🇺🇸💰 Ray Dalio's article highlights that the US is in the late stage of a significant cycle, facing pressures from fiscal debt, politics, society, and international order. He warns that unsustainable debt could lead to money printing or inflation, weakening currency credit, while severe political polarization and wealth gaps may result in capital controls and restrictions on funds. As traditional bonds lose their appeal, gold and freely transferable assets are becoming more attractive for investors. #macro link
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📊 Gold’s surge above $5,000 and Clarity Act limbo frame contrasting futures for crypto markets, Bitwise CIO says - link
📊 Interview with Vitalik and Suji: Vitalik analyzed why most decentralized social products have struggled to succeed, citing hard-to-break network effects, misaligned incentive structures, and excessive financialization. He emphasized that social products should be redesigned by focusing on the problems of social interaction rather than layering crypto-financial mechanisms on top. Suji highlighted that user migration is inherently slow and phased, necessitating the coexistence and evolution of centralized and decentralized models. The discussion also covered the integration of social protocols with wallets, prediction markets, AI, and community governance. link
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📉 Bitcoin holds below $90K as markets remain cautious ahead of Fed decision: analysts #macro link
🇺🇸🚀 USDT: Tether Announces the Launch of USA₮, the Federally Regulated, Dollar-Backed Stablecoin, Made in America #stablecoin link
🇦🇺🕵️ Australian regulator secures $9.7 million penalty against BPS Financial over Qoin Wallet violations - link
😱 Theo launches yield-bearing tokenized gold built to ‘work in DeFi’ - link
🇺🇸⚠️ Meta faces a multi-country lawsuit in the US over WhatsApp privacy leaks. Meta calls the case “frivolous.”
Reminder: Never store your private keys online! #regulation
Reminder: Never store your private keys online! #regulation
💰 Crypto payments network Mesh has raised $75 million in a Series C round, bringing total funding to over $200 million and valuing the company at $1 billion. The round was led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Paradigm, Moderne Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, SBI Investment, and Liberty City Ventures. link
🇺🇸📝 USA - CB Consumer Confidence (Jan) = 84.5 (expected 90.6 / prior 89.1)
🇺🇸📝 USA - Richmond Manufacturing Index (Jan) = -6 (expected -5 / prior -7)