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🇺🇸 JUST IN: Trump-backed World Liberty Financial has applied for a national trust bank charter to issue and custody USD1 stablecoins. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: Ripple says it has no plans for an IPO, pointing to a strong balance sheet and prioritizing product expansion and acquisitions over going public. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 HUGE: S&P 500 futures hit 7,000 for the first time ever. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 ADOPTION: Wyoming becomes the first US state to issue a stablecoin, rolling out $FRNT on Solana. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 HUGE: Donald Trump says he plans to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes to address housing affordability. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ UPDATE: Binance releases its 38th Proof of Reserves, user holdings rise to 618K $BTC, 4.17M $ETH, and 38.2B $USDT as of Jan 1. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ LATEST: Rumble enables $BTC tipping for streamers via MoonPay wallet integration. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 JUST IN: $1.3T Morgan Stanley files an S-1 registration for an Ethereum Trust with the SEC. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ NEW: $2.2T banking giant Barclays makes its first stablecoin investment, backing Ubyx. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 NEW: US community banks push to close GENIUS Act "loophole" allowing exchanges to offer stablecoin yields, claiming it undercuts traditional banking. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: opBNB has completed its Fourier Mainnet hardfork, cutting block time from 500ms to 250ms for faster transaction finality. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: ETH, SOL and XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows on Jan. 6, while BTC spot ETFs saw net outflows. BTC: - $243.24M ETH: $114.74M SOL: $9.22M XRP: $19.12M News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 LATEST: Stablecoin issuers generated around $5B in revenue from Ethereum deployments in 2025, per Token Terminal. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BULLISH: Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas says "spot bitcoin ETFs are coming into 2026 like a lion", as they recorded $1.2B inflows in just two days. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NOW: Silver flips NVIDIA in market cap, becoming the 2nd most valuable asset globally at $4.63T, just behind gold's $31.34T. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 JUST IN: Senator Tim Scott, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announces a market structure markup vote scheduled for Thursday, January 15th. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 HUGE: MSCI will keep crypto treasury companies like Strategy in its global indexes, ensuring continued eligibility for passive funds after investor feedback. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 HUGE: The S&P 500 just printed a new all-time high at 6,944. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 JUST IN: The U.S. Supreme Court set Friday as a possible ruling day on Donald Trump’s global tariffs. News | Markets | YouTube

Is Venezuela hiding a 600K $BTC reserve? 👉🏼 Read our full report News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 JUST IN: $1.3T Morgan Stanley files an S-1 registration for a Bitcoin Trust with the SEC. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows on Jan. 5. BTC: $697.25M ETH: $168.13M SOL: $16.24M XRP: $46.10M News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NEW: Coinbase stock rallies 8% after Goldman Sachs upgrades to 'buy' and raises price target to $303, citing growth in crypto infrastructure, tokenization, and prediction markets. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: Around $240B has been added to the crypto market cap since January 1st, bringing the total to $3.18T. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 LATEST: Rep. Torres proposes legislation banning federal officials from using inside information on prediction markets, following Venezuela bets. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ NEW: Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin emphasizes the network wasn't built for efficiency or convenience, but for freedom and resilience. “This is the game that Ethereum is suited to win.” News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: Solana ETFs surpass $1B in assets under management, with Bitwise's BSOL leading at $681M. News | Markets | YouTube