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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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🇪🇸 Spanish banking giant Bankinter has acquired a minority stake in cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me.
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💎 Over the past 24 hours, the crypto market has shown a clear rebound: Bitcoin climbed to $95 000, Ethereum is trading around $3 300, and leading altcoins gained 5–10% on the day.
The Fear & Greed Index has reached its highest level since October 2025, at 48.
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🇰🇿 In 2025, Kazakhstan blocked more than 1100 illegal crypto websites and shut down 22 shadow crypto exchanges.
The Financial Monitoring Agency uncovered criminal transactions totaling $4 billion and returned $277 million to victims.
These actions come as the government moves toward legalizing and expanding a regulated crypto market.
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🍿 Former New York City mayor Eric Adams has launched his own token, which he said would “combat antisemitism and anti-Americanism,” but the token’s price has already plunged about 80% from its peak.
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🪙 Strategy has acquired 13 627 BTC for $1.25 billion at $91 519 per Bitcoin.
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🪙 Vitalik Buterin believes Ethereum should support applications as tools — like a hammer: you buy it, and it’s yours, independent of the provider, updates, or risks of shutdown, hacks, or rent extraction.
To achieve this, Ethereum needs full quantum resistance, a scalable architecture, a state model designed for decades, a proper gas schedule, a universal account model (full abstraction, moving beyond strict ECDSA dependency), a robust PoS economic model, and decentralized, censorship-resistant block construction.
Buterin emphasizes that at least one of these goals — preferably several — should be implemented every year.
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🪙 17 years ago, on January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent the first Bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney.
Finney said that Satoshi’s identity was a mystery to him — he believed he was communicating with “a young man of Japanese origin, very intelligent and sincere.”
Reflecting on his experience in 2014, Finney later regretted his initial lack of interest in BTC:
After a few days, Bitcoin was running fairly stably, so I stayed online. Those were the days when the difficulty was 1, and you could mine on a CPU. Over the next days I mined a few blocks, but then I turned off my computer because it was getting hot and the fan noise was annoying.
🇰🇷 South Korea plans to lift the corporate crypto investment ban in place since 2017.
Companies will be allowed to invest up to 5% of their capital in BTC, ETH, and other major assets, with final rules to be approved in the coming months.
The regulator expects corporate inflows to make the market more mature and focused on long-term investments.
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🪙 Solana plans to integrate into X (Twitter).
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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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🇵🇰 Pakistan has signed an agreement with the Trump family–backed crypto project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) to implement the USD1 stablecoin in the country.
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💰 Yield-bearing stablecoins could turn into “shadow banking” because for users they look like regular deposits and even pay interest, while operating without strict banking oversight, JPMorgan says.
Therefore, the bank supports limiting stablecoin yields so they do not replace deposits without full regulatory control.
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🇺🇸 Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said that Donald Trump’s administration caused more harm to the crypto industry than the Biden era.
According to him, the launch of the TRUMP and MELANIA tokens politicized the market, undermined investor trust, and cemented the view of crypto as a tool for enriching politicians.
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🗽 SEC Chair Paul Atkins said that the fate of Venezuela’s $60 billion in BTC remains a political rather than a regulatory issue, while the CLARITY bill is expected to put an end to uncertainty as early as this year by clearly delineating the powers of the SEC and the CFTC.
Regulators have pledged to work together and are betting on predictable rules to make the United States a global crypto capital; however, according to Senator John Boozman, consideration of the CLARITY bill has been postponed until the end of the month.
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🇦🇪 Dubai’s financial regulator has banned privacy cryptocurrencies and tightened rules for stablecoins as part of a crypto market reset.
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🖥 In 2025, solo miners found 36 Bitcoin blocks — earning 3.125 BTC per block plus transaction fees, averaging about $317 000 per block.
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🇮🇳 India is tightening KYC requirements on crypto platforms — users will need to provide a live selfie, bank account verification, geolocation data, and additional documents during registration.
Authorities say the measures are needed because cryptocurrencies make oversight and tax collection more difficult.
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📺 Crypto content views on YouTube have fallen to their lowest level since January 2021.
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☠️ Iran and Russia have become key players in using cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions — Chainalysis
Overall, the volume of illegal operations in crypto reached a record $154 billion in 2025, increasing by 162% year-on-year.
Analysts note the growing influence of Chinese money laundering networks, which have turned crypto crime into a professional industry.
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