🪙 Reports suggest Venezuela may have accumulated a large “shadow” crypto reserve — potentially up to 600,000 BTC.

According to circulating claims, the regime sold around 73 tons of gold in 2018 and allegedly converted part of the proceeds into Bitcoin to avoid asset freezes by the U.S. Treasury.

👉 So far, this remains unconfirmed, but if true, it would rank among the largest state-level BTC holdings ever rumored.

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📊 Spot trading volumes are drying up
BTC spot trading volumes and aggregate altcoin turnover have fallen to their lowest levels since November 2023 — Glassnode.

At the same time, prices remain elevated, pointing to weakening real demand and deteriorating market liquidity.

🫡 The market appears to be running on inertia rather than fresh capital — a potentially fragile setup.

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🪙 17 years ago, on January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent the first-ever Bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney.

Finney later said that Satoshi’s identity was a mystery to him — he imagined “a young man of Japanese origin, very intelligent and sincere.”

👉 Looking back in 2014, Finney admitted he regretted his early lack of interest in Bitcoin — not realizing at the time that he was witnessing the birth of a financial revolution.

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🪒 Reports claim the former New York City mayor drained liquidity from his newly launched meme token — allegedly scamming traders for $3.43M.

According to circulating on-chain data shared by crypto investigators, a wallet linked to Eric Adams’ token project removed the entire liquidity pool shortly after launch, leaving buyers with worthless tokens.

👀 These claims are currently unverified and based on community blockchain analysis. No official legal ruling or confirmed statement has been issued so far.

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☠️ In 2025, identity-impersonation crimes in the crypto industry surged by 1,400%, while average losses per victim rose by over 600%.

Attackers are posing as exchanges and well-known public figures, combining social engineering with technical exploits. The rise of AI has made these schemes far more convincing, scalable, and profitable.

👉 Security takeaway: If a message creates urgency, asks for private keys, or offers “exclusive recovery/support” — assume it’s a scam. Always verify through official channels.

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🔥 From mid-2021 to the end of 2025, out of roughly 20.2 million launched tokens, 53% turned out to be scams or completely ceased to exist.

The biggest wave of failures happened in 2025 alone: 11.6 million tokens died last year, accounting for 86% of all token “deaths” over the past five years.

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📉 L2s Are No Longer Making Money

According to CryptoRank, on January 14 only three Ethereum Layer 2 networks recorded more than $5,000 in daily fee revenue:

⚪️ Base — $147,000
⚪️ Arbitrum — $39,000
⚪️ Starknet — $9,000

The combined revenue of all other L2s was just slightly over $15,000.

🧐 Signal: Most L2s are struggling to generate sustainable fee income.

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📊 Short-Term Holders Are Taking Profits on BTC’s Rebound

Short-term investors have begun locking in profits amid Bitcoin’s price recovery, using the local bounce and newly available liquidity, according to a CryptoQuant analyst.

👉 He notes that such profit-taking spikes usually signal weakening of the current momentum, rather than the start of a sustainable new uptrend.

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🪒 A Year Ago, Trump Launched His Own Meme Token — It’s Now Down 93%

One year ago, Donald Trump launched his own meme token, TRUMP, just ahead of his inauguration.

🎯 In the first days after launch, the token’s price skyrocketed — investors believed an asset tied to the name of a U.S. president, especially in the image of a “crypto-Trump,” was guaranteed to deliver massive profits.

But the hype faded quickly. The market reversed soon after launch, and since then the token has lost around 93% of its value, with no signs of recovery or a new rally so far.

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🐳 Institutional Demand for Bitcoin Remains Strong — CryptoQuant

Over the past year, institutions have added 577,000 BTC to their holdings (worth roughly $53 billion), and inflows are still continuing.

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🗽 US Treasury Confirms Ongoing Work on a National Bitcoin Reserve

🔵 The United States has fully stopped selling confiscated BTC.
🔵 The next step is expanding the reserve using seized and forfeited assets — after legal settlements, these BTC will no longer be sold but added to the national digital reserve.
🔵 The administration is focused on bringing the crypto industry back to the US, aiming for clear regulation and support for innovation.
🔵 Against this backdrop, the previous Biden-era policy — which nearly undermined the digital asset sector — is now effectively being reversed.

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🪙 In its 2026 outlook, BlackRock highlights Ethereum as a major beneficiary of tokenization, noting that roughly 65% of all tokenized assets are already issued on its blockchain.

BlackRock’s CEO emphasizes that tokenization represents a multi-trillion-dollar market that is still in its very early stages of growth.

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📊 Markets are increasingly pricing in approaching turbulence: the largest holders of U.S. Treasuries — Japan, the UK, and China — have reduced their positions to the lowest levels since 2008.

Mass selling of Treasuries is pushing yields higher and making capital more expensive, rapidly tightening global liquidity.

👉 Historically, such dynamics first hit bonds, then equities — and ultimately deliver the sharpest impact on crypto markets.

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💎 Gold has surpassed $5,000 for the first time in history.

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🚀 Blockchain Forum 2026 — the global crypto industry returns to Moscow

📅 April 14–15

Blockchain Forum 2026 is the only international crypto event in Moscow bringing together leading global companies, top speakers, and investors in one place.

The event is organized by the team behind Blockchain Life — a flagship crypto forum that has been gathering tens of thousands of attendees in major crypto capitals worldwide since 2017.

Traditionally, the forum brings together founders and top executives from:
Tether, Binance, Tron, Ripple, Bybit, Animoca Brands, Circle, OKX, KuCoin, Telegram, Cardano, Mastercard, Bitmain, DWF Labs, Consensys, BNB Chain, and many more.

🔥 Three stages
🏢 250+ companies
🔜 20,000+ attendees

All international talks will feature simultaneous translation into Russian.

💡 For the first time:
AI Future — a “forum within a forum” dedicated to the intersection of AI and blockchain, bringing together industry leaders, developers, investors, and researchers.

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💼 According to a report, crypto job openings grew 6% in 2025 to 1,801 positions — with non-technical roles making up the majority.

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🪒 Most well-known meme shitcoins have collapsed by an average of -95% from their highs, with no signs of recovery.

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👻 Over the past 24 hours, the crypto market has lost around 5.5% of its total market cap: Bitcoin dropped below $83,000, Ethereum is trading near $2,700, and many altcoins are down 8–10%.

In the last day alone, $1.7 billion in trader positions were liquidated, while the Fear & Greed Index remains in extreme fear territory at 16.

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🤑 Vitalik Buterin said that over the next five years, the Ethereum Foundation will shift to a mode of moderate spending to execute Ethereum’s scaling roadmap and ensure the Foundation’s long-term sustainability — while preserving the core principles of decentralization, security, and privacy.

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🚬 Over the weekend, Hyperliquid liquidated a long position worth $222,600,000 with a single order.

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