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🔥 UPDATE: Market odds give Gold a 68% chance to hit $5,000 before $ETH, with $840K in total bets on Polymarket. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 JUST IN: Tether has minted another 1B USDT on the TRON network. News | Markets | YouTube

🇰🇷 UPDATE: Supreme Court of South Korea ruled Bitcoin held on centralized exchanges qualifies as seizable property under criminal law. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ INSIGHT: Crypto in 2025 moved from one narrative to the next before fundamentals had time to catch up. Which narrative are you bullish on? News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BULLISH: Bank of America upgrades Coinbase to 'buy' with 38% upside potential, citing the exchange's expansion becoming an “everything exchange.” News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: SOL and XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows on Jan. 8, while BTC and ETH spot ETFs saw net outflows. BTC: - $398.95M ETH: - $159.2M SOL: $13.64M XRP: $8.72M News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 NOW: The team behind Electric Coin Company and Zashi wallet is launching cashZ, a new Zcash wallet built on the Zashi codebase, aiming to scale Zcash to billions of users. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 HUGE: Total stablecoin transaction volume hits record $33 trillion in 2025, up 72%, led by USDC at $18.3T, Bloomberg reports. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: VanEck projects Bitcoin reaching $2.9M by 2050, driven by its adoption as a currency of global trade and central bank reserves. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 TODAY: CFTC issues a no-action letter to Bitnomial, clearing the way for the exchange to offer event contracts and prediction markets. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 NEW: Ark Invest's Cathie Wood says President Trump will work hard in 2026 to pass the de minimis ruling and start buying 1M $BTC for the US strategic reserve. “I think he sees crypto as a path to the future.” News | M…

🇺🇸 LATEST: President Trump will not consider a pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried, per NYT. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 LATEST: Binance has surpassed 300M registered users and $145T in all-time trading volume. The exchange also holds $162.8B in verified user balances and has distributed $1.2B in rewards. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ JUST IN: Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum should be like Linux or BitTorrent, open and decentralized at its core while scaling globally and remaining trusted by enterprises. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 LATEST: Anthropic is reportedly raising $10B at a $350B valuation led by Singapore’s GIC and Coatue, nearly doubling its valuation from four months ago. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NEW: Binance Futures has launched TradFi perpetual contracts, giving users 24/7 exposure to stocks and indices through USDT-settled perpetuals. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NEW: Changpeng Zhao said he plans to self-publish his memoir in English and Chinese within 4–6 weeks, may change the final title, and will donate all proceeds to charity. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ LATEST: SharpLink deployed $170M worth of $ETH on Linea to boost staking yields. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: MSCI will keep Strategy in its index but MSCI’s hidden NOS clause means new Strategy shares won’t be added to index weightings, per CryptoSlate. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 ALERT: Liquidations spike as $156M gets wiped out in the last four hours. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 LATEST: CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju says Bitcoin capital inflows have dried up as money rotates to stocks and gold, but expects boring sideways action instead of a major crash. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 NOW: Crypto Fear and Greed Index drops to 28 (Fear) from yesterday's 42. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 NEW: Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan outlines three checkpoints for crypto's 2026 rally: avoiding October-style liquidations, passage of market structure bill, and stable equity markets. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 LATEST: XRP whale activity explodes to 3-month highs with 2,802 transactions over $100K recorded yesterday, signaling increased volatility ahead, per Santiment. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 TODAY: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the US is "missing the forest through the trees" on stablecoin yields. "Rewards on stablecoins will not change lending one bit - but it does have a big impact on whether US sta…

🇺🇸 NEW: The Senate Agriculture Committee will hold its own crypto market structure markup on January 15, the same day as the Banking Committee's markup. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 UPDATE: Solana Mobile is set to launch its SKR token on January 21, 2AM UTC. News | Markets | YouTube