TON Foundation Launches Memecoin and Community Token Hub Memelandia | Cryptocurrency Trends

1. Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• Crypto card issuer Bit.Store partners with Binance Pay to launch a deposit promotion on Binance Square.
• Binance partners with European educational institutions to launch Web3 courses.
• Binance.US appoints Martin Grant, former compliance chief for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to a board position.
• OKX launches X Layer, an Ethereum L2 network, to its public mainnet.
• Bitget COO Vugar Usi Zade: Bitget plans to invest more resources in fostering emerging talent over the next two years.
• HashKey Global announces that it has launched spot trading for multiple tokens and opened a listing application channel.

2. Cryptocurrency Trends:

• Canaccord: More companies could follow MicroStrategy’s lead in buying Bitcoin.
• Trust Wallet warns that a high-risk zero-day exploit targeting iMessage is being sold on the dark web and warns Apple users to disable iMessage as soon as possible.
• The TON Foundation launches Memelandia, a memecoin and community token hub.
• SingularityNET: The Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) alliance proposal has been voted through by AGIX token holders.
• BounceBit launches its liquid custody solution for BTC, USDT, FDUSD, and ETH.
• Safe reveals a tokenomics model with a maximum supply of 1 billion tokens, with 5% being allocated to users.
• io.net reveals a tokenomics model with a total supply of 800 million tokens, with an initial distribution of 500 million tokens. 50% of the tokens will be allocated to the community.
• Drift plans to airdrop 100 million DRIFT tokens, with 10% of the total supply distributed to users.

3. Financing Trends:

• G42, an AI firm based in Abu Dhabi, receives a $1.5 billion investment from Microsoft.
• a16z raises $7.2 billion in new funding to invest in several tech sectors.
• Puffer, an LSD protocol, raises $18 million in Series A funding led by Brevan Howard Digital and others.
• Sending Network, a DePIN project, raises $7.5 million in a funding round and plans to launch its mainnet in 2025 Q1.
• CVEX, a DEX in the Arbitrum ecosystem, raises $7 million in a funding round led by Fabric and Kyber.
• Homium, a real estate tokenization platform on Avalanche, raises $10 million in Series A funding led by Blizzard and others.

4. Regulatory Trends:

• The Reserve Bank of Fiji warns the public against the use of cryptocurrencies for payment or investment purposes.
• U.S. senators demand the CFTC Chairman to account his interactions with Sam Bankman-Fried.
• Bank of Russia Governor states that she supports accelerating a crypto payments bill that will support international settlements.