🪙 There is circulating information that Venezuela may control a large “shadow” reserve of Bitcoin — potentially up to 600 000 BTC.

According to Reuters and the Wilson Center, the Maduro government sold around 73 tons of gold in 2018, with intelligence estimates suggesting the proceeds were converted into BTC to avoid freezes by the U.S. Treasury.

Additional reports claim that by late 2025, up to 80% of oil exports were settled in USDT, with funds later funneled into Bitcoin.

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🗽 The adoption of the CLARITY Act, which is meant to define the regulatory structure of the US crypto market, could be delayed for several years.

The law is unlikely to be passed before 2027, with real implementation potentially stretching to 2029, due to political disputes and Democrats delaying the vote ahead of the 2026 elections.

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🖥 Analysts believe that US access to Venezuela’s oil resources could eventually lower electricity costs for Bitcoin mining and improve miner margins.

However, the impact will not be immediate: a meaningful increase in oil production and its effect on energy prices would take years, despite US interest and Chevron’s presence in the country.

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🪙 Morgan Stanley has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to register a Bitcoin trust.

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🪙 Ripple officially stated that it does not plan to pursue an IPO, citing a strong and stable financial position.

The company’s priority is growth through acquisitions and product development rather than access to public markets.

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🪙 Ethereum summarized the results of ecosystem development in 2025:

🔵 DeFi TVL in the network exceeded $99 billion.
🔵 The volume of transactions in stablecoins reached $18.8 trillion.
🔵 Transaction fees in L2 dropped below $0.01.
🔵 ETFs and companies own more than $35 billion in ETH.
🔵 Over 88 million smart contracts have been deployed in the network.
🔵 Peak daily activity — 1.74 million transactions.
🔵 The number of active developers — about 32 thousand.

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💸 The queue for Ethereum validators to exit has completely reset — for the first time since July 2025.

Currently, exiting staking takes just a few minutes. Meanwhile, there are over 1.3 million ETH in the queue to enter staking.

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🤖 Grok chose 1 BTC per year instead of a salary of $250 000, citing the limited supply of bitcoin and its potential for long-term growth, despite the higher current value of the salary.

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🎰 Polymarket refuses to pay out bets on "US invasion of Venezuela" — the platform stated that it was about US control over part of the territory of Venezuela.

Capture or arrest of the president is not considered an invasion if the US has not established territorial control.

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🪙 Morgan Stanley has filed an application to launch Ethereum Trust.

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🗽 The Trump family's cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial is applying for a banking license in the USA.

It has also become known that World Liberty Financial is creating a new trust company WLTC, through which it plans to provide cryptocurrency storage and stablecoin conversion services.

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🪙 The largest holders of the first cryptocurrency accumulated BTC worth $40 billion in 2025.

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🤖 Anthropic, the developer of the AI chatbot Claude, plans to raise $10 billion in investments with a company valuation of $350 billion — almost twice as much as last fall.

The round will be led by Singapore's sovereign fund GIC and the Coatue fund. The increase in valuation reflects the ongoing boom in AI investments amid expectations that the market leader will be able to dominate in the next technological era.

The company aims to break even by 2028 and is preparing for an IPO this year.

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