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🪙 CZ: While you were panicking and selling, American banks were loading up on Bitcoin.
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🐳 The venture giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) raised over $15 billion for investments in AI and crypto projects.
According to the co-founder of the fund, it is these technologies that are shaping the architecture of the future, and losing technological leadership could cost the USA economic, military, and geopolitical influence.
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🪙 Tether printed 1 000 000 000 USDT.
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🇫🇷 In France, a tax official was arrested for allegedly leaking confidential data on cryptocurrency investors to organized crime groups — authorities say this information was used to target victims.
In one Paris incident, attackers attempted to kidnap the daughter of a French crypto company CEO and her two-year-old child. In 2025 alone, more than 10 attacks on major crypto investors have been reported across France.
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🍿 Donald Trump has said he does NOT plan to pardon former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.
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☠️ The Truebit project was allegedly hacked for 8 535 ETH ($26.4 million).
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🪙 Binance published a detailed report for 2025, the main points:
1️⃣ The total trading volume for the year amounted to $34 trillion, average daily volumes increased by 18%.
2️⃣ The Web3 direction Alpha 2.0 exceeded $1 trillion in turnover and attracted 17,000,000 users.
3️⃣ $6.7 billion in potential user losses were prevented.
4️⃣ The confirmed reserves of the exchange amount to $162.8 billion.
5️⃣ Fiat and P2P transactions grew by 38% year-on-year, Binance Pay expanded to 20,000,000 merchants.
6️⃣ Institutional trading grew by 21% year-on-year, the OTC fiat direction — by 210%.
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🤪 Since the beginning of 2026, the demand for call options on Bitcoin with strikes of $98 000–100 000 has noticeably increased, — reported the head of the OTC division Wintermute.
According to him, large traders are betting on the growth of BTC in the current quarter.
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🤖 Anthropic, the developer of the AI chatbot Claude, plans to raise $10 billion in investments with a company valuation of $350 billion — almost twice as much as last fall.
The round will be led by Singapore's sovereign fund GIC and the Coatue fund. The increase in valuation reflects the ongoing boom in AI investments amid expectations that the market leader will be able to dominate in the next technological era.
The company aims to break even by 2028 and is preparing for an IPO this year.
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🪙 The largest holders of the first cryptocurrency accumulated BTC worth $40 billion in 2025.
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🗽 The Trump family's cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial is applying for a banking license in the USA.
It has also become known that World Liberty Financial is creating a new trust company WLTC, through which it plans to provide cryptocurrency storage and stablecoin conversion services.
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🇦🇪 RAKBank received preliminary approval from the Central Bank of the UAE for the issuance of a stablecoin, fully backed by the dirham.
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🎰 Polymarket refuses to pay out bets on "US invasion of Venezuela" — the platform stated that it was about US control over part of the territory of Venezuela.
Capture or arrest of the president is not considered an invasion if the US has not established territorial control.
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🤖 Grok chose 1 BTC per year instead of a salary of $250 000, citing the limited supply of bitcoin and its potential for long-term growth, despite the higher current value of the salary.
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🔮 In December, the total market volume of forecasts reached $19.1 billion, setting a historical record and exceeding the previous record by about 35%.
The leaders in trading volume for the month were Kalshi with $7 billion, Opinion — $6.7 billion, and Polymarket — $5.3 billion.
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🇷🇺 The Tether company has registered the trademark Hadron in Russia with a validity period until October 2035 — Media
The brand may be used for blockchain financial services, crypto payments, cryptocurrency exchanges, and working with tokenized assets in the Russian Federation.
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🖥 Superheat has unveiled an electric water heater with a built-in ASIC miner: while heating water, the device mines Bitcoin and partially offsets utility costs.
The 50-gallon tank costs around $2 000 and consumes the same amount of energy as a standard water heater.
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🪙 Monero has once again taken the lead in the privacy crypto sector, approaching its all-time high amid ongoing issues in the Zcash ecosystem.
XMR recently broke $460 — just 15% below its 2015 peak of $542 — and has been outperforming its competitors for several weeks.
This current momentum reverses the trend from the second half of 2025, when the market favored Zcash while Monero faced technical and reputational challenges.
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🇬🇱 Greenland is being considered as a potential key mining hub, says Andrew Tate.
Washington is increasing its political focus on the island, aiming to leverage its cold climate and low-cost energy to reduce BTC mining expenses. This could allow the U.S. to accumulate Bitcoin at below-market costs and gain a strategic advantage.
If implemented, such a project could impact global BTC supply and shift the balance of power in the crypto market.
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🪙 Cathie Wood claims the US government may soon start buying Bitcoin for the national reserve.
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🇪🇺 The DAC8 directive has come into force in the European Union, which provides for the automatic exchange of information about crypto between participating countries in the area of direct taxation.
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📊 Zcash continues its steep decline — today the coin has lost about 20% in value.
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🪙 Vitalik Buterin compared Ethereum to BitTorrent and Linux, emphasizing the network's commitment to global distribution without sacrificing decentralization and the presence of built-in consensus for financial and social interactions.
The comparison to Linux is related to ideology: just like the operating system, Ethereum is built on the principles of free and open code.
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🎲 Binance launches futures contracts on traditional financial assets (stocks and indices).
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🇺🇸 Wyoming has launched the first state-backed stablecoin in the U.S. Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) on the Solana blockchain.
The token has already been listed on the Kraken exchange.
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🔮 Polymarket has entered into an exclusive partnership with Dow Jones Media and will now provide prediction market data to publications such as Barrons, WSJ.
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🪙 Morgan Stanley has filed an application to launch Ethereum Trust.
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🇻🇪 The Venezuelan stock exchange has risen by 75% since Maduro was seized by American authorities.
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💸 The queue for Ethereum validators to exit has completely reset — for the first time since July 2025.
Currently, exiting staking takes just a few minutes. Meanwhile, there are over 1.3 million ETH in the queue to enter staking.
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🪙 Ethereum summarized the results of ecosystem development in 2025:
🔵 DeFi TVL in the network exceeded $99 billion.
🔵 The volume of transactions in stablecoins reached $18.8 trillion.
🔵 Transaction fees in L2 dropped below $0.01.
🔵 ETFs and companies own more than $35 billion in ETH.
🔵 Over 88 million smart contracts have been deployed in the network.
🔵 Peak daily activity — 1.74 million transactions.
🔵 The number of active developers — about 32 thousand.
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