on December 15, during the third launch of the Babylon Bitcoin pledge protocol mainnet, an anonymous pledger pledged 10,000 bitcoins through three transactions, worth more than $1 billion. Babylon said: "Before this, the largest pledges came from entities that wanted to pledge for their users (such as LST protocols and custodians), but such a large-scale pledge by an individual is of particular significance to Babylon and its protocol. Whoever this person is, they decided to pledge directly to Babylon instead of through LST, which pushed the concept of 'trustless' pledge from the abstract to the concrete."
According to Spot On Chain monitoring, the suspected Justin Sun address transferred 70,182 ETH ($244.9 million) to HTX 7 hours ago, including 42,905 ETH unstaked from Lido Finance and 27,277 ETH transferred from Etherfi. Since November 10, he has deposited 179,101 ETH ($645 million) to HTX at an average price of $3,601. He still holds 106,905 STETH ($372.4 million) and 56,277 EETH ($195.8 million), of which 25,000 ETH ($87 million) has been unstaked from Etherfi. Earlier yesterday, Justin Sun denied rumors of liquidating ETH, saying that this was just an ETH transfer operation between different wallets by the team.
