🇺🇸👀 #ZEC Zcash is discreetly held in US government wallets, creating a peculiar conflict for regulators targeting privacy. link

Also Zcash co-founder Zooko Wilcox has taken on the role of strategic advisor at Cypherpunk. link

💵 500 million #USDC minted at USDC Treasury. (1|2)

📈 $150 billion added to the crypto market cap today.

🇺🇸🗣 SEC Chair Paul Atkins stated that many types of ICOs should not be classified as securities, placing them outside the SEC's jurisdiction. He indicated that network tokens, digital collectibles, and related ICOs should be overseen by the CFTC, potentially allowing ICO fundraising to resume in the US without new legislation. link

📊👀 Swissblock: #ETH just repeated its signature pattern: Accumulation → Breakout.

Both ETH/BTC and ETH/USD broke out of multi-week ranges, signaling an ETH-led phase returning. This isn’t beta from BTC: it’s inherent strength.

🗣 #BTC Public company Twenty One Capital CEO Jack Mallers says they plan to buy "as much Bitcoin as we possibly can."

📈💼 #BTC Glassnode: The aggregated size of Bitcoin treasuries held by public and private companies has grown from 197K BTC to 1.08M BTC, a ~448% increase since January 2023.

Corporate balance sheets are becoming an increasingly significant pillar of demand for BTC.

🎢🤔 #BTC Swissblock: Bitcoin is trying to reclaim the yearly open, and this time spot demand is finally improving. But be careful: it’s FOMC week. Pre-FOMC pumps are often reversed and easily manipulated.

🇺🇸🏦 U.S. banking regulator has authorized national banks to conduct cryptocurrency transactions. cointelegraph #regulation

📈 Yesterday, $150,000,000,000,000,000,000 was added to the crypto market capitalization.

🇺🇸 SpaceX plans a public offering at a $1.5 trillion valuation in 2026, which would be the largest IPO in history.

😎 A hacker hacked Binance's WeChat account and posted a post about #Mubarakah , causing the token's price to skyrocket.

The hacker created two new wallets and spent 19,479 #USDT to buy 21.16 million #Mubarakah.

After the bump, the hacker sold 11.95 million #Mubarakah for 43,520 #USDT and still holds 9.21 million #Mubarakah ($31k) for a total profit of $55k.

🇺🇸 #BTC #ETF Nicholas Financial is filing with the SEC to launch an "AfterDark" BTC-ETF that buys BTC after U.S. stock exchanges close, then sells BTC and shifts investments into Treasuries during the U.S. session. coindesk

🇺🇸 SEC Chairman Atkins said that ICOs tied to tokens, digital collectibles or digital instruments should not be treated as securities. Only tokenized securities will fall under SEC oversight, and many ICOs will move to the CFTC's more lenient regime. decrypt #regulation

📊 #BTC Santiment: amidst market gains, according to our social media data (X, Reddit, Telegram and others), calls for higher and higher prices have increased dramatically, indicating FOMO.
Markets are moving in the opposite direction from the behavior of small traders.

🇺🇸🍿 Trump will begin interviewing candidates for Fed chair this week. cointelegraph

📊 #SOL Glassnode: liquidity can be assessed using several metrics, including the realized gain-to-loss ratio (30D-SMA).
For Solana, this ratio has held below 1 since mid-November, meaning that realized losses now exceed realized gains. This indicates that liquidity has declined to levels characteristic of deep bear markets.

💰 #BTC Strive Vivek Ramaswamy is looking to raise $500 million to buy BTC. cointelegraph

👍 Tempo by Stripe launches public test network. cointelegraph

📈 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net inflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$151.9 million.

Total net inflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$177.7 mln.

🤝 KindlyMD have entered into a $210 million #USDT loan agreement with Kraken. theblock