The cryptocurrency market is witnessing volatile trends with significant events occurring in both the digital currency sphere and institutions dealing with them. M&A deals such as Talos acquiring Coin Metrics and a potential deal with Coinbase and Circle suggests growing consolidation in the market. Large historical gains in Bitcoin in November may not be replicated this year while critical US inflation data prompts reduced bitcoin prices. Significant data breaches at Coinbase, affecting thousands of customers, reveal the precarious nature of security in cryptocurrency platforms.
On a positive note, the Canadian dollar strengthens against hotter-than-expected inflation data, while deflationary data prompts a Bitcoin price hike. Solana and Ethereum blockchains are hosting US GDP data, indicating a 'proof concept' for government data on blockchains. Furthermore, new collaborations are seen with Coinbase and AI company Perplexity to deliver real-time market data, and Chainlink with NYSE-parent ICE to bring forex and precious metal data on-chain.
Potential implications on meme coins are visible with $TRUMP meme coin being accepted as payment on social platforms and casinos of Hyperscale Data and Bitnile.com subsidiaries. The Solana-based meme coin WOJAK hit a new all-time high with a $20 million market cap. However, data shows that most of the wallets have lost money on Trump's meme coin. Norway's plan to ban new crypto mining data centers to preserve power suggests a shift in policy approach towards cryptocurrency and its related activities.
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