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🇮🇷 The Central Bank of Iran bought over 500,000,000 USDT, likely to support its national currency (rial) and facilitate settlements under sanctions, according to a report by the analytical company Elliptic.
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🔌 In the State Duma of the Russian Federation supported the idea to grant energy companies access to the register of miners in order to more effectively identify illegal mining.
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🇷🇺 In the Russian State Duma, the damage from illegal mining was estimated at almost 20 billion rubles per year — according to the head of the Energy Committee, underground mining leads to a shortage of capacity, grid overload, and a decrease in the quality of electricity supply, and also deprives the economy of more than 10 billion rubles in the energy sector and up to 9.6 billion rubles in taxes.
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🗽 The US Secretary of the Treasury confirmed that the administration continues to work on forming a national Bitcoin reserve:
🔵 The US has completely stopped selling confiscated BTC.
🔵 The next stage is replenishing the reserve with seized and confiscated assets: after settling damages, such BTC will not be sold but will be credited to the state's digital reserve.
🔵 The administration is betting on the return of the crypto industry to the US, setting a course for clear regulation and support for innovation.
🔵 Against this backdrop, the policy of the Joe Biden administration, which nearly undermined the digital asset sector, is effectively being revised.
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🪙 Tether burned 3 billion USDT, and prior to that minted 1 billion.
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🪙 Strategy additionally acquired 22 305 BTC for $2.13 billion, purchase price — $95 284 per 1 BTC.
Now the company's balance holds 709 715 BTC, with an average purchase price of about $75 979 per 1 BTC.
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🇵🇹 Portuguese gambling regulator ordered to block the platform Polymarket.
Previously Polymarket was blocked by the Ukrainian regulator.
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🇷🇺 The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation confirmed that courts are not entitled to refuse protection of property claims in disputes involving cryptocurrency, if the owner can prove the legality of its acquisition and use.
The reason was a case involving 1000 USDT: The Constitutional Court indicated that the obligation to notify the state is explicitly established only for miners and infrastructure operators, therefore the absence of notification does not deprive the owner of the right to judicial protection. At the same time, the court did not separately assess the status of USDT as a digital currency.
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🎖️ Gold again breaks price records — the price per ounce exceeded $4700.
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🐳 Institutional demand for Bitcoin remains high — CryptoQuant
Over the past year, institutions have added 577,000 BTC ($53 billion) to their balances, and the inflow continues.
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🇧🇲 Bermuda entered a partnership with Coinbase and Circle — will build an economy entirely based on blockchain.
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🤖 OpenAI plans to release its first physical device in 2026, marking the company's first step from the world of purely software AI services into the hardware sector.
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🇺🇸 The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) plans to switch to 24/7 trading of tokenized US stocks.
Earlier, NYSE became the sixth location where a statue of Satoshi Nakamoto was installed.
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🗽 Anthony Scaramucci stated that the ban on stablecoin yield in the US undermines the dollar's position and plays into China's hands, where the digital yuan already offers interest.
According to him, American banks block such models, in order not to compete with stablecoin issuers, which makes the system less attractive for developing countries.
A similar position is shared by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who believes that the Clarity Act weakens the market and limits users' financial opportunities.
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🖥 Mining company Canaan received a notification of a possible delisting from Nasdaq due to non-compliance with the exchange's price requirements — for the last 30 days, the company's shares traded below the minimum threshold of $1, currently the quotes are around $0.79.
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📆 Today, the term of federal supervision over Caroline Ellison ended.
However, for 10 years she is still prohibited from holding executive positions in public companies and crypto exchanges.
Are we waiting for a new "top speaker" at crypto conferences?
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🤖 OpenAI have started implementing in ChatGPT an age prediction system, which automatically applies enhanced safety measures for underage users.
Age is determined by behavioral factors, and if in doubt, the system chooses a safer mode. Adult users can correct erroneous classification through verification.
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🍀 A solo miner who rented hashrate via NiceHash for approximately $90, mined block #933034 and received 3.1 BTC ($282 000).
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🔮 According to Ripple's president's forecast, 2026 will be a turning point for the crypto industry — crypto will finally integrate into the global financial system and cease to be perceived as an alternative to traditional finance.
1️⃣ Stablecoins will become the basic infrastructure for global settlements, and will become the standard for 24/7 payments, B2B settlements, and financial collateral. The main growth will come from corporate payments, the volume of which already reaches $76 billion per year, which will allow companies to free up hundreds of billions of dollars in working capital.
2️⃣ Institutional adoption will accelerate: by the end of 2026, companies' balance sheets will hold over $1 trillion in digital assets, and about 50% of Fortune 500 companies will form full-fledged strategies for working with them. Crypto ETFs, which currently occupy only 1–2% of the US ETF market, retain significant growth potential, and up to 5–10% of capital market settlements will move to an on-chain format.
3️⃣ The market will enter a phase of maturity through consolidation: M&A volume in the crypto industry has already reached $8.6 billion. Custody of digital assets will become a key element of institutional infrastructure; more than half of the world's largest banks will form new custody partnerships and begin using multi-custodial models for risk management.
4️⃣ The combination of blockchain and AI will launch mass automation of financial processes. Stablecoins and smart contracts will provide real-time liquidity and collateral management, AI will be responsible for dynamic RWA rebalancing, and ZK technologies will enhance privacy and reduce regulatory risks.
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🇺🇸 Had a haircut recently? Donald Trump's Trump Media is launching its own token on February 2nd.
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🪙 Over 36 300 000 ETH (30% of the total supply) is staked in the Ethereum network — an all-time high.
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🤪 PumpFun launches Pump Fund — a new investment arm, focused on startups within its own ecosystem.
Can there be too many shitcoins?
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💤 A Bitcoin wallet, that had been inactive for over 13 years, transferred 909 BTC ($85 million) to a new address.
The coins were accumulated in 2012–2013, when the price of BTC ranged from tens to several hundred dollars.
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😂 Decentralized exchange Paradex based on Starknet yesterday rolled back the blockchain after a database migration error zeroed out the BTC price, which led to massive liquidations.
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☠️ Protocol Makina hacked for $4 130 000.
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🇷🇺 A bill on fines for violations during mining was introduced in the State Duma of the Russian Federation:
1️⃣ Fines for mining in prohibited regions: citizens — up to 150 000 ₽; officials and individual entrepreneurs — up to 800 000 ₽ or disqualification; legal entities — 1–2 million ₽ or suspension of activity — confiscation of equipment in all cases.
2️⃣ For exceeding the energy consumption limit — up to 150 000 ₽.
3️⃣ For failing to provide data to the Federal Tax Service — fines up to 500 000 ₽.
4️⃣ For repeated violations: up to 1.5 million ₽ for citizens and up to 10 million ₽ for legal entities.
The goal of the initiative is to combat "gray" and "black" mining and protect the energy system.
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🇮🇳 India proposed to BRICS countries to link national digital currencies (CBDC) to simplify cross-border payments, the goal of the initiative is to reduce the dependence of international payments on the US dollar.
At the same time, Reuters notes that such a move could provoke a negative reaction from Washington, which previously opposed bypassing the dollar financial system.
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🪒 A year ago, Donald Trump launched his own shitcoin TRUMP on the eve of his inauguration.
In the first days after launch, the token's price grew rapidly: investors believed that an asset associated with the name of the US President could not fail to bring fabulous profits — especially in the image of "crypto-Trump."
However, almost immediately after the launch, the market reversed. Since then, the token has lost about 93% of its value, and at the moment, there are no signs of recovery or a new rally.
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📉 For the first time since mid-September, the computing power of the Bitcoin network has dropped below the psychological mark of 1000 EH/s — at its peak in mid-October, the figure was 1157 EH/s, since then the value has fallen by 15%.
Analysts believe that miners are massively redirecting energy resources to serve AI tasks in search of higher profitability.
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🇷🇺 Roskomnadzor plans to launch an AI system for blocking VPNs and internet traffic already this year for 2.3 billion rubles — the algorithm will identify "mirrors" of prohibited websites by content, track encrypted traffic, and selectively slow down resources and torrent trackers.
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