🇺🇸👨‍⚖ Gemini has agreed to pay $5 million to settle US CFTC charges that it made false and misleading statements during its bid to launch the first US-regulated #BTC futures contract. bloomberg

🔎 #BTC Key Events in 2024

The influence of U.S. politics on Bitcoin’s price became increasingly evident in 2024, as reflected in market trends. Key drivers of growth included the launch of BTC #ETF's—though the price surge was delayed by a month due to Grayscale's BTC sell-off—and the election victory of pro-crypto candidate Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race.

For Bitcoin's explosive growth to continue, practical steps from the U.S. government will be crucial. If policies and actions align with a pro-Bitcoin stance, further price increases can be anticipated.

🔮🗣 #BTC Tom Lee, the Managing Partner at Fundstrat Global Advisors and a well-known Bitcoin advocate, has made a bold prediction: Bitcoin could hit $250,000 by 2025 under the Trump administration.

🇺🇸 Congress officially confirmed Trump's victory in the US presidential election.
Meanwhile, Trump, after Justin Trudeau's statement about his resignation, invited Canada to join the United States.

📊👀 WhaleMap: The level of $94K formed a double bottom, with each touch of which whale wallets actively accumulated.
In case we fall, we are now supported by 2 levels - $98K and $94K.

🕵️ 2,500 #BTC outflow from Binance in the most recent hour. The highest in 1 month.

📈🤔 #BTC #MSTR Michael Saylor has published Bitcoin Tracker once again, hinting that he will increase his Bitcoin holdings.

📊🤔 Glassnode: Despite Bitcoin's strong rally from $93.5K on Jan 1 to $102.4K, the Perpetual Funding Rates for the top 5 assets remain below neutral (0.1%):

#BTC: 0.009%
#ETH: 0.01%
#SOL: 0.006%
#XRP: 0.01%
#DOGE: 0.011%

This suggests perpetual markets are lagging behind the current positive market momentum.

📊 #BTC Santiment: Since Trump became the 47th US President, crypto and stocks have been closely correlated. However, Bitcoin is now outpacing the S&P 500.

For years, crypto was seen as a "high-leverage tech stock," but early 2025 shows signs BTC could break free from stock market trends. Historically, crypto thrives when uncorrelated with equities. If this trend continues, new all-time highs could be on the horizon.

👀 #LUNA2 #LUNC #USTC US prosecutors count more than 1 million victims in Do Kwon's criminal case theblock.com

📊 #SOL #ETH The 24-hour trading volume of DEX on the Solana network exceeds the volume of Ethereum and Base combined.

🇺🇸 #BTC CEO Satoshi Action Fund: Up to 20 bills will be introduced at the state level “BTC Strategic Reserve - multiple bills in one state - legislators will compete aggressively to become the first in history.

🇮🇪🕹 HashKey received approval for registration from the Central Bank of Ireland as a virtual asset service provider. #regulation

🤖 #ai16z Founder ai16z: A website has been created to announce a list of official partners and recognized projects.

📊 Santiment: #FDUSD continues to move to Binance, with two separate transactions worth $25.9 million coming from the same whale. Also, watch for big moves on #WBTC, #ENA, #COMP, #WLD, #SPX, #FTM and #PEPE.

📊 Santiment: most popular discussions:
- Resignation Prime Minister of Canada;
- Height #BTC >$100K

📈 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, the total net inflow of spot BTC-ETFs was ~$987.06 million.
Nasdaq applied to increase the IBIT position limit from 25K to 250K. Federalregister.gov

Total net inflows of spot ETH-ETFs were ~$58.9 million.

📝 Arthur Hayes states in a new articlethat the crypto market will peak in mid-March and then experience a major correction. Also noted his interest in the rapidly developing sectors of decentralized science (DeSci) and the purchase of #BIO, #VITA, #ATH, #GROW, #PSY, #CRYO and #NEURON.

🔍🐳 Whale transactions:

1. 3 whales bought #swarms for a total of $4.61 million (1, 2, 3);
2. 3 new addresses allegedly belonging to the same person withdrew 2173.4 #BTC ($221.6 million) from Binance (1, 2, 3);
3. Whale received 115.64 million #PENGU ($5 million) from the PENGU Distribution wallet;
4. Whale sold 63.59 million #ZEREBRO and bought 1.45 million #ai16z. The whale currently holds 2.01 million ai16z worth $4.53 million;
5. Whale borrowed 80,000 #BNB and transferred they are all on Binance;
6. The two whales transferred a total of 16.38 million #ENA (~$19.4 million) to the CEX;
7. Top holder swarms and #ZEILGO spent 203.92 #SOL to buy #PRISM.