📢 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

📢 Tether says $USDT reached a $187B market cap in Q4 2025, alongside record user growth and transfer activity, with reserves climbing to $193B despite a wider crypto market slowdown.

📢 A single order on Bybit liquidated a whale’s $11M $BTC/USD long position.

📢 TRON has reached 100M monthly active addresses, while its stablecoin market cap grew to $84.5B and transactions hit a record 342M.

📢 The CFTC has pulled back a proposed rule that aimed to prohibit sports and political prediction markets, reversing the stance of the previous administration.

📢 BBVA Joins Push for Euro Stablecoin Launch

• BBVA joins 11 major European financial institutions working on a euro-pegged stablecoin
• The stablecoin launch is targeted for H2 2026
• Signals growing traditional banking interest in digital currency infrastructure

📢 SBI and Startale Launch Strium Layer-1 Blockchain🇯🇵

• SBI Holdings and Startale Group unveil Strium, a new layer-1 blockchain
• Built to support institutional FX trading and real-world asset markets
• Shows growing focus on blockchain use in traditional finance sectors

📢 In January, Base surpassed Ethereum in monthly stablecoin transfer volume, leading all blockchain networks.