- NASDAQ submitted trading applications for CoinShares LTC ETF and XRP ETF;
- Strategy increased its holdings by 7,633 Bitcoin at an average price of $97,255;
- Michael Saylor: Strategy's year-to-date $BTC yield is 4.1%, with a current holding of 478,740 coins;
- Metaplanet plans to issue 4 billion yen in ordinary bonds to purchase more Bitcoin;
- Virtuals Protocol: The Launchpad is about to go live, and $VIRTUAL is now tradable on Solana;
- ZK digital identity project Holonym Foundation acquired Gitcoin Passport for $10 million;
- CZ: BNB Chain has been confined for too long; it's time to break free;
- Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters released a stablecoin regulatory proposal;
- Ethereum security platform Drosera completed a $3.25 million financing, led by Greenfield Capital;
- NYSE Arca submitted a Cardano ETF application on behalf of Grayscale;
- Report: Coinbase's weekly trading volume hit a two-year high in Q4 last year, with stock prices up 40% since Trump's election;
- Sam Altman rejected Elon Musk's offer of $97.4 billion to gain control of OpenAI, proposing $9.74 billion to acquire X;
- Tesla's Bitcoin profit reached $600 million in Q4 last year, currently holding 11,509 $BTC;
- Bloomberg: Wall Street banks are betting on a crypto industry IPO boom and are expanding related businesses;
- MicroCloud Hologram plans to raise up to $200 million to purchase Bitcoin derivatives or securities related to digital currencies;
- Bitfinex report: Bitcoin may increasingly serve as a risk asset rather than a pure store of value;
- North Carolina Congressman introduced a new bill seeking to invest up to 10% of public funds in Bitcoin ETFs.
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