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🚓 In Kyiv, a crypto pyramid worth $1,000,000 was busted — under the guise of investments in a "proprietary token," stable income was promised, but payments were made from new participants. The scheme was actively promoted through Instagram and bloggers — a classic referral "engine" with an attractive package.

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🇧🇷 Ripple enters Brazil in a big way — the company is launching a platform for banks and fintechs, ranging from cross-border payments to custody and working with crypto reserves. At the same time, the company has applied for a VASP license with the Central Bank and has already garnered support from local players such as Banco Genial and Braza Bank.

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🤣 Trump organizes another gala dinner for TRUMP token holders— On April 25, 297 major holders ($50,000+ at current prices) will be invited to Mar-a-Lago, and 29 VIPs ($4 million+) will receive a personal meeting. Following the news, the token jumped by 18%, but it's still hovering around 95% below its peak — a dinner is a dinner, but it's far from the previous pump.

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❄️ Tether today froze an address with a balance of almost $12,000,000 USDT — such freezes usually occur at the request of law enforcement agencies.

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🪙 There is currently a minimal amount of BTC on crypto exchanges since November 2017 — more and more coins are moving to cold wallets, which means that the available supply for sale is decreasing. History has already shown: when BTC is massively withdrawn from exchanges, the market is usually preparing for more drastic movements.

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☠️ The DeFi protocol Venus Protocol was subjected to a flash loan attack: the attacker collateralized a large amount of THE and borrowed assets, withdrawing approximately $3,700,000 — about 20 BTC, 1.5 million CAKE, and 200 BNB.

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🚓 In the Stavropol Territory, a couple set up a mining farm right in their garage and mined cryptocurrency for a year and a half, connecting to electricity bypassing the meter — according to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, during this time they "burned" more than 2,000,000 rubles worth of energy, and now a criminal case has been initiated against them.

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☠️ FBI announced the dismantling of the global hacker proxy service SocksEscort — as part of the operation, dozens of servers and domains were seized, and millions of dollars in cryptocurrency were frozen.

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🪒 User exchanged 50,400,000 USDT for $36,200 — a crypto enthusiast attempted to buy AAVE for $50,400,000 through the Aave interface but received only 324 AAVE ($36,200). They confirmed the transaction with a 99% slippage despite the warning. As a result, block builder Titan took $34 million in profit, and the Aave team is now trying to contact the trader to return at least the fees ($600,000).

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🗽 Donald Trump stated that banks are trying to undermine the GENIUS Act and hinder the advancement of relevant policies regarding cryptocurrencies, calling the situation unacceptable. Trump also urged the swift passage of the cryptocurrency market structure bill (CLARITY Act).

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🪙 In simulated economic scenarios, 22 out of 36 AI models chose Bitcoin as the preferred currency, and none placed fiat first. The top 36 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, and MiniMax were tested in 28 scenarios—from savings to payments.

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🪙 The largest American miner, MARA, is revising its strategy and considers selling some of its bitcoins — the company currently has 53,822 BTC on its balance sheet, which may potentially enter the market.

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🪙 The net spot demand for Bitcoin has turned positive for the first time since November 2025.

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📊 Bitcoin above $74,000 — the highest in a month.

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💎 A major Heart Locket gift holder was scammed out of 135,000 TON ($173,000) — after his transfer, scammers sent "dust" from an address that almost completely matched his wallet — identical first and last characters. Later, out of habit, he copied this similar address from the transaction history and sent the funds to the scammers himself. UPD: the scammer returned the money.

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🗽 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has included executives from the largest crypto companies in the Advisory Committee on Innovation. The committee includes Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, as well as representatives from Uniswap, Kraken, Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood, and a16z crypto.

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🦄 The New York court dismissed the class action lawsuit against Uniswap — the platform was accused of allowing scammers to launch scam tokens and deceive users through it. The court ruled that the protocol itself is not responsible for the quality and integrity of the projects created on its base. The proceedings lasted four years, and this decision has become an important precedent for the entire crypto industry.

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💎 Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, gold confidently broke the mark of $5400.

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🪙 ETHZilla no longer focuses on holding large reserves of ETH — the company is abandoning the idea of being a "public proxy for Ethereum," rebranding to Forum Markets and changing its Nasdaq ticker to FRMM. A year ago, their shares soared to $107 following news of the creation of a $425 million Ethereum treasury, but then the stocks plummeted by about 96% from the peak. Now the company is focusing not on crypto reserves but on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).

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In 2025, the crypto market turned upside down — perpetual futures became the main price drivers, and trading volume on DEX soared by 346%. Interest in CEX continues to decline — capital moves on-chain, where leverage, shorts, and hedging work 24/7.

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🪙 Trend Research accelerates the sale of Ethereum to repay loans — in the last 10 hours, the company dumped 170,033 ETH ($326 million) and still owns 293,121 ETH ($563 million).

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🎰 Almost half of the volume on Polymarket might be artificial: around 28% is generated by airdrop farmers, who are churning 'dead' markets, and another 23% by bots that just cycle bets every 15 minutes without any real prediction.

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💸 Tether printed another 1,000,000,000 USDT.

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📊 Decentralized exchange Hyperliquid "quietly" surpasses public company Coinbase in key metrics. DEX trading volume reached $2.6 trillion compared to $1.4 trillion for Coinbase, and the HYPE token has increased by 31% since the beginning of the year, while the company's shares have fallen by 27%.

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📊 In the past day, the crypto market lost about 4.5% of its capitalization — Bitcoin fell below the $75,000 mark, Ethereum is trading around $2,200, and most altcoins have dropped by 7-12%. In the last 24 hours, traders' positions worth about $750 million were liquidated — selling pressure has noticeably increased. The Fear and Greed Index dropped to 14 points, firmly settling in the extreme fear zone. Michael Saylor's strategy has unrealized losses of $900 million.

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💎 The total market capitalization of tokenized gold has exceeded $6 billion, increasing by $2 billion since the beginning of this year. Meanwhile, Tether Gold and Paxos Gold together account for approximately 96.7% of the market share.

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🪙 Tether amid rapid business growth plans to hire 150 more employees, mostly developers, in the next 18 months as it continues its active expansion beyond the crypto market. The company has already invested in approximately 140 projects — from a stake in "Juventus" to agricultural assets in South America — and declares its intention to create peer-to-peer tools as an alternative to Silicon Valley's centralized technologies.

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🇨🇳 In 2025, approximately $16.1 billion was laundered through Chinese crypto money laundering networks (CMLN) — averaging $44 million per day, involving more than 1,799 active wallets. Globally, over $82 billion in cryptocurrencies were laundered within a year, with about 20% of it attributed to China; since 2020, the influx of funds into Chinese CMLNs has grown thousands of times faster than on exchanges and in DeFi.

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🇪🇺 The European Union plans to impose sanctions against two banks from Kyrgyzstan for cryptocurrency operations, which, according to its version, were used for transactions with Russian clients. If approved, they will be prohibited from any operations with EU companies and citizens, similar measures may affect banks in Laos and Tajikistan. The sanctions package also expands restrictions against Russian banks and crypto platforms.

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Hackers have stolen confiscated BTC worth $48,000,000 from the South Korean prosecution — during an internal audit, it was discovered that the cause was a password leak; one of the agency's employees fell victim to a phishing attack by visiting a fake website. 😂 Hackers stole confiscated BTC worth $48,000,000 from the South Korean prosecution — during an internal audit, it was discovered that the cause was a password leak; one of the agency's employees fell victim to a phishing attack by visiting a fake website.

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😂 The LDPR held the "first political cryptoforum" — at which party representatives declared the topic of cryptocurrencies as one of their main priorities and announced work on a project to create their own "Zhirinovsky-coin".

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🤖 Vitalik Buterin stated that he envisions a future with AI where technology enhances human freedom and capabilities without leading the world to ruin. In the long term, he entertains radical scenarios such as consciousness uploading or human-AI merging, while in the short term, he envisions more grounded ideas that still require deep rethinking. In this vision, Ethereum plays an important, yet not central, role as part of a broader picture.

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📊 Markets are increasingly pricing in the approach of turbulence: the largest holders of US government bonds — Japan, the United Kingdom, and China — have reduced their positions to lows not seen since 2008. The massive sell-off of Treasuries is leading to rising yields and more expensive money, which quickly squeezes global liquidity. Historically, such processes first hit bonds, then stocks, and eventually, the sharpest blow is felt by the crypto market.

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🍿 Vitalik Buterin Left Telegram Vitalik believes that the year 2026 will be a pivotal moment in the restoration of computational self-sovereignty — the ability of individuals and organizations to independently control their data, software, and digital infrastructure. In his opinion, the significance of this process goes far beyond the blockchain industry and affects the entire digital environment. In 2025, Buterin took two fundamental steps in this direction. He almost completely switched to decentralized tools for working with documentation with open source and end-to-end encryption. Furthermore, he made Signal his main messenger, abandoning the use of Telegram.

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JUST IN: Markets lists $USOIL and brings the U.S. oil market onchain. U.S. Oil Fund exposure is now available to trade 24/7/365 with up to 10x leverage.

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📆 The federal oversight of Caroline Ellison has ended today. However, for the next 10 years, she is still prohibited from holding leadership positions in public companies and cryptocurrency exchanges. Are we expecting a new "top speaker" at crypto conferences?

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JUST IN: Spot silver surges past $95 per ounce.

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👻 Over the day, the cryptocurrency market lost about 5.5% of its capitalization: Bitcoin fell below $83,000, Ethereum is trading around $2,700, many altcoins have declined by 8-10%. In the last 24 hours, trader positions worth $1.7 billion have been liquidated, and the fear and greed index is in the extreme fear zone — 16.

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🤖 Elon Musk announced that he plans to start selling humanoid robots to a wide range of customers by the end of next year. It was also revealed that SpaceX has chosen Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley to prepare for an IPO in the second half of 2026, which could become the largest offering in history with the company's current valuation of $1.5 trillion.

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☠️ Layer-1 blockchain Saga halted the SagaEVM network after a smart contract hack of $7,000,000. At the same time, the project's main infrastructure was not affected.

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🎤 CZ spoke today at the Davos forum, main points: 🔵 Crypto is no longer an experiment and is already functioning as a global financial infrastructure. 🔵 Three key growth drivers: tokenization, payments, and AI. 🔵 Tokenization is attractive to states as it allows assets to be monetized more quickly. 🔵 Cryptocurrencies will become the base "currency" for AI agents. 🔵 Crypto infrastructure is more resilient than banks in stress scenarios. 🔵 Banks will not disappear, but they will become digital—physical offices will decline. 🔵 There is no universal regulation: each country needs its own model.

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🇷🇺 The Russian Ministry of Finance has supported the Central Bank's concept for cryptocurrency regulation, the market is recognized as mature and ready for unified rules: 🔵 Cryptocurrency is introduced into the legal framework, creating its own crypto infrastructure. 🔵 Both qualified and non-qualified investors will have access to crypto assets. 🔵 For non-qualified investors: only liquid cryptocurrencies, testing, limit up to 300,000 rubles per year — this rule will be discussed. 🔵 For qualified investors: any cryptocurrencies (except anonymous ones), without limits, with testing. 🔵 Cryptocurrencies and stablecoins are recognized as currency values, but are prohibited for payments within Russia. The drafts of these laws are planned to be adopted in the current session.

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🎲 In just two months, a trader from Polymarket, placing bets on the rise or fall of Bitcoin, turned $12 into more than $100,000 — he consistently grew his deposit almost without errors.

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🔮 According to the forecast by Ripple's president, the year 2026 will be pivotal for the crypto industry — crypto will fully integrate into the global financial system and no longer be perceived as an alternative to traditional finance. 1️⃣ Stablecoins will transform into the basic infrastructure of global settlements, becoming the standard for round-the-clock payments, B2B settlements, and financial backing. The main growth will come from corporate payments, which already amount to $76 billion annually, enabling companies to free up hundreds of billions of dollars in working capital. 2️⃣ Institutional adoption will accelerate: by the end of 2026, companies will hold over $1 trillion in digital assets on their balance sheets, and about 50% of the Fortune 500 will develop comprehensive strategies for working with them. Crypto ETFs, currently accounting for only 1–2% of the US ETF market, retain significant growth potential, and 5–10% of capital market settlements will transition to an on-chain format. 3️⃣ The market will enter a phase of maturity through consolidation: the volume of M&A in the crypto industry has already reached $8.6 billion. The storage of digital assets will become a key element of institutional infrastructure, with more than half of the world's largest banks establishing new custody partnerships and adopting multi-custodial models for risk management. 4️⃣ The combination of blockchain and AI will trigger mass automation of financial processes. Stablecoins and smart contracts will provide real-time liquidity and collateral management, AI will be responsible for dynamic rebalancing of RWA, and ZK technologies will enhance privacy and reduce regulatory risks.

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🤖 OpenAI has started implementing an age prediction system in ChatGPT, which automatically applies enhanced safety measures for underage users. The age is determined by behavioral factors, and when in doubt, the system opts for the safer mode. Adult users can correct erroneous classification through verification.

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🐳 Institutional Demand for Bitcoin Remains High — CryptoQuant Over the past year, institutions have added 577,000 BTC ($53 billion) to their balances, and the inflow continues.

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Day Summary, January 20 Event Partner: The Fund 🇷🇺 The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation confirmed that courts cannot refuse to protect property claims in cryptocurrency disputes if the owner can prove the legality of its acquisition and use. 🇧🇲 The Bermuda Islands have partnered with Coinbase and Circle to build an economy entirely based on blockchain. 🇺🇸 Donald Trump’s Trump Media is launching a proprietary token on February 2. 😂 The decentralized exchange Paradex, based on Starknet, yesterday rolled back the blockchain after a database migration error zeroed BTC prices, leading to mass liquidations. ☠️ The Makina protocol was hacked for $4,130,000. 🎖️ Gold is once again breaking price records — the cost of an ounce exceeded $4,700. 🐳 Institutional demand for Bitcoin remains high — CryptoQuant. 💤 A Bitcoin wallet, inactive for over 13 years, transferred 909 BTC ($85 million) to a new address. 🤪 PumpFun is launching the Pump Fund — a new investment division focused on startups within its own ecosystem. 🪙 Tether today burned 3 billion USDT, after having printed 1 billion earlier. 🇵🇹 The Portuguese gambling regulator has ordered the blocking of the platform Polymarket. 🪙 More than 36,300,000 ETH (30% of total supply) is staked in the Ethereum network — an all-time high. 🏛 The Fund – $27M+ cap, $200K+ liquidity

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Decentralized exchange Paradex on Starknet base yesterday rolled back the blockchain after a database migration error reset the BTC price, leading to mass liquidations.

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☠️ Moscow woman lost about 8,000,000 rubles and $50,000 after believing in an online romance with a man who introduced himself as a "crypto locksmith." After a month and a half of communication, declarations of love, and fake documents, he convinced her to invest in "crypto projects" and business, after which the money was "frozen" and the scammers disappeared. 🧬 Exchange crypto only through trusted exchangers, such as DeCenter Exchange.

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✖️ X (Twitter) is reviewing API access rules and banning services that pay users for posts, citing increased AI spam and declining content quality. As a result, projects with the InfoFi model, including KAITO, have already lost access, causing its token to fall by about 20%. The project team stated that they would continue their work through their own Kaito Studio platform, which does not depend on X's API.

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan Eased Rules for the Crypto Market. Miners are no longer required to sell mined assets through AIFC exchanges, and now individual entrepreneurs and legal entities can engage in mining. Mining itself is no longer considered an activity related to the organization of the circulation of digital assets.

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🇧🇪 KBC, one of the largest banks in Belgium, will offer retail clients the opportunity to buy and sell leading digital assets by capitalization starting February 16. According to research, about 45% of Belgians aged 30-40 have already invested in cryptocurrencies.

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📊 Short-term investors have started locking in profits amid BTC price recovery, using the local rebound and renewed liquidity, notes analyst at CryptoQuant. According to them, such spikes in profit usually indicate the weakening of the current momentum, rather than the beginning of a sustainable new growth.

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🇺🇸 Major American lender Newrez starts offering mortgages backed by crypto (Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins).

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☠️ From mid-2021 to the end of 2025, out of approximately 20.2 million tokens launched, 53% turned out to be scams or ceased to exist. The highest number of failures occurred in 2025: 11.6 million tokens died last year alone — accounting for 86% of all token "deaths" over the past 5 years.

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🇧🇾 A new decree on cryptocurrencies has been signed in the Republic of Belarus: 🔴 Crypto banks will be able to combine cryptocurrency operations with traditional banking services. 🔴 Only residents of the High Technologies Park, included in the National Bank register, will be able to operate. 🔴 The activities will be regulated similarly to non-banking financial organizations. 🔴 Clients will receive new hybrid financial products. 🔴 The goal is to develop fintech and attract technology business.

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🇨🇳 In China, details of the case against Yao Qian, one of the architects of the digital yuan, have been revealed: the man stored hardware crypto wallets with assets worth hundreds of millions of yuan right in his office, relying on the anonymity of cryptocurrencies. The investigation found that in 2018, Yao Qian accepted a bribe of 2,000 ETH for lobbying crypto projects, part of which he cashed out and used to purchase real estate in Beijing, registered to a relative. Authorities applied on-chain transaction analysis alongside traditional methods, after which the official was expelled from the Communist Party of China and the case was handed over to the prosecution, emphasizing that cryptocurrencies do not guarantee full anonymity even in corruption schemes.

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💸 The company BitMine, which regularly purchases Ethereum, announced a $200,000,000 investment in Mr Beast Industries by the blogger MrBeast. You can find more details about it here.

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Analysts at Binance Research have recorded that by 2025 the market shifted from narratives to real scale, with key points from the report being: 1️⃣ Capital concentrated in BTC: dominance around 60%, over $21 billion inflows into spot ETFs, and more than 1.1 million BTC on the balance sheets of public companies. 2️⃣ High activity without revenue lost its value: networks capable of monetizing trading, payments, and institutional settlements survived. 3️⃣ BNB Chain became the benchmark of this model, combining mass retail, DEX trading, and institutional RWA. 4️⃣ DeFi transitioned to a "blue-chip" phase: protocols are generating over $16 billion in annual revenue, and tokenized real assets have surpassed DEXs in importance. 5️⃣ Stablecoins evolved into fundamental financial infrastructure with volumes comparable to global payment networks, becoming the main settlement layer. 6️⃣ Institutional participation became systematic: ETFs, custody, tokenized funds, and corporate reserves were integrated into traditional finance. 7️⃣ In 2026, global liquidity becomes a key factor: easing of policies and fiscal stimuli historically create the most favorable environment for crypto assets. The major shift is from speculation to allocation: crypto is increasingly viewed as an infrastructural and portfolio asset class, rather than a short-term bet.

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🍿 Despite the rise in BTC price, the tone of discussions on social media is becoming increasingly pessimistic — Santiment. Since markets usually move in the opposite direction of retail investor sentiment, this surge in negativity could push Bitcoin to its first return above $100,000 since November 13.

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💎 Fear and Greed Index entered the greed zone (61) for the first time since October 2025.

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❌ A failure occurred in the Sui network — new blocks have not been produced for more than 1 hour.

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☠️ In 2025, the number of identity impersonation crimes in the crypto industry increased by 1400%, and the average damage by more than 600%. Fraudsters pose as exchanges and famous individuals, combining social engineering and technical methods, and AI has made such schemes significantly more effective and profitable. Total losses from all crypto scams in 2025 are estimated at around $17 billion, with a significant portion attributed to identity impersonation schemes.

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🚓 Kazakhstan has issued an international warrant for the arrest of popular blogger Kaisar Kamzu, who for five years promoted illegal online casinos and received rewards in cryptocurrency. According to the court's decision, his crypto assets valued at 182,700 USDT have been seized.

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🇵🇰 Pakistan signed an agreement with the Trump family's crypto project, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), to introduce the USD1 stablecoin in the country.

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67 companies have purchased more ETH as a strategic reserve (6.81 million ETH) than the Ethereum ETF (6.20 million ETH).

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🤖 AI Farms are Replacing Classic Mining: In China, dozens of streams are launched simultaneously, and goods are sold, earning $100 an hour. The image and voice are fully generated by neural networks based on real videos — no live people are involved in the process.

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🪒 A short position worth $35,000,000 was liquidated in a single order on the HTX exchange. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is already at $97,000.

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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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67 companies have purchased more ETH as a strategic reserve (6.81 million ETH) than the Ethereum ETF (6.20 million ETH).

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💳 Visa has partnered with BVNK to launch stablecoin payouts — the new feature will allow companies to send money instantly to digital wallets, even when banks are closed.

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💎 The cryptocurrency market has notably revived in the last 24 hours: Bitcoin has risen to the $95,000 mark, Ethereum is trading around $3,300, and leading altcoins have gained 5–10% for the day. The Fear and Greed Index has reached its highest level since October 2025 — 48.

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