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Funding rates are at rock bottom.
BTC funding rates are in negative territory. Historically, this suggests the bottom is near.

TON Wallet has launched cross-chain deposits in Telegram in collaboration with MoonPay.
Currently, you can deposit USDC or USDT from the Ethereum, Solana, TRON, BSC, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Base networks. Assets are automatically converted to USDT on the TON platform at a 1:1 exchange rate. Deposits in BTC, ETH, and SOL are credited to your wallet in the equivalent amount of Toncoin.

According to Glassnode analysts, the current market structure is reminiscent of early May 2022, the time of the Terra crash.
At present, unrealized losses amount to approximately 16% of BTC's market capitalization, at a price of $70,000.

Telegram will become a payment platform for users.
The TON Foundation has unveiled the TON Pay SDK, which will allow mini-apps to conduct transactions in Telegram using cryptocurrency.

Vietnam introduces a crypto tax.
Authorities are officially introducing a new tax, equating digital asset transactions to stock trading.
Starting July 1, 2026, individuals will be required to pay a 0.1% tax on every crypto transaction.

Bitcoin's fall below $70,000 is perceived very differently by established holders and new investors, according to Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley. The former are experiencing uncertainty, while the latter are seeing an opportunity.
In the current situation, institutional players are "seeing prices they thought they'd missed out on forever." Meanwhile, demand for the leading cryptocurrency remains high.

Apple's market capitalization has once again reached $4 trillion, returning the company to second place among the most valuable companies in the world.
While the market is worried about an AI bubble, Apple remains on the sidelines, investing only $18 billion in AI, compared to Meta with $115 billion, Google with $175 billion, and Amazon with $200 billion.

Bitcoin miners have massively shut down their equipment amid record losses. The hash price (revenue per unit of computing power) has fallen to 3 cents per terahash. For comparison, in 2017 this figure was $3.5.
Newhedge analysts have predicted a decrease in mining difficulty of more than 13% during the next recalculation. This will be the largest drop in the indicator since the ban on the cryptocurrency industry in China in 2021.

Stablecoin issuers have offered US banks new compromises to gain support for a market structure bill and alleviate concerns about potential deposit outflows.
According to Bloomberg, these include strengthening the role of banks in the stablecoin ecosystem - by placing a portion of reserves with them and allowing them to issue their own assets through partnerships.

Bitcoin is more oversold now than it was in March 2020.
Currently, Bitcoin is even more oversold than it was during the market crash caused by COVID-19 in March 2020.

As Ethereum scales, the need for L2 diminishes, stated Vitalik Buterin.
He urged projects to identify growth areas and identify additional value by implementing specialized features such as privacy, transforming into non-financial applications such as social networks, or becoming add-ons for specific dapps.
In alternative cases, L2s should be positioned as standalone protocols, not ETH-enabled bridges.

Bitcoin has dropped out of the top 10 largest assets in the world by market capitalization. It is now ranked 13th, although just a few months ago it was in the top 5.
The total losses across commodity, stock, precious metals, and cryptocurrency markets over the past two days are estimated at $12 trillion.

In January, the crypto industry experienced 16 hacking attacks with total losses amounting to $86.01 million, according to analysts at PeckShieldAlert.
Compared to the same period last year, this figure decreased by a slight 1.42% (from $87.25 million), but increased by 13.25% compared to December ($75.95 million).
Losses from phishing attacks "continue to be staggering," exceeding $300 million.

In 2025, Tether achieved record net profits exceeding $10 billion. The company's balance sheet includes $6.3 billion in free reserves and $141 billion in US government bonds, as well as over 140 tons of physical gold.
Tether surpasses even giants like BlackRock in terms of profit, despite having a significantly smaller workforce. This makes speculation about the company being a "scam" highly unlikely.

The head of CryptoQuant loaded all of BTC's creator's materials into a neural network and showed it the current situation. It was noted that 1.3 million BTC were held by ETFs, 700,000 BTC by Strategy, and 2.7 million BTC on exchanges. More than 50% of the supply is controlled by intermediaries, not users.
The "artificial Satoshi" expressed dissatisfaction with the community's focus on speculation rather than technological development. Institutionalization leads to re-intermediation, not its elimination.

A unique situation in the market: precious metals, as a safe-haven asset, continue to rally following the S&P 500's record high.
Gold has risen to $5600, and silver to $120.

Since the beginning of the year, approximately 60% of all stablecoin transactions have been conducted on the Base L2 network. The main activity is taking place on the Aerodrome DEX.
Also, over the past month, the number of tokens issued on Base has increased - to over 100,000 per day - while the number of active addresses is at its lowest point in a year and a half.

The bull cycle is over, a prolonged decline is ahead, Rekt Capital stated.
The analyst noted a classic EMA crossover on the weekly Bitcoin chart. In 2022, after the end of the bull market and consolidation, a similar situation continued until the end of the calendar year.

South Korean prosecutors have lost $48 million worth of Bitcoin.
The authorities initially seized the BTC from criminals, but then became victims of phishing themselves. An employee conducting an audit accessed a fake website, and the passwords were stolen from a USB flash drive.
As a result, all the confiscated BTC, worth $48 million, ended up in the hands of other fraudsters, who have not yet been found.

M2 reaches a record high.
Analysts have stated that global M2 liquidity has set a new all-time high. Despite this, the correlation between M2 and BTC has weakened. However, a potential capital outflow from gold could change the situation.