Updated on January 2, 2026 at 11:27 AM UTC, this roundup highlights ten active crypto airdrops and their qualification steps. According to the piece, Bitcoin hit $89,000 as sentiment improved, and rewards range from up to $100,000 to a $750 million pool. Items include Hyperliquid Season 2, OpenSea's SEA token, Polymarket, and more.

On January 1, 2026, XDC Network’s token climbed CoinMarketCap’s rankings, finishing 2025 by overtaking Official Trump, Filecoin and MYX Finance and moving just behind Algorand, Polygon, Arbitrum and Ondo. The chain has crossed $717 million in tokenized real-world assets, holds over $132 million in USDC with nearly $200 million in total stablecoin liquidity, and could see its DeFi ecosystem expand further if the CLARITY Act clears the US Senate.

On-chain figures from TradeFi.Network show that tokenized real-world assets on the XDC Network have reached $717 million, with $345.3 million now deployed via VERT Capital in USDC-based private credit pools. This concentration suggests institutional capital is favoring larger, targeted allocations on XDC, where low-cost, permission-aware infrastructure supports private credit markets that Moody's estimates exceed $1.6 trillion globally.

Updated on December 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM UTC, Oobit integrated Plasma, a stablecoin-focused blockchain infrastructure, to enable USD₮ spending via its DePay layer across a network of more than 100 million merchants. Users can pay from self-custody wallets like Phantom, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, and Binance Wallet, with negligible fees and deep USD₮ liquidity.