🇬🇧🙋‍♂ #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.

🗽🍿 Bloomberg: The Supreme Court will announce its decision on tariffs today at 10:00 am Eastern Time. #tradewars

🇺🇸👨‍⚖ #tradewars The US Supreme Court will not rule today on Trump's tariffs.

Hassett: Trump will use other customs powers to achieve "the same result" if the Supreme Court rules against him.

😒 🇺🇸 #tradewars The US Supreme Court will rule on Trump's tariffs next Wednesday.

🗽🔮 Ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, other Democrats back bill to ban elected officials from political prediction market bets - link

📊👀 #BNB BNB Chain surpassed Tron in terms of stablecoin address activity in 2025. The Tron network lost its leadership for the first time since 2021.

🐳 #BTC CQ: Major BTC investors are not buying the dip. The number of addresses holding 1-10 thousand BTC has decreased by 220 thousand BTC on an annualized basis, which is the fastest decline since the beginning of 2023.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
Bitcoin ETFs:
1D NetFlow: -3,826 $BTC (-$350.35M)
7D NetFlow: -184 $BTC (-$16.89M)

Ethereum ETFs:
1D NetFlow: -58,467 $ETH (-$182.77M)
7D NetFlow: +56,236 $ETH (+$175.79M)

Solana ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +67,125 $SOL (+$9.4M)
7D NetFlow: +342,134 $SOL (+$47.9M)

🤔 #PUMP PumpFun co-founder stated that creator fees need to be changed, as they have failed to significantly alter the behavior of the average memecoin developer: "Creator fees may have distorted the incentive for users to engage in low-risk activities (coin creation) rather than high-risk activities (trading), which is dangerous because traders are the backbone of the platform."

🐳📈 #BTC The number of addresses holding more than 100 BTC hit a new all-time high. Whales are accumulating.

🆕⛏️ #BTC New Bitcoin mining water heater announced by company ‘Superheat’ that warms the 50 gallon tank with a specialized bitcoin computer. link

🇺🇸🤔 Senator John Boozman is considering delaying the vote on crypto market structure legislation "if bipartisan negotiations make successful progress in the coming days."

📈 #RWA Tokenized equities recorded surpassed $800M in market cap, a 2,500% increase from the $16 million recorded at the start of last year.

🇯🇵👀 #BTC The correlation between Bitcoin and the Japanese Yen Index (JPXY) reaches an all-time high of 89%

📊💸 $1.5 billion Bitcoin shorts will be liquidated if #BTC rallies just 5% to $95k.

🇺🇸🏦 US Senate Banking Committee Sends Out Official Notice For Its Upcoming Crypto Structure Legislation Markup For Next Thursday

🎢🤔 #BTC Bitfinex whales are aggressively closing BTC longs, a signal that historically precedes massive volatility. Last time this "unwind" happened in early 2025, Bitcoin was stalling at $74k.

Instead of a crash, the flush cleared leverage and ignited a 50% rally to $112k in just 43 days.

With BTC currently consolidating near $91.5k, a similar fractal move targets $135k+.

When Bitfinex whales "clear the books," they are essentially removing the target off the market's back. Large clusters of long positions act like magnets for price-hunting algorithms; once those are flushed, the path of least resistance almost always flips upward.