Happy Friday all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

- Bitcoin briefly fell under $90,000. Now trades around $90,800.

- BlackRock clients sell $130.79 million worth of Bitcoin.

- BlackRock deposits 2,164 Bitcoin ($195.12 million), and 22,902 Ethereum ($71.43 million), into Coinbase.

- 50% chance Bitcoin drops below $65,000 this year, per traders on Kalshi.

- There’s now only a 36% chance Bitcoin will hit $100,000 this month.

- The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is officially rising again, liquidity is coming back.

- President Trump shows no interest in pardoning Sam Bankman-Fried.

- President Donald Trump says he’s decided who the next Federal Reserve Chair will be, 40% chance it’s Kevin Warsh, who thinks Bitcoin may serve as a sustainable store of value, like gold.

- $161 billion investment firm VanEck is predicting a $2.9 million Bitcoin price by 2050.

- Multinational investment bank TD Cowen says they expect Congress to enact crypto market structure legislation this year.

- Florida introduces a bill to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, allowing up to 10% of key public funds to hold Bitcoin and ETFs.

- President Trump states that the U.S is taking billions and billions of dollars worth of oil from the country of Venezuela.

- UK considers banning Elon Musk’s X.

- President Trump orders $200,000,000,000 in mortgage bond buys to lower mortgage rates.

- Treasury Secretary Bessent says millions of Americans may see the largest tax refunds of their lives this year.

- President Trump considers paying Greenlanders up to $100,000 per person to leave Denmark and join the US.

- Jim Cramer tells investors to avoid buying stocks.

- $1.8 trillion Morgan Stanley to launch crypto wallet this year to support tokenized assets.

- Google officially surpasses Apple to become the second-most valuable company in the world.

- India’s stock market records biggest drop in over four months as US tariff concerns resurface.

- Treasury Secretary Bessent calls for more Federal Reserve rate cuts.

- There are now 685,000 more unemployed persons than job openings in the US, excluding the 2020 covid recession, this is the widest spread we’ve seen since 2017.

- Fitch Ratings raises U.S. growth forecast, sees two Fed rate cuts in first half of 2026.

- HSBC expects spot gold to reach $5,000 in Q1 2026.

- China to approve Nvidia H200 chip purchases as soon as this quarter.

- Coinbase announces Copper and Platinum futures are set to go live on January 26, 2026.

- Binance Futures launches TradFi perpetual contracts.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

- BlackWhale price surges over 400% in the past 24 hours, pushing its market cap beyond $6 million.

- Trove Markets secures $2.5 million in its ICO, aiming to bring leveraged access to Collectibles, RWAs, and Equities.

- Azza Miner launches AI-powered, solar-backed cloud mining, targeting 1.2%–1.5% daily returns with flexible withdrawals.

- Edel testnet users top 35,000, with 4.1 million USD1 being utilised in lending and borrowing, wallet with $468,000 in realized profits spent 12 Ethereum ($38,000) to scoop up 1.26 million Edel over the past two days.

- ETF clients sell $40.8 million worth of XRP in first day of outflows since launch.

- Screener launches KOL Tracker allowing traders to see exactly what their favorite crypto influencers are buying and selling in real-time.

- Crypto stablecoin transaction volume hits new $33 trillion record in 2025.

- ZEC briefly dumps below $400.

- Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is not the world video game server, it is the world heartbeat, if you need to build applications that are faster than the heartbeat, they will need to have offchain components.

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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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