⚖️ EU Charging Towards Digital Euro. Pushing back against Trump's stance against CBDCs, a European Central Bank leader pushed colleagues toward one, Reuters reports.
🎨 Azuki's ANIME Launch Success. Azuki's Animecoin token surpassed a $620M FDV at launch, one day after launch.
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Daily Market Snapshot: What's a presidential memecoin worth? The market continues to go through price discovery, with TRUMP falling 11% Friday and resting at just above $30. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin had some harsh words for political memecoins, calling them a “perfect bribery vehicle.”
Even though Donald Trump was only sworn into office this past Monday, it has already been a pretty interesting week, to say the least. What kicked off everything was the launch of the TRUMP and MELANIA memecoins, a move which triggered plenty of mixed reactions from the crypto community (including from Vitalik himself).
After the inauguration, however, Trump got to work, signing executive orders pertaining to the crypto space and pardoning some notable names.
Here’s a rundown of some top events that occurred over the past week! 👇
The Fraxtal ecosystem is expanding at lightning speed—this month’s biggest highlight is IQAI.com, the newest Agent Tokenization platform from IQ and Frax. IQ is building autonomous, intelligent, tokenized agents launching on Fraxtal in Q1. Empower on-chain agents with built-in wallets, tokenized ownership, and decentralized governance—all within a fast-growing Fraxtal ecosystem.
Billionaire tech founder Reid Hoffman believes AI will amplify human potential in a very particular way.
In this episode of Bankless, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and author of Super Agency, explores how AI is set to transform humanity and amplify individual potential. We dive into Hoffman’s vision of “super agency,” We examine AI's potential to democratize technology and reshape society, along with an analysis of four distinct perspectives on its impact: pessimistic, cautious, ambitious, and balanced. Hoffman shares lessons from past tech revolutions, the risks of AI misuse, and how innovation can unlock a more optimistic future.
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