👨‍💻 January Blockchain Technology Update: Bitcoin Core appoints TheCharlatan as Trusted Keys maintainer, increasing core members to six. Ethereum plans to launch the ERC-8004 standard on mainnet, enabling AI agent cross-organizational interactions. BNB Chain successfully completes the opBNB Fourier hard fork, reducing block time to 250ms. SUI upgrades mainnet to V1.63.3 (protocol 107), optimizing finality paths and fixing consensus issues. link

📊🤔 #BTC CQ: Bitcoin funding rates flash a short-side excess. Historically, such phases have frequently preceded trend reversals, sometimes lasting, sometimes limited to the very short term.

🔓 CoinMarketCap released its January 2026 Major Crypto Exchange Reserves Ranking Report. Binance ranked first with total reserves of about $155.64 billion, including $47.47 billion in stablecoins (30.5%) and $49.84 billion in Bitcoin-related assets (32.03%). OKX followed with roughly $31.29 billion, ahead of Bybit ($14.17 billion), Gate ($7.86 billion), HTX ($6.92 billion), Bitget ($5.33 billion), MEXC ($2.97 billion), and KuCoin ($2.16 billion). #stablecoin link

📊 BTC Supply in Profit: from 19.8M to 11.2M “We're in a capitulation zone. Even long-term metrics are starting to show this data. Holders who bought high are selling at a loss.” link link

💰 According to FT, Tether has scaled back its planned $15–20 billion fundraising after investor pushback over a $500 billion valuation. Advisers are now discussing a raise as small as $5 billion. CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that the larger figure was only a maximum the company was willing to sell and that Tether would be comfortable not raising capital at all. The firm made about $10 billion in profit last year, mainly from USDT reserve returns. link

🕵️ In response to concerns about Bitmine (BMNR) facing a $6.6 billion unrealized loss and potential selling pressure on ETH prices, Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine, emphasized that these views overlook the purpose of an Ethereum treasury. He explained that Bitmine aims to track ETH's price and outperform over the market cycle, asserting that unrealized losses during downturns are "a feature, not a bug," similar to how index ETFs behave in declines. link

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🕵️ Three wallets that had been dormant for four years, likely controlled by the same entity, bought the dip eight hours ago. They spent $13.1M to acquire 5,970 $ETH at an average price of $2,195. link link link

📊 #BTC Glassnode: The Realized Profit/Loss Ratio (90D-SMA) continues to trend lower (~1.5), moving closer to 1, reflecting progressively thinner liquidity conditions. A sustained break below 1 has historically coincided with broad-based capitulation, where realized losses dominate profit-taking across the market.

🐳 The Bitcoin OG (10/11) has further deposited 15,000 $ETH ($33.35M) into Binance to sell and repay the loan. In the past 7 hours, a total of 35,000 $ETH ($78.31M) has been sent to Binance, and $82.39M in $USDT and $USDC has been withdrawn to repay the loan. link

📊🤔 #BTC’s Puell Multiple remains in the discount zone, signaling miner pressure and historically favorable accumulation levels while suggesting the broader bearish trend may continue.

🗣 Strategy CEO Phong Le states that they possess 72 years of Bitcoin reserves, projected to last until 2100. He emphasized, "We're creating a bulletproof balance sheet for the next 65-100 years." link

🇺🇸📈 #COIN Nevada Gaming Control Board files civil enforcement action against Coinbase over alleged unlicensed wagering in Nevada. #gamefi

🇺🇸📊 Cryptocom has launched OG, a new U.S.-focused prediction market app powered by its CFTC-regulated affiliate Cryptocom Derivatives North America. OG offers regulated sports event contracts alongside financial, political, and cultural event markets, with plans to introduce margin trading, making it the first prediction market platform to do so. #regulation link

🥷 The Arbitrum DAO account (arbitrumdao_gov) has been compromised. Users should avoid interaction.

💸 Machi was partially liquidated again! He's now been liquidated a total of 252 times — truly the King of Liquidations. link

💸 Wintermute reported that #BTC fell below $80,000, resulting in $2.55 billion in liquidations, marking the 10th largest in crypto history. The decline was influenced by weak Mag7 earnings, Kevin Warsh’s Fed chair nomination, and corrections in precious metals. While volatility indicates macro uncertainty and risk-off positioning, there is no structural collapse; infrastructure and institutional interest remain robust, with a recovery anticipated in H2 2026. #macro link

🇬🇧🕵️ According to Bloomberg, Aave founder Stani Kulechov purchased a five-story Victorian mansion in London’s Notting Hill for £22 million (around $30 million), making it one of the most expensive residential transactions in London over the past year. The deal was completed in November, with the final price about £2 million below the broker’s initial guidance. The property offers panoramic views over Notting Hill. link

🚀 Ark Invest is buying shares of Circle, Bitmine, Bullish, and other cryptocurrency companies amid ongoing price declines. theblock link

🐳 A whale invested $2.98M $USDC to buy 647.15 $XAUT at a price of $4,601 in the past 2 hours. Address: 0xcd3af6bfba6b9b3083dc7fcd27f29ca4f3253079

🏦 Representatives from the White House met with those from the cryptocurrency and banking sectors to discuss stablecoins. White House advisor on cryptocurrency issues Patrick Vitt described the meeting as "constructive, fact-based," and "solution-oriented," expressing confidence that an agreement will be reached soon. #stablecoin link

🕵️ As $HYPE trades above $36, Loraclexyz has increased its $HYPE long position to 1,478,841 $HYPE ($53M), currently having a floating profit of over $17M. He also holds a small $LIT (3x) short position, and the overall profit is now above $27.5M. link

🗣 Galaxy Digital research head Alex Thorn stated that Bitcoin's recent weakness indicates it may drift lower in the coming weeks or months toward the 200-week moving average near $58,000. He highlighted that 46% of #BTC supply is currently underwater, with a significant supply gap between $70k and $80k. Additionally, Bitcoin has not traded in tandem with gold and silver as a "debasement hedge," which has weakened its narrative. Historically, the 200-week MA and realized price around $56,000 have marked strong long-term entry zones. link

🐳 Vitalik.eth continues to sell $ETH, having sold 493 $ETH ($1.16M) in the past 8 hours. link link

🇨🇭💰 Swiss bank Sygnum’s Starboard Sygnum BTC Alpha Fund has raised over 750 BTC from institutional investors just four months after its October 2025 launch. link

📉 #DeFi TVL declined >10% over the last seven days, marking its largest weekly drawdown since November 2025.

🏦 President Trump Executive Director says today's White House meeting between the crypto and banking industries was "constructive, fact-based, and, most importantly, solutions-oriented."

📊 #BTC Glassnode report: BTC dropped to $74,000 after failing to hold November lows. The momentum sharply declined, and the 14-day RSI dropped into oversold territory. Spot trading volume recovered, but the uptrend does not look constructive, reflecting activity during continued decline rather than confident buying on the dip. Short-term stabilization is likely to depend on the exhaustion of selling pressure and the return of demand to defend the $74,000 level. link

📈 Norway’s sovereign wealth fund increased its indirect Bitcoin exposure to 9,573 BTC in 2025. link

📊 Antpool data shows that at current Bitcoin mining difficulty and an electricity cost of $0.08 per kWh, several miners, including Antminer S19 XP+ Hydro, WhatsMiner M60S, and Avalon A1466I, are near shutdown price levels. The Antminer S21 series has shutdown prices around $69,000–$74,000 per BTC, while high-hashrate models such as U3S23H and S23 Hydro remain profitable above $44,000 per BTC. link

🔮 Odds of Bitcoin falling below $65K hit 72% on Polymarket. link

💼 CoinShares report on crypto fund flows for the past week: Total outflows for the last week amounted to $1.7 billion: - #BTC saw outflows of $1.32 billion; - #ETH saw outflows of $308 million. link

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📊 On-chain data shows that at 07:13 (UTC) today, the Binance SAFU Fund address initiated an authorization transaction to add two new addresses to its “approved recipient whitelist,” possibly in preparation for increasing its Bitcoin holdings. Previously, Binance converted $1 billion in stablecoin reserves held by the SAFU Fund into Bitcoin reserves. #stablecoin link

💸 $4.02 trillion wiped out from gold and silver's market cap today.

📊 A Nevada state court has issued a two-week temporary restraining order against Blockratize, the entity behind Polymarket, prohibiting it from offering sports and event contracts to residents of the state. Judge Jason Woodbury, siding with the Nevada Gaming Control Board, ruled that the Commodity Exchange Act does not grant the Commodity Futures Trading Commission exclusive jurisdiction over Polymarket’s contracts. #regulation link

🕵️ According to monitoring, if no additional margin is deposited or positions are reduced, the liquidation price range for Trend Research's holdings is $1,781.09–$1,862.02. Trend Research currently holds 618,245.96 ETH, distributed across six addresses, with a total of $1.33 billion in WETH posted as collateral and $939 million in stablecoins borrowed against it. #stablecoin link

🆕 $ZAMA listed on Binance spot link

🕵️ Trend Research is also selling $ETH to repay its loan on Aave. Over the past 20 hours, they deposited 33,589 $ETH ($79M) into Binance, then withdrew 77.5M $USDT to repay the debt. They still hold 618,045 $ETH ($1.4B). link

🐳 The whale "0xFB7" has further bought 15,642 $ETH ($36.24M) and 10 $cbBTC ($777.58k) from WinterMute and Coinbase. This brings the whale's holdings to 135,822 $ETH, valued at $313.55M. Address: 0xFB78AA8F38843629e89951D9db6FdC398d75e0A3

🕵️ The Bitcoin OG (10/11) has deposited 15,001 $ETH, worth $34.57M, into Binance to repay the loan. In total, the OG has deposited 121,185 $ETH, worth $292.37M in the past 2 days. link

🕵️ 2,705.00 #BTC ($209,095,254) aggregated inflows to Gemini link

🤔 The next FTX distribution is expected to occur on March 31st, per Sunil.

🇨🇳🗣 Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for the yuan to become a global reserve currency.

📊🔮 Prediction markets exceeded $12 billion in volume in January, setting a new all-time high. Kalshi, Polymarket, Opinion, and Probable each surpassed $1 billion in volume, while these markets generated over $11 million in on-chain fees, with Opinion contributing $6.14 million and Polymarket contributing $2.62 million. link

🥷 According to PeckShield, the crypto industry recorded 16 hacks in January 2026, resulting in total losses of $86.01 million. This marks a decrease of 1.42% year-over-year but an increase of 13.25% month-over-month, with phishing losses exceeding $300 million. The largest incidents included Step Finance ($28.9M), Truebit ($26.4M), SwapNet ($13.3M), and Saga ($7M). link

😱 CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju stated that Bitcoin is experiencing a decline due to persistent selling pressure and a lack of fresh capital inflows. He noted that unless there is significant selling from MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor, a severe 70% crash similar to previous cycles is unlikely. However, he cautioned that the market has not yet established a clear bottom and could enter a prolonged period of sideways consolidation. link

🗽 #BTC We just closed our 4th consecutive red month.

🔓 Major Token Unlocks Coming in Next Week $ENA $37M (3.3% of M.Cap) $Q $8.2M (12.9% of M.Cap) $BERA $31M (59% of M.Cap) $IN $5.7M (31.4% of M.Cap) $STABLE $20.5M (5% of M.Cap)

💸 Once, this BitcoinOG(1011short) topped the leaderboard with $142M+ in profits. Now he's still ranked #1 — just on the loss leaderboard, with $128.87M in total losses. link