🇺🇸 #macro CB Consumer Confidence (Dec): 107 (prev: 111.7)

🥳 #CRO Crypto .com launches regulated digital asset custody service for customers in the US and Canada. financefeeds

💰 Binance invested in #USUAL

🔝 DropsTab: Top Gainers Among #DeFi Over the Last Week. #USUAL #DEXE #GEAR #SDEX #HYPE #CTC

🇰🇵👀 #HYPE Hyperliquid Labs stated that there is no exploit and all user funds are safe: “If a vulnerability is found, the team is willing to address it through the existing bug bounty program. There was a case where a person claiming to be a security specialist tried to contact Labs. However, this person added a fraudulent account to a group chat and communicated using insults. The team rejected his application, turning instead to trusted experts and confirming their safety."

✅ #PSP Paraswap DAO approved introduction of a new token to replace PSP

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: -5,353 BTC ($502.17M) 🔴
Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust outflows 1,959 BTC ($184.15M) and currently holds 38,276 BTC ($3.6B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: -43,129 ETH ($142.11M) 🔴
Blackrock outflows 29,988 ETH ($98.81M) and currently holds 1,017,502 ETH ($3.35B).

📊 #FUD Santiment: New traders who have joined the market over the past 2-3 months are actively selling off #BTC and #ETH

📈 #AAVE #LDO The two biggest #DeFi apps, Aave & Lido, are securing over $70 billion in user deposits combined.

📊🤔 #ETH Ecoinometrics: Since the 2022 bear market bottom, Bitcoin has surged 442%, while Ethereum is up 153%. Despite Ethereum's gains, it significantly lags behind Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s rallies fail to lift Ethereum strongly, yet corrections impact ETH disproportionately—a trend evident in recent price movements.

🇨🇦💰 #BTC Publicly traded Matador Technologies Inc. approves to purchase $4.5 million BTC as a strategic reserve asset.

📊📈 #XRP is the most traded altcoin on the Binance Futures market, with a trading volume of 116.6B already, and the month isn't over yet. cryptoquant

🇺🇸🥳 La Rosa Holdings to integrate #BTC and cryptocurrency payments for its network of 3,000+ US real estate agents. cointelegraph

💰 Top Fundraising Rounds conducted in the last 7 days

Projects that received the most funding are BVNK ($50M), a stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, Lens ($31M), a high-perfomance blockchain for social apps, and Plume Network ($20M), an L1 blockchain for scaling #RWA's.

📊👀 #LTC IntoTheBlock: In 2024, the average daily active addresses for Litecoin reached 401,000, marking an increase from 366,000 in 2023.

Litecoin's yearly high in activity was set in early January, with 1.37 million active addresses in a single day, exceeding both #BTC and #ETH.

🇺🇸🕹 The IRS claims that staking cryptocurrencies is taxable

🇲🇾 Malaysian Regulator added Atomic Wallet has been added to the list of financial companies that are prohibited from operating in the country.

🙋‍♂👀 Moonpay is in negotiations to acquire Helio for ~$150 million

📊👀 #BTC WhaleMap: The $98,133 level remains important according to whale accumulations. Reclaiming this level should yield some upside for Bitcoin.

🇺🇸📈 #BTC-#ETF's pass 1,300,000 in total BTC — 6% of all the BTC that will ever be.