🇨🇳👮 #ETH Yao Qian, the founder of China's CBDC and one of Coindesk's top 10 most influential people of 2017, is accused by the Chinese government of facilitating the listing of an ICO in 2018, raising 20,000 ETH, and accepting a bribe of 2,000 ETH. He is currently under investigation and sold some of his ETH when the price was around $4,000 in 2021.
Institutional investors have purchased roughly 6 times more newly mined BTC since the start of 2026: about 30,000 BTC were purchased versus 5,700 mined, according to Bitwise data.
The payment giant is integrating stablecoins into its Visa Direct payment system. The infrastructure will be provided by BVNK, a fintech that already processes $30+ billion in stablecoin payments annually.
Companies will now be able to pay salaries, contractors, and partners directly in stablecoins, without banks or holidays.
Why this is important: • Money arrives instantly, 24/7 • Transfers are cheaper and easier, especially international ones
Visa is actively bringing stablecoins into mainstream payments. Crypto is no longer a “separate world” and is becoming integrated into everyday life.
📈The Ethereum network recorded record growth in participant activity.
📄Ripple received preliminary approval for an EMI license from the Luxembourg financial regulator, a step toward expanding its payment services in the EU.
📈Ethereum Staking Share Reaches All-Time High
👨💻Expert: Geopolitical Conflicts Always Increase Demand for BTC and ETH
🇩🇪DZ Bank, Germany's second-largest banking group, received the necessary approval to launch its cryptocurrency trading platform.
💻BNB Smart Chain has become approximately 40% faster thanks to the Fermi hard fork
💸Short sellers lost $600 million in one day as Bitcoin surged
👨⚖️The Supreme Court will not rule on President Trump's tariffs today.
😳The Sui network has experienced an outage - no new blocks have been produced for over an hour.
🇺🇸🤝🇵🇰 #WLFI #USD1 Pakistan signed an agreement with a company affiliated with World Liberty Financial to explore the use of the World Liberty stablecoin for cross-border payments.
🇪🇸🏦 Spanish bank Bankinter acquires a stake in cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me.
💳 Visa partners with BVNK to launch stablecoin payments.
🇱🇺 #XRP Ripple received preliminary approval from Luxembourg regulators for an electronic money institution license.
1. Bitmine staked another 186,560 ETH ($624.8 million). In total, Bitmine has staked 1,530,784 ETH ($5.13 billion); 2. A whale closed long positions worth $413 million, locking in a profit of $14.5 million.
👥Investors are shifting focus from traditional cryptocurrencies to privacy infrastructure
👨💻Polygon Labs announced the acquisition of two crypto startups, Coinme and Sequence, for a total of over $250 million, strengthening its strategy in stablecoins and payments.
📈DASH price soared more than 70% in 24 hours.
😳CoinGecko: Over 50% of crypto assets have "died" over the past five years.
👨💼21Shares announced the listing of its new exchange-traded product (ETP), which combines Bitcoin and gold in one product, on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
🇸🇦Starting February 1, Saudi Arabia will lift restrictions on access to the Tadawul exchange for all categories of foreign investors.
👨💻Analysts predict Bitcoin will rise to $100,000 in January
🚀Analysts predict Ethereum will rise sharply to $4,000
📊CryptoQuant: Cryptocurrency spot market trading volume will reach $18.6 trillion by the end of 2025.
👨💻JPMorgan announced that the Federal Reserve will not cut interest rates this year.
🇹🇭🕹 Thailand has launched a campaign against "shadow money," tightening oversight of physical gold and digital asset markets as part of efforts to close money laundering loopholes.
🇺🇦🙅♂️ Ukraine has blocked Polymarket as part of a campaign to combat online gambling.
1. Bitmine staked another 154,208 #ETH ($478.77 million). In total, Bitmine has staked 1,344,224 #ETH ($4.17 billion); 2. PumpFun deposited another $148.48 million in stablecoins to Kraken over the past 10 hours. Since October 15th, PumpFun has deposited $844.8 million in stablecoins to Kraken. During the same period, $1.35 billion in #USDC was transferred from Kraken to Circle via the DTQK7G wallet.
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