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📊 COINBASE RETAIL HOLDS STRONG

Despite a broader crypto market drawdown, Coinbase’s retail segment maintained a 20% share of total trading in Q4 2025, with $59B in consumer volume vs $237B from institutions.

🔥 BTC EXCHANGE OUTFLOWS SPIKED IN ONE DAY

Exchange outflows surged on Wednesday, with nearly 32,000 BTC worth about $2.26 BILLION withdrawn.

Weekly outflows reached about 47,700 BTC, one of the highest levels in the past year, as per CryptoQuant analyst.

🚨NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT ALTSEASON — AND THAT’S BULLISH

Santiment data shows social media mentions of “altseason” have fallen to their LOWEST level in the past two years.

Historically, when retail stops talking about altcoins, large holders begin quietly accumulating.

🚨JUST IN: RIPPLE INTEGRATES COINBASE CRYPTO FUTURES INTO RIPPLE PRIME

Institutional clients on Ripple Prime can now trade crypto futures listed on Coinbase Derivatives, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP, as Ripple expands its institutional brokerage.

🚨BREAKING: U.S. REGULATORS GREENLIGHT TOKENIZED SECURITIES FOR BANKS

U.S Fed, OCC & FDIC jointly announce that Tokenized securities will receive the same treatment as traditional securities, allowing banks hold the blockchain-based versions with no added regulatory scrutiny.

🚨JUST IN: ERIC TRUMP’S AMERICAN BITCOIN SHARES SURGE AFTER ADDING 500+ BTC

$ABTC shares jump 11% as the miner boosted its treasury above 6,500 BTC, accumulating more than 500BTC through scaled mining operations, positioning the company among the top corporate Bitcoin holders.$BTC

🔥UPDATE: Spot Bitcoin ETFs match Gold ETFs’ Fifteen-year cumulative inflows in < 2 years, making it one of the fastest capital accumulations in ETF history.$btc

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP NOMINATES KEVIN WARSH AS FED CHAIR

President Trump formally nominates Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair, along with a nomination for a 14-year term on the Fed board

🇺🇸MORGAN STANLEY FILES FOR SPOT BITCOIN ETF

Morgan Stanley has submitted a new SEC filing for a spot Bitcoin ETF, naming Coinbase and BNY Mellon as custodians#BTC🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

⚠️FED WATCH: Markets now see nearly 97.4% chance the Fed won’t cut in March, the HIGHEST since Iran tensions sparked inflation fears.

🚨RIPPLE UNVEILS FULLY LICENSED END-TO-END STABLECOIN PLATFORM

Ripple has transformed Ripple Payments into a unified stablecoin and fiat infrastructure stack, integrating custody, liquidity, and collections - powering over $100B in payouts across 60+ markets worldwide.#XRPUSDT🚨

🔥 BLACKROCK’S IBIT SCOOPS 3,810 BTC IN 12 HOURS; $260M NET INFLOW

Onchain data shows BlackRock pulled 4,376 BTC ($298M) from Coinbase Prime while depositing just 567 BTC, marking a massive 3,810 BTC net inflow into $IBIT.

🚨 BREAKING: TRUMP SLAMS BANKS OVER STABLECOIN DISPUTE; SAYS “BANKS ARE TRYING TO UNDERCUT THE GENIUS ACT”

🇺🇸 President Trump blasted major banks for allegedly undermining the GENIUS Act and stalling crypto market structure reform, urging Congress to pass the Bill immediately.

🚨BREAKING: IRAQ SHUTS DOWN WORLD’S SECOND-LARGEST OIL FIELD

Following the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, Iraq has halted operations at the Rumaila oil field and suspended crude exports through a key pipeline to Turkey.

📊 $458M FLOODS INTO BITCOIN ETFs AMID GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS

Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $458.2M net inflows during escalating U.S./Israel-Iran tensions.

Not a single one of the 12 ETFs had outflows.

Institutions are buying the uncertainty.

❓ 38% OF ALTCOINS ARE NEAR ALL-TIME LOWS, WORSE THAN FTX COLLAPSE!

Nearly 4 out of 10 altcoins are trading near their ALL-TIME LOW — that’s worse than when FTX collapsed.

This is the BIGGEST ALTCOIN WIPEOUT of this cycle.

👀 THE WORLD MARKETS RIGHT NOW

UK Gas: +23.5%
Crude Oil: +8.8%
Gasoline: +4.7%
Gold: +2.4%
Silver: +2.1%
Bitcoin: +0.3%
Dow 30: -1%
S&P 500: -0.4%
Nasdaq 100: -0.9%

Energy and metals are surging while equities are falling.

This is what markets look like when investors start preparing for uncertainty, not growth.

🚨 JUST IN: US Centcom says 3 US service members have been killed in action & five are seriously wounded as part of Epic Fury.