Solana DEX aggregator Jupiter has announced details of the second airdrop 🪂

If you have at least $800 in trading volume on Jupiter, you will be eligible for a $50 JUP airdrop.

You can check your trading volume here by entering your wallet address in the search field 🔍

✅ The US stock market goes down into the weekend and drags the crypto market with it, Bitcoin rose above $97 today but failed to hold that level and fell back to $94k 🤢

Daily Digest: 

🔸 Terra Luna Founder Do Kwon to be extradited to the United States (this time for sure)

🔸 Solana DEX aggregator Jupiter has announced details of the second JUP airdrop 🪂

🔸 The new IRS rules classifying DEXs as brokers have triggered a swift backlash, with calls for Congress to overturn the rules

🔸 BTC ETFs have seen net inflows the day after Christmas, stemming a 4-day run of outflows

🔸  U.S. Treasury yields had been catching investors' attention, with10-year note hitting a more than seven-month high 📈

🔸 The National Institute of Standards and Technology proposed standardizing the block and key size used in the Advanced Encryption Standard to 256 bits

🔹 Prices:

🥇 Bitcoin - $94,261 (↓1.5%)
✨ Ethereum - $3,337 (↓0.1%)
🧪 S&P 500 - 5,970 (↓1.11%)
🕗 DXY - 108.01 (↓0.11%)
🌉 Gold - 2,621 (↓0.45%)

In the new season of the popular show Squid Game, one of the characters is a crypto scammer who wants to constantly check the markets 😅

The chart of the net flow-to-reserve ratio of BTC on exchanges shows a bullish signal 😲

Serious accumulation is taking place. A negative value means that users withdraw BTC from centralized exchanges, reducing the reserve and thus - available supply 📈

The ratio peaked at the end of the last bear market when smart investors were buying from the panic sellers at $17k 🛒

USDT is trading below $1 🪀

This mild depeg arises from confusion around upcoming EU MiCA regulations, fueling rumors that USDT may become illegal 🚫

In reality, MiCA requires stablecoins to comply with strict licensing; non-compliant tokens are not instantly banned, but providers may delist them to avoid penalties and keep operating legally.

🌀 Many platforms in the EU are cautious: Coinbase is delisting USDT early, while others wait for clarity.

After MiCA’s start date (June 30, 2024), stablecoins have a 6–18 month transition to meet requirements or face restricted access.

🕯 The minor depeg also stems from speculation and fear of liquidity loss if major platforms remove USDT.

Tether has weathered FUD before by adjusting operations and reserves. Fundamentals remain steady 👌

TLDR: No immediate ban, just a regulatory shift requiring compliance, people are worried but nothing bad happened

✅ Bitcoin had two attempts to return to the $100k level in the past week but both were unsuccessful, with net outflows from spot BTC ETFs sending the price down to $94k 📉

Weekly news digest:

💎 Crypto

🔸 In 2024, nearly $15 billion was distributed through crypto airdrops

🔸 North Korean hackers stole $1,3 billion worth of crypto this year alone

🔸 MicroStrategy calls shareholders meeting to fund more Bitcoin purchases

🔸 Cancer lab to receive over $1 million in donations after charity memecoin MIRA was launched

🔸 Solana DEX aggregator Jupiter has announced details of the second JUP airdrop

🏦 Crypto Exchanges

🔸 MoonPay is looking to acquire Helio Pay for around $150 million

🔸 Coinbase report says crypto stablecoins could grow to $3 trillion over the next five years

🔸 FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame’s prison sentence was reduced by one year

💵 Finances and Economy

🔸 Scandinavian countries disclose tax records and addresses of crypto holders, providing criminals with a list of potential targets

🔸 Russia says it is using Bitcoin for international payments

🔸 Stablecoin issuer Tether made its first crypto venture capital fund investment into Arcanum Capital

🔸 Strive, an asset manager founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, has filed SEC for ‘Bitcoin Bond’ ETF

⚖️ Law and Order

🔸 IRS says crypto staking is taxable

🔸 The new IRS rules classifying DEXs as brokers

🔸 South Korea sanctioned 15 North Korean IT organization members for crypto heists and cyber theft

🔸 Russia announced a 6-year ban on crypto mining in 10 regions, citing energy shortages

🔸 Terra Luna Founder Do Kwon to be extradited to the United States (this time for sure)

🔸 Texas Department of Banking has granted MoonPay a Money Transmitter License

 🗣 Personalities

🔸 Robinhood CEO says no plans to invest in bitcoin

🔸  Putin claims he wants to end war in Ukraine

🚀 Best performers of the week:

ai16z - $1.28 (↑114.7%)
TKX - $30.21 (↑53.4%)
BGB - $6.21 (↑51.7%)

The market is trolling everyone today, high volatility has led to the liquidation of $280 million in leveraged positions of both bulls and bears 🕯🫡

✅ Today the market fooled everyone, first Bitcoin went to $95k and immediately after collapsed to $92k liquidating a hundred thousand traders 📉

Daily Digest:

🔸 USDT stablecoin issuer Tether added 7,629 BTC worth $700 million to its Bitcoin reserves

🔸 Hacker transferred 51k ETH coins to his multi-signature address 🔍

🔸 MicroStrategy acquired 2,138 BTC for $209 million

🔸 Hong Kong legislator proposed adding Bitcoin to national reserves

🔸 Crypto scammers found a new way to hack their victims using a webpage that looks like Zoom 😈

🔸 Bitcoin mining pool Foundry USA Pool returned a transaction fee of 8.18 BTC that was paid by a user by mistake

🔸 US Treasury says China hacked its workstations in a cyberattack

🔹 Prices:

🥇 Bitcoin - $92,022(↓1.8%)
✨ Ethereum - $3,318 (↓2.9%)
🧪 S&P 500 - 5,906 (↓1.07%)
🕗 DXY - 108.01 (↓0.12%)
🌉 Gold - 2,610 (↑0.17%)

Join our chat 🗯

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Market as soon as you buy: 🙃

Someone sold NFTs worth $370k for $175 😱

Pudgy Penguins is an NFT collection with a floor price of 22 ETH ($74k) but this guy, has sold 5 NFTs for 35 USDC each.

There are two explanations:

1. The owner mistakenly accepted bids thinking 35 USDC was 35 ETH.

2. We are witnessing an attempt at tax evasion (this option is the most likely).

💰 Imagine you have to pay thousands of $ in taxes after selling NFT for big profit, by selling it to your other wallet for cheap you are able to save a lot of money.

What do you think happened? 👇

Happy New Year 2025! 🎉🎉

This time last year, we wished for Bitcoin to hit $100,000 mark, that was once just a dream, and guess what? We got it! As we wrap up an incredible year, let’s take a quick look at what went down ☺️⤵️

• Bitcoin soared by 157% this year, surging past our $100k milestone

• The stock market made a strong move, up 23%

• Institutional adoption ramped up, regulations became clearer, and more people than ever joined the crypto space

• Billions of dollars were invested in crypto thanks to spot BTC and ETH ETFs

All these achievements prove once again that having a long-term vision pays off 💰

Whether you’ve been here since the early days or just hopped on board, we want to thank you for being part of this journey 🏀

Here’s to an even brighter year ahead—stay focused on your goals, keep learning, and never lose sight of the bigger picture.

We love you guys! 🥳🤍🖤

We are already very close to a future in which it will be difficult to distinguish not only a bot from a real Internet user, but also a robot from a living person 😨

AI Captures Crypto Like Wildfire 🤖

More than 57% of crypto mindshare is now dominated by AI-related projects.

This niche is already worth billions and if the bull market continues it could become the largest in crypto 🧪

Here's a selection of AI tokens that can't be ignored 👇

⚙️ AI infrastructure:

1. $VIRTUAL
2. $TAO
3. $FET

🤖 AI Agents:

1. $ai16z
2. $FAI
3. $AIXBT
4. $ELIZA

🤖 AI Memes:

1. $FARTCOIN
2. $ZEREBRO
3. $GOAT
4. $TURBO

Stock Market Fear vs. Crypto Greed 📈

😱 The stock market is approaching extreme fear, which means many investors are feeling anxious and selling or staying on the sidelines.

💰 At the same time, crypto market is showing strong greed, with traders feeling optimistic and even euphoric about some local trends like AI and memes.

📊 Historically, such sentiment gaps can close quickly as risk perceptions shift. Watch economic indicators closely and manage position sizes with discipline.

We could see a situation where the pivot from crypto to stocks could be a good mid-term trade in hindsight

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