1 month ago
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
The crypto marketplace is showing signs of stabilizing, with bitcoin recovering to $102,000 and affirmative signals from futures tied to the Nasdaq. Leading the betterment among large cryptocurrencies is XRP, up 11%, followed by SOL with a 7% increase. AI coins, deed hard connected Monday, are posting gains of arsenic overmuch arsenic 4%.
Risk sentiment is apt being supported by skepticism surrounding the claims of Chinese tech startup DeepSeek, which asserts it spent lone $6 cardinal to make its rival to ChatGPT. Critics speculate the fig omits costs associated with earlier probe and experimentation connected architectures, algorithms and data. Additionally, a conception rooted successful the Jevons Paradox suggests that advancements successful ratio often pb to accrued usage alternatively than reduced consumption, starring to nett affirmative maturation successful the industry.
That's bully quality for bitcoin and the broader crypto manufacture due to the fact that they align with the communicative of U.S. exceptionalism, peculiarly fixed President Trump's crypto-friendly stance and plans to found a strategical integer plus reserve.
Speaking of the strategical reserve, Arizona lawmakers person precocious a measure that would licence authorities entities oregon nationalist funds to put up to 10% of their superior successful bitcoin and different integer assets.
The broader outlook remains bullish, with on-chain information pointing to capitulation of anemic hands and continued accumulation by ample investors.
"According to CryptoQuant data, the stock of investors with a equilibrium of astatine slightest 1,000 BTC who purchased coins successful the past 155 days accrued from 43% to 60%, reflecting the emergence of ample players amid optimistic sentiment," said Alex Kuptsikevich, main marketplace expert astatine the FxPro.
QCP Capital expects this week to trial BTC's correlation with equities, peculiarly arsenic a favorable regulatory situation offers imaginable support. Stay alert!
What to Watch
Crypto:
Jan. 28, 1:00 p.m.: Hedera (HBAR) web upgrade (v0.57.5).
Jan. 29: Cardano’s Plomin hard fork web upgrade.
Jan. 29: Ice Open Network (ION) mainnet launch.
Feb. 2, 8:00 p.m.: Core blockchain Athena hard fork web upgrade (v1.0.14)
Feb. 4: MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q4, FY 2024 earnings.
Feb. 4: Pepecoin (PEPE) halving. At artifact 400,000, the reward volition driblet to 31,250 PEPE.
Feb. 5, 3:00 p.m.: Boba Network’s Holocene hard fork web upgrade for its Ethereum-based L2 mainnet.
Feb. 6, 8:00 a.m.: Shentu Chain web upgrade (v2.14.0).
Feb. 12: Hut 8 Corp. (HUT) Q4 2024 earnings.
Feb. 15: Qtum (QTUM) hard fork web upgrade astatine artifact 4,590,000.
Feb. 18 (after marketplace close): Semler Scientific (SMLR) Q4 2024 earnings.
Feb. 20: Coinbase Global (COIN) Q4 2024 earnings.
Macro
Jan. 28, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Census Bureau releases December Monthly Advance Report connected Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments Inventories and Orders.
MoM Est. 0.8% vs. Prev. -1.1%.
Jan. 28, 1:00 p.m.: The Fed releases December's H.6 (Money Stock Measures) report.
Money Supply Prev. $21.45T.
Jan. 29, 12:00 a.m.: Japan’s Cabinet Office releases January’s Consumer Confidence Survey.
Est. 36.5 vs. Prev. 36.2.
Jan. 29, 4:00 a.m.: The European Central Bank (ECB) releases Monetary Developments successful the Euro Area for December.
M3 Money Supply YoY Est. 3.8% vs. Prev. 3.8%.
Jan. 29, 8:45 a.m.: The Bank of Canada (BoC) releases the (quarterly) Monetary Policy Report.
Jan. 29, 9:45 a.m.: The BoC announces its interest-rate decision.
Est. 3% vs. Prev. 3.25% followed by a press conference astatine 10:30 a.m.
Jan. 29, 2:00 p.m.: The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announces the U.S. cardinal bank’s interest-rate decision.
Target Range for the Federal Funds Rate Est. 4.25% to 4.5% vs. Prev. 4.25% to 4.5% followed by a property league astatine 2:30 p.m. Livestream link.
Token Events
Governance votes & calls
Morpho DAO is voting whether to trim MORPHO rewards by 30% crossed each assets and networks and acceptable each assets different than those with ETH oregon USD denominations to person the aforesaid reward complaint arsenic BTC-denominated assets.
Sky DAO is voting whether to trim the WBTC liquidation threshold from 55% to 50% connected SparkLend Ethereum.
Yearn DAO is voting whether to money and endorse Bearn, a caller subDAO aiming to physique and motorboat products connected Berachain.
Unlocks
Jan. 28: Tribal Token (TRIBL) to unlock 14% of its circulating proviso worthy $60 million.
Jan. 31: Optimism (OP) to unlock 2.32% of circulating proviso worthy $52.9 million.
Jan. 31: Jupiter (JUP) to unlock 41.5% of circulating proviso worthy $626 million.
Feb. 1: Sui (SUI) to unlocked astir 2.13% of its circulating proviso worthy $226 million.
Token Listings
Jan. 28: Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) and Magic Eden (ME) to beryllium listed connected Kraken.
Jan. 29: Cronos (CRO), Movement (MOVE) and Usual (USUAL) to beryllium listed connected Kraken.
Conferences:
Jan. 29-31: Crypto Peaks 2025 (Palisades, California)
Jan. 30, 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.: International DeFi Day 2025 (online)
Jan. 30-31: Ethereum Zurich 2025
Jan. 30-31: Plan B Forum (San Salvador, El Salvador)
Jan. 30 to Feb. 1: Crypto Gathering 2025 (Miami Beach, Florida)
Jan. 30-Feb. 1: CryptoXR 2025 (Auxerre, France)
Jan. 30-Feb. 2: Oasis Onchain 2025 (Nassau, Bahamas)
Jan. 30-Feb. 4: The Satoshi Roundtable (Dubai)
Feb. 1-28: Mammathon planetary hackathon for Celestia (online).
Feb. 3: Digital Assets Forum (London)
Feb. 5-6: The 14th Global Blockchain Congress (Dubai)
Feb. 6: Ondo Summit 2025 (New York).
Feb. 7: Solana APEX (Mexico City)
Feb. 13-14: The 4th Edition of NFT Paris.
Feb. 18-20: CoinDesk's Consensus Hong Kong
Feb. 19: Sui Connect: Hong Kong
Feb. 23-March 2: ETHDenver 2025 (Denver, Colorado)
Feb. 25: HederaCon 2025 (Denver)
Token Talk
By Shaurya Malwa
AI-focused Venice AI (VVV) zoomed to a $1 cardinal marketplace capitalization connected Monday connected its entreaty of offering private, uncensored AI inference entree without per-request fees.
The Base-based token was listed connected Coinbase — 1 of the uncommon assets listed connected the speech connected the time of motorboat — which whitethorn person helped propel the move.
Users involvement VVV tokens to summation API entree to AI stalwart DeepSeek, with ongoing rewards from token emissions.
Derivatives Positioning
CME's bitcoin and ether futures saw a notable driblet successful unfastened involvement connected Monday, arsenic traders de-risked during a crisp descent successful Nvidia and different Nasdaq stocks.
Perpetual backing rates for large coins person stabilized successful the scope of an annualized 5%-10%. Funding rates for BTC had concisely flipped bearish beneath zero aboriginal Monday.
BTC calls are pricier than puts crossed each timeframes, portion ETH's front-end puts commercialized pricier, reflecting concerns of extended terms drops successful the adjacent mates of days.
Market Movements:
BTC is up 1.32% from 4 p.m. ET Monday to $98,784.45 (24hrs: +4.07%)
ETH is up 1.62% astatine $3,050.20 (24hrs: +4.52%)
CoinDesk 20 is up 3.2% to 3,536.28 (24hrs: +6.73%)
CESR Composite Staking Rate is up 18 bps to 3.19%
BTC backing complaint is astatine 0.0084% (9.2221% annualized) connected Binance
DXY is up 0.57% astatine 107.95
Gold is up 0.34% astatine $2,743.59/oz
Silver is up 0.35% to $30.16/oz
Nikkei 225 closed -1.39% astatine 39,016.87
Hang Seng closed +0.14% to 20,225.11
FTSE is up 0.58% astatine 8,553.75
Euro Stoxx 50 is up 0.47% astatine 5,212.71
DJIA closed connected Monday +0.65% to 44,713.58
S&P 500 closed -1.46% astatine 6,012.28
Nasdaq closed -3.07% astatine 19,341.83
S&P/TSX Composite Index closed -0.7% astatine 25,289.15
S&P 40 Latin America closed +0.34% astatine 2,330.61
U.S. 10-year Treasury is up 3 bps astatine 4.57%
E-mini S&P 500 futures are up 0.39% astatine 6070.50
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are up 0.67% astatine 21,400.25
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are unchanged astatine 44,935.00
Bitcoin Stats:
BTC Dominance: 59.16 (0.15%)
Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.031 (-0.32%)
Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 767 EH/s
Hashprice (spot): $58.7
Total Fees: 6.13 BTC/ $616,619
CME Futures Open Interest: 170,240 BTC
BTC priced successful gold: 37.6 oz
BTC vs golden marketplace cap: 10.68%
Technical Analysis
ETH carved retired a candle with a agelong process Monday, signaling carnivore fatigue astatine intraday lows. That's often seen arsenic a motion of an impending inclination alteration higher.
Prices, however, stay trapped successful a descending channel, suggesting a bearish outlook.
Crypto Equities
MicroStrategy (MSTR): closed connected Monday astatine $347.92 (-1.63%), down 0.36% astatine $346.66 successful pre-market.
Coinbase Global (COIN): closed astatine $277.99 (-6.71%), up 0.76% astatine $280.11 successful pre-market.
Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed astatine C$27.36 (-15.87%).
MARA Holdings (MARA): closed astatine $18.28 (-8.53%), up 0.63% astatine $18.40 successful pre-market.
Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed astatine $11.45 (-15.44%), down 6.87% astatine $12.61 successful pre-market.
Core Scientific (CORZ): closed astatine $11.28 (-29.41%), up 2.22% astatine $11.53 successful pre-market.
CleanSpark (CLSK): closed astatine $10.31 (-10.62%), up 1.21% astatine $10.43 successful pre-market.
CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed astatine $20.78 (-20.75%), down 3.99% astatine $21.61 successful pre-market.
Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed astatine $50.43 (-9.07%).
Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed astatine $74 (+20.82%), unchanged successful pre-market.
ETF Flows
ETF Flows
Spot BTC ETFs:
Daily nett flow: -$457.6 million
Cumulative nett flows: $39.49 billion
Total BTC holdings ~ 1.157 million.
Spot ETH ETFs
Daily nett flow: -$136.2 million
Cumulative nett flows: $2.67 billion
Total ETH holdings ~ 3.59 million.
Source: Farside Investors
Overnight Flows
Chart of the Day
Daily trading measurement connected Solana-based decentralized exchanges has dropped sharply to little than $10 billon from the precocious of $35 cardinal registered connected Jan. 18, erstwhile the TRUMP token debuted and triggered a memecoin frenzy.
Volumes, however, stay elevated astatine the mean enactment levels seen successful November and December.
While You Were Sleeping
KuCoin to Pay Nearly $300M Fine After Pleading Guilty to DOJ Charges (CoinDesk): Crypto speech KuCoin pleaded blameworthy to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, agreeing to wage $297 cardinal successful penalties and to exit the U.S. for 2 years.
Tuttle Capital Proposes First-Ever Leveraged ETFs of TRUMP, MELANIA, Cardano, Others (CoinDesk): Tuttle Capital Management filed 10 2x leveraged crypto ETF proposals with the SEC, including those tracking TRUMP and MELANIA memecoins.
Mad Money's Jim Cramer Says 'Own Bitcoin, Not MicroStrategy' (CoinDesk): On Monday’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer endorsed owning bitcoin portion cautioning against MicroStrategy, the largest firm bitcoin holder. Critics often construe his proposal arsenic a contrarian indicator.
Ripple's CEO Brad Garlinghouse Bats for Diversified U.S. Crypto Reserve (CoinDesk): Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse supports a U.S. integer plus reserve representing aggregate tokens, not conscionable bitcoin, calling BTC maximalism "the force of crypto progress."
BOJ to Raise Rates Again by July, Eventually Eye Hike to 1.5%, Says Ex-Policymaker (Reuters): Former Bank of Japan committee subordinate Makoto Sakurai predicts the slope volition rise involvement rates again by mid-2025, targeting 1.5% wrong 2 years.
Dollar Climbs arsenic Trump Puts Tariff Threats Back connected the Agenda (Bloomberg): The dollar strengthened against large currencies, with the yen starring losses aft falling implicit 0.9%, arsenic President Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reignited tariff concerns.
OpenAI’s Altman Vows ‘Better Models’ arsenic China’s DeepSeek Disrupts Global Race (Financial Times): On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to DeepSeek’s generative AI rival to ChatGPT by pledging to accelerate merchandise launches and present superior models.
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