🗽 According to The Information, the tokenized stocks sector is increasingly reliant on a single brokerage. California-based broker dealer Alpaca has become the dominant execution venue, as few other brokers are willing to sell shares to tokenization firms. Projects including Ondo Finance, Kraken’s xStocks, and Dinari route user orders to Alpaca, which purchases the underlying shares backing their stock tokens. #rwa link

🆕 $HYPE added to Coinbase roadmap link

🚀 The sentiment among bitcoin enthusiasts appears overly pessimistic, especially considering Bitcoin's impressive rise of 429% since 2022, compared to gold's 177%, silver's 350%, and QQQ's 140%.

Despite a slowdown, Bitcoin has significantly outperformed other assets, which have yet to catch up. The rapid pricing in of the 'institutionalization' narrative may have led to a temporary pause for Bitcoin as the market adjusts.

Feel better now? You're welcome.

By Eric Balchunas #etf link

🗽 The SEC said tokenized securities fall into two categories: issuer-sponsored and third-party sponsored. Issuer-sponsored tokenized securities are treated the same as traditional securities, while third-party tokenized securities may not provide holders with rights to the underlying securities and may be classified and regulated as security-based swaps. #regulation link

📈 Gold surpasses $5,500 for the first time in history.

📈 #RWA deposits into #Aave are up by ~$400M over the past quarter. A majority of the growth has been driven by Ripple's $RLUSD and Superstate's $USCC.

🕵️ Bitmine has been gradually staking their $ETH.

In the past 24 hours, they have staked 217,120 $ETH, worth $651.77M.

In total, they have staked 2,369,824 $ETH, valued at $7.12B. link

📊👀 Over $8.53 billion in $BTC options expire this Friday at 8am UTC. This is the largest expiry of the year.

- Calls stacked at $100K
- Puts loaded near $85K
- Max pain sits at $90K

💰 Sony Innovation Fund invests $13 million in Soneium co-developer Startale Group, kicking off its Series A fundraising. link

💸 $105,000,000 worth of crypto longs liquidated in the past 60 minutes.

🐳 Whale bc1qwu withdrew 2,000 $BTC ($175.8M) from #OKX in the past two days. link

🆕 $BIRD, $GWEI listed on Binance futures link

🔓 #BTC Tesla still holds 11,509 BTC.

#AI Tesla is also investing $2,000,000,000 in xAI.

📉 The crypto market is neutral.

BTC Dominance - 58.54%

Market Cap - $3.00T
BTC - $88,033 (-1.03%)
ETH - $2,952 (-1.48%)
BNB - $896 (+0.04%)
SOL - $123 (-2.72%)
SRABLE - $0.03 (+41.09%)

💰 Optimism to Launch OP Buyback Program

The vote has concluded — 84.4% voted “FOR.”
50% of Superchain revenues will be allocated to buy back OP during a 12-month pilot period. link

🕵️ Bitmine has staked an additional 250,912 #ETH ($745 million).

In total, Bitmine has staked 2,582,963 $ETH ($7.67 billion).

🏆 On January 28 (ET), Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $19.64 million.

Ethereum spot ETFs recorded a total net inflow of $28.10 million.

Solana spot ETFs recorded a total net inflow of $6.69 million. link

🆕 $SENT, $ELSA listed on Bithumb spot link

🏦 UAE Central Bank–Sanctioned US Dollar Stablecoin Launches to Boost Digital-Asset Settlement - #stablecoin link

🆕 $SENT listed on Upbit spot (KRW) link

🐳 The newly created wallet "0x0E4" further withdrew 450 $XAUT worth ($2.51M) from Bybit.

Now the whale holds 1.25K $XAUT worth $6.98M.

Address: 0x0E4F3ed5B2A3dB2A2940c638418530e9f5c4927E

Data: @nansen_ai