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⚡️ NEW: Tom Lee says gold and silver's surge is overshadowing crypto's strengthening fundamentals, notes financial institutions are set to build on Ethereum and smart blockchains. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: HIP-3 open interest hits all-time high of $790M, up from $260M a month ago, driven by surge in commodities trading activity. News | Markets | YouTube

🇰🇷 JUST IN: Donald J. Trump said the US will raise South Korean tariffs from 15% to 25% after Seoul’s legislature failed to approve a previously agreed trade deal. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 LATEST: Even though Visa and Mastercard each run 130+ crypto programs, Visa captures 90%+ of on-chain card volume thanks to early infrastructure partnerships. News | Markets | YouTube

🇸🇦 JUST IN: Ripple partnered with Jeel, backed by Riyad Bank, to advance blockchain use cases aligned with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 TODAY: VanEck launches its Avalanche ETF, $VAVX, now live and officially trading on NASDAQ. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 UPDATE: The US Senate Agriculture Committee has rescheduled its crypto market structure markup to Thursday, Jan. 29. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: Nvidia has invested $2B in CoreWeave. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 JUST IN: Strategy bought 2,932 $BTC worth $264.1M. They now hold 712,647 $BTC. News | Markets | YouTube

📊 UPDATE: Solana tops 24H fee generation with $1.12M, with EdgeX and TRON following. News | Markets | YouTube

📊 BIG: $4.5B in realized losses hit Bitcoin, the highest level in three years, per CryptoQuant. News | Markets | YouTube

🇯🇵 LATEST: Japan could approve crypto ETFs as soon as 2028, with Nomura and SBI Holdings leading the first round of listings, Nikkei reports. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 NOW: The US Dollar's share of global foreign currency reserves dropped from 65% in 2001 to just 40% today, a 25-year decline as institutions reduce dollar exposure. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: The top 7 tokens with the largest unlocks this week total $142.98M, led by $SUI with $80.38M. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ TODAY: Vitalik Buterin reverses his 2017 stance on blockchain self-sovereignty, now says ZK-SNARKs enable personal verification without full transaction replay. He emphasizes self-verification must remain as fallback…

🚨 UPDATE: ZachXBT says the threat actor who stole $40M+ from US government seizure addresses is the son of the owner of CMMDS. CMMDS is a company contracted to help USMS manage seized crypto assets. News | Markets | You…

🚨 LATEST: Ethereum Foundation launches Post-Quantum security team with $2M funding to protect against quantum computing threats. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NEW: Bitcoin whale wallets' holdings hit 4-month high at 7.17M $BTC, while $1M+ daily transfers reach 2-month highs, per Santiment. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ TODAY: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong calls for easier capital formation for private companies, envisions a future where firms can go public entirely onchain. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NOW: Gold breaks above $5,000 for the first time. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 FACT: $BTC is still up 810,000% since 2012. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡ NOW: ETH saw $382M in net inflows in the past 24 hours. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 NEW: $SOL is now 57% away from its ATH. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 HUGE: The total crypto market wiped out $40B in just 3 hours. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡ REKT: $131M in longs were wiped out in the past hour. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 JUST IN: Ethereum leads onchain lending with around $28B in active loans, per Token Terminal. That's about 10x more than any other network. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 SAYLOR: "Unstoppable Orange." Strategy's plans are unstoppable. News | Markets | YouTube

🇨🇳 LATEST: Despite banning crypto, China is only 4,012 $BTC away from flipping the USA as the government with the largest Bitcoin holding. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇲 UPDATE: The US Government Wallet has lost $11.8B since Bitcoin's ATH. But they still hold $29.5B in crypto. News | Markets | YouTube