🚨 A French tax‑service employee has been arrested for handing over confidential crypto‑investor data to organised crime. Investigators say the leaked information enabled targeted attacks, including a kidnapping attempt in Paris where assailants aimed at the CEO’s 2‑year‑old daughter. In 2025, France recorded more than ten high‑profile attacks on major crypto investors.

🚨 **JPMorgan forecast – 16:30 Moscow** - **NFP > 100k**: S&P 500 falls 0.5–1.0% - **75–100k**: S&P 500 climbs 0.25–1.0% - **35–75k**: S&P 500 climbs 0.25–0.75% - **0–35k**: S&P 500 swings between –0.25% and +0.5% - **NFP < 0**: S&P 500 falls 0.5–1.25% **Consensus:** 64k.

🇰🇷🕹 #ETF South Korea announced in its Economic Growth Strategy 2026 that the country will launch digital‑asset spot ETFs—including BTC spot ETFs—this year. Meanwhile, the Financial Services Commission is speeding up the second phase of crypto legislation. The decision follows heavy spot trading of BTC‑ETFs in markets such as the US and Hong Kong, which the government cites as a benchmark. (news1)

🔮 #BTC VanEck analysts predict that by 2050, #BTC could reach $2.9 million, become a settlement currency for international and domestic trade and begin to replenish the reserves of central banks.cointelegraph

👋 Greenland is emerging as a key mining hotspot. Andrew Tate and Washington are drawing political attention to the island, hoping to use its cold climate and affordable energy to cut BTC‑mining costs. If realized, the U.S. could acquire Bitcoin below market price, giving it a strategic edge and shifting global crypto supply and power dynamics.

#onchain 🧸 Santiment reports that developer activity on the Zcash (#ZEC) network has been at a record low since November 2021.

🍿 Trump is clear: he has no plans to pardon former FTX CEO Sam Bankman‑Fried.

📉 BTC & ETH ETF outflows Yesterday, spot BTC‑ETFs pulled in about $398.8 million, while spot ETH‑ETFs saw roughly $159.2 million leave the market. #BTC #ETH #ETF

🪙 Cathie Wood says the U.S. government could soon buy Bitcoin for its national reserve.

🔍🐋 Whale activity snapshot 1️⃣ **pension‑usdt.eth** • Closed a short position of **20,100 ETH** ($62.34 M) and pocketed **$395 k** profit. • Immediately opened a **3× long** of **20,000 ETH** ($62 M). • Total earnings now exceed **$22.38 M**. 2️⃣ **New trader alert** • Previously made **$2.07 M** on #GOAT. • Created wallet “captainbigballs” on Polymarket and staked **$10.5 k** on a bet that the Iranian regime would fall before **Jan 31**.

# Insight 🇺🇸 Decrypt: Wall Street & crypto leaders eye a compromise A week before the US Senate’s final vote on the CLARITY bill, representatives from SIFMA (Wall Street) and the crypto industry met in private to try to shape the final version of the legislation that will define the crypto market. **What’s at stake** - SIFMA pushes back against relief for DeFi developers. - Banks aim to ban yield‑generating stablecoins. - Crypto leaders fight to protect DeFi and those yield stablecoins. The meeting was called “productive,” though few details were shared. With a tight deadline, months of bipartisan talks could be thrown off balance, so winning bipartisan support is key to CLARITY’s passage. More than 50 crypto‑company reps have already met senators, trying to tip the scales in their favor.

📈 Stablecoin trading hit a new high in 2025, rising 72% to $33 trillion—according to Artemis Analytics Inc. The biggest driver was USDC, which took in $18.3 trillion, followed by USDT with $13.3 trillion. Data from Bloomberg.

🔍 SharpLink Gaming has staked $170 million worth of ETH on the Linea network! 🚀 Want the full details? 📲 #decrypt

🤔 #BTC Cathie Wood says the U.S. could soon start buying Bitcoin for its national reserve. (Source: TheBlock) 🌸 **Ad** 🌸

Stablecoin transaction volume hit a record $33 trillion in 2025— a 72 % jump from 2024.

Bank of America has lifted its rating on Coinbase to **Buy**, highlighting the firm’s plans to expand beyond crypto into stock trading and prediction markets. — Coindesk

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Trump: The U.S. is siphoning off billions of dollars worth of Venezuelan oil—potentially reaching trillions. #macro

🗽👀 #HYPE #ETF: Grayscale has just filed the HYPE ETF in Delaware.

🎯 TOP OF THE DAY (Thursday, January 8) ▫️BTC reserve in Brazil (read) ❕Management split in Zcash (read) ▫️JPM Coin on the Canton Network blockchain (read) ▫️BTC inflows have dried up (read) ▫️Bitcoin OG is in the red again (read)▫️BlackRock transfers (read) ▫️FAIL with ZEC longs (read) ▫️OP buyback program (read) ▫️JPMorgan forecast (read) ▫️Digital wallet from Morgan Stanley (read) ▫️Truebit Protocol hack (read)▫️Forecast by Presto Research (read) ▫️Red Dreams - BTC (read) ❕Zcash Foundation calms the community (read) ❕Giveaway from Bybit (read) ❕New wallet from Zcash developers (read)