📢 Bitcoin’s 7-day average hashrate has dipped below 1 ZH/s for the first time since September 2025, highlighting growing strain on miners as AI increasingly competes for power.

📢 Gold has just surged to a new all-time high at $4,700 per ounce.

📢 More than $191M in crypto positions were liquidated over the past four hours.

📢 Ethereum’s unstaking queue has cleared completely, while the staking entry queue has jumped to 2.6M $ETH, its highest level since July 2023.

📢 U.S. custody wallets have added about 577K $BTC over the past year, worth roughly $53B, according to CryptoQuant’s CEO.

📢 Gold has pushed to another record, hitting $4,730 per ounce.

📢 China has hit its lowest birth rate on record, with UN projections showing the population could drop from about 1.4B to 1.3B by 2050 and fall to roughly 633M by 2100.

📢 Strategy Makes Another Major $BTC Purchase

• Bought 22,305 $BTC for about $2.13B
• Average buy price around $95,284 per BTC
• Total holdings now sit at 709,715 $BTC

📢 A Satoshi-era wallet with 909 $BTC worth about $84.6M has become active again after 13.2 years, as Bitcoin’s 13,900× gain over the same period dwarfs the S&P 500’s +481% and gold’s ~150% rise.

📢 $BTC is hovering around the $90K level.

📢 Portugal Shuts Down Polymarket⚠️

• Regulators say political prediction markets break gambling laws
• Polymarket ordered to halt operations in the country
• Platform given 48 hours to shut down

📢 Tether Prints More $USDT on TRON

• Tether minted another 1B $USDT on TRON
• Year-to-date issuance now at 2B $USDT
• Signals rising demand for stablecoin liquidity

📢 PayPal Tightens Crypto Tax Reporting

• PayPal confirms crypto activity must be reported for taxes
• Users will receive IRS Form 1099-DA
• Forms sent out by Feb 15 each tax year

📢 An early Bitcoin whale has become active again after over 13 years, moving 909.38 $BTC worth roughly $84.5M to a new wallet.

📢 Prediction markets posted a new weekly high, generating over $2.7M in fees, with opinion markets taking 54.3% of the total, while Polymarket’s 15-minute up/down markets brought in $787K, or 28.4%.

📢 Solana’s staking ratio has reached a new all-time high at 68.8%.

📢 Vanguard ETFs Add $680M in MicroStrategy Shares

• Vanguard ETFs picked up $680M worth of $MSTR
• The buying happened over the last two weeks
• Another sign of big institutions leaning into Bitcoin-linked stocks

📢 Aave is approaching $1 trillion in total loans originated.

📢 Nansen Brings AI Trading to On-Chain Data🤖

• Launches AI-powered trading built on insights from 500M+ labeled wallets
• Rolls out first on $SOL (Solana) and $BASE
• Aims to turn deep on-chain data into faster, cleaner trade decisions

📢 Ethereum’s growth is moving in tandem, with both $ETH market cap and stablecoin market cap doubling over the past three years.