📢 Gold has dropped below $5,000 per ounce, sliding over $300 in a steep 5.8% decline.

📢 European gas prices jumped 54% in just one day, the sharpest spike since the 2022 energy crisis.

📢 Bank of Japan Tests Blockchain Settlement 🇯🇵

A notable step from Japan’s central bank.

• Plans to test settling central bank money on a blockchain
• Trial will run between financial institutions
• Aimed at exploring faster and more efficient interbank settlement

📢 Small $BTC transfers totaling $18.7K were moved from U.S. government wallets, suggesting the activity may have been a test transaction.

📢 OpenClaw has surpassed 249K stars on GitHub, moving ahead of React, Linux, and Python to rank #13 among the most-starred projects.

📢 Ripple Labs Expands Ripple Payments 🌍

More tools for global businesses.

• Businesses can now collect, hold, exchange, and pay out in both fiat and stablecoins
• Designed to simplify cross-border transactions
• Strengthens Ripple’s push into real-world payment infrastructure

📢 National Electricity Administration Explores $BTC Mining 🇵🇾⚡

Turning surplus energy into opportunity.

• Signed an MOU to explore Bitcoin mining as a national strategy
• Aims to monetize unused or excess power
• Could position Paraguay as a regional $BTC mining hub

📢 The European Central Bank cautions that growing stablecoin use could pull deposits away from banks, limit lending capacity, and disrupt how monetary policy flows through the eurozone.

📢 A Bitwise analysis using data through the end of 2025 shows that adding $BTC to a 60/40 portfolio boosted both cumulative and risk-adjusted returns in every three-year period and in 93% of two-year periods.

📢 Binance Rolls Out AI Agent Skills

A new step toward AI-powered crypto tools.

• Introduced 7 AI Agent Skills on the platform
• Enables trading, wallet access, and real-time market data
• All features accessible through a single interface

📢 Perpetual DEX volume surged 346% in 2025, with total perpetual trading reaching $92.9T as traders increasingly shifted from spot markets to derivatives.

📢 President Donald J. Trump claims banks are working against the GENIUS and CLARITY Acts and says he will push to ensure the U.S. leads in crypto.

📢 1inch Network Upgrade Cuts Swap Time Nearly in Half

A new upgrade focused on performance.

• Platform update brings a smoother user experience
• Median swap execution time cut from 26s to 14s
• Faster routing aims to improve trading efficiency

📢 Indiana Signs $BTC Rights Bill Into Law

A new step for crypto policy at the state level.

• Governor signs HB 1042 into law
• Protects Bitcoin rights and bans discriminatory crypto taxes
• Allows digital assets in state retirement plans

📢 House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill is urging the Senate to adopt the House-approved Clarity Act language to settle the dispute over stablecoin yield.

📢 A study by the Bitcoin Policy Institute analyzing 36 frontier AI models found that 48.3% selected Bitcoin as their preferred form of money over stablecoins and other monetary options.

📢 According to Santiment, talk of an “altseason” on social media has fallen to very low levels, a pattern that has often preceded major altcoin rallies.

📢 Since 2000, all major global currencies have lost between 51% and 96% of their purchasing power.

📢 CoinShares Launches $BNB Staking ETP

A new product for regulated crypto exposure.

• Introduces a $BNB Staking ETP for investors
• Combines regulated market access with staking rewards
• Launch comes with zero management fees

📢 South Korea Proposes Exchange Ownership Cap🇰🇷

New rules could reshape the crypto exchange landscape.

• Regulators propose a 20% ownership cap for major shareholders
• Aims to limit control and improve market oversight
• Part of broader efforts to tighten crypto regulation