🇺🇸📊 According to DOJ, a U.S. court sentenced Chinese national Jingliang Su to 46 months in prison for laundering over $36.9 million from a crypto investment scam that targeted 174 U.S. victims.

Su helped move funds from fake trading platforms, converting them into $USDT and transferring them to scam centers in Cambodia, and was ordered to pay about $26.9 million in restitution. #regulation link

🇺🇸🗽 According to the U.S. SEC, due to a government shutdown, the agency will operate with very limited staff starting Jan. 31, 2026, until further notice. The SEC will prioritize emergency responses related to market integrity and investor protection, while systems such as EDGAR will remain operational. #regulation link

💰 Ripple co-founder and venture capitalist Tim Draper is launching the cryptocurrency PAC "Grow California," aiming to raise $40 million for the upcoming midterm elections. link

💸 Dragonfly partner Haseeb rejected OKX CEO Star’s claim that the 10/10 crash was caused by Binance and Ethena. He stated that the timing and isolated USDe dislocation do not support this assertion. Haseeb argued that no new evidence was presented and attributed the crash to tariff-driven panic, Binance API outages, forced liquidations, ADLs, and the lack of stabilizing mechanisms in crypto markets. #tradewars link

🆕 $PENGUIN listed on Bybit spot link

🗣 Lawrence Lepard states that Bitcoin is “inevitable” and that “everybody needs it and they don’t understand it, but they’re gonna come to understand it.” He criticizes the governmental system, saying, “We’ve got a broken governmental system, where the government can spend money to buy votes.” He advises, “Buy Bitcoin and just live your life.” link

📊 Solana ecosystem DeFi platform Step Finance reported that some treasury and fee wallets were compromised and are under investigation. On-chain data indicates that approximately 261,854 SOL was unstaked and transferred, valued at around $30 million at the time. link

🕵️ As the market continues to slide, this BitcoinOG (1011short) has cut part of his $ETH longs to stop losses.

From being up over $142M, he's now down more than $67M.

He still holds 188,086 $ETH ($472M) in long positions, with a liquidation price of $2,261. link

🕵️ Heads up: This BitcoinOG(1011short) with 901,484 $ETH ($2.28B) appears to be dumping $ETH spot.

He just deposited 3,183 $ETH ($8.04M) into Binance. link link

🇺🇸💸 Bitcoin mining profits fell to a 14-month low after a major U.S. winter storm disrupted operations and dragged down network activity, according to CryptoQuant’s miner profit/loss sustainability index. link

💸 Machi has been liquidated another 14 times in the past 6 hours.

In total, he has been liquidated as many as 241 times, and his account balance is now down to just $20,815. link link

🐳 This Anti-CZ whale wallet 0x9eec was liquidated 19 times over the past 2 days and has now been fully liquidated.

From being up over $61M, it's now down more than $10.75M. link

💵 According to Etherscan, Tether minted about 192K XAUt on Ethereum today, worth around $946 million. This amount is equivalent to about 6 metric tons of physical gold. link

📊 According to Arkham data, Heka, a core quantitative and systematic trading fund under Abraxas Capital, transferred 2,000 $BTC to Kraken around two hours ago. Heka focuses on major crypto assets such as $BTC and $ETH and related derivatives. link

💸 Bitcoin falls under $81,000

Nearly $1,000,000,000 liquidated from the crypto market in the past 24 hours.

📉 ETH falls under $2,500

🧑‍💻 Mesh network messaging app "Bitchat" now connects over 1KM via meshcore extension link

📉 Bitcoin falls to $78,988

HODL!

💸 If Bitcoin drops another 3.34%, Michael Saylor's Strategy's 712,647 $BTC ($56.06B) will be at a paper loss.

Average cost: $76,037 per $BTC. link

💸 Tom Lee's 'Bitmine' ETH investment is currently at a $6 billion unrealized loss.

🧐 According to monitoring, Binance founder CZ unfollowed Solana co-founder Toly at 15:03 UTC+8 on January 31. Earlier that day, at 10:27 UTC+8, Toly reposted an article in which the OKX founder criticized Binance. Some community members had suggested that Binance should treat all ecosystems equally rather than primarily prioritizing BNB Chain.