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1. 🔴 GOP Wins Congressional Majority. A sweep for Republicans will likely clear the way for comprehensive crypto legislation.
2. 📲 Coinbase Climbs Apple App Store Rankings. Coinbase is among the top 10 most downloaded free apps on iOS.
3. 🚔 FBI Raids Polymarket CEO's NYC Apartment. Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan is under criminal investigation over U.S. users accessing the platform.

📸 Daily Market Snapshot: The momentum of ETH and BTC softened Thursday after a week of breakneck gains, but investors were still bidding up plenty of memecoins. After a week of BTC outperformance, the top 100's biggest weekly winners are still all memes, with BRETT, WIF, and BONK all up over 50%. Doge up 85%. PEPE up 92%. And then there's PNUT, which is showing 7D gains of 1,466% to its current $1.7B market cap.

	Crypto $2.89T	↘ 2.9%	↗ 15.6%
	BTC $86,900	↘ 3.8%	↗ 14.5%
	ETH $3,041	↘ 4.8%	↗ 5.2%
	NEAR $5.27	↗ 1.6%	↗ 24.4%

As AI continues to advance, a new frontier emerges where agents powered by crypto rails are poised to disrupt industries worldwide.

On the podcast today, we have Ejaaz, a crypto-AI investor who has been entrenched in this convergence. Formerly a product manager at Coinbase, Ejaaz returned to the trenches to pursue the promise of Crypto x AI. Now, he manages a fund focused on this sector and brings firsthand insights into what’s real, what’s hype, and what’s truly investible in this evolving space.

Get the full analysis! 👇

With hopes that the return of Donald Trump to the White House will lead to clearer legal frameworks and a friendlier regulatory climate for crypto, investors are looking into DeFi tokens like UNI that could soon "turn on" their fee switch, basically allowing token holders to start accruing returns just by holding the token.

Perhaps the most buzzy protocol triggering this interest is Ethena. The occasionally controversial growth monster has been making waves in the stablecoin space, and holders of its ENA token could see significant returns from stablecoin yields.

Let's take a deeper look at what Ethena is up to and why its community is considering this move for ENA 👇

Mantle kickstarts Season 1 of Methamorphosis. Building on the success of their Liquid Staking Token, mETH, Mantle LSP announces plans for a new Liquid Restaking Token, cmETH, along with a governance token, COOK. With Methamorphosis, participants can now farm Powder for future COOK tokens and position themselves early for upcoming cmETH release.

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• 🎆 Leveraging the new Wasabi x Raydium integration
• 💥 Trading with the Spark beta on Fuel
• 📈 Exploring perps on the new Arkham Exchange
• 🎴 Claiming a free Parallel Aftermath card on Base
• 🪙 Lending in the new Euler Prime markets