Ashwini Roopesh

Steak N Shake adds $10M Bitcoin exposure after huge success accepting lightning payments.
This is what Bitcoin adoption looks like.

The 24 hours volume % of the top ten cryptos are down by double digits.

United States President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on countries which do not back the US taking control of Greenland.
“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security.” - $TRUMP
So it seems that entire world will be on #tariffs

Belgium’s second largest bank, KBC Bank, is set to become the first Belgian bank to offer direct trading of $BTC and $ETH to retail investors under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).

The move comes after years in which Belgian investors interested in crypto largely relied on foreign exchanges.

X users celebrate crackdown on 'plague' of AI-led reply spam as InfoFi platforms seek alternatives.
X is revising its developer API policies to no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on the social media platform.
Proponents argue the model helps surface valuable information, while critics and dominant users say it floods timelines with low-effort engagement farming and auto bot-generated replies.
Notable InfoFi players Kaito and Cookie announced they will sunset their respective platforms and are seeking ways to pivot.

Argentina’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, Lemon has launched country’s first credit card that is backed by Bitcoin.
The card is Visa, making it spendable everywhere in the world. The bitcoin on this credit card is held as collateral, so it is not sold or converted to local currency. The user deposits 0.01 bitcoin as collateral, currently equivalent to about $900 and receives a credit card in pesos with a limit of $1,000,000. Way to go.

Iran’s internet shutdown is now one of its longest ever
92 million Iranians have been completely blocked from accessing the internet for more than a week, in what is now one of the longest nationwide internet shutdowns ever.
Iranians have not been able to access the internet for more than 170 hours due to ongoing protest. The previous longest shutdowns in the country lasted around 163 hours in 2019, and 160 hours in 2025.
For majority of us, living and surviving without internet remains impossible task as our life and day today functioning requires Internet.
#iran

Southern Utah man sentenced after defrauding investors of $2.9 million.

Brian Garry Sewell, 54 was sentenced to 36 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release after previously pleading guilty to wire fraud. Similar sentence in a separate case after operating in an unlicensed money transmitting busines was also provided to him.

“Fraud schemes like this don’t just involve financial losses—they shatter trust and upend lives, Sewell preyed on his victims by lying about his experience and promising returns he could not deliver, leaving individuals and families to bear the consequences of his deception. The FBI will continue to put victims first by holding offenders accountable and pursuing those who misuse cryptocurrency and unlicensed financial services to exploit others.” - Special Agent in Charge Robert Bohls of the Salt Lake City FBI
#scam

Google Play to ban overseas crypto exchanges from South Korea store.
Google Play Store will require all crypto platforms to register with the Korean authorities to offer their apps in the region, starting Jan. 28 this month.
This means Android users in South Korea will not be able to access #Binance Bybit, OKX, and other global platforms through mobile apps.
Registration with local authorities is deemed nearly impossible for many overseas exchanges, as it involves rigorous efforts to obtain local security certifications.

Taiwan Commits $500B to Support US Semiconductor Operations
Under the subject deal, the $500B commitment to the US would come for two split purposes. Taiwan’s technology industry would commit to making at least $250 billion in direct investments to expand advanced semiconductor, energy, and artificial intelligence operations in the US. In addition, Taiwan agreed to provide an additional $250 billion in credit guarantees for further investment in the American semiconductor supply chain.
US agreed that duties on Taiwanese shipments would fall from the previous 20% rate.
$XRP

A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison ‌on charges that included obstructing attempts by authorities to arrest him ​following his failed bid to impose martial law in December 2024.
He was finally arrested in a second attempt involving more than 3,000 police officers. Yoon’s arrest was the first ever for a sitting President in South Korea.
He could face the death sentence in a separate trial on a charge ‍of masterminding an insurrection by declaring martial law without justification.
While Yoon’s bid to impose martial law lasted only about six hours, it sent shockwaves through South Korea, which is Asia’s fourth largest economy, a key U.S. security ally and long considered one of the world’s most resilient ⁠democracies.
No President is above the law, that’s the reason even the current President are aware of. Even US President Donald Trump recently appealed to this fanbase and urged his voters to win midterm elections in order to avoid similar fate.
#SouthKorea

Cake wallet adds Zcash support as it expands beyond its Monero roots.

Zcash offers two types of transactions, "transparent” or “shielded.” Transparent addresses are as traceable as on any other blockchain, while “z addresses” encrypt sender and receiver details and transaction amounts with zero-knowledge proofs.

“Privacy should not be an advanced setting. By enforcing shielded transactions by default, we’re making strong privacy protections the standard experience, not an optional extra.” - Cake Lab CEO Vikrant Sharma

Cake’s move represents not only the growing interest in blockchain privacy broadly, but also the increasing adoption of $ZEC including its somewhat controversial privacy features.

Three House Democrats are pressing the SEC to explain pulling back from several crypto enforcement cases, including the case against $TRX founder @Justin Sun孙宇晨 .
The lawmakers argued that the SEC’s retreat coincided with a surge in political spending by crypto firms.
Crypto companies donated at least $85 million to President Trump's reelection campaign, while firms whose enforcement actions were dismissed in 2025 including Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, Robinhood, and Crypto.com, each contributed at least $1 million to Trump's inauguration.

Sun invested more than $75 million in Trump-linked crypto ventures, including World Liberty Financial, in late 2024 and early 2025.

Sun was sued in 2023 for allegedly orchestrating the unregistered offer and sale of crypto securities, manipulating trading volumes, and engaging in unlawful celebrity promotion. Even his wallet was locked by $WLFI recently.

"Wonderful Gesture": Trump As Machado Presents Him Her Nobel Peace Prize

US President Donald Trump finally received a Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a gamble by the current laureate to win over the support from the America administration who recently declined to support her challenge to Venezuela's ruling regime. Machado was her nation's promising democratic leader-in-waiting until Trump's decision earlier this month to topple Venezuela's supreme leader, Nicolas Maduro, and then to back his deputy.
Trump heaped praise on the Maria Corina for presenting him with "her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done.”

Can Maria Pass On Her Nobel Prize? - The Nobel Institute has said Machado could not give her prize to Trump, an honour that he has always wished for. Trump intends to keep the medal as he doesn’t care about anything more. Recently, even FIFA invented one award for him.

What Maria Said - “I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize.” She said she had done so "as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom."
Trump has said it would be difficult for Machado to lead because she "doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country." Her party is widely believed to have won the 2024 elections which was rejected.
Before she visited America, Machado had not been seen in public since she travelled last month to Norway, where her daughter received the peace prize on her behalf. She had spent 11 months in hiding in Venezuela before she appeared in Norway after the ceremony.
#venezuela

Ukraine Blocks Polymarket Over ‘War Bets’ as Global Crackdown Widens.
The platform is currently inaccessible in at least 33 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Singapore, Australia, Iran, and Russia.

Can we say 'greed' or 'over-leveraging'.

Ethereum treasury firm BitMine invests $200 million in MrBeast's Beast Industries.
This particular deal links one of crypto’s largest ETH holders with the world’s most-followed creator platform.
$ETH

G7 warns of more sanctions for Iran
As per US President Donald Trump - “Iranian protester will no longer be sentenced to death after President Trump’s warnings. Likewise others.” This is good news. Hopefully, it will continue!”
Further, in a joint statement, the foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the US and the European Union’s main foreign policy chief said the G7 members were “gravely concerned” by the developments surrounding the protests, and that they “strongly oppose the intensification of the Iranian authorities’ brutal repression of the Iranian people’.
The statement put up by EU said that G7 were “deeply alarmed at the high level of reported deaths and injuries” and condemned “the deliberate use of violence” by Iranian security forces against protesters.
The G7 members “remain prepared to impose additional restrictive measures if Iran continues to crack down on protests and dissent in violation of international human rights obligations.”
As of now we can rule out US intervention it seems as $TRUMP has already silenced his tone.
#iran

Over 13.4 Million cryptocurrencies Have Died Since 2021.
53.2% of all cryptocurrencies have failed since their successful launch, with the majority occurring in 2025 itself. In 2025 alone, 11.6 million tokens failed, representing a large majority of token failures, thats 86.3%.
End of the day, 13.4 million reasons to stick to $BTC and some good altcoins.

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan stated that a U.S. Treasury Department study suggests that up to $6 trillion in bank deposits could shift to stablecoins if Congress does not restrict interest-bearing stablecoins.
While banks are lobbying to curb stablecoin yields to protect lending capacity and deposit spreads, a Senate compromise could ban passive interest while allowing activity-based rewards such as staking or liquidity provision.
Its a figure that would amount to roughly 30% - 35% of total U.S. commercial bank deposits.