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📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$95,188 ETH ≈$3,296 SOL ≈$144,33 BNB ≈$941,65 XRP ≈$2,07 Market cap ≈$3,34T Fear & Greed Index: 50 ("Neutral") Altseason Index: 29

🇧🇪 KBC to become the first Belgian bank to offer customers the ability to buy and sell cryptocurrency Starting the week of February 16, retail investors will be able to buy and sell crypto assets via Bolero, KBC’s online investment platform. This will allow self-directed investors in Belgium to invest in cryptocurrencies within a safe and fully regulated environment, marking a first for the country. With this move, KBC strengthens its position as a digital pioneer and responds to the growing demand for secure crypto investment solutions. Virtual currencies, real risks. The only guarantee in crypto is risk.

📉 L2s are no longer making money According to CryptoRank data, on January 14 only three Ethereum Layer 2 networks recorded daily fee revenue above $5,000: ⚪️ Base ($147,000) ⚪️ Arbitrum ($39,000) ⚪️ Starknet ($9,000) The combined revenue of all other L2 networks amounted to just slightly over $15,000.

🪙 The Ethereum network is seeing a sharp surge in the number of new addresses

💲 The dollar-pegged stablecoin USDT0 celebrated its first anniversary, receiving a personal congratulatory message from Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino

😎 A Polymarket trader turned $12 into $100,000 A user named Ascetic placed 16 bets on the same type of event: “Will BTC go up or down on a specific day?” With near-perfect precision, he turned: $12 → $24.3 → $40.35 → $79.31 → $407.29 → $732 → $2,440 → $5,824 → $7,280 → $11,294 → $29,480 → $53,556 → $104,146

🧮 The Bitcoin Policy Institute, based on the Bitcoin for America Act, calculated that if even 1% of U.S. taxes were collected in bitcoin, the United States would have accumulated a reserve of 4.2 million BTC by 2045. The Bitcoin for America Act is a bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2025 by Congressman Warren Davidson. The bill provides for the option to pay federal taxes in BTC.

💹 BlackRock has withdrawn 6,647 BTC ($638M) and 4,179 ETH ($13.7M) from Coinbase Prime over the past 24 hours. Over the past two days, the investment giant’s wallet has accumulated 9,346 BTC ($900M). Institutional investors (and retail investors as well) have resumed buying Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs.

🇮🇷 Chainalysis: Iranians are массовly buying Bitcoin due to the collapse of the national currency. The rial has fallen from 42 to 1,050 per dollar in just a few weeks, effectively becoming worthless. Bitcoin has become a way for Iranians to preserve their savings against hyperinflation and access funds that can be moved abroad without banks or government control.

😐 CryptoQuant: Over the past 24 hours, short-term holders sold 41,800 BTC ($4B), locking in profits. The STH P&L to Exchanges Sum (24H) indicator reflects the volume of BTC sent to exchanges by short-term holders while in unrealized profit or loss. The metric tracks transfers, not actual executed trades. However, moving funds to exchanges typically signals preparation to sell, so some of the BTC has likely already been sold, while the rest may be awaiting sale.

📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$95,691 ETH ≈$3,315 SOL ≈$143,19 BNB ≈$934,46 XRP ≈$2,07 Market cap ≈$3,32T Fear & Greed Index: 49 ("Neutral") Altseason Index: 29

📈 In 2025, among major global assets, BTC (-6.4%) outperformed only the U.S. dollar and crude oil. Gold dominated, closing the year up +62.6% (+11.4% in Q4 alone), driven by central bank accumulation and uncertainty related to Trump’s tariff policies.

🦊 MetaMask has added support for TRON

🌚 A couple of sysadmins were caught — one sysadmin is still gambling on Polymarket The White House administration said that Polymarket traders who used insider information about Maduro have been caught. The culprit turned out to be a systems administrator from the Pentagon. The insider’s wallet(s) have indeed been inactive on Polymarket for 11 days. However, one uncaught trader is still placing bets. He has placed a bet on a change of head of state in the Middle East by January 31.

💀 53.2% of cryptocurrencies have died over the past five years, with most of them collapsing in 2025

📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$96,265 ETH ≈$3,313 SOL ≈$144,42 BNB ≈$933,16 XRP ≈$2,10 Market cap ≈$3,34T Fear & Greed Index: 61 ("Greed") Altseason Index: 33

📝 Vitalik Buterin has released a manifesto about returning to Ethereum’s 2014 dream Back then, they dreamed of an internet without corporations: you own your data, chats, files, and documents - no one spies on you, blocks you, or forces subscriptions. If at the time this vision was slow and difficult to implement, by 2026 the technology has matured: Ethereum is fast and cheap, chats run on Waku, and files on IPFS. Buterin himself says he works daily in Fileverse (a decentralized version of Google Docs): you write and send documents with everything encrypted. Even if the service disappears, your documents remain on the network, and you can continue editing them through open-source code.

🔍 Key takeaways from a report by one of the largest market makers, Wintermute: ⏺️ Capital has entered the crypto market, but it remains highly concentrated. ⏺️ ETFs and DAT products became the main liquidity inflow channels, directing it almost exclusively into BTC, ETH, and a handful of large assets. ⏺️ There was no broad rotation into altcoins. ⏺️ Altcoins suffered from this concentration: the average duration of rallies shrank to about 20 days (down from ~60 days in 2024). Narratives — memecoins, AI tokens, perp DEXs — flared up quickly and faded just as fast. ⏺️ The market has become more mature: options activity grew more than 2.5x year-over-year, with focus shifting from directional bets to systematic strategies such as hedging, yield generation, and covered calls. ⏺️ In 2025, retail investors favored equities over crypto: attention moved to AI, robotics, and quantum technologies. After October 10, retail flows returned to large-cap assets for the first time since late 2023. ⏺️ Regional flows diverged: Asia sold in spring amid tariff concerns, Europe rebalanced positions in summer, and the U.S. increased selling toward year-end due to hawkish Fed rhetoric. ⏺️ The classic four-year cycle is breaking down: market performance is now driven not by timing, but by where liquidity flows and where investor attention is concentrated. In 2025, concentration — not cycles — was the decisive factor.

💰Visa to launch stablecoin payouts Visa is integrating the stablecoin infrastructure of startup BVNK into its Visa Direct fast payments system. This will allow companies in certain countries to pre-fund accounts in stablecoins and send payouts directly to recipients’ wallets. Visa Direct is used for mass payouts such as salaries, freelancer payments, and cross-border transfers. Using stablecoins is expected to provide faster access to funds, including outside traditional banking hours. The first payouts will launch in countries with high demand for digital asset payments, with further expansion depending on client interest. The infrastructure for stablecoin transfers and settlement will be provided by UK-based BVNK, which says it processes over $30 billion in such payments annually. Visa invested in BVNK through its venture arm in May 2025, and five months later Citigroup became a strategic investor. Visa described stablecoins as “a promising tool capable of simplifying transfers and making them faster and more accessible.”

🫡Delphi Digital: the era of mass altcoin growth is over Analytics firm Delphi Digital has released 10 forecasts for the crypto market in 2026. Among them are the expansion of payments between AI agents, growth of decentralized perpetual futures exchanges (perp DEXs), prediction markets, private crypto payments, and a redistribution of stablecoin revenues from issuers toward blockchains and platforms that generate demand for them. The report separately addresses the altcoin market. According to Delphi Digital, the period when nearly the entire market was rising is coming to an end. Prices will be pressured by large investor sell-offs after vesting periods expire, increasing competition from AI, robotics, and biotechnology sectors, as well as the concentration of institutional capital in Bitcoin-based ETFs and the largest cryptocurrencies. As a result, capital will flow only into a limited number of projects with structural demand. Analysts highlight tokens that attract inflows via ETFs, protocols with real revenue and token buyback programs, and applications with proven user demand and a sustainable business model. These projects, Delphi Digital believes, will be the main beneficiaries of the market in 2026.