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Crypto falls after Fed, gold tops $5.5k, BIRB hits $400m

Crypto

• BTC: 87.8k (-2%) | BTC.D: 59.6% (+0.1%)

• ETH: 2940 (-3%) | BNB: 896 (-1%) | SOL: 123 (-3%) 

• Top Gainers: WLD, PAXG, XAUT, HTX, TRX

• BTC ETFs: -$20m | ETH ETFs: +$28m

• Crypto falls after Fed leaves rates unchanged

• White House to try to push through crypto bill

• SEC clarifies rules for tokenised securities

• Crypto PAC Fairshake builds $193m war chest

• ETH researchers want FOCIL for Hegota upgrade

• MegaETH mainnet coming Feb 9

• Fidelity plans FIDD stablecoin

• Ripple launches ‘Ripple Treasury’

• 40% merchants accepting crypto: PayPal survey

• Uniswap plans ‘Continuous Clearing Auctions’

• Russia to roll out crypto framework this July

• Hang Seng debuts tokenized gold ETF 

• UK pulls Coinbase’s ‘socially irresponsible’ ads 

Macro & General

• NASDAQ: 23.9k (0%), Gold: 5504 (+4%)

• Gold hits $5.5k as rally accelerates, silver hits $120

• Uranium goes parabolic, Aluminium at 4yr high

• S&P500 hits $7k for the first time

• FOMC leaves rates unchanged in split decision

• Microsoft drops, Meta jumps post earnings

• Tesla moves to subscriptions only in FSD

• US may use force to ensure Venezuela’s co-operation

• Russian oil income drops sharply as sanctions bite

• China forgoes ‘three red lines’ to lift property

• OpenAI wants to build biometric social network

• Amazon to lay off 16k employees

• Google’s AI can create “designer DNA” in humans

Left Curve Corner

• Hot coins: BIRB, BP

• Hot NFTs: Dataland

• BIRB rallies to $400m FDV, nesting goes live

• Coinbase adds INX to roadmap

• Coinbase prediction market live in all of US via Kalshi

• Polymarket on pace for ATH $3b monthly volume

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