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🇺🇸 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says, “75% of Ripple’s open roles are now US-based.”
🚨 Bitcoin mining company MARA lent out 7,377 Bitcoin to third parties in 2024 to generate yield, according to a Jan. 3 announcement from the company.
🔥 Metaplanet is aiming to expand its Bitcoin holdings more than fivefold to 10,000 $BTC in 2025, says CEO Simon Gerovich.
🚨 Vivek Ramaswamy’s asset management firm Strive has filed to launch a Bitcoin Bond ETF.
🚨 Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says Trump’s administration may unfreeze mergers and acquisitions which could transform the crypto industry if it happens.
🇺🇸 Trump-led Bitcoin rally could wane ahead of the FOMC meeting on Jan. 29, says 10x Research founder Markus Thielen.
⚡️ South Korea’s Jeju Island is reportedly planning to issue NFT tourist cards in a bid to boost visitation by the country’s younger generations.
⚡ $BTC surges to $101K.
🔥 $XRP's price action forms a bullish "bull flag" pattern, with increasing open interest signaling potential gains toward a $15 target.
🎙️ Rise'n'Crypto: $DOGE Rockets Toward $1
🔥 Vitalik Buterin sold 28 meme coins for a total of 984,000 USDC and donated the proceeds to his charity, Kanro.
⚡️ Gemini, founded by the Winklevoss twins, has agreed to pay a $5 million fine to settle Commodity Futures Trading Commission charges
🔥 JUST IN: Vitalik Buterin sold 28 meme coins for a total of 984,000 USDC and donated the proceeds to his charity, Kanro.
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🔥 BULLISH: $XRP's price action forms a bullish "bull flag" pattern, with increasing open interest signaling potential gains toward a $15 target.
Historical trends and technical indicators support optimism for a significant rally by mid-2025.
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📊 UPDATE: 2024 ended with a record $44.2B in global crypto inflows, nearly 4x the 2021 record.
#Bitcoin led with $38B (29% of AuM), while Ethereum surged late, hitting $4.8B for the year.
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🇺🇸 LATEST: A Trump-led Bitcoin rally could wane ahead of the FOMC meeting on Jan. 29, says 10x Research founder Markus Thielen.
Bitcoin fell nearly 15% to around $92,800 after the FOMC meeting on Dec. 18, where it trimmed the number of 2025 projected interest rate cuts from five to two.
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🚨 JUST IN: Vivek Ramaswamy’s asset management firm Strive has filed to launch a Bitcoin Bond ETF.
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🚨 TODAY: Bitcoin mining company MARA lent out 7,377 Bitcoin to third parties in 2024 to generate yield, according to a Jan. 3 announcement from the company.
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🚨 NEW: Phantom wallet has refuted rumors suggesting it would initiate a token airdrop to complement its soon-to-be-released social discovery feature in its X post.
“We've seen some speculation about an airdrop tied to this feature, so to clarify: we do not have any plans to launch a token.”
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🔥 BULLISH: $19 trillion in transactions settled on the Bitcoin network in 2024, more than double the $8.7 trillion settled over the network in 2023.
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🚨 NEW: Aave proposal to peg Ethena’s USDe to USDT sparks community pushback.
The proposal, co-authored by Chaos Labs and LlamaRisk, was submitted on Jan. 3 and seeks to protect Aave users from exposure to secondary market fluctuations.
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🇺🇸 US: Polymarket users predict a 40% chance of President-elect Trump creating a National #Bitcoin Reserve in 2025.
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🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: Around 9,360 $BTC and 17,050 $ETH were bought on Jan. 3.
BTC ETFs saw $907.3M in net inflows.
ETH ETFs saw $58.9M in net inflows.
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🇺🇸 LATEST: The US accounted for over 40% of the #Bitcoin network’s global hash rate at the end of 2024.
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🔥 JUST IN: MicroStrategy to raise $2 billion to acquire more Bitcoin.
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📊 VanEck’s Matthew Sigel Says Polymarket’s 77% Probability Of A Solana ETF In 2025 Is “Underpriced, IMO”
🤑 Robert Kiyosaki Predicts Bitcoin Will Hit $175K–$350K In 2025
🏦 Investment Bank H.C. Wainwright Raises Bitcoin Price Target To $225K
🇨🇳 Cango Inc Holds 933.8 Bitcoin Worth $91M, Per Latest Mining Update
💰 Fold Secures $30M Convertible Note Financing Backed By Bitcoin To Expand Financial Services
🌍 Galaxy Digital Predicts Five Nation States Will Adopt Bitcoin As A National Reserve Asset In 2025
🤝 Eric Trump Meets Michael Saylor At Mar-a-Lago, Says “Two Friends, One Passion: Bitcoin”
📉 BlackRock’s IBIT Records Largest Outflow Since Launch With $330.8M Worth Of Bitcoin On Jan. 2
📊 ETF Flows: 2,696 $BTC And 23,070 $ETH Sold On Jan. 2
🎂 Bitcoin Turns Sweet 16!
⚖️ Do Kwon Indicted On Conspiracy, Fraud, Money Laundering, And Market Manipulation Charges
🚀 $XRP Flips $USDT To Become 3rd Largest Cryptocurrency By Market Cap
⚡️ JUST IN: Gemini, founded by the Winklevoss twins, has agreed to pay a $5 million fine to settle Commodity Futures Trading Commission charges that it misled the regulator while attempting to launch the first US-regulated Bitcoin futures contract.
The settlement avoids a trial set to begin on January 21, 2025.
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🎙️ Rise'n'Crypto: $DOGE Rockets Toward $1
Dogecoin soars 21% as whales grab 1B+ coins, with Galaxy Digital predicting $1 by 2025. Musk, Trump, and new utilities are shaking up the game—could this be DOGE's breakout moment?
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⚡️ JUST IN: South Korea’s Jeju Island is reportedly planning to issue NFT tourist cards in a bid to boost visitation by the country’s younger generations.
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🚨 JUST IN: Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says Trump’s administration may unfreeze mergers and acquisitions which could transform the crypto industry if it happens.
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🔥 BULLISH: Metaplanet is aiming to expand its Bitcoin holdings more than fivefold to 10,000 $BTC in 2025, says CEO Simon Gerovich.
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🇺🇸 NEW: Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says, “75% of Ripple’s open roles are now US-based.”
Garlinghouse attributed the changes to the incoming Trump administration and Donald Trump's pro-crypto rhetoric.
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🚨 LATEST: Pro-crypto lawyer John Deaton has offered the incoming Trump administration to lead a probe into Operation Chokepoint 2.0.
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🚨 LATEST: Jim Cramer suggests $90,000 is the next level where people should buy Bitcoin if they haven’t bought any and says, “I like Bitcoin and I think people should watch it.”
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🚨 LATEST: Solana developers have created a quantum-resistant vault on the Solana blockchain to protect user funds from potential threats posed by quantum computers.
The Solana Winternitz Vault is optional, meaning Solana users will need to choose to store their funds in the Winternitz vaults to be quantum-proof.
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🚨 LATEST: Bitcoin technology company Jan3 raises $5M to accelerate the development of its Aqua Wallet and allocates $1M to create its own Bitcoin treasury.
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🔥 BULLISH: US spot Bitcoin ETFs bought 9,360 Bitcoin worth $907.3M on Jan. 3.
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🇺🇸 LATEST: Mike Johnson, who voted in favor of two pro-crypto bills, has been re-elected as speaker of the house and promises to work with Elon Musk's DOGE.
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🇺🇸 TODAY: Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says today "We welcomed the 119th Congress—better known as the most pro-crypto Congress in history."
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🚨 BREAKING: $XRP flips $USDT to become the 3rd largest cryptocurrency by market cap.
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