LI.FI Secures $29 Million in Funding on December 11, 2025

Circle, valued at $9 billion, is one of the largest companies in the crypto industry. This article is a full list of Circle Ventures investments from 2023 to the present.

Cryptocurrency Recruitment Winter: Where Have the 80% of Jobs Disappeared to, and Where Have the Money and People Gone?

The recruitment market in the cryptocurrency industry remained flat in early 2026, with only 85-90 new positions, a decrease of about 80% compared to the same period in 2025. Among the recruitment positions, technical roles account for 60%, and companies are more inclined to recruit experienced talent. Solana successfully attracted new developers, posing a challenge to Ethereum for the first time. In the future, projects with a solid business foundation and practical demand will be more competitive.

Vitalik Buterin Sells Multiple Tokens at Once Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold off WOOLLY, IZZY, CHIB, and OP tokens that were sent to his public address some time ago. The tokens were exchanged for 9.4 ETH, worth approximately $29 400, according to Arkham Intelligence analysts. The transactions were carried out through decentralized services and bridges such as LiFi Diamond, Socket Getaway, Across Protocol, and Bungee. Buterin exchanged 7,528 OP tokens for ETH via Bungee. Then, the Ethereum co-founder swapped 4.508 million DEGEN tokens and 23.988 million CHIB tokens for ETH through Socket Gateway and PullSplit. One of the largest single conversions was made via Across Protocol, where Buterin earned 4,496 ETH from the sale of tokens. At the time of these memecoin sales, ETH was trading just above $3,136. The coins received were transferred to his addresses, increasing his ETH holdings. Buterin has repeatedly sold tokens he receives for free to his address. The Ethereum co-founder has stated that he sees no value in such tokens and has criticized crypto projects that send their tokens to his wallet for promotion. Usually, the proceeds from memecoin sales are donated by Buterin, who requests token donors to send them directly to charitable organizations. In October, the Ethereum co-founder sold 275 trillion CatCoin tokens for 14,216 USDC stablecoins. In January of last year, he sold 340 billion DOG tokens for 5.2 ETH, 50 billion ESTEE for 116,307 USDC, and 10 trillion DINU for 4,181 USDC. In 2024, he exchanged 10 billion MOODENG tokens for 308.69 ETH, of which 260 coins were donated to the biotech charity platform Kanro. Previously, Buterin discussed seven ways to use memecoins in everyday life. Last year, the Ethereum co-founder stated that decentralized finance (DeFi) has much greater potential than memecoins and non-fungible tokens (NFT).

Author: 0xjacobzhao In our previous Crypto AI series reports, we consistently emphasized the following point: the most practically valuable scenarios in the current crypto space are mainly focused on stablecoin payments and DeFi, while Agents are the key interface between AI industry and users. Therefore, in the trend of integrating Crypto and AI, the two most valuable paths are: in the short term, AgentFi based on existing mature DeFi protocols (such as lending, liquidity mining, and other basic strategies, as well as advanced strategies like Swap, Pendle PT, and funding rate arbitrage), and in the medium to long term, Agents centered around stablecoin settlement and relying on protocols like ACP/AP2/x402/ERC-8004.