📉UPDATE: ETH would liquidate nearly $3BILLION in shorts with an 11% move higher.

🚨TETHER FROZE $182M IN USDT

Tether froze $182M across 5 Tron wallets holding $12M to $50M each with no disclosed reason.

Since 2023, Tether has frozen $3.3B and blacklisted 7,268 wallets, according to AMLBot.

🚨BREAKING: Banking giant Standard Chartered plans to offer prime brokerage for BTC and crypto trading.

🚨 NEW: 99% of advisors who already allocated crypto in client accounts plan to maintain or increase exposure in 2026, according to Bitwise's latest survey.

🚨 NOW: Crypto Fear and Greed index flips to Neutral at 48, up from 26 (Fear) yesterday.

🇺🇸 LATEST: Bitwise Chainlink ETF is approved for listing and registration on NYSE Arca, with trading beginning tomorrow.

🚨 JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China posts a record $1.2 TRILLION trade surplus in 2025, up 20% YoY, despite ongoing trade tensions with the U.S.

⚡️ UPDATE: A solo Bitcoin miner has successfully mined a block, earning 3.16 $BTC.

🇮🇳 JUST IN: Enforcement Directorate freezes $1.3M including crypto assets, in a $3.2M fraud case.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: Senate Banking Committee cancels tomorrow's scheduled markup for crypto market structure legislation, following Coinbase's withdrawal of support, per Eleanor Terrett.

🚨 NOW: Crypto Fear and Greed index shifts to Greed at 61 for the first time since October crash.

📊 HUGE : Ethereum hit a new record of 2.6M daily transactions.

🔥 JUST IN: Bitmine makes a $200M investment into MrBeast’s Beast Industries.

🔥 UPDATE: Ethereum sees a sharp spike in new user activity retention with a surge of first-time addresses engaging over the past 30 days, per Glassnode.

🚨 NOW: Solana saw the largest stablecoin supply inflows in the last 24 hours, adding $804.8 million, per Artemis data.

🚨 UPDATE: Crypto Fear and Greed Index drops 12 points to Neutral at 49, down from Greed (61) yesterday.

🔥 UPDATE: A solo Bitcoin miner has successfully mined a block, earning 3.16 $BTC.

🇧🇾BELARUS INKS "CRYPTO BANK" FRAMEWORK

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree creating a national crypto bank framework, following December’s blockade of offshore exchanges and 2024 rules restricting crypto trading to state-approved platforms in Belarus.

🚨 ALERT: BlackRock warns the U.S. construction boom could be slowed by a shortage of skilled workers like electricians and tradespeople needed for infrastructure and AI-linked projects.

🔥 BULLISH: ARK Invest says Bitcoin’s price volatility fell to record lows in 2025, strengthening the case for higher risk-adjusted returns in the years ahead.

🚨 BLACKROCK MOVES $1.24 BILLION IN CRYPTO

BlackRock has withdrew a total of 12,658 $BTC ($1.21B) and 9,515 $ETH ($31.3M) in the last 3 days.

As per Arkham, BlackRock now holds 784.4K $BTC ($74.68B) and 3.49M $ETH ($11.51B).