Happy Wednesday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:
Happy Wednesday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:
🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨
- China's gold reserves surged 15.7% month-over-month in January, reaching a record $369.6 billion.
- $1.13 billion in crypto short positions are set to be liquidated if Bitcoin rises $2,000 from its current price.
- U.S. court dismisses xAI's trade secrets suit against OpenAI.
- U.S. says it wants stable relations with China but does not trust Beijing.
- India and Gulf Cooperation Council launch free trade agreement talks.
- Meta and AMD agree to AI chips deal worth more than $100 billion.
- El Salvador gives out Bitcoin passports to tourists visiting the country.
- A solo miner mined a Bitcoin block receiving 3.128 BTC worth $197,546, with odds around 1 in 8,000.
- Investment bank giant TD Cowen predicts Bitcoin to hit $225,000 in 2027.
- Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock introduces bill to allow employees to be paid in Bitcoin and to prohibit the issuance of a CBDC.
- President Trump demands ban on Congress from trading stocks and calls out Nancy Pelosi.
- Stripe considers acquiring PayPal.
- JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he's starting to see parallels to the era before 2008 financial crisis.
- Microsoft partners with Elon Musk's Starlink.
- White House says President Trump will not pardon Sam Bankman-Fried.
- Stripe co-founder predicts a torrent of agentic commerce in the future, with agents transacting on really high-throughput blockchains.
- Coinbase adds stock and ETF trading as it expands beyond crypto.
- US federal government spending as percent of GDP in 2020s is 26%.
- US federal budget deficit as percent of GDP in 2020s is -8.3%.
- US national debt as percent of GDP in 2025 is 122%.
- The personal savings rate in the US averaged 4.5% in 2025.
- The oldest software sector ETF dates back to 2001, with its relative strength versus the Nasdaq 100 ETF crashing this year to an all-time low.
- MercadoLibre Q4 FY25: GMV up 37% year-over-year, TPV up 42% year-over-year, revenue up 45% year-over-year to $8.8 billion.
- First Solar Q4-25: adjusted EPS $4.84, revenue $1.68 billion, net income $520.88 million.
📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊
- Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion down over $8.4 billion or 50.74% on its Ethereum holdings.
- Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin sold 4,325 ETH worth $8 million over the past 3 days.
- Fintech and insurance giant Trustage pilots stablecoin geared for credit unions.
- Vitalik Buterin says he's actually pretty open-minded about the anti-data-center populism.
- Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning stablecoin comeback in the second half of this year.
- Moonpay launches Moonpay agents, onramp for the agent economy.
- WisdomTree to launch 24/7 trading and instant settlement for tokenized money market fund shares.
- Autism up over 1576% since launch, amid growing attention on TikTok.
- Trench nears 2,100 holders, after teasing Solana Seeker collaboration.
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Credit to the following X accounts for key insights & updates: @whaleinsider @bitcoinmagazine @watcherguru
@degeneratenews @charliebilello @economyapp @earnings_time
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Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro.
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