🗞️🗞️🗞️  NEWS  🗞️🗞️🗞️

️↗️ $BTC ETF + $188.7 mln.

 ↘️ $ETH ETF - $14.9 mln.

🕔✨ @VitalikButerin  published an article discussing Ethereum's strategy to 2025, noting that L2 is the main path for Ethereum's expansion and that it is also necessary to increase the capacity of data blocks, optimize the security of the L2 evidence system, accelerate the development of interoperability standards, and strengthen the core position of $ETH in the Ethereum economy. 

😐 The main obstacle to the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is Ripple/ $XRP, who are aggressively lobbying against it, spending millions of dollars on politicians to defend their narrative and promote CBDC on their platform. Ripple's CEO disagrees.

🔎 Key support for $BTC is $97,530. Holding above this level is important to continue the bullish trend.

❕ Glassnode Chief Analyst James Check said that $BTC price trend is repeating the 2016-2017 cycle and could potentially top $150,000.

🇯🇵 The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate by 25 bps by a majority vote of 8 to 1 and hinted at possible further hikes.

➗ Trump urged the Fed to cut rates. The upcoming FOMC meeting is scheduled for January 29, which could affect the rate decision.

🛒 $ETH $TRX $LDO - Trump's WLFI bought an additional 3,079 $ETH ($10 million) and 10.6 million $TRX ($2.65 million). They also contributed 4,700 ETH in steaking on Lido.

🔴 $TRX - Justin Sun announced the launch of $USDD 2.0, an algorithmic stablecoin issued by Tron DAO Reserve. He said the 20% share of APY will officially launch on February 1.

🤖 #AI16Z - AI16Z revealed some tokenomics updates, dev updates. They announced several updates including Agent Marketplace, AI KOL/memcoin trading and more.

🕔 Vitalik Buterin expressed concern that political coins could become a tool for corruption, including those involving foreign governments.

😨 THORChain  is insolvent - with large debt repayments and/or deleveraging of savers and synths, it will definitely not be able to fulfill its obligations in bitcoins and ether. Validators have suspended the network while they vote on a restructuring plan.

😏Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked US financial regulators and the government's ethics office to look into ethical and legal issues surrounding Donald and Melania Trump's cryptocurrency tokens.

💻 Account X of former Brazilian President Bolsonaro hacked and promoted by BRAZIL.

👍 Video platform Rumble launches Rumble Wallet cryptocurrency wallet with Bitcoin and Tether support for payments between creators and subscribers.

👍 Repealed Executive Order 14067 from the Biden administration, which pointed out the risks of sgurto to the state and citizens. 

🤑🤑 Chainlink CCIP goes to World Chain.
#BTC #ETH