📢 Standard Chartered Updates $SOL Outlook

• Cuts 2026 $SOL price target to $250
• Raises long-term forecast to $2,000 by 2030
• Bank points to Solana’s growth in micropayments and stablecoin usage

📢 Bitcoin fell below $75K for the first time since April as large whale wallets offloaded 50K+ $BTC, while smaller retail holders bought the dip—an indicator Santiment views as bearish.

📢 Bloomberg reports that the crypto market has shed nearly $500B in under a week, pushing total losses to about $1.7T since the October peak as a Bitcoin-led selloff intensifies.

📢 A whale known for a prior $98.9M profit has purchased 750 cbBTC, lifting total dip buying to $318M following the recent market drop.

📢 UPDATE: Arbitrum says its Governance account has been restored and is now safe, and the team is assessing additional protections to avoid similar issues going forward.

📢 Binance’s SAFU Fund has acquired another 1,315 $BTC worth about $100.4M, bringing its two-day total to 2,630 $BTC (≈ $201M). The purchases are part of a plan to shift $1B of SAFU reserves into Bitcoin over 30 days.

📢 BitMine Adds More $ETH While Sitting on $6.5B Unrealized Loss

• BitMine is sitting on roughly $6.5B in unrealized losses after buying $ETH around $3,650
• Despite that, the firm just added ~$40–46M worth of $ETH
• Signals long-term conviction even as Ethereum prices stay under pressure

📢 Crypto.com Enters U.S. Prediction Markets🇺🇸

• Crypto.com launches OG, a U.S.-focused prediction market app
• Powered by its CFTC-regulated affiliate, offering a regulated setup
• Covers sports, financial, political, and cultural markets, with margin trading planned

📢 Circle minted 750M $USDC on Solana over the past 12 hours.

📢 Tokenized equities on Solana have reached a new all-time high of $230M.

📢 Whale bc1pyd has offloaded all 5,076 $BTC (≈ $384M) over the last 8 hours, locking in an estimated $118M loss.

📢 CoinMarketCap’s January 2026 report shows Binance holds the largest exchange reserves, totaling $155.6B.

📢 Arbitrum topped 24-hour bridged flows with $53M in net inflows, while Ethereum and Hyperliquid each experienced $36.1M in net outflows.

📢 Ripple Prime Expands Institutional Access to Onchain Derivatives

• Ripple Prime is integrating with Hyperliquid
• Expands institutional access to onchain derivatives liquidity
• Bridges traditional players closer to onchain trading markets

📢 More than $86M in crypto positions have been liquidated within the past hour.

📢 BNB Chain Deploys ERC-8004 for AI Agent Security

• BNB Chain deploys ERC-8004 on BSC mainnet and testnet
• Aims to create a trust framework for AI agents interacting onchain
• Strengthens infrastructure around AI and blockchain within the $BNB ecosystem

📢 $BTC is currently hovering around $72,000.

📢 Tether Mints Fresh $USDT to it treasury

• $1B $USDT minted at the Tether Treasury within the past hour
• New supply often signals incoming liquidity into crypto markets

📢 Bhutan is liquidating its Bitcoin holdings, recording sovereign outflows of $22.4M.

$BTC drops below $72,000