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New IRS regulations require DeFi platforms to implement KYC procedures and report user activities starting in 2027. These rules classify decentralized protocols as traditional brokers, mandating the collection of personal data for reporting. The regulations aim to standardize tax reporting across both centralized and decentralized financial platforms. Market sentiment shows increasing concern over the potential centralization of DeFi platforms due to compliance requirements. Crypto projects face challenges in balancing regulatory compliance while maintaining decentralized principles in their development. The regulatory pressure drives innovation toward privacy-preserving solutions and offshore development of new cryptocurrency platforms. New cryptocurrency Releases, Listings, & Presales Today    AuditAI ensures security with automated contract audits and KYC compliance for safer crypto investments. GENIE AI deploys specialized agents for tasks like cybersecurity and mar...

Pepe Unchained ($PEPU) jumped 20% in the past 24 hours after it teased the launch of Pepe’s Pump Pad, a new meme coin launchpad ecosystem that’s headed for a showdown with Solana’s Pump.fun. According to a recent tweet by PEPU’s developer, Pepe’s Pump Pad is a DEX that integrates the project’s proprietary Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution with rapid and seamless inter-layer bridging services to bring holders crypto’s handiest meme coin yet.  New Dev Update Is Live Read it here: https://t.co/nje8NBPN99 How about a sneak peak of the Pump Pad?! 🐸 🔥🐸 pic.twitter.com/k7oIJZZ2QT — Pepe Unchained (@pepe_unchained) December 28, 2024 Pepe Unchained’s recent $PEPU token presale raised an unprecedented $74 million this year in one of Web3’s most sensational meme coin presales yet. $PEPU then hit the open market via crypto’s biggest decentralized exchange (DEX), Uniswap, early last month....

AI agent tokens are expected to lead the crypto market in 2025 and outperform meme coins, but will face a “sudden reversal” in popularity by 2026,  Dragonfly Capital said. “Memecoins will continue to lose market share to ‘AI agent” coins,”’ said managing partner Haseeb Qureshi in a Jan. 1 post on X. “I consider this a migration from financial nihilism to financial over-optimism.” My 2025 Crypto Predictions I'm either going to look like a prophet or an idiot over these predictions, but one thing is for sure: I'm going to piss off a lot of people with bags. Breaking this up into six sections: my predictions for L1s/L2s, token launches, stablecoins,… — Haseeb ＞|＜ (@hosseeb) January 1, 2025 AI Agents “Will Die Off” But Qureshi said that the AI agent trend will not last forever. After the initial hype in 2025, the focus will shift as more advanced technology becomes available. “T...

Bitrace With the arrival of the airdrop season, Web3 users have ushered in a golden harvest. At the same time, they have also become a big prey of criminal gangs in the crypto dark forest. Bitrace noticed that some criminals used fake Twitter accounts to conduct phishing fraud. They published a large number of false airdrop claim links in the comment area of official Twitter accounts, induce users to click and try to receive tokens. Once users are careless, they may suffer financial losses. Under this background, “highly imitated Twitter fishing scam”, as a representative fishing industrialization crime on social media platform, poses a serious threat to users’ capital security by virtue of its highly organized and large-scale operation characteristics. Twitter, a new arena for fraud activities Over the past few months, Bitrace have received help from several victims who have been stolen after clicking the “airdrop claim link” on Twitter. These links are actually phishing links. Take t...

The overall feeling in the market has been positive since the close of October. This month, Bitcoin (BTC) finally rose above its all-time high and surpassed the 100K mark, even though it eventually fell to $93.5K as of today. Meanwhile, many investors have already made plenty of gains from the November/December bull run. Determining the next cryptocurrency to explode might be challenging as most funds are attracted to pumping assets. However, this article will explore the performance of cryptocurrencies with much growth potential, especially before the year runs out. The aim is to identify coins with some potential and help investors and traders make informed decisions about each token. Next Cryptocurrency To Explode Today’s article discusses the performance of potentially explosive cryptos that investors should add to their watchlist. It also includes a special mention of the presale token, Solaxy. This new meme coin offers a unique blend of these two dynamics by combining m...