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🪙 The average number of transactions on the Ethereum network has set another record, while the average gas fee dropped to a historical low — about $0.15.
Amid growing demand for staking, the number of validators wishing to exit the network has dropped to zero: since early 2026, major corporate players, including Bitmine and Sharplink, have been actively directing billions of dollars worth of ETH into staking.
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🐳 A whale, who received 5000 BTC ($1.66 million at the time) 12 years ago, today sold 500 BTC for $48 million.
He still has 2500 BTC ($237.5 million) left, and the total profit exceeds $500 million.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan has eased rules for the crypto market.
Miners no longer need to sell mined assets through AIFC exchanges, and individuals and legal entities can now engage in mining.
Mining itself is no longer considered an activity for organizing the circulation of digital assets.
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🇧🇪 KBC, one of Belgium's largest banks, will, starting February 16th, offer the possibility for retail clients to buy and sell leading digital assets by market capitalization.
According to research, about 45% of Belgians aged 30-40 have already invested in cryptocurrencies.
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☠️ A woman lost about 8 000 000 rubles and $50 000, believing in an online romance with a man who introduced himself as a "crypto-plumber".
After a month and a half of communication, love confessions, and fake documents, he convinced her to invest in "crypto projects" and a business, after which the money was "frozen," and the fraudsters disappeared.
🧬 Exchange crypto only through trusted exchangers, such as DeCenter Exchange.
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🎲 In just two months, a trader from Polymarket, by betting on Bitcoin's rise or fall, turned $12 into over $100 000 — he consistently grew his deposit with almost no mistakes.
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🚓 In the Sverdlovsk region, three suspects were detained for illegally connecting mining equipment to power grids — the damage exceeded 16 000 000 rubles.
During operational-investigative activities at several addresses, more than 10 000 units of equipment were discovered.
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🪙 BitMine plan to receive income of up to $400 000 000 from their $13 billion Ethereum assets, primarily through staking.
Yesterday it became known that BitMine invested $200 000 000 in Mr Beast Industries.
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🗽 The Bitcoin Policy Institute calculated that if only 1% of federal taxes were collected in Bitcoin, the US could accumulate a reserve of 4.2 million BTC by 2045.
This is possible within the framework of the Bitcoin for America Act, which allows for tax payments in BTC.
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🇺🇸 Interactive Brokers introduces 24/7 account funding using USDC stablecoin — next week the company will add support for PYUSD from PayPal and RLUSD from Ripple stablecoins.
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✖️ X (Twitter) is revising its API access rules and banning services that pay users for posting, citing a surge in AI-generated spam and a decline in content quality.
As a result, InfoFi-based projects — including KAITO — have already lost API access, with the KAITO token dropping by around 20%.
The team said it will continue operations via its own platform, Kaito Studio, independent of X’s API.
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🇨🇳 In China, details have emerged in the case against Yao Qian — one of the architects of the digital yuan. The man allegedly kept hardware crypto wallets holding assets worth hundreds of millions of yuan in his office, relying on the supposed anonymity of cryptocurrencies.
Investigators found that in 2018 Yao Qian accepted a bribe of 2000 ETH for lobbying crypto projects. He converted part of the funds into cash and used them to purchase real estate in Beijing, registering the property in a relative’s name.
Authorities employed on-chain transaction analysis alongside traditional investigative methods. The official was expelled from the Communist Party of China and the case was referred to prosecutors, emphasizing that cryptocurrencies do not guarantee full anonymity — even in corruption schemes.
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☠️ From mid-2021 to the end of 2025, out of approximately 20.2 million launched tokens, 53% turned out to be scams or became defunct.
The majority of failures occurred in 2025: 11.6 million tokens died last year alone, accounting for 86% of all token “deaths” over the past five years.
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❌ A disruption has occurred on the Sui network — no new blocks have been produced for over one hour.
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🇱🇺 Ripple has received preliminary approval from Luxembourg’s regulator, paving the way for scaling its payment platform across the European Union.
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📊 Over the past day, about $783 million in longs were liquidated on the crypto market, and the total capitalization decreased by approximately $100 billion.
The main downward movement began after the opening of Japanese markets and American futures — BTC fell to $91 900, ETH below $3200, Solana — to $129, with altcoins suffering the most.
The market is belatedly reacting to geopolitical risks and threats of new tariffs from Trump.
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🤖 AI farms are replacing classic mining: in China, dozens of streams are launched simultaneously, selling goods and earning $100 an hour.
The image and voice are completely generated by neural networks based on real videos — there are no live people in the process.
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🪙 On January 10, a victim of a large social engineering attack lost over $282 000 000 worth of cryptocurrencies in BTC and LTC.
After the theft, the attacker began laundering the funds, actively converting them into Monero, which provoked a sharp jump in XMR price, blockchain analyst ZachXBT reported.
A portion of the stolen bitcoins was also processed through the Thorchain protocol.
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📊 Short-term investors have started to take profits amidst the recovery in BTC price, utilizing a local bounce and newly emerged liquidity, notes a CryptoQuant analyst.
According to him, such surges in profit usually indicate a weakening of the current momentum, rather than the start of a sustained new growth.
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🇺🇸 A major American lender Newrez begins issuing mortgages collateralized by crypto (Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins).
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🇧🇾 A new decree on cryptocurrencies has been signed in the Republic of Belarus: it legalizes the activities of crypto banks and updates the rules for the circulation of digital tokens.
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🇲🇩 Moldova is preparing a law on cryptocurrency regulation in accordance with EU rules (MiCA), allowing ownership, trading, and exchange of digital assets, but prohibiting their use for payment for goods and services.
The law will introduce strict requirements for market participants, taxation of income from crypto operations, and enhanced measures to combat money laundering.
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🇮🇷 Iranian residents are massively buying Bitcoin due to the depreciation of the national currency — Chainalysis
The first cryptocurrency has become a way for Iranians to save their savings from hyperinflation and to get money that can be withdrawn abroad without banks and government control.
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🪙 Polygon, without an official announcement, laid off about 30% of its employees and is currently undergoing restructuring, betting on stablecoin payments.
The management states that the project wants to become the payment infrastructure of the Internet, and the POL token is considered undervalued before the new market cycle.
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Day's Summary, January 15
🇷🇺 The Central Bank of Russia plans to strengthen control over cross-border transfers, obliging banks to provide more information about citizens' foreign operations.
☠️ From mid-2021 to the end of 2025, of approximately 20.2 million launched tokens, 53% turned out to be scams or ceased to exist.
🗽 The Senate Banking Committee postponed discussion of the crypto market structure bill (CLARITY Act) after Coinbase exchange withdrew its support for the latest version of the bill.
🤖 OpenAI launched its branded AI translator ChatGPT Translate.
💎 The Fear & Greed Index for the first time since October 2025 moved into the greed zone (61).
🎲 Donald Trump stated that a Venezuelan insider who used information about Maduro has already been arrested and is in prison.
🍿 Despite the rise in BTC price, the tone of discussions on social networks is becoming increasingly pessimistic — Santiment.
🤖 OpenAI entered into a deal for the supply of computing power from Cerebras worth $10 billion — the company claims that its solutions provide performance "several times higher" than Nvidia chips.
🪙 A new activity record has been recorded on the Ethereum network — the number of transactions per day reached 2,600,000.
✖️ X (Twitter) is reviewing API access rules and prohibiting services that pay users for posts, explaining this by the increase in AI spam and a drop in content quality.
🇨🇳 In China, details of the case against Yao Qian — one of the architects of the digital yuan — have been revealed: the man kept hardware crypto wallets with assets worth hundreds of millions of yuan right in his office, counting on the anonymity of cryptocurrencies.
🪙 Analysts at Binance Research noted that in 2025 the market shifted from narratives to real scale, key from the report.
💸 BitMine, a company that regularly buys Ethereum, announced a $200,000,000 investment in blogger MrBeast's Mr Beast Industries.
🪙 Ripple invested $150,000,000 in LMAX to promote the RLUSD stablecoin in institutional markets.
🏛 The Fund – $27M+ cap, $200K+ liquidity
🪙 A new activity record has been set on the Ethereum network, with daily transactions reaching 2.6 million.
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💎 Crypto Fear & Greed index flips to ‘greed’ for first time since October (61).
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🗽 The Senate Banking Committee has postponed consideration of the crypto market structure bill (the CLARITY Act) after Coinbase withdrew its support for the latest version of the legislation. Key issues with the bill include:
🔵 A de facto ban on tokenized equities.
🔵 Strict restrictions on DeFi that undermine financial privacy.
🔵 A weakening of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in favor of the SEC.
🔵 Amendments that could eliminate stablecoin yields and strengthen banks’ positions.
Senate Republicans have also stated that the market structure bill does not “serve the interests of the industry.”
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🇮🇷 Iran plans to launch a national internet with restricted access, limited to government-approved websites and services — from search engines and messaging apps to domestic streaming platforms, an “Iranian Netflix” of sorts.
According to The Guardian, this network would be largely isolated from the global internet and fully controlled by the authorities. Access to the outside world would remain available mainly through illegal Starlink terminals, whose use in the country carries serious, potentially life-threatening risks.
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💳 Visa teams up with BVNK to launch stablecoin payouts.
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