🔮 According to Ripple's president's forecast, 2026 will be a turning point for the crypto industry — crypto will finally integrate into the global financial system and cease to be perceived as an alternative to traditional finance.

1️⃣ Stablecoins will become the basic infrastructure for global settlements, and will become the standard for 24/7 payments, B2B settlements, and financial collateral. The main growth will come from corporate payments, the volume of which already reaches $76 billion per year, which will allow companies to free up hundreds of billions of dollars in working capital.

2️⃣ Institutional adoption will accelerate: by the end of 2026, companies' balance sheets will hold over $1 trillion in digital assets, and about 50% of Fortune 500 companies will form full-fledged strategies for working with them. Crypto ETFs, which currently occupy only 1–2% of the US ETF market, retain significant growth potential, and up to 5–10% of capital market settlements will move to an on-chain format.

3️⃣ The market will enter a phase of maturity through consolidation: M&A volume in the crypto industry has already reached $8.6 billion. Custody of digital assets will become a key element of institutional infrastructure; more than half of the world's largest banks will form new custody partnerships and begin using multi-custodial models for risk management.

4️⃣ The combination of blockchain and AI will launch mass automation of financial processes. Stablecoins and smart contracts will provide real-time liquidity and collateral management, AI will be responsible for dynamic RWA rebalancing, and ZK technologies will enhance privacy and reduce regulatory risks.

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🗽 The US Secretary of the Treasury confirmed that the administration continues to work on forming a national Bitcoin reserve:

🔵 The US has completely stopped selling confiscated BTC.
🔵 The next stage is replenishing the reserve with seized and confiscated assets: after settling damages, such BTC will not be sold but will be credited to the state's digital reserve.
🔵 The administration is betting on the return of the crypto industry to the US, setting a course for clear regulation and support for innovation.
🔵 Against this backdrop, the policy of the Joe Biden administration, which nearly undermined the digital asset sector, is effectively being revised.

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🍀 A solo miner who rented hashrate via NiceHash for approximately $90, mined block #933034 and received 3.1 BTC ($282 000).

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🤖 OpenAI have started implementing in ChatGPT an age prediction system, which automatically applies enhanced safety measures for underage users.

Age is determined by behavioral factors, and if in doubt, the system chooses a safer mode. Adult users can correct erroneous classification through verification.

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📆 Today, the term of federal supervision over Caroline Ellison ended.

However, for 10 years she is still prohibited from holding executive positions in public companies and crypto exchanges.

Are we waiting for a new "top speaker" at crypto conferences?

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🤖 A large state corporation for chip manufacturing is being created in Russia: as part of a new microelectronics development plan, 1 trillion rubles will be invested in the "United Microelectronics Company" by 2030, of which 750 billion will come from the budget.

The company must build a full cycle — from personnel training to the production of microchips with 28 nm process technology and below.

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☠️ Layer-1 blockchain Saga halted the SagaEVM network after a smart contract exploit of $7,000,000.`

However, the project's main infrastructure was not affected.

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🪙 In its 2026 forecast, BlackRock notes that Ethereum could greatly benefit from tokenization, as about 65% of all tokenized assets are already hosted on its blockchain.

The head of BlackRock emphasizes that tokenization is a multi-trillion dollar market, and it is currently only at the very beginning of its development.

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🗄 CZ stated that he is negotiating with a dozen governments about the tokenization of their assets (RWA).

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🪙 Binance continues to strengthen its position as a key infrastructural platform for the crypto market, going beyond the classic exchange — in 2025, $34 trillion in trading volume passed through the exchange, and the cumulative volume of operations reached $145 trillion over all time.

These data reflect the current scale of cryptocurrency infrastructure usage and the level of its integration into the global economy.

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😂 Average crypto bro when his shitcoin gives 100500x in this bull cycle.

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🎤 CZ spoke today at the Davos forum, key points:

🔵 Crypto is no longer an experiment and already functions as a global financial infrastructure.
🔵 Three key growth drivers: tokenization, payments, and AI.
🔵 Tokenization is of interest to states — it allows for faster asset monetization.
🔵 Cryptocurrencies will become the base "currency" for AI agents.
🔵 Crypto infrastructure is more resilient than banks in stress scenarios.
🔵 Banks will not disappear, but will become digital — physical offices will be phased out.
🔵 Universal regulation does not exist: each country needs its own model.

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📊 Markets are increasingly clearly pricing in the approach of turbulence: the largest holders of US government bonds — Japan, Great Britain, and China — have reduced their positions to 2008 lows.

The massive sell-off of treasuries leads to rising yields and more expensive money, which rapidly shrinks global liquidity.

Historically, such processes first hit bonds, then stocks, and the crypto market ultimately takes the sharpest hit.

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🐳 French company Ledger is planning an initial public offering (IPO) in the US — this refers to a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, where the company's value could reach approximately $4 billion.

Yesterday, during an IPO, crypto-custodian BitGo raised $213 million at a valuation of $2 billion, and YZi Labs (a subsidiary of Binance) became a strategic investor in the company.

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