📢 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.

📢 Arkham data shows Vitalik Buterin sold 2,961.5 $ETH, worth about $6.6M, over the past three days.

📢 CryptoQuant data shows Ethereum’s transfer count reached 1.17M (14-day SMA), a level last seen around major market tops in 2018 and 2021. Historically, similar spikes have coincided with heightened volatility and possible distribution.

📢 Bitcoin veteran Garrett Jin has begun re-accumulating $ETH, withdrawing 80,000 ETH (about $167.8M) from Binance, a notable on-chain move drawing attention.

📢 For the first time in 18 month, $BTC traded below $70,000

📢 Roughly $570B has been erased from the crypto market year-to-date, pushing the total market cap down about 19%.

📢 Crypto investment awareness in India is only 15%, despite the country ranking among the highest in overall adoption.

📢 Currently, Strategy sits on a ~$4.5B unrealized loss on 713,502 $BTC while, Bitmine holds roughly $7.5B unrealized loss on 4.2M $ETH.

📢 $BTC drops below $69,000

📢 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

📢 More than $1B in crypto positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours as $BTC dropped.

📢 Polymarket Upgrades with $USDC Settlement

• Polymarket partners with Circle to improve stablecoin infrastructure
• Introduces $USDC settlement for prediction market trades
• Aims to make transactions faster and more reliable for users

📢 Gemini Pulls Back from Key Markets

• Gemini is exiting the UK, Europe, and Australia
• Move comes amid growing regulatory and operational pressure
• Signals a strategic pullback as crypto firms rethink global expansion

$BTC hovering around $65,000