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💸Tether reported purchasing 27 tons of gold in one quarter Tether Gold Investments released its Q4 2025 report, prepared by auditing firm BDO (one of the world’s top five audit networks alongside the Big Four). Over the quarter, the company increased its gold reserves by approximately 27 tons. Amid record gold prices, the market capitalization of gold-backed stablecoins grew in 2025 from about $1.3 billion to over $4 billion. Tether Gold (XAUT) accounts for around 60% of that market. As of the end of 2025, more than 520,000 XAUT tokens were in circulation. Each token is backed by one troy ounce of gold, with a total issuance value of about $2.25 billion. The reserves are stored in Switzerland. Tether claims that thanks to its gold tokenization strategy, the company has already become one of the largest holders of physical gold in the world, surpassing a number of sovereign states.

Daily trading volume in silver perpetual contracts surpassed $1 billion on crypto platforms operating via the HIP-3 mechanism. Silver continues to hit record highs on exchanges, with peak prices reaching $117.7 per ounce. HIP-3 is a Hyperliquid protocol upgrade launched in October 2025. It enables the creation of perpetual futures (perps) on any assets using Hyperliquid’s infrastructure and liquidity. To launch a new market, developers must stake 500,000 HYPE tokens. Since the launch of HIP-3, the total trading volume on platforms using this mechanism has exceeded $25 billion, and the number of unique traders has reached 76,800. The majority of trading activity comes from Trade XYZ, Hyperliquid’s dedicated platform for perps on real-world assets. Hyperliquid developers reported that open interest in HIP-3 hit a new all-time high of $800 million, driven by a surge in precious metals trading. Just a month ago, this figure was around $260 million.

🇪🇺 Capital B, Europe’s first company with a Bitcoin treasury, has announced the relaunch of its $300 million ATM fundraising program in partnership with TOBAM.

👀 What $100,000 invested a year ago would be worth today in different assets 🟡 Gold → $180,000 (+80%) 🟡 Silver → $342,000 (+242.9%) 🟡 BTC → $85,900 (−14%) 🟡 ETH → $89,000 (−11%) 🟡 DOGE → $32,000 (−68%) 🟡 LINK → $52,000 (−48%) 🟡 AVAX → $32,000 (−68%) 🟡 SHIB → $35,000 (−65%) 🟡 TON → $29,000 (−71%) 🟡 UNI → $35,000 (−65%) 🟡 PEPE → $28,000 (−72%) 🟡 ONDO → $26,000 (−74%) 🟡 APT → $17,000 (−83%) 🟡 TRUMP → $18,000 (−82%) 🟡 SEI → $27,000 (−73%) 🟡 INJ → $20,000 (−80%) 🟡 MELANIA → $1,200 (−98.8%)

📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$87,788 ETH ≈$2,905 SOL ≈$123,74 BNB ≈$878,08 XRP ≈$1,88 Market cap ≈$3,06T Fear & Greed Index: 29 ("Fear") Altseason Index: 25

🇯🇵 Coindesk: The market is shifting to a risk-off mode due to talks of currency interventions in Japan. Japan is preparing to intervene in the forex market to support the yen. When central banks intervene (massively buying or selling currency), investors tend to move out of risky assets into safe havens. Currently, capital is flowing heavily into gold and silver. Additionally, the Fed meeting is scheduled this week, and comments from Jerome Powell could set the tone for markets in the near term.

🥇Tether Gold accounts for more than half of the entire gold-backed stablecoin market, with the total market capitalization of XAU₮ exceeding $4 billion.

💸 Crypto-based investment products recorded their largest weekly outflows since November, totaling $1.73 billion.

😆 Trump Inc. has earned more than $1.4 billion Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation notes that $400 million of this came from rug pulls involving the branded memecoins TRUMP and MELANIA.

💸 Stablecoin issuers generated around $5 billion in revenue in 2025 from supply deployed on Ethereum (Token Terminal data).

🤸‍♂️ Strategy bought 2,932 BTC for $264.1 million at an average price of $90,061 per bitcoin.

📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$87,717 ETH ≈$2,899 SOL ≈$122,51 BNB ≈$871,32 XRP ≈$1,90 Market cap ≈$3,06T Fear & Greed Index: 25 ("Extreme fear") Altseason Index: 29

🪙 Bitcoin ETFs recorded outflows of $1.33 billion last week. Ethereum ETFs saw $611 million in outflows.

📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$88,658 ETH ≈$2,935 SOL ≈$126,43 BNB ≈$879,50 XRP ≈$1,89 Market cap ≈$3,08T Fear & Greed Index: 25 ("Extreme fear") Altseason Index: 28

💰 GameStop has transferred its entire Bitcoin reserve of 4,710 BTC to Coinbase Prime, likely for a potential sale, according to CryptoQuant. The company acquired the cryptocurrency between May 14 and May 25, 2025, at an average price of about $107,900, investing roughly $504 million. If the assets are sold at current prices, the losses would amount to approximately $76 million. Some commentators suggest this may not indicate GameStop’s “capitulation.” Instead, the company might be seeking to generate additional income from holding Bitcoin — for example, by participating in Coinbase lending programs, they speculate.

📈 Is Bitcoin really “too risky”? In 2025, the average 30-day volatility: • Bitcoin: ~40% • Tesla: ~73% • Nvidia: ~55% • Apple / Google / Amazon: 34%–42% At the same time, about 12% of Americans own BTC, while 62% of the U.S. population holds Tesla and Nvidia shares (including via retirement funds). So it turns out that more volatile assets sit in the portfolios of the majority and are seen as “normal,” while the less volatile Bitcoin is still labeled as a dangerous exotic asset.

✨ Binance and OKX are exploring or planning to launch trading in tokenized stocks. Binance previously offered such products but removed them in 2021 due to regulatory uncertainty. Now the sector has developed significantly, and with the change in leadership at the SEC, companies are facing less regulatory pressure.

📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$89,607 ETH ≈$2,957 SOL ≈$127,52 BNB ≈$891,67 XRP ≈$1,92 Market cap ≈$3,12T Fear & Greed Index: 25 ("Extreme fear") Altseason Index: 32

🫡 Coinglass: Over the past 1 hour, $143,000,000 in short positions have been liquidated.

🖨 Arkham: Circle has minted 500,000,000 new USDC.