Bitcoin Dives to Under $99K as DeepSeek, FOMC Steal Trump Effect Much of the concern draws from a possible overvaluation in U.S. tech companies as DeepSeek’s latest AI model is significantly cheaper to produce and was built using open-source technology that is easy to access.

Solana, Dogecoin, XRP Plunge 10% as Bloody Start to Week Sees $770M Long Liquidations Traders of BTC-tracked products lost $238 million in the past 24 hours, majorly in early European and Asian afternoon hours.

Bitcoin Miners Bitdeer, CleanSpark, Core Scientific Initiated at Outperform by KBW The three companies offer varying degrees of exposure to the world’s largest cryptocurrency, the report said.

Bitpanda Secures MiCA License From German Regulator Bitpanda Secures MiCA License From German Regulator

State of Crypto: Trump’s Second First Week Donald Trump and the GOP hit the ground running in his first week as the new U.S. president.

Nasdaq Files for In-Kind Redemptions for BlackRock Spot Bitcoin ETF The Securities and Exchange Commission had previously only allowed cash redemptions when the spot bitcoin ETFs were approved last January.

EasyA Wants to Attract More Than Just ‘Bounty Hunters’ to Its Hackathons The start-up is hosting hackathons at the upcoming Consensus conferences in Hong Kong and Toronto that are expected to attract hundreds of developers.

Next Stop for DePIN: Taco Bell A string of everyday franchise businesses are forming part of a DePIN network for decentralized air quality on Solana, showing how mainstream DePIN is becoming.

Best of the Week: It’s All Happening! CoinDesk’s coverage this week took in a memecoin juggernaut, major changes in the SEC’s approach to crypto, an executive order on digital assets, and heated debate over Ethereum’s future. Meanwhile, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht finally stepped free, as Trump followed through a big promise to the crypto community.

Congressional Republicans in Hot Pursuit of Biden-Era’s Crypto Debanking The House Oversight and the Senate Banking committees are probing accusations that U.S. regulators blocked crypto insiders from banking.

TRUMP Token Frenzy Drives Solana Stablecoin Supply to $10B, Record DEX Volumes While Circle’s USDC led stablecoin growth on Solana, other issuers also expanded their stablecoins to the network recently, one analyst noted.

Bitcoin Options Worth $7.8B Set to Expire at End of Month on Deribit Some $6 billion of the notional value in bitcoin is currently set to expire out of the money.

Real Estate Firm Propy Is Rolling Out Crypto-Backed Loans to Buy Houses Bitcoin and ether holders can get loans to acquire tokenized properties — and use their crypto as collateral.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: HBAR Gains 8.0% as Nearly All Assets Trade Higher Solana (SOL) joined Hedera (HBAR) as a top performer, gaining 4.8% from Thursday.

Ledger Co-Founder’s Kidnapping Highlights Threat of Crypto Robberies David Balland and his wife were rescued in a police operation involving elite units, Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said.

Semler Scientific Tumbles After Market Close on $75M Convertible Note Offering, Earnings Fourth-quarter revenue and income from operations rose while the medical-devices company holds 2,321 BTC.

Prediction Markets Don’t Have a Gambling Problem, Says Crypto Attorney While regulators around the world ban Polymarket for being a gambling platform, attorney Aaron Brogan has a good argument for why it’s not.

Bitcoin Whales in ‘Accumulation Phase’ After Trump Inauguration: CryptoQuant Selling pressure for Bitcoin has been reduced greatly after realizing daily profits as high as $10 billion as the asset approached $100,000 in December.

Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin Whipsaws as Risk Assets Get Feel-Good Boost Your day-ahead look for Jan. 24, 2025

Vitalik Buterin Calls for Added Focus on Ether as Part of the Network’s Scaling Plans Buterin called for implementing incentives for layer 2 networks to allocate a portion of their fees to ETH using mechanisms like burning fees and staking.