UPDATE: Onchain data shows the "1011 Whale" has $790M open position, with a $6.4M floating loss and $5.4M already paid in funding fee.

NOW: Trump says Fed Chair Jerome Powell “kills every rally,” arguing rates should be cut when strong economic data comes out.

Canadian dollar weakens as Iran uncertainty clips risk appetite

US consumer prices increased in December, lifted by higher costs for rents and food, after a government shutdown artificially lowered inflation in November. Read more

TermMax Launches Fixed-Rate DeFi Market

JUST IN: Ouroboros Leios surpasses 677,000 lines of code. The CIP is finalized and merged, advancing closer to mainnet integration in 2026, to bring a 60x improvement in the throughput of #Cardano $ADA.

UPDATE: Altcoin Daily says "is $250,000 $BTC too bullish? What are those demand factors?" Charles Hoskinson says "supply is relatively constrained, you have institutional purchasing, so you naturally have a push up, just by Fortune500 and nation states taking positions." $ADA

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senator Cynthia Lummis introduces the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, which "establishes clear federal standards for when crypto developers and service providers are exempt from money transmitter regulations." $ADA $NIGHT

ALERT: Altcoins saw a roughly $40B outflow as speculative risk unwound, with median bull runs shrinking to just 20 days in 2025, according to a report by Wintermute.

Vitalik on World of Warcraft and His Path to Decentralization On June 28, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin responded in an interview on the Vatnik Soup channel to claims that his dislike for centralized systems stemmed from World of Warcraft. He acknowledged being very upset