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BTC dips from $100k, stocks have best day in months, AI agents hit $18bn

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Crypto

• BTC: 99k (+2%), ETH: 3325 (+4%), SOL: 212 (+14%)

• Top Gainers: VIRTUAL, XRP, ENA, HBAR, SOL

• BTC ETFs: +$755mn, ETH ETFs: +$60mn

• BTC reaches $100k before pullback, dominance falls

• Trump considers strategic reserves for SOL & XRP

• XRP at 7 year high, overtakes BTC in Google trends

• SEC files opening brief in appeal against XRP

• Bitfinex to get back 80% of hacked BTC

• BTC could top $300k in 2025: Hashkey survey

• SEC could freeze non-fraud crypto cases

• Trump to commute Ross Ulbricht on day 1

• MicroStrategy targets $2b stock issuance

• Texas senator introduces BTC reserve bill

• Oklahoma lawmaker introduces BTC reserve bill

• Nation state interest in buying BTC: Bitwise

• Pension funds interest in crypto rising

• VanEck’s new ETF focused on crypto firms

• BitMEX hit with another $100m fine

• Monthly trading on CEXs at ATH in Dec

• Justin Sun to launch 20% APY stablecoin

• S. Korea suspends Upbit

• Indian telco giant Jio collabs with Polygon

Macro & General

• NASDAQ: 19.5k (+2%), Gold: 2738 (+1%)

• Stocks have best day in 2 months after muted CPI

• Equal-weighted S&P funds sees record inflows

• Foreign funds dismissing US yield ‘death spiral’

• Trump could ‘save Tiktok’ through EO

• Trump wants Vivek for Vance’s senate seat

• Oligarchy emerging in US: Biden

• Bessent follows Hegseth at confirmation hearing

• Rubio plans militant action against drug cartels

• FDA wants Nicotine reduction by 95% in cigarettes

• Israel & Hamas sign ceasefire, may already be broken

• Greenland must decide on independence: Mette

• China hack of US treasury accessed 3000 files

• UK announces 100 year partnership with Ukraine

• Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket in orbit on 1st attempt

• Nvidia, Accenture and KION partner on AI

Left-Curve Corner

• Hot coins: AIXBT, ARC, ZEREBRO, ARC, GRIFFAIN, BUZZ, MOBY

• Hot NFTs: Azuki, Wealthy Hypio Babies, Bera NFTs

• AI agents could hit $60b in 2025: Bitget CEO

• AI agent market cap nears ATH, up 60% in 2 days

• AIXBT $820m up 2x in 2 days, tiered access coming

• ARC $500m, ATH after first handshake project

• GRIFFAIN, BUZZ, ANON, MOBY hit ATH in DeFAI

• MVRS $60m, hits ATH ahead of Trump inauguration

• ai16z to create humanoid robots for $420k each

• Pump.fun faces lawsuit over investor harm

• SOLV launches on Binance & Hyperliquid

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