Latin America’s largest fintech bank, Nubank, announced the rollout of its USDC rewards program to all Nubank Cripto users following a pilot test in 2024. Additionally, Nubank has introduced a cryptocurrency swap tool, enabling low-fee exchanges between BTC, ETH, SOL, UNI, and USDC, along with price fluctuation alerts. — link : Wu Blockchain News

The crypto and equity markets took a nosedive after a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report dampened hopes for Federal Reserve rate cuts. BTC dropped below $90K, losing 7%, while altcoins felt even sharper pain—though XRP managed to defy the trend, surging nearly 10%.

Meanwhile, Soneium’s much-hyped Web3 launch by Sony sparked drama, with blacklisted memecoins causing outrage in the DeFi community. Critics called it centralized overreach, while others praised Ethereum’s OP stack for enabling censorship-resistant workarounds.

On the brighter side, Euler Finance is making a comeback, turning a $200M hack into a new era of innovation. Their v2 protocol is live, TVL is climbing, and the team is proving that resilience pays off.

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According to Bloomberg, Bitcoin and Ethereum options trading platform Deribit is working with financial advisor Financial Technology Partners LLC to evaluate potential acquisition opportunities. Sources indicate that Deribit’s valuation could exceed $4 billion to $5 billion, although Kraken had considered an acquisition but did not proceed. Deribit stated that the company is not officially for sale but has received strategic investment interest from multiple parties. — link : Wu Blockchain News

Coinbase has added Toshi (TOSHI) to its listing roadmap. Toshi is a meme coin on the Base blockchain, named after Coinbase co-founder Brian Armstrong’s cat and Bitcoin’s anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. — link : Wu Blockchain News

FUN FACT: 🟠 Bitcoin has only ever had 3 down years in its history.

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💵 💵 💵 50,000,000 #USDC (50,012,425 USD) minted at USDC Treasury
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Sky’s lending subDAO Spark targets up to $1.1 billion in direct exposure to Ethena’s USDe and sUSDe tokens — link | tl;dr : unfolded. DeFi

Ripple $2.7

JUST IN:JUST IN: $XRP surpasses a $155,000,000,000 market cap. : Watcher Guru

Ripple $2.8

🚨 31,213,419 #XLM (14,359,385 USD) transferred from #Upbit Deposits to unknown wallet
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Trump family crypto project World Liberty: 0x5b…7dBB exchanged 103.1493 WBTC for 3,075.198 ETH (worth about $9.917 million) and 16.6199 WBTC for 1.7 million USDT through Cow Protocol today. Subsequently, 11,917.635 ETH was transferred to Coinbase Prime, worth about $38.396 million. — link : Wu Blockchain News

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20,844,256 #XLM (9,654,913 USD) transferred from #Binance Withdrawals to Scam
Details : Whale Alert

🚨 🚨 🚨 336,566 #SOL (63,364,866 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
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🚨 🚨 🚨 274,418 #SOL (51,694,135 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
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On January 14, the total net outflow of Bitcoin spot ETF was US$210 million. GBTC, FBTC, and ARKB had outflows of US$89.01 million, US$113.6 million, and US$92.36 million, respectively. The current total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETF is US$108.981 billion. — link : Wu Blockchain News

On January 14, the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETF was $1.1527 million. Currently, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETF is $11.398 billion, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $2.414 billion. — link : Wu Blockchain News

Binance listing pre-selection pool Binance Alpha announced a new batch of projects, including: GRIFT, VITA and Aimonica. Aimonica is an AI investment agent focusing on Meme, VitaDAO is a DAO that provides early funding for longevity research, and GRIFT is an AI agent DeFi abstraction layer. : Wu Blockchain News

A Russian resident has been sentenced to seven years in prison for using cryptocurrency to provide financial support to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This is the first public verdict in Russia for using cryptocurrency to finance a military organization. — link : Wu Blockchain News

According to mgronline, Thailand police proposed to block the Polymarket website on January 14. Thai police said that Polymarket is a global website that provides prediction services in multiple categories such as politics, sports, entertainment, and economy, and has the characteristics of illegal online gambling in Thailand. — link : Wu Blockchain News