Grayscale Investments has launched an investment fund for Dogecoin, the most popular memecoin by market cap, the asset manager said on Jan. 31. Grayscale Dogecoin Trust offers investors exposure to “the native coin of the Dogecoin network, an open-source peer-to-peer digital currency originally derived from Litecoin, which itself originated from Bitcoin,” Grayscale said. The trust is only…

Uniswap has launched its v4 decentralized exchange (DEX) on 12 blockchain networks, including Ethereum and Avalanche, the Uniswap Foundation said on Jan. 31. The upgraded DEX introduces “hooks,” plugins that let developers create custom logic for cryptocurrency trading pairs, Uniswap said. Uniswap v4 will also operate on layer-2 scaling networks, including Arbitrum, Base, Optimism and Polygon,…

Stablecoins, which play a major role in the global cryptocurrency ecosystem, saw massive adoption in 2024, with their transfer volumes beating those of Visa and Mastercard combined. The annual stablecoin transfer volume reached $27.6 trillion last year, surpassing the combined volumes of Visa and Mastercard by 7.7%, according to a Jan. 31 report by crypto exchange CEX.io….