📈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.
🇺🇸 #ADA Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson stated that the Trump administration has left the American crypto industry in a worse position than under Biden.
He criticized the Trump administration for launching #TRUMP, #MELANIA, and politicizing cryptocurrencies, noting that ineffective governance and a lack of clear regulations are undermining bipartisan legislative progress.
He warned that cryptocurrencies now risk being perceived as corrupt and partisan.
1. Bitmine staked another 109,504 #ETH ($340.6 million). In total, Bitmine has staked 1,190,016 #ETH ($3.7 billion). 2. A whale opened a new 10x long position on 42,498 #ZEC ($17.53 million). Their total profit increased to $14.69 million. Current longs: 1,331 #BTC ($122.84 million), 22,828 #ETH ($72.16 million), 232,187 #SOL ($33.09 million), 42,498 #ZEC ($17.53 million), 6.63 million #XRP ($13.93 million) - all positions except ZEC are leveraged 20x.