🕵 #POL Arkham: An address associated with the Polygon team transferred a total of 20 million POL worth ~$3.5 million to Binance and GSR Markets.

🇻🇪👀 The Wall Street Journal reports that $USDT has become deeply embedded in Venezuela, utilized by the state oil company to bypass sanctions and by citizens as a dollar substitute amid hyperinflation. Following Nicolás Maduro’s arrest, analysts expect stablecoin usage to persist. Tether stated it complies with US and international sanctions, cooperating with authorities by freezing wallets linked to illicit activity when necessary. #stablecoin

💰🙋‍♂ Andrei Grachev announced that DWF made its first investment this year, amounting to $1 million, in a DeFi project.

🤝 #SOL Solana: X is becoming a universal application and soon Solana will also be integrated into it.

🤔 #ETH Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang stated that zero-knowledge proofs are becoming a core part of Ethereum’s mid-term roadmap after significant recent advancements.

She emphasized that native ZK integration could enhance Ethereum's scalability while preserving security, decentralization, and censorship resistance. link

👀 #BTC #MSTR Michael Saylor Hints At Another Bitcoin Buy.

🕵 Smart trader Emp115 spent approximately $300K to participate in $TROVE's ICO about 40 minutes ago. The trader previously made $810.5K on $LIBRA and $695.7K on $GRIFFAIN. link

🔮 #BTC With 20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of about $10 million.

Hal Finney, January 2009, projecting Bitcoin to take over the world — link

🗣 $100M investment advisor IDX tells Yahoo Finance they believe $BTC has already bottomed.

📊👀 #RWA Sentora: This chart shows the distribution of RWA value across chains. Ethereum remains the largest, followed by Solana and Algorand.

🇺🇸🤔 Ecoinometrics: The Fed is sending mixed signals again

Chairman Powell struck a neutral tone at the December press conference, but the FOMC minutes tell a different story. Our Fed Communication Index moves back into moderately hawkish territory, close to its long-term average.

The message: policy is cautious and divided, not decisively easing. #macro

🕵️ A newly created wallet withdrew 3,956 $ZEC, worth $1.55M, from Binance 6 hours ago. link

🇺🇸👮 Federal prosecutors open a criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Bloomberg reports. #macro

🕵️ Bitmine has further staked 109,504 $ETH, worth $340.49M.

In total, they have staked 1,190,016 $ETH, valued at $3.7B. link

📉 #BTC futures open interest has dropped to its lowest level since 2022, signaling reduced leverage in the market.

🇺🇸🍿 The Federal Prosecutor's Office has launched a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

🙊 Powell of the Fed links the investigation to his disagreement with Trump over interest rates. cointelegraph

🇺🇸🕹 Coinbase "may reconsider its support" for the CLARITY Act if it restricts the ability of stablecoin issuers to offer rewards on cryptocurrency exchanges and other platforms. cointelegraph #regulation

📉 #BTC #ETH #ETF Last week (January 5-9), the total net outflow of spot BTC ETFs was ~$681 million; the total net outflow of spot ETH ETFs was ~$68 million.

🇰🇷🕹 South Korea's regulator has finalized rules allowing publicly traded companies and professional investors to trade cryptocurrencies. beincrypto #regulation

🤔 The number of views of cryptocurrency content on YouTube has fallen to its lowest level since January 2021 after a sharp decline over the past three months. It should be noted that the decline occurred across all platforms, with a noticeable drop since October. cointelegraph

📊 #SOL Santiment: SOL's price has risen to $144, aiming to break through resistance at $145. This will largely depend on whether network growth can resume — currently, the number of new wallets is significantly lower than in November 2024.