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

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

- Beijing rejects illicit sanctions following President Trump’s 25% Iran trade threat.

- Federal prosecutors open criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

- 39% chance Jerome Powell will be charged with a federal crime before 2027, per traders on Kalshi.

- UK launches investigation into Elon Musk’s X over Grok.

- Spot gold hits new all-time high of $4,622 per ounce.

- Spot silver hits a new all-time high of $84.58.

- Markets launches perpetual futures for traditional assets including equities, commodities, FX and crypto.

- Large scale pro-government rallies have been taking place all over Iran.

- Iran says situation in the country is now fully under control.

- Iran deploys military jammers to block Starlink access in the country.

- Iran’s currency has collapsed and is now officially worth $0.

- President Trump imposes 25% tariff on any country doing business with Iran.

- $850 billion Standard Chartered plans to set up prime brokerage for crypto trading.

- Meta shuts 550,000 children’s accounts following social media ban in Australia.

- $BTC surpasses $92,000.

- Peoples Bank of China pumps 86.1 billion yuan ($12.3 billion) into the market through 7-day reverse repos.

- US Senator Cynthia Lummis introduces bill that would protect Bitcoin developers from being classified as money transmitters.

- Michael Saylor says 2026 is going to be a great year for Bitcoin.

- SEC Chair Paul Atkins says it remains to be seen if the US takes Venezuela’s reported $60 billion in Bitcoin holdings.

- $15 billion Bitwise CEO announces he’s meeting with a central bank about Bitcoin.

- Strategy buys another 13,627 Bitcoin.

- $367 billion Standard Chartered Plc to set up a prime brokerage for Bitcoin and crypto trading.

- $5 trillion Fidelity talks about how Bitcoin might have entered a supercycle.

- US Senate unveils crypto market structure draft bill.

- SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the top priority is bringing crypto markets out of the regulatory gray zone.

- SEC Chair Paul Atkins says this is a big week for crypto.

- President Trump to interview BlackRock CIO Rick Rieder for Federal Reserve Chair.

- Senator Elizabeth Warren sends letter to SEC claiming people will lose big if crypto is added to 401k retirement plans.

- BlackRock CIO Rick Rieder calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates to 3%.

- Treasury Secretary Bessent warns President Trump the criminal investigation into Fed Chair Powell made a mess and could hurt financial markets.

- Jim Cramer says Jerome Powell has been a fantastic Fed Chairman.

- President Trump warns the US would have to pay back hundreds of billions of dollars if the Supreme Court rules his tariffs are illegal.

- X to build financial news and trading features.

- Bill to ban members of Congress from trading stocks expected to advance this week.

- Average US gas prices fall to $2.79, the lowest level in five years.

- Google $GOOG becomes the fourth company in history to reach a $4 trillion market cap.

- White House economic adviser Hassett says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell a good person.

- Michael Saylor’s Strategy buys 13,627 Bitcoin worth $1.2 billion.

- $400 billion Standard Chartered to launch crypto prime brokerage.

- President Trump says credit card companies will be in violation of the law if they charge over 10% interest rates after January 20th.

- Jerome Powell says DOJ is threatening the Fed with criminal charges for refusing to follow President Trump’s interest rate demands.

- X head of product says X shapes market sentiment and drives transactions in public & crypto markets, more than any other corner of the internet.

- X head of product says that he does not even work on the algorithm.

- Odds of $BTC hitting $100K in January rise to over 30% on Polymarket.

- $META Zuck launches Meta Compute.

- Apple officially adopts $GOOG Gemini to improve Siri.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

- Monero $XMR surpasses record $642.

- Dubai bans privacy tokens and tightens stablecoin rules as part of broader reset of its crypto regulatory framework.

- Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams launched a crypto token claiming it would fight antisemitism and anti-Americanism, the coin has since crashed over 81% from its peak.

- Tom Lee’s BitMine buys 24,266 $ETH worth $75 million.

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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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