🗣 Michael Saylor explains his focus on "digital credit as the base layer for digital money," stating, "If that one idea works that would make us the biggest company on earth and that would make that the most successful product ever." → link

🐳 Space, the first leveraged prediction market on Solana, has raised over $18.2M in its public sale, which was more than 729% oversubscribed.

In the past hour, multiple whales invested a combined $2.2M, including whale EMp115, who contributed $998K to Space's public sale. → link

🐳 This BitcoinOG (1011short) has held $845M in $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL longs for over a month and has doubled down, adding another 20,000 $ETH ($65.9M).

Current positions:

223,341 $ETH ($736M)
1,000 $BTC ($95.5M)
511,613 $SOL ($74.2M) → link

🕵️ It seems that Tom Lee's Bitmine bought another 20,000 $ETH ($65.4M) from Kraken 3 hours ago. → link → link

🗽 BlackRock has withdrawn 3,312 $BTC ($314.39M) and 5,336 $ETH ($17.54M) from Coinbase in the past 8 hours.

Over the past 3 consecutive days, they have withdrawn 12,658 $BTC ($1.21B) and 9,515 $ETH ($31.3M). → link

🕵️ A newly created wallet withdrew 76,661 $ZEC, worth $31.65M, from Binance. → link

🕵️ According to ZachXBT, a victim lost over $282 million worth of LTC and #BTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam on January 10. The attacker converted the stolen LTC and #BTC into Monero, causing a spike in XMR’s price, and part of the #BTC was bridged via Thorchain to Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin networks. Disclosed theft addresses hold approximately 2.05 million LTC and 1,459 #BTC. →

🆕 $SKR, $FIGHT added to Coinbase roadmap → link

📊 IBKR ForecastEx's cumulative notional volume has exceeded $1 billion, with roughly $388 million in the past three months. It has shown some rebound, likely benefiting from Kalshi's strong growth since last year, though recent weekly volumes remain between $30 million and $80 million. IBKR ForecastEx refers to the Forecast Contracts trading service operated by ForecastEx LLC and provided through Interactive Brokers. → link

😱🤑 Fear & Greed Index for #BTC

👀 The crypto market is neutral.

BTC Dominance - 58.62%

Market Cap - $3.25T
BTC - $95,464 (+0.02%)
ETH - $3,288 (-0.19%)
BNB - $937 (+0.84%)
SOL - $144 (+1.75%)
IP - $2.74 (+8.89%)

🇺🇸🗽 On January 16 (ET), U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded total net outflows of $395 million, with only BlackRock's IBIT posting net inflows.

Spot Ethereum ETFs saw total net inflows of $4.64 million, marking five consecutive days of inflows.

XRP spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $1.12 million, while Solana spot ETFs saw net outflows of $2.22 million. → link

🐳 The whale "0xf35" has completely closed its $XMR (2x) long position with a loss of $896,020. → link

📊 The ETH ETFs saw its first perfect week since October. → →

🇺🇸📊 A White House crypto advisor confirmed that the US Department of Justice has not sold any Bitcoin forfeited from the Samourai case, dispelling rumors.

Data from Bitcoin Treasuries indicates that the US government holds 328,372 Bitcoin, valued at over $31.3 billion at current market prices. → link

🚀 #SOL Solana's RWA ecosystem hit a new ATH of $1B. #rwa → →

📝 Crypto Fear and Greed is perfectly neutral at 50. → →

📊 #ETH exit queue is now at zero

Meanwhile, ETH entry queue is at 2,597,838 which is the highest level in 2.5 years.

Insane demand for staking Ethereum.

🗽 Silver flipped Nvidia to become the second largest asset by market cap, 2.6X larger than $BTC. → →

🤔 The White House is contemplating withdrawing support for the cryptocurrency market structure bill if Coinbase fails to reach a satisfactory profitability agreement with banks. Officials expressed frustration over Coinbase's "unilateral" actions, labeling them a "provocation" against the White House and the broader industry, emphasizing that one company cannot represent the entire sector. → link

📈 Steak 'n Shake announces a $10 million Bitcoin buy for their Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

They are calling the model a self-reinforcing system that links sales growth, food quality improvements, and long-term Bitcoin accumulation. → link