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🇰🇷 South Korean prosecutors had confiscated BTC stolen! The Gwangju Prosecutors’ Office reported the disappearance of a large amount of Bitcoin seized in a criminal case. According to preliminary information, access to the cryptocurrency was lost due to a phishing attack. The bitcoins actually went missing in the middle of last year, but this was only discovered recently.

🔥Grayscale has filed an application with the SEC to launch a BNB ETF.

🤑 The SEC will hold a joint event with the CFTC “on harmonization and U.S. financial leadership in the crypto era.” The event will take place at the CFTC headquarters and will be live-streamed on the SEC’s official website.

💫 Ledger is working with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and Barclays on a potential U.S. IPO, valuing the company at over $4 billion.

🇮🇳 India bans privacy coins India’s financial regulator FIU-IND has tightened requirements for crypto exchanges, effectively banning the listing of privacy-focused coins such as Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), Dash (DASH), and others. Reason: money laundering risks — such assets are harder to track, and therefore regulators consider them unsafe for the legal market. What this means: delistings of privacy coins and restrictions on Indian exchanges, stricter KYC/AML rules, and increased pressure on mixers and anonymization tools.

📱 A crypto investor spent $50,000 on 100 Solana Seeker crypto phones to farm swap activity for the SKR airdrop. Those efforts earned him 75,000,000 SKR tokens, worth approximately $3.33 million.

📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$89,226 ETH ≈$2,929 SOL ≈$127,11 BNB ≈$888,60 XRP ≈$1,91 Market cap ≈$3,09T Fear & Greed Index: 24 ("Extreme fear") Altseason Index: 32

🔸 CZ said he is in talks with a dozen governments about tokenizing national assets. They are exploring the possibility of fractional financing of state assets - such as infrastructure, real estate, or commodities using blockchain technology.

💰 The Smarter Web has added 10 more bitcoins to its corporate balance sheet. Despite the relatively small purchase, the company insists that its 10-year BTC accumulation plan remains fully on track.

Five new blocks were added to the Bitcoin blockchain in just 3 minutes. The average block time is around 10 minutes.

Transaction volume for xStocks tokens on-chain has surpassed $3 billion. Currently, xStocks tokens are held by more than 57,000 holders, and the total cumulative trading volume across centralized and decentralized exchanges exceeds $17 billion.

📊 Ark Invest, in its report “Big Ideas 2026”, forecasts that by 2030 the digital assets market will grow to $28 trillion, with $16 trillion of that coming from Bitcoin. Today, these figures stand at approximately $3.05 trillion for the total market and $1.8 trillion for Bitcoin.

The total value locked (TVL) of the Ethereum ecosystem has reached $341.5 billion. This is almost 11 times higher than Solana’s TVL, 29 times higher than BSC’s, and 190 times higher than Aptos’s.

The market capitalization of stablecoins has hit a new record, surpassing $310 billion.

📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$89,812 ETH ≈$3,011 SOL ≈$129,77 BNB ≈$889,83 XRP ≈$1,95 Market cap ≈$3,13T Fear & Greed Index: 20 ("Extreme fear") Altseason Index: 31

Ondo Finance has added over 200 tokenized stocks and ETFs to the Solana network.

In 2025, Bitcoin led crypto payments by volume with a 22.1% share. It was followed by USDT (16.6%) and Litecoin. TRX grew to 11.5%, while ETH reached 10.6%. The Bitcoin Lightning Network was the most frequently used payment network, and Europe accounted for the largest share of crypto payment volume worldwide.

Chainlink has launched a 24/7 data feed for U.S. stocks and ETFs They now continuously provide DeFi with real-time data from the U.S. stock market, covering pre-market, regular, after-hours, and overnight trading — effectively bringing the $80 trillion U.S. equities market on-chain. The feeds include prices, bid/ask orders, volume, market status, and other comprehensive data, enabling on-chain perpetual contracts on U.S. stocks, prediction markets, synthetic equities, lending, structured products, and other RWA applications. Platforms such as Lighter, BitMEX, ApeX, and Orderly Network have already integrated this feature.

🧮 How likely is it to guess the private key to someone else’s Bitcoin address? Analysts at The Smarter Web calculated that it’s equivalent to winning the lottery 8 times in a row — and then repeating that feat 292 million more times. Good luck 😅

📊 crypto prices: BTC ≈$89,806 ETH ≈$2,989 SOL ≈$128,33 BNB ≈$882,82 XRP ≈$1,92 Market cap ≈$3,11T Fear & Greed Index: 24 ("Extreme fear") Altseason Index: 29