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Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. In this week’s issue of the Protocol newsletter:Trump’s crypto teamAptos' leadership shake-upTikTok meets tokensKraken scales upThis article is featured in the latest issue of The Protocol, our weekly newsletter exploring the tech behind crypto,
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Solana-based gaming-focused layer-2 blockchain Sonic will airdrop its SONIC token to all its users onboarded through social-media platform TikTok.Sonic built its SonicX game natively inside TikTok, attempting to replicate the success of mini apps that were built on theTON blockchain inside messaging platform Telegram.The game has over 2 million users
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CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is trading at 3319.53, down 2.9% (-98.37) since 4 p.m. ET last Friday.Three of the 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: LTC (+2.5%) and UNI (+2.2%).Laggards: APT (-14.8%) and AVAX
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Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this piece owns shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR)MicroStrategy (MSTR), the software developer that has made acquiring bitcoin (BTC) a core value, added to its holding for a seventh week in a row.The company bought 5,262 BTC for a total of $561 million in the week ended
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XRP dropped 3% in the past 24 hours, leading losses among major tokens as bitcoin (BTC) started the festive week in the red and Japanese bitcoin accumulator Metaplanet (3350) announced its biggest purchase.The Tokyo-listed company said it bought a record 619.70 BTC for 9.5 billion yen ($61 million) in a
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Every few decades, a new technology emerges that changes everything: the personal computer in the 1980s, the internet in the 1990s, the smartphone in the 2000s. And as AI agents ride a wave of excitement into 2025, and the tech world isn’t asking whether AI agents will similarly reshape our
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Crypto Twitter has been overrun by sentient, well informed chatbots which reply at the speed of refreshing your browser and can maintain hundreds of simultaneous conversations without missing a beat. To many, the rise of these on-chain agents is a welcome upgrade from human influencers like BitBoy and GCR, who
Read MoreAs 2024 comes to a close, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is reflecting on a successful year of effecting change to protect people’s information rights and guide organisations to continually improve to meet their legal obligations. The ICO is
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"Hawk Tuah" girl Hailey Welch said Friday she is "fully cooperating" with lawyers representing people who lost money investing in her crypto token, HAWK, which flopped in early December amid allegations of malfeasance."I take this situation extremely seriously," she said in a post on X. The viral TikTok star encouraged
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The blockchain industry is on the brink of a major transformation, and 2025 will be the year everything truly starts to shift. But before we get there, it’s important to understand what’s been holding this technological revolution back.The current, traditional internet works because its infrastructure is scalable and connects users
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