🇺🇸👀 #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.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: -2,152 BTC ($201.21M) 🔴
Fidelity outflows 2,752 BTC ($257.26M) and currently holds 205,488 BTC ($19.21B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: -45,684 ETH ($148.11M) 🔴
Fidelity outflows 44,998 ETH ($145.88M) and currently holds 415,503 ETH ($1.35B).

📊👀 #BTC Visa published research showing the Bitcoin blockchain processing almost as much transaction volume as its payment network and surpassed PayPal.

🔮📈 Arthur Hayes: #BTC could rise to $250,000 by the end of the year.
He expects the “global printing press” to turn on and the devaluation of national currencies, as a result of which people will begin to seek refuge in cryptocurrency and gold.

🇺🇸🥳 #BTC New Hampshire State Rep Keith Ammon introduces bill to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

🤖🙋‍♂️ #USDT Tether wants to hire #AI-filmmakers: Bloomberg

📊🗽 #BTC C.Q.: Currently, the STH Realized Price stands at $86.8K. If demand persists until Trump's inauguration, the STH RP could rise to $90K. Should the president fulfill even some of the promises made to voters in the early days of his term, this could serve as a strong bullish trigger.

🔎 #COIN Coinbase Trading Volume in 2024

#XRP is showing massive trading volume, nearly matching that of #ETH. Considering that Ripple's surge began in the last two months, a significant number of speculators have jumped in.

🍿 #USUAL: There is no reason to doubt the reliability of the protocol mechanism or the transparency of smart contracts.

Also activated an income switch, promising weekly payouts to USUALX holders

🇺🇸🍿 The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today announced a new proposed interpretation of the rule, which will give it the power to regulate digital asset wallets as financial institutions offering electronic funds transfers. This will allow the Bureau to hold wallet providers such as MetaMask and Phantom accountable for fraudulent or erroneous “unauthorized” transactions.