📉 Bitcoin slides near $87,000 as US government shutdown fears weigh on crypto link

📉 The crypto market is down

BTC Dominance - 58.73%

Market Cap - $2.97T
BTC - $87,624 (-1.39%)
ETH - $2,864 (-2.59%)
BNB - $870 (-1.29%)
SOL - $122 (-3.03%)
RIVER - $74.61 (+29.22%)

🇺🇸⛏️ The US winter storm "Fernan" has swept the nation, causing Foundry USA's Bitcoin mining pool hashrate to drop approximately 60% since Friday.

The storm led to ~200 EH/s offline, slowing Bitcoin block production to 12 minutes. Foundry USA currently controls ~198 EH/s, accounting for 23% of global pool hashrate. Other US pools are also affected, with miners adjusting energy usage to reduce grid load. The storm has caused power outages for over 1 million residents. link

🕵️ A wallet "0xd4d" received 465,000 $HYPE ($10.32M) from Galaxy Digital OTC 2 hours ago.

This wallet also received 56.12M $ENA ($24.76M) from Ethena Lab Wallet 2.5 months ago but is now worth $9.32M, resulting in a loss of $15.44M.

Address: 0xd4d56a30a4a745f8ba732e8b453b7066260fbc10

💰 Trader 12G9iW sold all $PENGUIN yesterday, locking in a profit of $109.4K.

He then spent $4.5K to buy 721,033 $GHOST again and currently holds 1.08M $GHOST ($7.6K).

$GHOST is up over 300% from the bottom. link

👀 The crypto startup Entropy, backed by A16z, is shutting down and will return money to investors. link

🇰🇷👀 The third largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea, Coinone, is up for sale. link

🐳 Whale transactions:

1. 0x3c9E panicked and sold 5,500 #ETH ($16.02 million) at a price of $2,912 over the past 3 days. Just 5 days ago, they bought 2,000 #ETH ($5.97 million) at $2,984.

2. 0xb5Ab (potentially linked to Bitfinex) transferred 50,000 #ETH ($145.25 million) to Gemini today after 9 years of inactivity.

3. An OTC whale bought an additional 20,000 #ETH ($56.13 million). Over the past 5 days, they have purchased 70,013 #ETH ($203.6 million). link link link

📊 Binance announced that it will open trading for the following pairs on January 27, 2026, at 08:30 (UTC):

- BNB/U
- ETH/U
- KGST/U
- SOL/U
- TRX/USD1
- USD1/U

Additionally, the Trading Bots service will be enabled for these pairs. link

🥷 Matcha Meta Sees $16.8 Million Drained in SwapNet Incident: PeckShield link

🐳 The unknown whale, who lost $18.8M on $ETH in just two weeks, is now doubling down on gold.

Since December 13, 2025, he has spent $36.04M to buy 7,536 $XAUT (currently valued at $38.34M) at an average price of $4,786, and is currently sitting on a +$2.3M unrealized profit. link

🙅 $SERAPH, $XO, $PSTAKE, $MASA delisted from Bybit spot link

📊 $4.5 Billion in Realized Loss on Bitcoin

The highest amount of realized losses in three years occurred recently. The last time this happened with Bitcoin, the price was trading at $28,000 after a brief correction period that lasted about a year. link link

🗳️ The Aztec TGE proposal is complete and is now moving to a community vote.

Voting will start on Monday, Jan 26th at 17:00 UTC.

If the vote passes, TGE can go live as early as February 12, 2026, at 7:00 UTC. link

🚀 Macro gold reached a new all-time high at $5,100.

Silver reached a new all-time high at $110. #macro

🙅 $OAS added to caution trading on Upbit spot link

🆕 $WMTX live on Binance alpha link

🕵️ After a year of dormancy, the Coinbase Commerce Hacker swapped $5.9M $DAI for 2,038 $ETH at a price of $2,894. The $ETH was then transferred via TornadoCash. #hack link

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

🗽 #BTC Colombia’s second-largest pension fund AFP Protección will offer exposure to Bitcoin.

Pensions are coming.

💰 According to CoinShares, digital asset investment products experienced their largest outflow last week since mid-November 2025, totaling $1.73 billion.

Bitcoin outflows reached $1.09 billion, marking the largest single-day outflow since mid-November 2025. Ethereum and XRP saw outflows of $630 million and $18.2 million, respectively, while Solana recorded inflows of $17.1 million. link