The SEC has scrubbed all records of Ripple and its associated civil cases.
https://x.com/JacobKinge/status/1884286265857826906
Ripple CEO confirmed that he held discussions with Trump about XRP becoming a US strategic reserve asset.
https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1884260650697752750
Securitize has partnered with Wormhole
https://wormhole.com/blog/securitize-announces-the-live-deployment-of-wormhole-enabling-tokenized
Bybit CEO BEN said that in 2025, the plan is to significantly expand on-chain assets, upgrade wallets and infrastructure, and deepen integration with growing ecosystems such as Atom, Ada, Babylon, Athena, Sei, Monad, Bera, etc., and is committed to optimizing trading tools and improving market liquidity.
https://x.com/WuBlockchain/status/1884182742763724858
Arthur Hayes has introduced a new article "The Ugly"
Highlights:
▫️I think we are more likely to go down to $70,000 to $75,000 Bitcoin and then rise to $250k by the end of the year than to continue girding higher with no material pullback
▫️If Bitcoin trades through $110,000 (the level reached during the height of the TRUMP memecoin mania) on strong volume with an expanding perp open interest, then I’ll throw in the towel and buy back risk higher.
▫️To put a finer point on it, the TRUMP memecoin pump to almost $100 billion in fully diluted value in 24 hours was truly insane. TRUMP is a top signal in my mind in the same way that FTX buying umpire logo rights for US Major League Baseball was in the 2021 bull market.
https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/the-ugly
Venice has introduced the Venice token: VVV
VVV Token Details:
▫️Base ERC20 Contract
▫️100 million TGE supply
▫️14 million emitted annually
▫️Audit Airdrop claim page: venice.ai/claim
▫️50 million (50% of total supply)
Venice is a generative AI app.
VVV is now trading at $16.6
FDV: $1.65B
https://venice.ai/blog/introducing-the-venice-token-vvv
Abstract Mainnet is now live
https://www.abs.xyz/
https://x.com/abstractchain/status/1883939915169423777
Online crypto travel platform Travala.com received an unsolicited takeover approach late last year, said people familiar with the situation.
The company is in talks with potential buyers and may be valued in excess of $100 million, they said.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/01/14/travala-crypto-native-travel-website-said-to-receive-unsolicited-takeover-approach
Aethir is partnering with Maitrix to introduce AUSD, an algorithmic stablecoin designed to bring stability and predictability to its decentralized GPU ecosystem.
AUSD is pegged to the US dollar.
https://aethir.com/blog-posts/aethir-and-maitrix-launch-ausd-stability-for-decentralized-gpu-infrastructure
Alchemy Pay Achieves AUSTRAC Approval as Digital Currency Exchange Provider in Australia
https://alchemypay.org/news-and-press/alchemy-pay-achieves-austrac-approval-as-digital-currency-exchange-provider-in-australia/
Humanity Protocol has secured a fully diluted valuation of $1.1 billion after raising $20 million in a funding round co-led by Pantera Capital and Jump Crypto.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/humanity-protocol-valued-11-bln-after-latest-fundraise-2025-01-27/
💧 Top AI Tokens by X Performance Launched in the Last Week
👉 https://dropstab.com/tab/new-ai-agents-4gzrez9fkx
YZi Labs invests in Sign
Sign is an on-chain infrastructure for token distribution and credential verification.
https://x.com/BinanceLabs/status/1884285647667826838
Ondo Finance will deploy Ondo Short-Term US Government Treasuries (OUSG), its tokenized US Treasury fund, on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), a decentralized layer-1 blockchain.
https://blog.ondo.finance/ondo-finance-expands-institutional-reach-with-ousg-deployment-on-the-xrp-ledger/
World Liberty Financial purchased $1.88 million worth of MOVE tokens
https://platform.spotonchain.ai/en/entity/2361?min_amount=5&date_range=9
French investigators opened a judicial probe into money laundering, tax fraud and other charges at Binance, which said it denied the allegations.
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-01-28/french-investigators-open-money-laundering-probe-against-crypto-platform-binance
OpenSea has launched the OS2 platform, featuring a redesigned user interface and a new experience points (XP) system.
The OS2 platform is currently in private beta, with priority access granted to holders of Gemesis NFTs while other interested users are on a waitlist.
https://www.theblock.co/post/337372/opensea-releases-points-system-for-os2-platform-gives-priority-access-to-gemesis-nft-holders
Spot ETF Flow on 27.01: BTC-ETF -$457.48M, ETH-ETF -$136.25M
https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot
Microsoft in talks to acquire TikTok
https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1884063423794942428
Seychelles-based crypto exchange KuCoin pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and agreed to pay nearly $300 million in fines and forfeitures.
https://decrypt.co/303051/kucoin-co-founders-step-down-amid-300m-settlement-over-us-charges
The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 57.51%
Market Cap - $3.53T
BTC - $102,857.51 (+1.79%)
ETH - $3,213.35 (+1.32%)
XRP - $3.09 (+3.44%)
BNB - $679.91 (+3%)
SOL - $237.54 (+1.31%)
TRUMP - $29.38 (+9.87%)
MELANIA - $2.57 (+4.29%)
JUP - $1.18 (+20.22%)
https://dropstab.com
TON has announced updates in H1 2025
Here’s a sneak peek:
▫️Huge "Accelerator" Kernel update on Mainnet
▫️New tools for validators
▫️Revamped Toncenter API (Actions, Pending, Emulation, Domains)
▫️UX improvements + collab with top community products
▫️Payment Network Layer 2 release
▫️Sidechain research
▫️TOLK 1.0 with new features (structures, pattern-matching, smart contracts)
▫️Support for TON BTC Teleport
▫️New standards (Pending TX IDs, secure signatures, multi-account gen)
https://x.com/ton_blockchain/status/1883894655160328681
Symbiotic will make an announcement tomorrow
https://x.com/symbioticfi/status/1883893059714519536
The Aptos Foundation announces the establishment of Movemaker, its official community organization.
Co-initiated by Ankaa and BlockBooster, Movemaker is dedicated to advancing and building the Aptos ecosystem in the Chinese-speaking region.
https://decrypt.co/302817/movemaker-aptos-growing-chinese-speaking-region-with-multi-million-dollar-support-via-its-official-community
MicroStrategy intends to offer, in a public offering registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 2,500,000 shares of MicroStrategy’s Series A Perpetual Strike Preferred Stock.
MicroStrategy intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, including the acquisition of bitcoin and for working capital.
The perpetual strike preferred stock will have a liquidation preference of $100 per share and will accumulate cumulative dividends at a fixed rate that will be determined at the pricing of the offering.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250127149953/en/MicroStrategy-Announces-Proposed-Strike-Preferred-Stock-Offering-STRK
MicroStrategy has acquired 10,107 BTC for ~$1.1 billion at ~$105,596 per bitcoin.
As of 1/26/2025, it holds 471,107 BTC acquired for ~$30.4 billion at ~$64,511 per bitcoin.
https://x.com/saylor/status/1883848242376650840
In the past 24 hours, long positions worth ~$649.97M liquidated.
https://www.coinglass.com/LiquidationData