🤖WILD: Virtuals Protocol is building an entire NATION for AI agents, complete with identity, banking, commerce and capital markets. The project gives every AI agent a crypto wallet, a payment card, an email address and the ability to hire, pay and evaluate other agents, all on-chain. One AI-only company built on it has reportedly generated $200,000 in revenue with zero human employees.

⚠️ALERT: Crypto neobank Avici is being drained in an apparent ongoing attack. More than $1 MILLION has left card collateral accounts on the Solana-based platform, per on-chain data, with the attacker's wallet funded through the deBridge cross-chain bridge. Avici says it is "aware of an issue affecting card balance withdrawals" but has not confirmed a loss or called it an exploit. The solana:BANKJmvhT8tiJRsBSS1n2HryMBPvT5Ze4HU95DUAmeta token has crashed 49% to a record low, while fake Avici phishing sites have reportedly stolen another $600,000 from users.

BREAKING: $15.3T BlackRock, Visa, and Mastercard, among 11 founding validators named by Circle for Arc blockchain. Other validators include: 1. DTCC 2. Galaxy 3. Global Payments 4. ICE 5. MoneyGram 6. SBI Group 7. Standard Chartered 8. Sumitomo Corporation Arc is a USDC-powered Layer-1 built for institutional payments and tokenized financial assets.

"Perps Are Not a Great On-Chain Business": Pump .Fun Cofounder on Hyperliquid. Pump .fun co-founder 'Sapijiju' slams Hyperliquid, arguing that perpetuals are an inferior onchain business model by comparing revenues: Hyperliquid 24hr revenue = $1 million, vs. Pump Fun's $2.9 million. He capped off the criticism with a pointed analogy: "What's bigger, Bloomberg or Instagram?"

JUST IN: Pumpfun fired over 40 employees just weeks before a $86 MILLION token unlock. The platform generates $1 MILLION in daily revenue meanwhile at least one fired employee lost a seven-figure PUMP allocation. Co-founder Noah Tweedale says the company "grew too quickly." https://t.co/AlwMg6OpZt

⚡️NEW: Circle has acquired nearly 1,000 blockchain-related patents from IBM, making it the largest U.S. holder of such patents. Spanning more than 680 patent families, the portfolio covers blockchain, banking, insurance, enterprise infrastructure, supply-chain verification and cloud security. $CRCL plans to use the patents to support USDC, its Arc blockchain and financial tools for AI agents. Deal terms were not disclosed.

🔥BULLISH: XRP'S TOKENIZED ASSETS EXPLODE PAST $4 BILLION The value of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on the XRP Ledger has skyrocketed from $150 million to over $4 BILLION in just one year, driven by accelerating institutional adoption, expanding payment infrastructure, and strong spot XRP ETF inflows. The network now hosts 500+ tokenized products, while wallet growth and institutional participation continue to surge.

🔥MEMECORE STAGES 250% REVERSAL, UNVEILS $10M BUYBACK PROGRAM Days after plunging -85% amid insider manipulation concerns, memecore:native has surged more than 250% as aggressive dip buyers piled back in. The rebound comes with the MemeCore Foundation unveiling a $10+ MILLION strategic treasury buyback program, fuelling a sharp relief rally and renewed appetite across meme coins.

🇵🇭PHILIPPINES SEC SAYS RWA TOKENIZATION FRAMEWORK IS READY SEC Commissioner Rogelio Quevedo says the Philippines already has the legislative framework for real-world asset tokenisation and blockchain innovation. This opens the door to regulated RWAs, tokenised assets, and on-chain capital markets in the country.

🚨MASSIVE: ASTER FLIPS ON A 99% BUY & BURN MODEL Binance Perp DEX Aster has activated a fee switch redirecting 99% of daily platform fees toward aster-2:native buybacks and burns. https://t.co/pEpTcFV7RD

⚠️ALERT: HUMANITY PROTOCOL SUFFERS $31 MILLION EXPLOIT, TOKEN PLUNGES -90% Humanity Protocol has suffered a MAJOR security breach after private keys linked to a Humanity Foundation member were compromised, as confirmed by founder Terence Kwok. More than 19 wallets have been drained for over $31 MILLION, with the attacker actively swapping ethereum:0xcf5104d094e3864cfcbda43b82e1cefd26a016eb tokens into ETH. The Team has urged all users to avoid the bridge and all liquidity pools until safety is confirmed.

🚨ARTHUR HAYES REVEALS HIS HYPE CONCERNS Hayes recently sold his HYPE position and warned that Hyperliquid faces growing competition as exchanges and rival DEXs enter RWA perpetuals. The risk: more competition could pressure volume, revenue, and ultimately HYPE valuation. https://t.co/QebaR0fNl4

⚡️NEW: Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said he is “taking a break.” Traders are watching whether this is just a personal pause or something with broader implications for the Cardano ecosystem. What does this mean for $ADA and midnight-3:native?

🚨NEWS: $3.6T Goldman Sachs to tokenize real estate fund alongside Apex, Archax, LRC Group and Ownera. This will push the total RWA value in DeFi well past its current $10.7 BILLION baseline.

🔥BNB, TON, AND ASTER DEFY THE LOW-VOLUME WEEKEND MARKET While most of the market is stuck in weaker trading volume, $BNB, $TON, and $ASTER are standing out. All three have recorded around 100% or more growth in 24-hour trading volume, showing where traders are still paying attention.

🚨THE CLARITY ACT COULD UNLOCK “YIELD-AS-A-SERVICE” STBL’s Joe Vollono says this may be the bill’s biggest outcome, creating an entirely new crypto market. https://t.co/p94apRj2cn

🚨 CIRCLE JUST RAISED $222M FOR ITS NEW ARC TOKEN USDC's issuer Circle has raised $222M in the presale of Arc, the native token of its new blockchain, raising valuation to $3 BILLION. Backers include Andreessen Horowitz served, BlackRock, Apollo, the NYSE’s parent company ICE, Standard Chartered Ventures, ARK Invest and more.

🚨MIDNIGHT ERASES ALL RECENT GAINS Cardano’s privacy token $NIGHT dropped about 8% today, wiping out gains from the past 2 days despite earlier momentum driven by mainnet launch news. https://t.co/oVFi1jI3Mo

🚨MIDNIGHT JUMPS OVER 10% IN 24 HOURS Cardano’s privacy token $NIGHT is up over 10% in the last 24 hours and is now trading around $0.05. https://t.co/CSjaHlP0Yf

🚨RWAs ON BNB CHAIN HIT RECORD HIGHS AS TOKENIZED STOCKS GAIN TRACTION Real-world assets on BNB Chain have surged to new all-time highs, driven largely by Ondo Finance’s tokenized stocks which has attracted more than 40,000 holders. https://t.co/V1XQ3antXg

🔥CARDANO’S MIDNIGHT TOKEN IS TRENDING $NIGHT, the privacy token from Cardano’s Midnight network, is gaining traction across Crypto X. Midnight is up 10% in the past week. https://t.co/fEa1YCnOHW

🔥MIDNIGHT NOT TARGETING MONERO OR ZCASH USERS Charles Hoskinson said Midnight won’t chase XMR or ZEC users, calling them a different demographic already focused on privacy. Instead, it aims at the billions who don’t know they need privacy, making Midnight a default, not an on/off “light switch” feature.

🇨🇳CHINA FORMALIZES BAN ON YUAN STABLECOINS & RWA TOKENIZATION Chinese regulators have locked in a sweeping crypto clampdown, banning unapproved yuan-linked stablecoins and tightening controls on tokenized RWA.

🚨$1 BILLION TOKEN UNLOCKS AHEAD Tokenomist data shows $1.054B+ in token unlocks over the next 7 days. Large unlocks include BGB, ZRO, RIVER, SOL, WLD, DOGE, AVAX, TRUMP. Supply pressure is rising. https://t.co/kiQ7EA9EmY

🔥SCOTT BESSENT: "We're gonna have a non-inflationary BOOM in 2026." - Rents drop. - Gasoline drop. - Wages up. - $2,000 tax refunds. "It's gonna be a non-inflaionary boom that could extend for several years." https://t.co/Y5gH8NZAPS

🚀 ASTER TRADING VOLUME SURGES 106% Amid a relatively steady market, $ASTER saw trading volume jump 105.59% in the past 24 hours, while price climbed 7.75%, a sharp spike in trader activity.

⚡️BNB CHAIN AND BREVIS TO ENTER PRIVACY INFRA Brevis and BNB Chain will expand into privacy infrastructure, partnering with 0xbow to launch an "Intelligent Privacy Pool" on BNB Chain in Q1 2026.

🚨BULLISH: The Fed just added $105 BILLION to its balance sheet, the LARGEST since the 2023 banking crisis.💰 This surge in liquidity could lead to easier financial conditions and more risk-taking in markets. PUMP INCOMING?! 🚀

🚨BREAKING: Solana says it will soon be built directly into X.📱 This comes after X announced live in-app crypto price tracking.

🚨WHALE RELOADS ON MAX-LEVERAGE LONGS LookOnChain flagged a trader with LONG positions 4 hours ago across multiple assets: 500 BTC ($46.8M), 5,000 ETH ($16.1M), 134,278 SOL ($18.5M), 4.95B PUMP ($12.1M), 19.04M FARTCOIN ($8.4M), 14,154 ZEC ($7.2M). High conviction. High risk!

🔥OVER $657 MILLION IN TOKEN UNLOCKS SET FOR THIS WEEK Large cliff unlocks (>$5M, one-time): HYPE, ENA, APT, LINEA, MOVE. Large linear unlocks (> $1M daily): RAIN, SOL, TRUMP, WLD, RIVER, DOGE, AVAX, ASTER.

🔥OVER $657 MILLION IN TOKEN UNLOCKS SET FOR THIS WEEK Large cliff unlocks (>$5M, one-time): HYPE, ENA, APT, LINEA, MOVE. Large linear unlocks (> $1M daily): RAIN, SOL, TRUMP, WLD, RIVER, DOGE, AVAX, ASTER.

🔓MAJOR TOKEN UNLOCKS THIS WEEK More than $585 MILLION worth of tokens are scheduled to unlock over the next seven days. Large cliff unlocks (>$5M, one-time): HYPE, SUI, EIGEN, KMNO, OP, ENA, ZORA, SVL Large linear unlocks (>$1M daily): RAIN, SOL, TRUMP, WLD, DOGE, AVAX, ASTER

🔓MAJOR TOKEN UNLOCKS THIS WEEK More than $585 MILLION worth of tokens are scheduled to unlock over the next seven days. Large cliff unlocks (>$5M, one-time): HYPE, SUI, EIGEN, KMNO, OP, ENA, ZORA, SVL Large linear unlocks (>$1M daily): RAIN, SOL, TRUMP, WLD, DOGE, AVAX, ASTER

🔓MAJOR TOKEN UNLOCKS THIS WEEK More than $585 MILLION worth of tokens are scheduled to unlock over the next seven days. Large cliff unlocks (>$5M, one-time): HYPE, SUI, EIGEN, KMNO, OP, ENA, ZORA, SVL Large linear unlocks (>$1M daily): RAIN, SOL, TRUMP, WLD, DOGE, AVAX, ASTER

⚡️HOSKINSON: MIDNIGHT & XRP LEDGER ALREADY 100X IN PERFORMANCE Cardano founder Hoskinson says legacy finance efforts like Canton Network miss what makes Web3 powerful, adding that Midnight and XRP Ledger are already operating at 100x the scale.

🚨AI CRYPTO TOKENS PLUNGE 66% IN 2025, WIPING OUT $53B AI crypto tokens have lost two-thirds of their value in 2025, reversing 2023–24 gains. Top projects were hit hard: Render (−82%), The Graph (−82%), and Virtuals Protocol (−73%) YTD.

⚡️ZKPASS JUST GOT LISTED ON UPBIT 🇰🇷Upbit has officially listed zKPass (ZKP) as of 08:30 UTC. The token is up roughly 38% in the past 24 hours, currently trading around $0.19.

🚨HOSKINSON: NIGHT WILL NOT REPLACE ADA Charles Hoskinson says the idea of selling ADA for NIGHT misses the point. NIGHT powers Cardano’s Midnight privacy network, but it’s designed to extend ADA’s ecosystem, not replace it. https://t.co/LMT8Jlqgll

🚨HYPERLIQUID RECORDS $430M IN OUTFLOWS On-chain data shows weekly Hyperliquid outflows surpassed $430 MILLION, as rivals Lighter and Aster ramp up competition in perpetuals.

🚨 $ASTER WHALE BUYS HIGH, SELLS LOW, LOST $35.8M Lookonchain spotted this whale sending 13.44M ASTER back to Binance ($11.67M now vs. $13.04M bought), locking in a $1.37M loss. Earlier, he round-tripped 64.53M ASTER, losing $34.54M. His total loss is now at $35.9M.

🔥PERP DEX SPOTLIGHT ON ASTER! $ASTER captured mindshare blazing fast, but understanding its next move requires a closer look.🧐 Something bigger is forming as we head into 2026. Join our Telegram to read our deep dive! 👉https://t.co/1tvb5gA7dV

🚨JUST IN: SEC ENDS 2-YEAR ONDO PROBE The SEC has closed its investigation into $ONDO, giving Ondo Finance the green light to accelerate its U.S. tokenization expansion.

🚨HYPERLIQUID IS THE TOP REVENUE ENGINE As per DefiLlama's data, in the last 30 days, holders earned the most from: $HYPE ($84.25M), $PUMP ($32.72M), $TRON ($29.53M), and $JUP ($12.02M).

🚨WHALE BOUGHT $35.7M IN ALTS DURING THE DIP! LookOnChain has identified a whale that scooped up $35.7 MILLION worth of #altcoins during the market dip. He accumulated $ETH, $LINK, $ENA, $AAVE, $ONDO, $UNI, $SKY, and $LDO. https://t.co/YPA6kQw15j

🔥CZ: "Many more ATHs coming soon."

⚡️NEW: Canary Capital has filed for an ETF tied to $MOG Coin — a TikTok-driven, cat-themed memecoin.

🚨JUST IN: CZ reveals he personally bought $ASTER on Binance. He says he’s not a trader — just buying and holding.

🚨LIGHTER FLIPS ASTER IN PERP VOLUME! #Lighter saw $265B in October perp volume, surpassing #Aster’s $260B. #Hyperliquid remains the leader at $299B.

⚡️LATEST: Malaysia’s central bank launches a 3-year RWA tokenization plan with a new Digital Asset Hub set for 2026 and wider trials in 2027.