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MoonPay has acquired Helio, a Solana-based cryptocurrency payment processor, for $175 million. The Jupiter team has launched a new onboarding method that lets you gift SOL to your friends with just a few clicks of a button. After ANIME announced that some tokens would be delivered to HYPE stakers, over 8 million HYPE were staked on the first day. Chainalytic has acquired fraud detection company Alterya for $150 million to help with its efforts to stop fraudsters. Layer Zero ran on Soneium, Sony’s new EVM L2. Tether moves to El Salvador after obtaining a digital asset service provider license in the Bitcoin-friendly country. According to the Washington Post, Donald Trump is expected to issue a number of executive orders focused on cryptocurrencies on his first day, including repealing the Cryptocurrency Accounting Policy (SAB 121) and de-banking crypto companies. Donald Trump’s inauguration will feature a ‘crypto ball’ on display to honor him as ‘the first cryptocurrency president’, and tickets can be purchased for $5,000 per person. A U.S. court has demanded an explanation from the SEC for denying Coinbase’s request regarding cryptocurrency regulation. MicroStrategy purchased an additional $243 million worth of Bitcoin last week at an average price of $95,972. Cryptocurrencies have “outpaced the growth of mobile phones and the internet” to reach 300 million users, according to a BlackRock report.
