🖥 Analysts believe that US access to Venezuela’s oil resources could eventually lower electricity costs for Bitcoin mining and improve miner margins.

However, the impact will not be immediate: a meaningful increase in oil production and its effect on energy prices would take years, despite US interest and Chevron’s presence in the country.

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🪙 Morgan Stanley has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to register a Bitcoin trust.

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🪙 Ripple officially stated that it does not plan to pursue an IPO, citing a strong and stable financial position.

The company’s priority is growth through acquisitions and product development rather than access to public markets.

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🪙 Ethereum summarized the results of ecosystem development in 2025:

🔵 DeFi TVL in the network exceeded $99 billion.
🔵 The volume of transactions in stablecoins reached $18.8 trillion.
🔵 Transaction fees in L2 dropped below $0.01.
🔵 ETFs and companies own more than $35 billion in ETH.
🔵 Over 88 million smart contracts have been deployed in the network.
🔵 Peak daily activity — 1.74 million transactions.
🔵 The number of active developers — about 32 thousand.

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💸 The queue for Ethereum validators to exit has completely reset — for the first time since July 2025.

Currently, exiting staking takes just a few minutes. Meanwhile, there are over 1.3 million ETH in the queue to enter staking.

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🤖 Grok chose 1 BTC per year instead of a salary of $250 000, citing the limited supply of bitcoin and its potential for long-term growth, despite the higher current value of the salary.

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🎰 Polymarket refuses to pay out bets on "US invasion of Venezuela" — the platform stated that it was about US control over part of the territory of Venezuela.

Capture or arrest of the president is not considered an invasion if the US has not established territorial control.

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🪙 Morgan Stanley has filed an application to launch Ethereum Trust.

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🗽 The Trump family's cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial is applying for a banking license in the USA.

It has also become known that World Liberty Financial is creating a new trust company WLTC, through which it plans to provide cryptocurrency storage and stablecoin conversion services.

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🪙 The largest holders of the first cryptocurrency accumulated BTC worth $40 billion in 2025.

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🤖 Anthropic, the developer of the AI chatbot Claude, plans to raise $10 billion in investments with a company valuation of $350 billion — almost twice as much as last fall.

The round will be led by Singapore's sovereign fund GIC and the Coatue fund. The increase in valuation reflects the ongoing boom in AI investments amid expectations that the market leader will be able to dominate in the next technological era.

The company aims to break even by 2028 and is preparing for an IPO this year.

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🪙 Vitalik Buterin compared Ethereum to BitTorrent and Linux, emphasizing the network's commitment to global distribution without sacrificing decentralization and the presence of built-in consensus for financial and social interactions.

The comparison to Linux is related to ideology: just like the operating system, Ethereum is built on the principles of free and open code.

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🤪 Since the beginning of 2026, the demand for call options on Bitcoin with strikes of $98 000–100 000 has noticeably increased, — reported the head of the OTC division Wintermute.

According to him, large traders are betting on the growth of BTC in the current quarter.

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