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☠️ Iran and Russia have become key players in using cryptocurrencies to bypass sanctions
Overall, the volume of illegal crypto transactions in 2025 reached a record $154 billion, a 162% increase year over year.
Analysts also note the growing influence of Chinese money laundering networks, which have turned crypto crime into a professional industry.
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💵 Stablecoin cards will become one of the main trends of 2026
Dragonfly believes that payments through USDT and USDC will become the primary method of cryptocurrency usage. Users pay with a regular card, and the transactions are processed on the blockchain in digital dollars.
Dragonfly is a venture capital fund that invests in crypto and blockchain projects.
The startup Rain, which issues such cards, has raised $250 million. In 2025, its turnover increased nearly 40 times. The cards are already operational on the Ethereum, Solana, Tron, and Stellar networks.
Western Union plans to launch tran

‼️ Record Trading for XRP ETF and Outflows from Bitcoin and Ethereum
✖️ The results of the first full week of 2026 have been mixed for crypto ETFs. While XRP ETFs reached a record weekly trading volume of $219 million, Bitcoin and Ethereum funds experienced outflows of $750 million.
Since their launch in mid-November 2025, XRP funds have attracted a total of $1.22 billion, with their net assets totaling $1.47 billion, accounting for 1.16% of XRP's market capitalization.
🧬 Spot SOL ETFs also recorded a positive net inflow for the week, receiving $41.1 million.
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⏺The money circulation in big tech continues. OpenAI and SoftBank will invest $1 billion in the energy company SB Energy — it is part of SoftBank.
SB Energy will build a data center in Texas for the Stargate project and will become a "major" corporate client of OpenAI.
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‼️ Pump.fun will share commissions with content creators
📈 Co-founder of Pump.fun Alon Cohen announced the platform's transition to a new Creator Fee Sharing system, allowing a portion of sales commissions from memes to be distributed among 10 wallets.
Although the details are not yet known, these wallets could belong to meme coin idea creators, promotional campaign organizers, social media video creators, and other similar content that contributes to the sustained popularity of tokens.
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The market expects the Fed to keep rates unchanged in January
According to CME FedWatch data, the probability that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged at the January meeting is estimated at 95%.
The market is almost fully pricing in maintaining the 5.25–5.50% range, which reduces the risk of unexpected decisions by the regulator in the short term.
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🔹 According to VanEck's baseline scenario, by 2030, the price of ETH will exceed $22,000.
The bullish scenario implies an even more impressive growth, over $154,000 per ETH.
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⚡Threat of a New Shutdown
Donald Trump warned of a possible government shutdown as early as the end of this month. The White House and Congress have not yet reached an agreement, and the temporary funding deadline expires on January 30, 2026.
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‼️ Nasdaq and CME merge crypto indices
🔼 The Nasdaq Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) are standardizing crypto indices and have already renamed the Nasdaq (NCI) to the Nasdaq-CME crypto index.
The merger is a response to the increasing complexity of the crypto market and the institutional hype around digital assets and blockchain technology.
✅ The benchmark NCI index includes BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, LINK, ADA, AVAX. Whether it will be modified in the future is currently unknown.
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🇺🇸 a16z Leads the Fight for US Technological Leadership
📈 Leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced raising $15 billion by the end of 2025, which it estimates accounts for 18% of all last year's venture investments in the US.
✅ Investors' money has filled new funds, including American Dynamism ($1.18 billion), Apps ($1.7 billion), Bio + Health ($700 million), Infrastructure ($1.7 billion), Growth ($6.75 billion), as well as other venture strategies ($3 billion).
The main goal of a16z founder Ben Horowitz is to defend the US's technological leadership, which is suppor

Grayscale has filed applications for BNB and Hyperliquid ETFs
Grayscale Investments has registered trusts in Delaware for BNB-ETF and Hyperliquid-ETF.
While filing does not guarantee a public listing, it is traditionally considered the first step in launching an ETF.
🎯 The process coincided with the update of the BNB Chain roadmap for 2026, which projects an increase in throughput to tens of thousands of transactions per second.
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Major Whale opened longs on $310 million
🪙 BTC with 15x leverage on $109.5 million ( entry price 90,294)
🪙 ETH with 15x leverage on $100.6 million ( entry price 3,092)
🪙 SOL with 20x leverage on $69.9 million ( entry price 138.6)
🪙 XRP with 20x leverage on $30 million ( entry price 2.10)

Google Moves to Second Place in the World by Market Capitalization
Alphabet (Google) has surpassed Apple to become the second-largest publicly traded company in the world by market capitalization. The stock growth is supported by expectations in AI development, cloud business, and stable advertising revenue.
Notably, among the top 20 global companies, only four are non-American: TSMC (6th place), Saudi Aramco (9), Tencent (15), and Samsung (17), highlighting the dominance of the USA in the global stock market.
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🇺🇸 The USA needs Greenland for mining
According to Andrew Tate, Washington is increasing pressure on the Danish island, hoping to use the cold climate and cheap electricity to mine BTC at a cost significantly below market rates.
Yesterday, Trump announced that he is offering residents of the island $100k if they want to change their citizenship to American.
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💸 The US government may start buying Bitcoin for the national reserve
Kathy Wood, founder of the investment firm Ark Invest, said that US authorities may soon begin direct purchases of Bitcoin to create a strategic national BTC reserve.
💰 Currently, some reserves already exist, but they were mainly formed from confiscated assets rather than market purchases.
Wood links this move to political and economic motives, particularly the desire to strengthen the US position in the global financial system.
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Polygon rises for the eighth consecutive day
🟣 The Polygon token (POL) has increased by 29% over the week and reached the highest level since early December – $0.135.
➡️ On January 8, the company introduced the Open Money Stack (OMS) modular infrastructure to enable regulated, compliant payments in stablecoins and to modernize the global movement of funds.
Recently, Polygon announced a rebranding to a payment company, which should attract more DeFi, fintech companies, and other institutional clients to its blockchain.
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🟠 ZEC has fallen by 28% from its local highs
The decline occurred amid the departure of key Zcash developers from Electric Coin Company due to disagreements with management. The team is launching a new company to develop privacy technologies.
Meanwhile, the Zcash protocol itself continues to operate normally.
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🤖 Riot Platforms sells Bitcoin and bets on AI
Mining company Riot Platforms sold 1,818 Bitcoins in December for nearly $162 million.
⛏ This happened as part of a strategic shift: from Bitcoin mining to monetizing its energy and data center infrastructure.
In particular, Riot aims to support workloads in the field of artificial intelligence.
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