🕵️‍♂️ Whale transactions:
- Sigil Fund brought out #PENGU worth $3.56 million from Binance;
- smartmoney, who previously made $5.16 million from the LUNA crash and ~$7.4 million from trading BTC, today sold 4,192 #ETH bought last September for a profit of $3 million;
- two more whales sold ETH for >$20 million: 0x0945...4Cec sold 4,216 ETH, and 0x0121...fDb7 - 2,010 ETH.

🇺🇸👀 #macro Waller at the Fed:
- Possible 3 or 4 rate cuts this year;
- does not rule out a rate cut in March;
- does not expect Trump's tariffs to affect inflation.

🇺🇸 #USDT Tether plans US expansion: Bloomberg

📉 #BNB TVL of the BNB Chain ecosystem has decreased by 3.31% over the past 30 days

🙋‍♂ #AI CryptoRank: The limitations of the current crypto index landscape, as well as the potential of the DeFAI trend and ideas for the future of AI-based portfolio management.

https://cryptorank.io/insights/research/future-of-crypto-indices

#research

🍒Digest for today and events for tomorrow - https://t.iss.one/cryptoattack/20737

🥳 Coinbase 🛡️ : On court and on chain.

Jan. 4th in San Francisco was our first ever Coinbase Night in partnership with the @warriors.

With our limited edition collectible, we brought 1600+ fans onchain & rewarded the first 200 with custom jerseys.

Bay area, join us for the next one March 20th. Twitter #announcement #Coinbase

🥳 Coinbase 🛡️ : On court and on chain.

Jan. 4th in San Francisco was our first ever Coinbase Night in partnership with the @warriors.

With our limited edition collectible, we brought 1600+ fans onchain & rewarded the first 200 with custom jerseys.

Bay Area, join us for the next one March 20th. Twitter #announcement #Coinbase

🥳🆕 [Market addition] Decargo (#DKA), Chain Bounty (#BOUNTY) won market added feed.bithumb.com #Bithumb #Listing

💵 #USDC Treasury Circle minted ~50 million USDC on the Ethereum network.

🇺🇸 Trump plans to make cryptocurrency a national priority. Bloomberg

Trump also criticized Ripple for providing financial support to Kamala Harris during the election. Trump accused the company of not supporting him at a critical moment. #XRP unchained

Previously: Ripple will donate $5 million to Trump's inauguration fund

🇺🇸 #USDT Tether is considering expanding its business in the US. bloomberg.com

🇺🇸 #XRP Grayscale XRP Trust open for accredited investors.

📊 Santiment: the most discussed topics in the cryptocurrency space:
which are in greatest demand:
- growth in the value of #XRP, as well as optimistic sentiment associated with the asset’s previous legal victories over the SEC, and appeal SEC;
- discussion potential approval #ETF on #LTC SEC;
- the word “itsstillearly” has become a trend and suggests that now is the time to get involved in cryptocurrencies, as significant advances and innovations are expected in the near future;
- discussion of possible changes in the field of cryptocurrencies after Trump’s inauguration.

📊 Santiment: Top altcoins with market capitalization >$500 million with the largest increase in whale transactions this week. #DAI #DEXE #ZRO

💰 Phantom crypto wallet completed $150 billion Series C financing at a $3 billion valuation led by Sequoia Capital.

Tapestry completedи $5.75 million Series A funding round led by Union Square Ventures and Fabric Ventures.

EarnOS completes seed round of $5 million.

Cursor completedи $105 million Series B funding.

Merit Systems completedи financing in the amount of $10 million.

a16z announced, which led the Series A funding round of Eve, an AI-powered legal services platform. #AI

📈 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, the total net inflow of spot BTC-ETFs was ~$626 million.

The total net inflow of spot ETH-ETFs was ~$166 million.

✏️ Base announced about its goals for 2025: to reach 25 million users, 25,000 developers and platform assets of $100 billion.

👋 #NFT Platform NFT MakersPlace announced about termination of activity.