Gm friends,
History will be made on Monday when Trump becomes the first pro-crypto President in the US, and new all-time highs could be imminent.
Here is your weekend crypto update…
Here’s what’s in today’s issue:
- Chart of the day: A US national Bitcoin Reserve in 2025?
- Rebecca shares her thoughts on Trump planning to make crypto a priority, BTC to $300k, Litecoin possibly being the next spot crypto ETF, Coinbase restarting Bitcoin-backed loans & XRP hitting a 7-year high.
- Today on chain.
- Altcoin Alpha.
- This week’s airdrop by Jesse.
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Chart of the Day
With Trump’s inauguration just days away, the odds of the US creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in 2025 have skyrocketed to 61% on Polymarket.
This is a huge jump from 48% on January 16 and 39% on January 10. The sudden increase has come from a bunch of potential pro-crypto executive orders that Trump could start issuing from Monday.
Polymarket also predicts a 77% likelihood that Ross Ulbricht will receive a presidential pardon in the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency. Things are going to get interesting from here.
News Now
Trump Plans To Make Crypto A National Priority
With the rumor mill on overdrive this week surrounding the executive orders that Donald Trump will make on Day 1 of his Presidency, Bloomberg spat out another one.
According to Bloomberg, Trump intends to issue an executive order to make crypto a national policy priority. With this executive order, Trump would set up a crypto advisory council and use it to facilitate collaboration between the government and the crypto industry.
As well as that rumor, The New York Post has also been speculating that Trump is receptive to the idea of a Strategic Crypto Reserve.
It’s fitting, right? Cos the first thing to remember about Trump is that he’s not a Bitcoin maximalist, he’s a crypto bro. So it’s no surprise to hear the rumor mill spreading gossip that his strategic reserve may extend to cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin.
But where the rumor gets weird is it will be focused on US-founded cryptocurrencies to create an America-first reserve. So this means coins like USDC, SOL and XRP are mentioned in the New York Post article too.
Knowing that Trump will go where the demand is, it’s not completely impossible to imagine a world where he makes a crypto portfolio out of the government’s reserves.
Of course, everything is just pure speculation for now, until Monday. But whether or not we get the Bitcoin reserve, Donald Trump’s face will live on the Bitcoin blockchain forever.
To celebrate Trump becoming the first pro-crypto US President, Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital even embedded an image of Donald Trump into BTC block 879613.
Bitcoin To $300,000 In 2025?
Hong Kong-based digital asset company Hashkey has published the results of its annual crypto predictions report.
Almost 50,000 participants voted for their top 10 predictions out of 16 forecasts compiled by Hashkey’s team of researchers. And the results are in…
Hashkey’s top 10 crypto market predictions for 2025 are:
- Bitcoin will hit $300,000, ETH will hit $8,000 and the total crypto market will hit $10 trillion (50%)
- DEXs will use AI agents and memecoins to boost market share (41%)
- US Dollar stablecoins will hit $300 billion in market cap (27%)
- Security Token Offerings (STOs), ETFs and CBDCs will bring $3 trillion into the crypto market (22%)
- AI Agents will drive growth and inspire upgrades in development (21%)
- Layer 2’s will be divided into Application-Specific Chains and General-Purpose Chains (19%)
- President Trump will approve the FIT21 Act to set the standard globally for legalizing the crypto industry (17%)
- The US will launch a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (17%)
- More crypto ETFs will be approved by the SEC (16%)
- More crypto companies will be listed on the Nasdaq exchange and crypto stocks will gain more investor attention (15%)
If these predictions come true, Hashkey believes 2025 will be the start of the Golden Decade of Web3. Wow! Let’s bookmark these and revisit them at the end of the year.
Litecoin Could Be The Next Spot Crypto ETF
The Litecoin ETF countdown starts now! Nasdaq has filed a 19b-4 form on behalf of Canary Capital for the Canary Litecoin ETF. This announcement has prompted Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas to predict that Litecoin is most likely to be the next crypto ETF approved by the SEC.
He shared his optimism on X: “Litecoin ETF now has all the boxes checked. The first altcoin ETF of 2025 is about to be on the clock. I don’t see any reason why this would be withdrawn either given SEC gave comments on the S-1, Litecoin is seen as commodity and there’s new SEC sheriff in town.”
Litecoin skyrocketed almost 20% on the news and is already up 32% so far this year. This time last year, the spot Bitcoin ETFs had just started trading. The timing is uncanny, but here we are again.
Coinbase Restarts Bitcoin-Backed Loans
Nothing says we’re coming into the peak stage of the crypto cycle quite like the reintroduction of crypto-backed loans. Am I right?
Coinbase is pleading with you not to sell your Bitcoin. Instead, the exchange is restarting its Bitcoin-backed loans in the US, allowing customers to borrow up to $100,000 in USDC against their BTC stack.
This new loan product is powered by MorphoLabs and built on Coinbase’s Layer 2 Base.
If you’re looking to avoid paying taxes on your Bitcoin, borrowing fiat against it sounds like the obvious play. Rather than selling your BTC for cash and paying capital gains tax, you can leverage your BTC as collateral to borrow against it in fiat money that’s being inflated away.
But if you’re hoping to do this with Coinbase, then forget it. That’s because the first step appears to involve converting your Bitcoin to wrapped Bitcoin (cbBTC)…which for now is a taxable event.
The IRS right now classifies any conversion to a wrapped product as a tax event. The lesson here is to always read the fine print, before you do something you may later come to regret.
XRP Hits A 7-Year High
The last time XRP was over $3 was back in 2018. Now, XRP just hit a new ATH of $3.40 on January 16, proving that this really is the season of dino coins.
This New Year’s rally means XRP is already up 56% year-to-date, despite the SEC still moving ahead with its appeal against Ripple’s lawsuit win.
With hopes of not only an XRP ETF in 2025, there’s now the possibility that Trump could add XRP to the government’s crypto reserve. That’s got the XRP army doubling down on their beloved dino coin.
With a new ATH finally breached, $6 has become the new price target. If XRP gets anywhere close to $6, it will have been one hell of a ride for the XRP army.
Today On Chain
Injective’s weekly activity has tripled in a year, with transactions growing from around 10 million in January 2024 to around 30 million in January 2025.
The growth has come from the launch of its ambitious 3.0 upgrade, which aims to transform its tokenomics to make the chain one of the most deflationary assets in the crypto industry. Injective’s 3.0 upgrade is a phased launch that will continue into 2025 and 2026.
The chain is already off to a strong start in 2025, after the community passed a proposal on January 5 to begin the next phase of the 3.0 upgrade.
This week, the INJ token price has rallied 36% to $25, off the January 13 lows. With Injective exploding with transactions, development and use cases, it’s going to be an exciting year for token holders.
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Altcoin Alpha
- Virtuals [VIRTUAL] has announced a $40 million buyback and burn program for ecosystem agents. It’s the smaller agents that will reap the biggest returns from this with buyback-to-market cap ratios of almost 0.25.
- Aave launched a proposal on January 15 for the community to vote for or against using Bitcoin mining to boost revenue and drive adoption of its GHO stablecoin. The proposal explains that Aave would use Blockware to mine Bitcoin on its behalf to generate a “33.03% net annualized return” for the treasury.
- Pyth has introduced a new Oracle called Lazer, which will compliment its existing Oracle, Pyth Core. Lazer’s ultra-low-latency price feeds include customizable frequency channels and all it takes is one millisecond for them to update.
- Eliza is set to power a humanoid robot that’s already open for pre-orders starting from $420,000. It will be a 5-foot, 10-inch-tall robot being built in collaboration with Old World Labs based on the image of Eliza.
- Artela [ART] has launched its mainnet and native token, becoming the first Layer-1 blockchain to support on-chain AI Agents.
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Weekly Airdrop
KERN Protocol Token Airdrop
Kern Protocol is a firm believer in privacy and they find Solana to be one of the most vibrant networks. There’s a serious lack of privacy-enabled features. This is where Kern wants to help. Allowing financial data to be hidden on Solana, helps fix user vulnerabilities. With a privacy layer that enables selective privacy, this allows sensitive data to be disclosed only to intended parties without compromising Solana’s inherent transparency and efficiency.
As a true ecosystem project for Solana, Kern will be Airdropping 45.5% of the Total Supply of tokens to Solana Ecosystem users. Like the original Airdrop mechanics of years ago. There will be no need to claim any tokens or jump through any hoops to grab your free KERN.
All you had to do was use protocols like Jupiter, Solend, Drift, and Jito over the past year. Held any of the listed memecoins or qualifying NFT projects outlined in the Genesis Allocation. If just receiving free tokens isn’t enough. Kern will also be conducting a presale. Stay tuned to the Kern X Account for the latest updates on when we can expect to receive those KERN tokens in our Solana wallets.
Final Notes
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