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Bitcoin dipped below $77K over the weekend, triggering more than $2.5 billion in liquidations amid mounting geopolitical tensions, before rebounding above $78K on Monday. Meanwhile, gold and silver tumbled as the dollar surged, Bed Bath & Beyond eyes tokenized real estate, Aave’s GHO stablecoin supply crossed $500 million, and top meme-coin investor Murad faces sharp losses.

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News Roundup

Artificial Intelligence

  • AI Agents Build a Digital Religion From Scratch on an Autonomous Social Network (Decrypt)

  • Local Resistance to AI Data Centers Emerges as a New Constraint on Infrastructure Growth (Decrypt)

  • South Korea Expands AI Surveillance to Crack Down on Crypto Manipulation (Cointelegraph)

Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance

  • WisdomTree’s Crypto Business Grows Even as Tokenization Takes Center Stage (The Block)

  • Step Finance Probes $29 Million Treasury Wallet Breach as Token Price Slides (The Block)

  • Tether Profit Slips to $10 Billion as Reserves Reach Record High (DL News)

  • Circle Maps 2026 Push to Bring Stablecoins Deeper Into Global Finance (Circle)

  • Nomura Trims Crypto Exposure After Losses at Digital Asset Arm (DL News)

  • Xi Calls for Renminbi to Become Global Reserve Currency (Financial Times)

  • Hong Kong Prepares First Wave of Stablecoin Licenses (Cointelegraph)

  • Ripple Receives Full EU Payments License in Luxembourg (The Block)

  • Digital Asset Funds Suffer $1.7B in Weekly Outflows (CoinShares)

  • Cboe Eyes Prediction Markets With Revival of Binary Options (The Block)

  • Bed Bath & Beyond Plans to Tokenize Real Estate via Tokens.com Deal (CoinDesk)

  • Aave’s GHO Stablecoin Supply Surpasses $500M Milestone (The Defiant)

  • UAE Firm Took 49% Stake in Trump-Linked Crypto Startup (Cointelegraph)

Exchanges

  • Binance Details What Drove October’s Crypto Flash Crash and Where Its Systems Were Tested (Binance)

  • Coinbase Insider Trading Lawsuit Cleared to Proceed by Delaware Court (Cointelegraph)

  • Bitget Doubled Bitcoin Holdings Over the Past Year (Gracy Chen)

  • SoSoValue Launches SoDEX With 150M $SOSO Incentive Program (SoSoValue)

  • Binance Deploys $100M From SAFU Fund to Buy ~1,315 BTC (Cointelegraph)

  • CZ Signals Binance Shift Toward Compliance and Longevity Over Aggressive Growth (Binance)

Exchange-Traded Funds

Gaming

  • Axie Infinity Founder Warns Web3 Games Faces Wave of Shutdowns (Cointelegraph)

  • Scottie Pippen Brings Bitcoin Easter Eggs to New Fortnite-Style Game (Cointelegraph)

Infrastructure

  • Lighter Moves Into Full DeFi Stack With Launch of EVM Smart Contract Support (Lighter)

  • Base Network Recovers After Temporary Transaction Delays (Base Build)

  • CrossCurve Warns of Legal Action After $3M Cross-Chain Bridge Exploit (Decrypt)

  • Vitalik Buterin Argues On-Chain Mechanism Design Isn’t as Complex as It Seems (Vitalik Buterin)

  • Arcium Goes Live on Solana With Privacy-Focused Mainnet Alpha (The Block)

  • Hyperliquid Unveils Outcome Trading Framework via HIP-4 (Hyperliquid)

Markets

  • Ethereum Liquidity Shrinks as ETFs and Staking Lock Away Nearly Half of Supply (The Defiant)

  • Bitcoin Slides Out of Top 10 Assets After Record Liquidations Shake Market (Cointelegraph)

  • MegaETH Token Valuation Slides as Mainnet Launch Approaches (The Defiant)

  • Gold and Silver Suffer Historic Collapse as Dollar Surge Reverses Metals Boom (Bloomberg)

  • Bitcoin Slides Toward $77,000 Amid Rising Geopolitical Tensions (CoinDesk)

  • Crypto Selloff Deepens as Liquidations Surge Past $2.5 Billion (Decrypt)

  • Hyperunit Whale Wiped Out After Exiting ETH Bet With $250 Million Loss (The Block)

  • Prediction Markets Hit Record $12B Volume as On-Chain Fees Surge (Dune)

  • Polymarket Launches on Solana Through Jupiter Integration (Jupiter)

  • $638M in Token Unlocks Ahead This Week (Tokenomist)

  • Bitcoin Derivatives Flash Red as Market Deleveraging Accelerates (Decrypt)

  • Opera Shares Surge 18% as MiniPay Adds Tether’s USDT (The Block)

Meme Coins

  • Meme-Coin Star Murad Suffers Steep Portfolio Collapse (Ash Crypto)

  • Trump Memecoin Team Moves $105M in Tokens to New Wallets (DL News)

  • Moltbook Memecoin Crashes 75% After X-Fueled Hype Fades (DL News)

Mining

  • Bitcoin Mining Economics Sink to a 14 Month Low as Weather and Markets Collide (Decrypt)

  • BitRiver Parent Enters Bankruptcy Monitoring as Founder Faces House Arrest (The Block)

  • Bitcoin Miners Near Breakeven as Difficulty and Power Costs Squeeze Margins (AntPool)

Politics & Regulation

  • White House Summit Brings Crypto and Banks Together Over Stablecoin Rewards Debate (The Block)

  • Tennessee Considers Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill (Bitcoin Magazine)

  • US Treasury Sanctions Iran-Linked Crypto Exchanges in Sanctions (Cointelegraph)

  • India Pressured to Ease Crypto Taxes as Trading Activity Moves Offshore (Decrypt)

  • New York Prosecutors Warn Stablecoin Law Could Enable Fraud (Cointelegraph)

  • Nevada Court Temporarily Blocks Polymarket as Regulatory Pressure Mounts (Decrypt)

  • India Keeps Punitive Crypto Taxes in Budget 2026 (Decrypt)

  • Hong Kong Aims to Act as Crypto’s Global Connector (CoinDesk)

Token Generation Events

  • MegaETH Rejects Token Incentives for Exchange Listings (MegaETH)

  • Zama Launches ZAMA Token, Introduces ‘Total Value Shielded’ Privacy Benchmark (The Block)

Treasuries & Reserves

  • BitMine Immersion’s Ether Bet Swells to $6 Billion Paper Loss (Cointelegraph)

  • Strategy Adds 855 Bitcoin, Lifting Holdings to Over 713,000 BTC (Strategy)

  • BitMine Grows Ethereum Treasury to 4.3M ETH (PR Newswire)

  • Strategy’s Bitcoin Position Briefly Turns Unprofitable as Market Slide Deepens (Decrypt)

Venture Capital

  • Crypto VC Funding Surges to $1.4 Billion in January (DL News)

Other News

  • Iranians Use Decentralized Networks to Defy Internet Blackout (DL News)

  • Sam Bankman-Fried Amplifies Support for Trump After Ellison’s Release (Cointelegraph)

  • Crypto Hacks Cost $86M in January as Phishing Losses Stay Elevated (PeckShield)

  • Crypto Wrench Attacks Surge to Record High, Costing Investors $41M in 2025 (Decrypt)

  • Argentine Crypto Scam Suspect Arrested in Venezuela (DL News)

  • Man Tortured for 16 Hours in Botched Crypto Kidnapping (DL News)

Check This Out!

Bitcoin has posted four straight monthly losses for the first time since 2018, according to CoinGlass data.

Source: CoinGlass

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Source: naiivememe

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