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Bitcoin starts the year strong, LFG airdrop on SOL, Steamboat Willie leads NFTs

Crypto

• BTC: 45.3k (+6%), ETH: 2385 (+4%), SOL: 113 (+9%)

• Top 100 altcoin gainers: SEI, ASTR, HBAR, NEAR

• BTC surges amid spot & perp buying, ETF nears

• SEC ‘swamped with paperwork’ ahead of deadline

• Bitcoin funding rates hit highest levels since 2022

• SEI hits another ATH, ecosystem & memecoins rally

• Coinbase & MicroStrategy shares surge pre-market

• Goldman Sachs sees surge in institutional adoption

• Cramer predicts ‘another weak year for crypto’

• SOL stablecoin transfers flip ETH, first time ever

• Jupiter airdrop planned for 4th week of January

• FTX bankruptcy may still ‘go on for years’

• Sauber F1 & Stake agree 2-year deal

• $600m token unlocks in January: APT, OP, INJ

Macro & General

• NASDAQ: 15.0k, Gold: 2084 (+1%)

• Stock futures fall, oil rises as Red Sea tensions grow

• Xi admits China ‘having tough time’ economically

• China trying to incentivise births as population falls

• US funding for Ukraine looks increasingly fragile

• 40% US student loan borrowers still not paying

• US office owners face $117bn debt wall in 2024

• Diamond prices face threat from lab-grown supply

• China’s BYD beats Tesla for electric car production

• Fidelity marks down X valuation by 72%

• Mr Beast says not worth posting videos on X

• Neanderthals & humans may belong to same species

• PGA & LIV extend deadline for merger deal

NFTs & Low-Cap

• LFG airdrop on SOL for ETH gas payers, hits $100m

• SOL monthly NFT sales flip ETH for first time ever

• Ordinals sales hit record $881m in December

• BRC20s rally with Bitcoin, ORDI hits another ATH

• Steamboat Willie NFT tops sales after going CC0

• Wassies announce token for holders on Blast

• Ripcache, Cath Simard sell-out large art drops

• Sharky NFT lending protocol plans airdrop

• 3Landers NFT project shuts down

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