NiftyNoon: The US Government is Embracing Crypto 🇺🇸🪙

Various crypto-positive events have happened in the US including state politicians advocating BTC reserves, the SEC approving crypto ETFs, and Kraken bringing back staking to the US (January 31, 2025)

Highlighted News:

• SEC Approvess @BitwiseInvest Spot $BTC and ETH ETF:

  

  https://x.com/DegenerateNews/status/1885097151258079609

• Forbes puts Michael Saylor on cover calling him the “Bitcoin Alchemist”:

  

  https://x.com/Forbes/status/1885108761544597795

• @ManhartLogan will be bringing a bill in the South Dakota House that would create a strategic bitcoin reserve:

  

  https://x.com/ManhartLogan/status/1884303082139595256

• Montana representatives introduce bill that would enable the state to invest in Bitcoin and digital assets:

  

  https://x.com/LuxAlgo/status/1885039421768294876

Project and Community News:

• Grayscale files for Spot $XRP ETF with the NYSE: https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1885039237642203219

• Trump now owns 4x more ETH than BTC: https://x.com/Jesseeckel/status/1885088501554626858

• President Trump officially announces 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico: https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1885067104455442484

• @paoloardoino and @starkness just announced @Tether_to is launching USDT on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: https://x.com/WalkerAmerica/status/18850805490200126SRTP4sQzmgUMQ&s=19

• The parents of FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried are working on securing a pardon for him from President Donald Trump, per Bloomberg: https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1885047157012721985

• @Coinbase files for @Solana futures with @CFTC: https://x.com/solanafloor/status/1885090659130093996?s=61

• In an informal Ethereum poll, 97% of 335 voters voted for former Ethereum researcher Danny Ryan to become the next leader of the EthereumFoundation: https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1884939512767541325?s=46

• Hyperliquid Flips Ethereum in the amount of fees generated over the last 24 hours: https://x.com/DegenerateNews/status/1884805601156350302

• Hyperliquid just rolled out some changes in the latest network upgrade: https://x.com/sumfxn/status/1884604820276781080?s=46

• JELLYJELLY is finally cooling off after a massive debut: https://x.com/Tyler_Did_It/status/1884939933460168766

• Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) just burnt 100M of $CHARLES USD live on stream: https://x.com/onewisemelon/status/1885070481725719026

• Giga City launches on Abstract: https://x.com/giga_city/status/1884970947804828064?s=46

• Securitize integrates with @solana to expand tokenized real-world assets: https://x.com/Securitize/status/1884972582002213178

• Runes volume is really in the dumper: https://x.com/tyler_did_it/status/1884945502296314084?s=46

• The claim period for the $PENGU claim will end in 5 days: https://x.com/pudgypenguins/status/1885027033794621514?s=61

• It appears that someone claimed over a million VVV tokens using over 100 accounts: https://x.com/10xResearch_/status/1884341330438152686

• @thebillzh shares details on tribe token migration with a snapshot coming soon: https://x.com/thebillzh/status/1884893252081299644

• Serial Bitcoin entrepreneur and OG educator @DanHeld is officially joining StarkWare as an advisor: https://x.com/StarkWareLtd/status/1884989876090929304

• Magic Scan is LIVE on Jupiter Mobile: https://x.com/jup_mobile/status/1884990460034515454?s=46

• Bridge your tokens across networks without leaving MetaMask: https://x.com/metamask/status/1885014012913455137?s=46

Quick Stats:

• 👾 Blur ETH Daily Volume: 1,924 ETH (▼ 43.82%)

• 🌊 OpenSea ETH Daily Volume: 1,261 ETH (▲ 10.56%)

• 🟠 BTC: $104,069.10 (▼ 1.06%)

• 🔷 ETH: $3,236.87 (▲ 1.41%)

• 🟣 Solana: $235.45 (▼ 1.64%)

• 🟪 Polygon: $0.41 (▲ 1.43%)

Top NFT Sales:

• CryptoPunks #5776: 50.00 ETH

• CryptoPunks #3960: 39.99 ETH

• CryptoPunks #4841: 38.50 ETH

NFT Daily Winners:

• 👾 Tensorians: 5.97 SOL (▲ 19.64%)

• 🍭 Mocaverse: 2.98 ETH (▲ 17.71%)

• 🚬 CryptoPunks: 39.00 ETH (▲ 1.30%)

• 💼 Ordinal Maxi Biz: 0.13 BTC (► 0.00%)

• 🏳‍🌈 Chromie Squiggles: 4.59 ETH (► 0.00%)

NFT Daily Losers:

• 👩🏻 Milady Maker: 4.92 ETH (▼ 0.01%)

• 😡 Mad Lads: 57.00 SOL (▼ 1.30%)

• 🦧 Bored Ape Yacht Club: 12.59 ETH (▼ 3.00%)

• ⛩ Azuki: 3.46 ETH (▼ 5.07%)

• 🐧 Pudgy Penguins: 11.19 ETH (▼ 6.76%)

• 🏴‍☠ Captainz: 1.55 ETH (▼ 7.19%)

• 🐵 NodeMonkes: 0.06 BTC (▼ 7.25%)

• 🧦 Bitcoin Puppets: 0.06 BTC (▼ 7.70%)

• 🐱 Quantum Cats: 0.23 BTC (▼ 11.47%)

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