Morgan Stanley's online stock trading unit E-Trade is exploring adding cryptocurrency trading in response to a more favorable cryptocurrency regulatory environment brought about by the incoming Donald Trump administration, two people familiar with the matter said. If Morgan Stanley goes ahead with the launch of the service, E-Trade will become one of the largest mainstream financial companies to offer cryptocurrency trading, putting the traditional brokerage giant in competition with Coinbase and other cryptocurrency exchanges.

The T3 Financial Crimes Countermeasures Unit (T3 FCU), jointly established by Tether, TRON and TRM Labs, has frozen a total of 100 million USDT used by illegal actors since its establishment in September 2024.

Binance announced that it has received approval from the Central Bank of Brazil to acquire Sim;paul, a locally licensed broker-dealer in the country, marking Binance’s 21st major milestone in global regulation and consolidating its position as the world’s most licensed cryptocurrency exchange.

This week, USDT's market value fell by nearly 1.1% to $137.24 billion, the largest drop since the FTX exchange crash in the second week of November 2022. In mid-December 2024, USDT's market value reached a record high of $140.72 billion.

Binance Futures will launch perpetual contracts with a maximum leverage of 75x at the following times: GRIFFAINUSDT, AI16ZUSDT, and ZEREBROUSDT.

DWF Labs said in a report on Thursday that Memecoin achieved significant growth in 2024, with its market value soaring from $20 billion in January to over $120 billion in December, an increase of 500%. DWF Labs' report highlights how crypto infrastructure has changed the way digital assets are created and distributed. This efficiency has led to a new era of rapid development, lowering the threshold for value creation and making the market more agile and responsive in all areas.

Binance officially announced that the number of registered users of Binance worldwide has exceeded 250 million, and stated that 1 billion users is the benchmark for large-scale adoption, and a quarter of it has been completed.

Telegram has released its first update of the year, adding a third-party-supported account verification method, new message search filters, and the ability to convert gifts into NFTs. Accounts verified by a third party will display a unique new logo instead of the traditional blue checkmark. Telegram pointed out in a blog post: "This decentralized additional verification platform can effectively prevent fraud, reduce misinformation, and set a new security benchmark for social platforms with a unique proactive solution."

Binance Alpha announced a new list of projects, including: swarms, TAOCAT, and degenai.

The total market value of AI Meme Coin has exceeded 10 billion US dollars, and is currently about 10.974 billion US dollars, with a 24-hour increase of 26.2%. The top three tokens by market value are AI16Z (market value of about 2.612 billion US dollars), FARTCOIN (market value of about 1.316 billion US dollars), and ZEREBRO (market value of about 759 million US dollars).

Binance announced that it will adjust the monitoring tags and seed tags of some tokens on January 2, 2025. The details are as follows: New monitoring tags: StormX (STMX), TROY (TROY); Removed monitoring tags: Convex Finance (CVX), Sun (SUN); Removed seed tags: Arkham (ARKM), Blur (BLUR), Jito (JTO), Celestia (TIA).

According to the latest data from Coingecko, there has been a general rise in the AI agent projects in the Binance Alpha Spotlight section, with some projects rising by more than 30% in 24 hours. The top ten projects with the highest growth rate are Cookie DAO (COOKIE), which rose 138.1% in 24 hours and is now trading at $0.6108; Ava AI (AVA), which rose 77.7% in 24 hours and is now trading at $0.09345; Zerebro (ZEREBRO), which rose 32.7% in 24 hours and is now trading at $0.7705; Rifampicin (SRIF), which rose 31.4% in 24 hours and is now trading at $0.06095; tokenbot (CLANKER), which rose 30.4% in 24 hours and is now trading at $88.22; Fartcoin (FARTCOIN), which rose 28.5% in 24 hours and is now trading at $1.29; Urolithin A (URO), which rose 28.2% in 24 hours and is now trading at $0.06932; ai16z (AI16Z), which rose 24.9% in 24 hours and is now trading at $2.42; Odos (ODOS) rose 15.3% in 24 hours and is currently trading at $0.0423; GRIFFAIN rose 15.8% in 24 hours and is currently trading at $0.4337.