⚖️ According to Decrypt, the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein maintained years of correspondence with Tether co-founder Brock Pierce and was allegedly involved in Pierce's personal relationships. The documents reveal that between 2011 and 2019, they discussed meetings and networking opportunities, with the correspondence occurring after Epstein's 2008 conviction for sex crimes involving minors. link

🐳 In the past 2 days, the whale has sold:

- 3.59M $AERO for $1.39M $USDC, losing $3.66M.
- 35.45M $BRETT for $310,459 $USDC, losing $3.07M.
- 636,148 $VIRTUAL for $407,546 $USDC, losing $1.76M.

The whale has also started selling $ANDY, where it has a loss of $1.615M.

Address: 0x41dda7be30130cebd867f439a759b9e7ab2569e9

📉 Bitcoin falls to $70,622.

HODL!

📉 Bitcoin falls to $70,622.

HODL!

🇺🇸📊 Mike Selig, the new chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced the withdrawal of the 2024 draft rule for prediction market event contracts. This rule originally proposed banning political event contracts and was described as a "policy overreach" by the previous administration. #regulation link

🐳 Whale 0x9671 sold 242 $XAUT ($1.19M) and 461 $ETH ($985K).

Then, they bought 682,087 $UNI ($2.58M). link

🐳 While the market is dumping, a whale holding short positions in $SOL, $ETH, and $BTC is now having a floating profit of $34.6M.

- In $SOL, the profit is $30M
- In $BTC, the profit is $2M
- In $ETH, the profit is $2.45M

The whale's overall profit has now exceeded $55.59M. link

📈 X User: “While extreme FUD is being launched against Binance, Binance is buying 200M.”

CZ: “Best time to buy.” link

🕵️ According to MLM monitoring, wallets suspected to be linked to Multicoin Capital appear to be swapping ETH for HYPE.

Since January 22, a Multicoin-linked Galaxy Digital deposit address received 87.1K ETH ($220M).

From January 23, the suspected Multicoin wallet 0xd4…bc10 started pulling 1.354M HYPE (over $46M) from Galaxy. Arkham analyst Emmett Gallic agrees.

🕵️ This is a party for the shorts!

The $ETH super short 0x20c2 has made $102.7M by shorting $ETH.

The $SOL super short 0x35d1 has made $55.5M by shorting $SOL, $BTC, and $ETH. link link

🔮 CFTC Rejects Biden Era Proposal to Ban Prediction Markets for Sports and Politics - Cointelegraph #regulation link

😱 Vitalik.eth is dumping $ETH fast!

Over the past 3 days, Vitalik has sold 2,961.5 $ETH ($6.6M) at an average price of $2,228. The selling is still ongoing. link

🕵️ #RWA SBI Holdings introduces the L1 concept for tokenized stocks, developed in collaboration with Startale Group.
theblock link

🇺🇸💸 Several U.S. public pension funds are facing significant losses due to investments in Strategy, a company led by Michael Saylor. Amid a decline in Bitcoin prices, these funds have seen their investments shrink by approximately $337 million, with 10 out of 11 funds experiencing losses of 60%. Strategy’s stock price has dropped by 67%. link

🕵️ A wallet linked to Joseph Lubin, Co-Founder of Ethereum and Founder of Consensys, supplied 15,000 $ETH ($31.43M) to MakerDAO and borrowed $4.1M $DAI.

In total, the wallet holds 137,908 $ETH ($287.29M) and has borrowed $107.77M $DAI. link

🕵️ #ETH wallet provider Payy launches Ethereum L2 focused on privacy. Cointelegraph link

🙅 $RVV, $YALA delisted from Binance futures link

🚀 #ETH Ethereum Transfer Count Surge: A Historical Warning Signal?

High network activity often signifies adoption, but a sudden "parabolic" rise in transfer counts near price highs typically indicates an overheated network. This metric often spikes during moments of extreme market capitulation or euphoria. link link

🇰🇷🚀 South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service is monitoring the market for ZK tokens listed on Upbit, the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, due to abnormal price fluctuations. On February 1, ZK surged nearly 1000% in just three hours, rising from 33 KRW to 350 KRW, before quickly falling back. link

🕵️ 1,512.56 #BTC ($108,156,167)
aggregated inflows to Binance link

🕵️ 260,487,291 #USDT (259,927,243 USD) transferred from RenrenBit to Bitfinex link