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🏦 BlackRock enters DeFi through Uniswap. How did the market react?

This is no longer an experiment.
The world's largest asset manager launches trading of the tokenized fund BUIDL on Uniswap.

And yes — the market reacted instantly. 👇

BlackRock is bringing its BUIDL money market fund (backed by short US Treasuries) into the DeFi environment.

📌 The market value of the fund is about $1.8 billion
📌 Launched in 2024
📌 Now available for trading via UniswapX

At the same time, BlackRock is purchasing UNI tokens (volume not disclosed).

This is one of the loudest cases of the convergence of Wall Street and DeFi.

📌 Currently, ~ $100 billion of capital is concentrated on DeFi platforms.

And now the traditional money market begins to exist within smart contracts.

📈 How did UNI react?

🔼 In light of the news, the price momentarily rose to $4.29
Currently trading around $3.33
💰 Market capitalization — over $2 billion

There was momentum, but without a full consolidation above.

🇷🇺 This spring, cryptocurrency may be legalized: what will change for Russians 🙄

……. the turnover of cryptocurrency in Russia is ~50 billion rubles per day

This is more than 10 trillion rubles per year. And all this is thanks to millions of users 👀

Deputy Minister Ivan Chebeskov stated at Alfa Talk that a significant part of the market remains outside regulation for now. But the situation may change this spring.

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📜 What are they planning?

The Central Bank and the government want to legalize transactions through the existing infrastructure — exchanges and brokers.
A transitional period for obtaining licenses is expected, and the main requirements will affect crypto exchanges.

They also promise to strengthen responsibility for illegal activities ⚖️

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🏦 Important:

▪️ The market infrastructure will be retained within Russia
▪️ They do not plan to introduce separate licenses for exchanges and brokers
▪️ The funds of Russians on crypto exchanges remain under control — about 933 billion rubles (according to the Central Bank)

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💬 Experts note:

Russians have been paying commissions to global platforms for years. If the regulation is clear and workable, part of the turnover may be returned to the "white" zone.

The only question is how competitive the conditions will turn out to be 🤔

😨 Fear and Greed Index = 6. This is no longer just fear — it's capitulation.

Honestly? I've never seen such a value in all my time in the market. And I think 99% here haven't either.
6 points — this is mega-extreme fear 😱
In the entire history of observations, this has only happened once — in August 2019.

At that time, it also seemed that things couldn't get worse. Spoiler: they could 😄

📉 What do we see now?
— Portfolios are 'thinning out'
— Subscribers to crypto channels are disappearing
— Enthusiasm has turned into fatigue
— People are enduring… but the cumulative effect of the drop is taking its toll

The index reflects emotions. And emotions are currently at an all-time low.

🤔 Can we say this is the bottom?
I would like to. I would very much like to.

But if we look at the dry statistics and graphs, extreme fear does not guarantee a turnaround. In 2019, after similar values, the market still went through a corona dump, and only after some time did real recovery begin.

⚠️ Extreme fear is a zone of opportunities.
But it is not a 'turnaround' button.

Right now the market is testing not strategies, but endurance.
History shows: it is precisely at such moments that future growth points are formed.

The market is trying to cautiously rebound — a slight increase in capitalization and growth in volumes hint at a revival.

💰 Market capitalization:
$2.29 T | 🔼 0.31%

📊 Trading volume:
$111.51 B | 🔼 13.73%
Volumes are increasing — participants are returning to the game.

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💵 BTC: $67,189
💵 ETH: $1,969
💵 XRP: $1,382

🟠 BTC dominance: 58.34% — Bitcoin still holds the lead.
🧩 Altcoin season index: 28/100 — there is still a long way to a full alt season.
😱 Fear and greed index: 🔴 8 — extreme fear remains in the market.
Panic is still high, which means volatility may persist.

📈 Market cycle indicators: 🟢 0/30 — 100% HOLD
There are no clear signals for a reversal yet — the market is in wait-and-see mode.

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The picture for the morning: a slight technical rebound against a backdrop of still strong fear.
The main question — is this the beginning of a recovery or just a pause before a new movement?

⚠️Конец месяца решит всё? Трейдеры сомневаются в отскоке ETH

Рынок настроен осторожно. С начала 2026 года:
• 🔻 ETH: −34,88%
• 🔻 BTC: −23,47%
• 🔻 XRP: −24,59%

Эфириум выглядит слабее рынка — и это отражается в ставках на Polymarket.

🎯 Какие ожидания по ETH?

Самый «популярный» сценарий — падение примерно на 18% до $1600.
Но даже у него вероятность всего 29%.

Другие варианты снижения:
• 📉 $1400 — 14%
• 📉 $1200 — 5%

А вот в рост верят заметно меньше:
• 🚀 $2800 — 5%
• 🚀 $3000 — 3%
• 🚀 $4200–5000 — менее 1%

То есть рынок скорее допускает снижение, чем разворот вверх.

Polymarket показывает не истину, а настроение рынка.
Сейчас это настроение — осторожность, а не паника и не эйфория.

📌ETH балансирует между страхом продолжения падения и надеждой на структурный бычий цикл.

🚫📲 The impact of the Telegram blockade on the crypto community — what awaits TON and Toncoin?

In Russia, measures continue to partially restrict access to Telegram. While this is an inconvenience for regular users, it poses a risk factor for the crypto market.

Telegram is not just a messenger. For the TON ecosystem, it is:
• 💳 an integrated wallet
• 🎁 NFT gifts
• 🚀 launching and promoting crypto projects
• 🌍 free global traffic

💬 What experts say

🔹 Nana Kulikova (Rusinternetcom): without Telegram, TON projects may lose "massive synergy" — promotion will become more expensive and less effective, and part of the casual audience will simply fall away.

🔹 Analysts from Bestchange.ru: there are alternatives (VK, Imo, Discord, X), but for newcomers, Telegram is the key entry point. Without it, entering crypto becomes more challenging.

Against the backdrop of restrictions, Toncoin fluctuates around ~$1.3.
If pressure on the market intensifies, a general downward trend is possible — and TON is unlikely to remain on the sidelines.

📌 The blockade of Telegram will not "kill" TON.
But it can slow down growth, complicate mass adoption, and increase the cost of attracting users.

📵 Pavel Durov — on the slowdown of Telegram in Russia

The founder of Telegram harshly commented on the situation with the messenger's restrictions 👀

💬 "Russia is restricting access to Telegram, trying to force citizens to switch to a state-controlled application created for surveillance and political censorship" — Durov wrote.

🕰Honestly, there is nothing surprising! Time goes on and nothing changes 🤐…..
They might as well put three channels on the TV and turn off the internet altogether.

📌 What is happening now:
• RBC reported on the slowdown of Telegram 📰
• Roskomnadzor stated about "sequential restrictions"
• The reason — the messenger "does not comply with Russian legislation"

⚠️ Users have been complaining about outages since summer
❄️ And on February 8, a new wave of blockages began

🤖 AI was supposed to free up time.
But instead — it accelerated burnout 🔥

For years, we were sold the idea:
AI = less work, more life 🧘‍♂️
In practice, it turned out… the opposite.

📚 Research from Harvard Business Review and UC Berkeley shows a worrying trend:

👨‍💻 Employees who actively use AI:
• work faster, but longer ⏱
• take on more tasks voluntarily
• blur the lines between work and rest 🌙
• feel that they are "saving time," although in fact — they are not

🧪 An experiment in a tech company (200 employees, 8 months):
AI is not mandatory, but available to everyone
Result?
The freed-up time is instantly filled with new work
Lunches, evenings, Slack after work — everything turns into a work field 🧠💥

📉 Facts:
• experienced developers with AI spent 19% more time,
while being confident that they were working faster
• the real increase in productivity — about 3–10%, no more

📌 Without rules and breaks, AI
❌ does not reduce work
❌ does not lessen the load
✅ systematically intensifies it

🟠 BTC is integrating into Wall Street: Grayscale on the new role of bitcoin

A new study by Grayscale breaks the usual narrative 👀
BTC is increasingly behaving like shares of technology companies, rather than a safe haven asset.

📊 What is happening:
• The price of bitcoin is almost uncorrelated with gold and silver
• Instead, it is strongly linked to shares of software companies 💻
• Especially since the beginning of 2024
• And in 2026, the drop in BTC almost mirrors the collapse of the tech sector 📉

💬 Grayscale acknowledges:
Yes, in the long run, bitcoin is still viewed as a store of value (fixed supply, independence from central banks, and all that 🧠)
But in the moment, the market sees it more as a risk-on asset.

🔥 Minus ~50% from the peak $126k —
• liquidations in the fall of 2025
• sales in November
• another wave in January 2026
• plus "motivated sellers from the USA" 🇺🇸

❗️At the same time, Grayscale emphasizes:
This is not capitulation, but evolution 🧬
Comparing BTC to gold, which is thousands of years old, is somewhat naive.

🐕 SHIBA INU paints the worst bearish scenario
…and yes, is anyone still buying this? 🤔

On the daily chart, SHIB has formed a wedge structure, which in the context of an overall downtrend is most often resolved by a breakout downwards. This is exactly what happened: the price broke out of consolidation and updated local minima ⬇️

🔎 Key points:
• growth within the structure turned out to be corrective
• each upswing was bought back weaker
• the breakout was accompanied by a surge in volumes — a sign of distribution, not accumulation

📉 RSI is almost in oversold territory, but instead of aggressive buying, the market chooses another:
👉 to close positions, rather than accumulate

💡 Theoretically, there is a chance:
• double bottom
• protection of current levels
• rebound and retest of resistances

But this is already a scenario of 'if very lucky' 🎲

❓So the question remains open:
is SHIB realistically still being bought in 2026… or are they just averaging the pain? 🤡📉

Decided to think outside the box: what to expect from the budget iPhone 17e 👀

Apple seems to be playing the 'affordable luxury' game again 🍎
According to Macworld, the presentation of the iPhone 17e might take place on February 19, and sales could start just a few days after the announcement ⏳

💰 Price

The benchmark is clear:
📌 iPhone 16e currently costs $600 for the 128 GB version
👉 iPhone 17e will likely be in the same price range

🖥 Screen

A display comparable to the iPhone 14 is expected:
▪️ 6.1″ OLED
▪️ Resolution 2532×1170
▪️ Brightness up to 1200 nits ☀️
▪️ 60 Hz (no surprises)

🧲 MagSafe and charging

Good news ⚡️
▪️ MagSafe support (no hacks or cases)
▪️ Wireless charging up to 25 W
(versus 7.5 W for iPhone 16e — noticeable progress)

📌 If everything is confirmed — the iPhone 17e could become the most interesting budget iPhone in recent years

⚠️ The crypto market is on the brink: what is happening with BTC and what to expect next?

Bitcoin has been shaken again 📉
After the weekend, BTC dropped to ~$69,000, and on Monday the market even looked at ~$60,000 😬

Analyst Anatoly Radchenko analyzed what happened — and spoiler: it’s not about the news.

🔍 What caused the drop

▪️ The collapse was systematic, without loud information triggers
▪️ The main driver — structural sell-offs by institutions
▪️ Investment banks hedged losses through crypto products
▪️ “Stops” on them triggered massively around $78,700, starting a domino effect 🧨

📌 The market fell not in panic, but on mechanics.

💤 According to Radchenko, BTC may get stuck in the range of $65,000 – $80,000
And not for a week, but for 3–4 months or even longer

❌ A V-shaped reversal should not be expected in the near future
✔️ A reversal is possible only with:
– the return of institutional interest
– the beginning of rate cuts by regulators (and that’s not quick)

📅 What to expect in the coming week

⚡️ Preparing for volatility in the range of $65k–$80k
🏦 Watching the Fed and regulators — any signals could swing the market

🍔🥇 McDonald's vs Gold: An Unexpected Safe Haven in Times of Turbulence

Markets are shaking again 📉
Stocks are falling, gold is correcting, crypto is flying faster than anything 🚀⬇️
And suddenly a strange question arises: could it be that the "safe haven" is not a metal at all?

🍔 And now pay attention — McDonald's (MCD)
Amid the sell-off, the market is shaky, yet MCD stands firm like a rock 🪨
No panic, no hysteria, no crashes.

Why is this?

✅ The company earns not only from burgers but also from real estate rentals
✅ Franchisees take on the risks, the corporation collects rent and royalties
✅ In a crisis, people don’t stop eating — they switch to cheaper food
✅ Global business: 100+ countries 🌍 — local problems are not critical

📊 Big Mac as an Economic Indicator
The Big Mac Index has long become a popular way to explain inflation.
In one burger — wages, rent, logistics, raw materials, and taxes 🍟
Essentially, this is "inflation in simple terms" — clearer than CPI and central bank reports.

📌 McDonald's does not replace gold — it complements it.
When "safe havens" start to shake, a stable business with everyday demand can protect capital better than the abstract value of metal.

📊 Pump.fun buys Vyper: a bet on infrastructure amid the decline of meme coins

Pump.fun has completed the acquisition of the trading platform Vyper, enhancing its automated trading direction. The deal is a logical continuation of the vertical integration strategy: previously, the platform had already acquired Padre (now Terminal).

🔧 What the acquisition of Vyper brings
• Automation tools and trading bots
• Instant reaction to the launch of new tokens (“sniper Pumpfun”)
• Improved order execution in Ethereum and Base
• Link: token launch → charts → bots → execution in one interface

In fact, Pump.fun is trying to control the entire trading loop, not just the moment of meme coin creation.

• Market capitalization of meme coins: –72% (≈ $28 billion vs $100+ billion in December 2024)
• Pump.fun revenue: –77% y/y (≈ $31 million in January 2026)
• At the same time, the rate of issuance is increasing: ~30,000 tokens per day

The market has cooled, but activity has not disappeared — it has become more aggressive and short-term. In such conditions, the advantage goes not to showcases, but to speed and automation tools.

📌 Pump.fun is betting not on the recovery of the meme coin boom, but on the fact that trading will always happen — even in a declining market.

🇺🇸💰 American Betrayal: The Trump Family and the Secret Deal with the UAE

The family of Donald Trump quietly sold 49% of the cryptocurrency platform World Liberty Financial (WLF) to structures associated with Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan — the UAE National Security Advisor and manager of trillion-dollar state assets 💼👑

And what about the money…500 million 😔
The deal was finalized on January 16, 2025, just 4 days before Trump's return to the White House.
• $250 million — advance
• $187 million — went to companies affiliated with the Trump family
• $31 million — to project partners

Formally, Trump and his special envoy Steve Witkoff are "honorary co-founders", but real management is with family members 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

🤖 And this is where it gets interesting…
After investments and the Sheikh's visit to Washington, D.C.:
• restrictions are lifted
• sale of 500,000 NVIDIA AI chips per year is authorized
• 20% of them — for G42

Previously, these supplies were blocked due to risks of technology leakage to China ⚠️

🗣 and here is Trump's masterpiece response:
"I'm not aware of it, my sons are handling it".
The White House denies any conflict of interest and shifts the blame to the Biden family 🙃

BTC at $8,000: MicroStrategy Stress Test and Market Reaction

Michael Saylor's comments on a possible $8K level for BTC were taken out of context and perceived as a bearish signal. In reality, it was about a stress test of an extreme scenario intended to demonstrate the resilience of MicroStrategy's balance sheet, not a market forecast.

🔎 Why the market considers $8K unlikely:

• A drop to $8K would mean a correction of 85–90% from current levels, which historically has only occurred in the early stages of the market
• After institutional demand formed, Bitcoin has never returned to such historical lows
• Major players view such levels more as a theoretical risk boundary

📊 Current Market Structure:

• On-chain data indicates continued accumulation by long-term holders
• Inflow of capital through ETFs, participation from sovereign funds, and corporate treasuries create a more rigid price "floor"
• Volatility is increasing, but this is happening within a redistribution

📌 Analysts agree on one thing:
if Bitcoin really drops to $8K, it will be due to a global macroeconomic crisis, not internal weakness in the crypto market.

–60% in six months: US pension money drowned in Strategy

The drop in Bitcoin has severely affected the shares of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) — and along with them, the state pension funds of the US 😬

📉 What happened:
• 11 state funds own ~1.8 million shares of Strategy
• The value of the packages collapsed from $577 million to $240 million
• 📉 –60% for almost everyone
• 💸 Paper loss — $337 million

🪙 BTC now:
$69,275 | 🔻 –8.9%
Volumes — $31.2 billion (panic + active hands 👀)

📊 Shares of Strategy:
• –49% over 3 months
• –67% over 6 months
• Reason — strict tie to Bitcoin and Sailor's aggressive strategy

🏦 Who suffered the most:
• New York — 🔻 $53 million
• Florida — 🔻 $46 million
• Wisconsin — 🔻 $26 million
Also in the red are the funds of North Carolina, New Jersey, Utah, Kentucky, and Maryland.

💡 Of course… FUD has arrived strictly on schedule 🔽🤪

When the market is already on edge — it's the perfect time to pull out the most "juicy" conspiracy theories.

In one of the tweets, they are currently actively promoting this 👇

🧵 Briefly on the version of the FUD-makers:
• "Epstein's documents" allegedly prove that Israel has controlled Bitcoin for over 10 years 🇮🇱🪙
• Israel supposedly paid the salaries of 60% of the core BTC developers
• Through Blockstream + Tether you can:
– print unsecured USDT 💵
– manipulate the price
– control the network code
– own the majority of nodes 😱

👉 The result of the "investigation":
decentralization is a myth, Bitcoin is allegedly under the external control of one state.

🔥 And the cherry on top
Against this backdrop, Vitalik comes out and very timely states that L2 is no longer that relevant.
Coincidence? Of course 😌

😱 Bitcoin updated its 15-month low amid panic and outflows from ETFs

The market is shaking seriously. On Wednesday, BTC plunged to levels we last saw in November 2024 🕳️

📉 What happened:
• BTC tested support at $72,000, dipping to $71,600
• On the rebound — around $73,500
• Fear and greed index = 14 😨 (extreme fear)
• $272 million withdrawn from spot BTC-ETFs in one day
• Liquidations in 24 hours — nearly $600 million, mostly longs 💥

📊 The technicals scream "oversold":
• RSI (14D) — 24.35 🔻
• MACD deeply in the negative
Bearish momentum is still strong 🐻

⚡️ Additional panic trigger
The market was stirred by discussions about quantum threats to bitcoin. Although it was about a distant perspective, the "quantum panic" fit perfectly into the already nervous backdrop 😵‍💫

🔮 What’s next?
• For a reversal, BTC needs to reclaim and hold $78,240
• If not — the next support zone looms around $68,000 🧱

📉 The crypto market continues to slide downwards

Bitcoin updated its minimum after Donald Trump's victory in the US elections and approached the $73,000 zone.

📊 As of the evening of February 3:
• 🟠 BTC: $72.9–76.4 thousand — the lowest in over a year
• 🔻 –2.8% in a day
• 🔻 –14% in a week

🪙 Altcoins are also under pressure:
• ⚙️ ETH: –2.6% → ~$2,270
• ☀️ Solana: –6%
• Most top assets are in the red
• 🟡 PAXG and XAUT — a rare exception, slight growth (flight to "digital gold")

💥 Liquidations in a day:
$703 million in closed positions
👉 over 50% — longs, which intensified pressure on the market

😱 Fear and greed index:
14/100 — extreme fear
Panic, capitulation, and nervous hands

🏦 ETF flows (SoSoValue):
• ❌ Outflow from Bitcoin-ETF: –$272 million
• ✅ Inflow into Ethereum-ETF: +$14 million

📌The market is trying to find the bottom, while investors are watching:
• political signals
• actions of regulators
• behavior of large players