🇺🇸#Global The U.S. Federal Reserve left the key interest rate unchanged in the 3.5–3.75% range.

🔹#ETH The Ethereum X account said that the ERC-8004 standard will soon launch on mainnet. By supporting discovery and portable reputation, ERC-8004 enables AI agents to operate across organizations, allowing credibility to move with them and creating an interoperable

💵#USDT Tether has introduced USA₮, a federally regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin built for the U.S. market under the GENIUS Act framework. Issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and backed with reserves held by Cantor Fitzgerald, USA₮ will be available on Bybit, Crypto com,

👍#BASE Base co-founder Jesse Pollak said on X that the Base core team will not secretly “pump” assets or manipulate markets by coordinating private capital deployments to drive prices toward predetermined outcomes. He noted that such actions would unfairly disadvantage other

❄️#BTC A cold snap in the U.S. led to a mass shutdown of mining rigs. A sharp drop in temperatures across the U.S. caused record electricity demand, forcing major mining companies to shut down equipment to stabilize the power grid. Bitcoin’s network hashrate fell to 706 EH/s —

🔹#ETH Vitalik Buterin has moved away from his 2017 position that blockchains should record only transactions without committing state, as advances in zero-knowledge technologies such as ZK-SNARKs now allow state to be verified without replaying every transaction, lowering trust

🐧#Crypto On January 24, the Solana meme token Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) surged from $0.01 to $0.16, gaining about 1500%. The rally followed a post by the White House featuring a photo of Donald Trump walking alongside a penguin. For unknown reasons, users linked the post

🇺🇸#BTC More businesses throughout Las Vegas are beginning to accept Bitcoin payments, ranging from major chains like Steak ’n Shake to local retailers and medical offices. Business owners say Bitcoin payments help bring in new customers and reduce transaction costs. Meanwhile,

⚡️#Global Discord — passport-only starting in March The Discord platform is introducing mandatory age verification by documents for all users. Without verification, access will be restricted—you won’t be able to join 18+ servers, message strangers in DMs, and almost all

👾#Crypto SlowMist uncovered a supply-chain attack in OpenClaw’s ClawHub plugin marketplace, where weak moderation let many malicious skills slip through and propagate harmful code. Koi Security reviewed 2,857 skills and flagged 341 as malicious. SlowMist examined over 400 IOCs,

⛏️#BTC Mempool developer Mononaut said Bitcoin’s mining difficulty fell 11.16% to 125.86 T, marking the largest single downward adjustment since China’s mining crackdown in July 2021 and the 10th-biggest drop in Bitcoin’s history. The decline was mainly caused by weather-related

😡#BTC Bithumb mistakenly credited hundreds of users with 2,000 BTC instead of 2,000 KRW ($1.5). Some didn’t hesitate and immediately sold at market. As a result, BTC on Bithumb was trading 10% below the market price.

📉#Crypto Wintermute said BTC dropped below $80,000, sparking $2.55 billion in liquidations—the 10th largest on record in crypto. The sell-off was fueled by weak Mag7 earnings, Kevin Warsh’s nomination for Fed chair, and a correction in precious metals. While volatility points

🟣#POL Polygon flips Ethereum in daily transaction fees, crossing $300k per Token Terminal.

🤡#BTC Strategy said in an official statement that even if Bitcoin were to drop to $8,000, the company would still hold enough assets to meet all of its outstanding debt obligations. Founder Michael Saylor added that over the next three to six years, the firm intends to convert

🕓#FTX FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), currently serving a 25-year prison sentence, is reportedly seeking a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. However, despite his recent outreach to right-wing audiences, a White House spokesperson reiterated that Trump stated in

🇧🇹#Crypto The Kingdom of Bhutan, with support from Solana, is launching a visa program for “digital nomads.” By investing $10,000 in the #TER token and paying an additional $2,800, a person receives the right to stay in the country for 36 months.

👾#Crypto Onchain investigator ZachXBT announced on X that he plans to release a major investigation on Feb. 26 focused on what he describes as “one of the most profitable businesses in crypto.” He claims that several employees exploited internal data to carry out insider

🚨BREAKING: 🇰🇷South Korea is proposing a bill that would force "influencers" to disclose their crypto holdings and any compensation received when promoting crypto.

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