💰 Ooga Booga completed a $1.5 million strategic funding round led by Primal.  twitter

🤖 #AI Privasea completed Series A funding at $180M valuation with participation from GSR and others.

🇮🇳🙅‍♂️ Bybit will limit services in India. blog

🔝Top 15 Projects by Daily Active Addresses growth in the last 30 days #REZ #MOCA #BLZ

🇰🇪👀 Kenyan Finance Minister John Mbadi said that Kenya is preparing a law to legalize cryptocurrency.

⚡️🇺🇸 #macro USA (Dec):
- Nonfarm Payrolls: 256 thousand (previously: 227 thousand);
- Unemployment: 4.1% (previously: 4.2%)

🔝 Top 10 Chains by Revenue in 2024

🇺🇸🕹 US regulators propose strengthening consumer protection for crypto accounts and require companies to be responsible for hacker losses  ft.com

💰 #RWA Novastro raised $1.2 million in a seed round to introduce RWA solutions into the Move ecosystem. cointelegraph

🇺🇸👀 #macro USA:
- Michigan Consumer Sentiment (Jan-Prev): 73.2 (prev: 74);
- 1-year consumer inflation expectations (Jan-pre): 3.3% (prev: 2.8%) 
- 5-year consumer inflation expectations (Jan-prev): 3.3% (prev: 3%)

🖼 Trending #NFT Collections on major NFT Marketplaces sorted by 7-day floor price growth currently trending on marketplaces such as OpenSea, Blur, Magic Eden, Tensor, and Unisat Wallet.

🕵️‍♂️ Whales are purchasing #PIPPIN:
- One spent $1.52 million to buy 6.71 million PIPPIN at $0.22 per token (address: 3cBB2ZyoNy8YEquSSzR2Rpggp9vcrfz4NcbCKHp7BzvT)
- Second spent 542,880 SWARM and 5000 SOL for a total of $1.13 million to purchase 4.86 million PIPPIN (address: BqbfXuF86fzYn1pcdKtMtpPXE1vGgogHwimEL4qk6pd1)

🗽 A court in New York freed Trump from punishment in a forgery case.

🤝 #APT #LINK Aptos and Chainlink announce partnership. blog

📊🤔 #BTC C.Q.: Short-term SOPR below 1, a good time for accumulation. As short-term investors experience more pain, it often presents better opportunities for accumulation.

🇺🇸🙅‍♂️ Bank of America says it no longer expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates this year. #macro

🗽 US Senator Ted Cruz said he regularly invests in #BTC every week and has tripled his investment

🤖 #AI Messari: The total agent market cap is approaching $20 billion, dominated by frameworks.

🙋‍♂️👀 Mega crypto advocate Nick Szabo (one of the potential candidates for being the real Satoshi Nakamoto) has been appointed as the Chief Scientist at Bitcoin-focused company JAN3. Nick will lead research on #BTC's role in global trade, monetary policy, and financial sovereignty. blog

📊🤔 #BTC Glassnode: Even at prices about 12% below ATH, Bitcoin Long-Term Holders (LTHs) are still distributing, but at a slower rate. Yet, the 30-day percent change in LTH supply suggests that the rate of distribution has likely peaked, reaching extremes seen in previous cycles.