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BTC posts weekly drop, UAE may own $40bn BTC, HYPE hack worries

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Crypto

• BTC: 94.8k (+1%), ETH: 3300 (+1%), SOL: 182 (-2%)

• Top Gainers: AAVE, ALGO, VIRTUAL, RAY, LINK

• BTC ETFs: -$277mn, ETH ETFs: -$75mn

• BTC has first weekly price drop since election

• Crypto-friendly Miran to chair economic advisors

• Bo Hines to lead crypto council

• Former a16z partner joins Trump crypto admin

• Saylor floats US crypto framework

• MicroStrategy joins NASDAQ, buys $500m BTC

• 75% of crypto HFs face banking access challenges

• Rumours UAE holds $40bn BTC

• Tether invests $775mn in Rumble

• Tether to invest $2.5-3bn in AI platforms

• BTC reserve could slash US debt 35%: Van Eck

• Nic Carter against strategic BTC reserve

• Relearning crypto ahead of Trump: Chamath

• Tokenization, DeFi key themes in 2025: Coinbase

• Public mainnet to launch in early 2025: UniSwap

• Hex Founder wanted by Interpol, Europol

• Jump Crypto’s subsidiary to pay $123mn SEC fine

• Ripple donates $5mn XRP for Trump inauguration

• Metamask launches crypto payment card

• ETH to ramp up gas limit ahead of Pectra upgrade

Macro & General

• NASDAQ: 19.6k (+1%), Gold: 2638 (0%)

• Dollar steady, stocks rally on benign PCE data

• US government shutdown averted

• Putin wants a meeting ASAP about Ukraine war

• Trump plans to continue military aid to Ukraine

• Trump could pull US out of WHO on ‘day 1’

• Trump wants US to takeover Panama Canal

• Trump calls for US purchase of Greenland

• Trump prefers to keep TikTok operational in US

• US fighter jet shot down in friendly fire over Red Sea

• California declares emergency on bird flu outbreak

• Russia and Iran to sign partnership treaty

• N. Korea to send more troops, supplies to Russia

• OpenAI achieves key benchmark for AGI

• X increases Premium+ prices by 37.5%

Left-Curve Corner

• Hot coins: VADER, PEPE, MOG, MOODENG

• Hot NFTs: Kaito, Jirasan, Gemesis, BitBears

• HYPE falls after N. Korean hackers use platform

• VADER nears new ATH as holders rise to 75k

• PENGU hits 500k holders

• Kaito NFT does 30x from mint

• Several old NFT projects announce token plans

• OpenSea confirms OCEAN token coming

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