Bitcoin News Australia

gm Bankless Nation,
Crypto's regulatory stars are aligning, and investors are placing their bets.

Today's Issue ⬇️

1. ☀️ Need to Know: All-GOP SEC?
   Crenshaw likely out at the SEC.
2. 📊 Market Vibes: Stars Aligning?
   Trump clears the way / AERO rating.
3. 🗣️ Analysis: Agent Infra Plays
   5 building block projects with tokens.

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1. 🐘 Vote Canceled to Renominate SEC Commissioner Crenshaw. The SEC may soon be led solely by Republican commissioners.
2. 🐧 Pudgy Penguins NFT Collection Launches PENGU Token. PENGU is trading at a fully diluted value of nearly $3 billion.
3. 💧 Lido is Leaving the Polygon Ecosystem. Polygon's DeFi ecosystem is facing major headwinds.

📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Bitcoin inched to higher highs Tuesday, peeking above $108K. Crypto bulls see few limits ahead as the Trump Administration appears to clear the way for the industry. With Democratic commissioners likely all out at the SEC and Trump still humoring talk of a strategic Bitcoin reserve, there's plenty to keep the market excited.

	Crypto $3.73T	↘ 0.3%	↗ 8.4%
	BTC $106,341	↗ 0.2%	↗ 9.6%
	ETH $3,932	↘ 2.9%	↗ 7.7%
	AERO $1.90	↘ 7.6%	↗ 1.9%

Recently, we outlined the top platforms for launching AI agents. Since then, we have seen the ecosystems around these platforms solidify as foundational parts of the overall crypto AI agents landscape. 

At the same time, new platforms have emerged to augment agents even further, whether that be through their development, inter-agent coordination, or monetization. These platforms, each using their own token, aim to capture value directly from the activity and growth of their underlying ecosystems. By tying token utility to factors like resource consumption, agent interactions, data analytics, and investment opportunities, they seek to ensure that as the number and complexity of agents rise, token value follows suit.

This article provides an in-depth look at five AI-focused platforms and how each has positioned its token to accrue value as its ecosystems scale. Let’s dig in! 👇

Season 2: Methamorphosis is now live on mETH Protocol, following the launch of their governance token, COOK, and cmETH, the liquid restaked version of mETH. With cmETH, holders can enjoy yields across multiple restaking protocols like Karak, EigenLayer, Symbiotic, while earning Powder for more COOK.