$RLUSD has stabilized at $1, seemingly affecting $XRP prices positively as the altcoin surged 15% in the last 24 hours – some crypto users believe the uptick may be related to FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) around $USDT's fate in the European Union.

While the rest of the digital currency space has witnessed impressive growth over the last few years, the Bitcoin cold storage wallets aka offline wallets have remained on the sidelines.

Solana's fall and rise is one of the crypto industry's crown of glory – from being tagged as a hopeless case following the 2022 winter period that dragged $SOL prices to $8, the blockchain now has the eye of institutional firms and is home to some of the best memecoin performers throughout the year.

Elon Musk is now Kekius Maximus, and his new persona on X drove the price of a token named after the moniker above 1,000% on New Year's Eve.

Some crypto coins gained a lot on New Year's Eve, but others only bled overnight, and some major coins saw smaller upticks but ruling them all is an Elon Musk-pumped memecoin by the name Kekius Maximus.

Bitcoin has made history multiple times since the whitepaper first emerged in 2008, but 2024 was a dramatically historical year for the $BTC community – there was beauty, there was beast, and there was the $100,000 milestone.

Many memecoins went live this year, but only a very few of them made a mark or took the meme token segment by storm – these tokens range from animal-themed coins to memecoins that started as a joke.