🇰🇷🕹 #ETF South Korea stated in its Economic Growth Strategy for 2026 that it plans to allow spot ETFs for digital assets, including spot ETFs for #BTC, this year, while the Financial Services Commission (FSC) is accelerating the second phase of developing legislation on digital assets. The government cited active spot trading of BTC ETFs in markets such as the US and Hong Kong as a key benchmark. news1

🔍 Metalpha withdrew 6,000 ETH ($18.67 million) from Kraken.

📊 Friday options expiration at ~$2.22 billion: – Nominal value of #BTC options: $1.84 billion – Put/call ratio: 1.05 – Max pain point: $90,000

– Nominal value of #ETH options: $384 million - Put/call ratio: 0.89 - Max pain point: $3,100.

🤑😱 #BTC Fear and Greed Index is 27 - Fear.

🆕 #ZAMA Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined ZAMAUSDT Perpetual Contract Pre-Market Trading (2026-01-09)

🤑😱 #BTC Fear and Greed Index is 27 - Fear.

🧯 #AEVO Aevo: In accordance with AGP-3, we burned 69 million $AEVO from circulation (6.9% of the total supply) to signal a new beginning and demonstrate our commitment to preserving the value of the tokens.

🔍🐳 Kit opened large longs worth $310 million: 1,210 #BTC ($109.5 million), 32,474 #ETH ($100.6 million), 503,778 #SOL ($69.9 million), 14.26 million #XRP ($29.9 million). His total profit has now exceeded $9.4 million.

🇬🇧👀 The UK's FCA will open the crypto licensing gateway in September 2026, ahead of a new regime taking effect in October 2027. Existing AML or payments registrations will not carry over and must be re-approved. Firms that miss approval deadlines will be placed in a transitional regime, limited to existing services with restrictions on new offerings. #regulation

🔮 Two newly created wallets, named Goldbless and Getthegoop, have spent $23K betting on "Israel strikes Iran by January 31, 2026". link link

💵 1,000,000,000 #USDT (999,279,500 USD) minted at Tether Treasury #stablecoin link

🐳 After being dormant for 2 years, a whale deposited $2.64M $USDC into HyperLiquid for the first time and bought 59,976 $HYPE for $1.54M.

The whale still holds $1.09M $USDC and has an open order to buy more. link

🕵️ Blackrock deposited 24,760 $ETH ($76.6M) and 2,400 $BTC ($217.12M) into Coinbase and is likely to deposit more. link

💰 Stablecoin payments company Rain raised $250 million in a new funding round, valuing the firm at $1.95 billion. The round was led by ICONIQ, with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer, Lightspeed, and Galaxy Ventures, bringing total funding to over $338 million. #stablecoin link

🗽👀 #BTC Florida introduces Bitcoin reserve bill. link

📊🔮 Market odds give Gold a 68% chance to hit $5,000 before $ETH, with $840K in total bets on Polymarket.

🇬🇧🙋‍♂ #XRP Ripple has obtained registration with the FCA through its UK subsidiary. coindesk

🏦🙋‍♂️ #RWA Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) has launched a tokenized deposit service, allowing clients to transfer bank deposits on blockchain rails. The on-chain deposits can be utilized for payments, collateral, and margin transactions, facilitating faster settlement while expanding its digital asset offerings. bloomberg

🇺🇸👀 #US macro (Dec):
- Unemployment: 4.4% (previous: 4.6%);
- ADP Nonfarm Payrolls: 50K (previous: 64K)

🔍 #RIVER Two wallets that withdrew a large amount of RIVER from Bitget before the token's price began to rise have started to transfer tokens back to the exchange.
Currently, some of the transactions are being carried out through several newly created wallets, after which the tokens are transferred to the exchange. At the moment, RIVER worth >$1.4 million has been transferred. The wallets hold RIVER worth $13 million, and the profit of each wallet is ~200%.
Wallets: - 0xe4d5b3eecc52bc368fe5f2733b44e5b108314f3e - 0x69f24091e6c1630c8637c24760389f0d8d7f141a

Previously: Token price manipulation on Bitget

🇺🇸👀 #macro Traders are not expecting the Fed to cut interest rates in January after the release of employment data.

Goldman Sachs: The improvement in the unemployment situation indicates that the previous deterioration was caused by temporary factors. As a result, the Fed will likely prefer to keep rates unchanged.