🇺🇸👀 Cynthia Lummis investigates sale of #BTC by US Marshals Service: Politico

💰 SmartMoney has $13 million in unrealized profits from trading Virtuals ecosystem tokens.
Address: 0x5CcAf678B74464fAc20f6cAE8cBAA9B402010C45

🇺🇸👀 #macro USA:
- Retail sales (Dec): 0.4% (prev: 0.7%);
- Initial Jobless Claims: 217 thousand (previous: 201 thousand);
- Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index (Jan): 44.3 (prev: -16.4).

🗽👀 Coinbase Restarts #BTC Lending for US Users via Morpho

🇧🇪🇵🇱 #BNB Binance clients from Belgium and Poland now need to undergo additional identity verification for transactions over $1000. binance

🏦 #ETH Swiss state bank PostFinance is expanding its crypto business by launching Ethereum staking. Bloomberg

💰 Decentralized platform EarnOS raises $5 million in seed funding. the block

🚀👀 #MORPHO +12% on news

🗽👀 #HNT Grayscale registered Helium Trust (HNT) in Delaware

🆕👀Coinbase International will add support for perpetual futures on #AIXBT, #PNUT and #VET

🥳 #USDT Tether is leveraging Kraken's Ink Layer 2 for the first deployment of its cross-chain stablecoin USDT0. the block

💰 Today's fundraisers:
- DEX GTE based on MegaETH attracted $10 million from Maven 11, Wintermute, etc.;
- Hyve Labs, which deals with Web3 games, completed $2.75 million Pre-Seed funding round led by Framework Ventures.

📊 #XRP Sentiment: XRP price reached a new 7-year high today (3.3%). Thanks to this growth, we saw 2,365 XRP transactions worth $100,000+ in the last 8 hours. The total number of holders is also growing rapidly.

👀 🇺🇸 Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there is no reason for the government to create a central bank digital currency.

🕵️‍♂️ 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