📉 #SOL The number of Solana validators has decreased by 68% due to the increasing costs of maintaining nodes, leading to the departure of small operators. link

🏦 Bybit Eyes Neobank Features With IBAN Accounts Rollout Planned For February - link

🎮 Five years after the GameStop saga, Robinhood CEO wants tokenized stocks to trade onchain 24/7 - #rwa link

📊 A newly created wallet deposited 2M $USDC into HyperLiquid and opened multiple short positions on:

- $SOL and $ETH with 20x leverage
- $HYPE and $SUI with 10x leverage
- $TAO with 5x leverage. link

🇺🇸⚠️ Who Is J.P. Morgan? The Enforcer of Dollar Hegemony, a Temple of Finance, and Bitcoin's Staunch Opponent

At the heart of JPMorgan Chase’s power lies its command over the global U.S. dollar clearing network. In the realm of cross-border payments and international settlements, the bank has become an irreplaceable hub. However, JPMorgan’s standards for compliance and risk control are regarded as the “global gold standard,” and its account onboarding process is notoriously rigorous. #regulation link

🆕 $KIN featured on Binance alpha link

🏴‍☠️ #CERE Investors accuse Cere Network of a $100 million fraud.

Plaintiffs claim that insiders sold tokens worth millions of dollars immediately after Cere's ICO in 2021, leading to a collapse in the price of $CERE. link

🗽 SEC Chair Paul Atkins says “the time is right to allow” crypto into 401(k) retirement accounts. #regulation

📊 $INX Infinex premarket trading has started on Bybit

FDV: $215M (2.1x sale price)

💼 Escape Velocity Raises a $62 Million Fund to Bet on ‘DePin’ Crypto Networks for Telescopes, Solar Energy, and More: Fortune

🗣 President Trump says Fed Chair Jerome Powell is a "moron."

"We should be paying lower interest rates than any country in the world." #macro

😱 Capital Rotation: BTC Struggles as Liquidity Shifts to Record-Breaking Gold and S&P 500

“If selling pressure intensifies, watch for a test of key structural supports: the True Mean Price at $81K, 2024 top at $70,000, or the 200-week MA at $58K.”

By Sunny Mom link link

🇪🇺🕵️ #SOL #JTO 21Shares has launched the JitoSOL ETP in Europe for staking Solana. The Block link

🗣 #WLFI ALT5 Sigma announced a plan to buy back $100 million worth of shares.

They also stated that they will continue to buy WLFI tokens and signed a $15 million credit agreement with World Liberty Financial. link

🎁 USA - Initial Jobless Claims = 209k (exp 206k / prev 200k)

USA - Continuing Jobless Claims = 1.827M (exp 1.860M / prev 1.849M)

🇺🇸📝 USA - trade balance (Nov) = -$56.8 billion
(expected -$43.4 billion / previously -$29.4 billion)

📊 Robinhood invests in the cryptocurrency trading platform Talos, which is now valued at $1.5 billion. link

🆕 $RENDER listed on Robinhood spot link

🐳 Whale 0x8709 isn't just buying spot gold — he's also long silver and gold, while shorting $NVDA.

He spent 5.6M $USDC to buy 1,066 $XAUT at $5,261, then deposited 3.5M $USDC into Hyperliquid to open 53,528 $SILVER ($6.48M) and 158.36 $GOLD ($876K) longs, while shorting 4,229 $NVDA ($809K).

Address:
0x8709ac3CeaAe2a7A70c1D8e39DF9804def7cAC54

🇺🇸💰 SEC and CFTC to hold joint event today "to discuss their efforts to deliver on President Trump’s promise to make the United States the crypto capital of the world." #regulation

📊 According to GreeksLive, tomorrow marks the first monthly options expiry of 2026, with over 25% of positions set to expire.

With the Fed leaving rates unchanged and a lack of major market-moving events, price action remains stable, and Implied Volatility (IV) continues to trend lower.

Bitcoin has returned to a consolidation range, facing strong resistance at $90,000 and support at $86,000, as volatility expectations decline. #macro link