​​ICYMI: Weekend Recap 🗞

Here's a quick look at the key headlines from this weekend:

Markets & Macro

🇺🇸 OCC to proceed with World Liberty bank charter despite Warren’s objections
🇨🇦 Canada rules out China free trade deal as Trump threatens 100% tariffs
🇯🇵 Japan plans framework that could permit crypto ETFs by 2028

Projects & Community

🐧 PENGUIN memecoin jumps 564% after viral White House X post
🔎 Polymarket odds surge to 78% for January US Government Shutdown
📈 Pump ENSO ~200% and SOMI ~100% over the weekend

Institutions & Capital

🏦 Strategy sells $257 million in stock to buy 2,932 Bitcoin
💼 Metaplanet takes $680M accounting hit on Bitcoin holdings
📊 US Bitcoin ETFs lose $1.72B in five-day outflow streak

Drophunting weekly:

— HyENA - Interaction
— TBook - Airdrop checker
— Sentient - Claim & TGE
— RAX Finance - Waitlist
— ETHGAS - Claim & TGE
— Konnex - Airdrop campaign
— HeyElsa - Claim & TGE
— Rails - Airdrop checker

Explore other news on CryptoRank:
👉 https://cryptorank.io/news

​​📉 Market Overview

Crypto saw a small bounce after multiple red days, with ETH clearly outperforming BTC, gaining almost 3%. Since Jan 15, Ethereum ETFs have shown better momentum than Bitcoin ETFs.

Bitcoin: $88,387 +0.8%
Ethereum: $2,937 +2.4%

Monday ETF inflows:
BTC ETFs: $7M
ETH ETFs: $117M

On the market recovery, perp coins showed strong performance, with HYPE gaining 23% on bullish news, followed by LIT up 18% and ASTER up 5%.

Market Cap: $3.09T
Liquidations: $362M
Fear & Greed Index: 29 (Fear)
Altcoin Index: 27/100

👉 Latest News

- Strategy bought another 2,932 BTC last week, and Bitmine bought 40,302 ETH.
- Tether, the USDT issuer, purchased 27 tons of gold in Q4 2025, now valued at $4.4B.
- The USD has lost more than 10% of its value over the past 12 months.

👉 Small Cap Gainers

ORBIT +4,714%
Daydreams +79%
The White Whale +58%
Bankr +52%
Acurast +41%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Everything $6.9M Seed round led by Humanity Protocol
- Zona $500K Pre-Seed round backed by Animoca Brands
- Pan $1M KOL round

Can Buyback Bring Value to Token Holder?

Aping every coin after a project announces buybacks from revenue or treasury, but have you ever wondered what buybacks really do to token price?

Read our new Twitter article for key insights, and never again sit on -90% PnL after realizing the project you bought makes only $100 in daily fees.

By the way, you’ll also find out why HYPE fell 50% from ATH, despite the biggest buybacks in the market.

👉 https://x.com/CryptoRank_io/status/2016133414492008542?s=20

​​Gate Moves Closer to a Full-Scale Multi-Asset Derivatives Platform

Gate launches multiple new USDT-margined perpetual futures, expanding its multi-asset derivatives lineup across indices, forex, commodities, and precious metals. The new contracts include US30, HK50, JPN225, EURUSD, GBPUSD, XTI, XBR, XAL, XCU, XNI, and XPB.

Most of the newly listed markets will support 1x–10x leverage, while EURUSD and GBPUSD perpetuals will offer leverage of up to 100x. The expansion strengthens Gate’s integrated trading environment, connecting traditional financial markets with crypto-native infrastructure.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/exchanges/gateio

​​As PENGUIN’s run showed, the Solana trenches are still alive, so we looked at past runners to see where they stand now.

TL;DR: Most memecoins are down over 95% and show no signs of recovery.

If you could revive only one token, which would you choose?

👉 https://cryptorank.io/tags/solana-meme

​​🚨Just in: S&P 500 hits a new ATH of 7,000 for the first time in history.

The State of TRON H2 2025

TRON expanded its role as a stablecoin-first settlement layer in 2025, seeing solid growth in stablecoin supply, transactions, and other metrics.

How this growth unfolded & what’s next for TRON.

Read more in our research👇
cryptorank.io/insights/research/tron-h-2-2025

​​Stablecoins Are Quietly Becoming B2B’s Payment Rail of Choice

As regulatory clarity around stablecoins emerged throughout 2025, the stablecoin payments sector experienced significant growth, especially in B2B, where payment processes are often complex, slow, and expensive. This is particularly true for multi-currency transactions and cross-border transfers. Stablecoins address many of these inefficiencies, which is driving their rapid adoption.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/categories/stablecoin

Traditional Finance vs Crypto: For Now, Traditional Assets Are Leading

During periods of political and global instability, liquidity continues to flow into traditional assets. Since the beginning of 2025, gold’s market capitalization has increased by +98%, while silver has surged by +282%, supported by strong industrial demand and tight supply conditions. Over the same period, Bitcoin has declined by −7.2%.

If regulatory progress and growing institutional adoption lead investors to reallocate liquidity toward crypto assets, Bitcoin’s implied price under a gold-comparable market capitalization (~$35T) would be approximately $1.75M per BTC.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/price/bitcoin

Does Binance Really Wipe Out Every Listing?

Given the recent FUD about Binance and its listing performance, we used Hyperliquid’s public API data to compare results, and they were almost the same.

It’s pretty obvious we’d see a similar pattern across exchanges, so it’s unlikely to be solely the exchange’s fault.

This is driven by the more than 11 million new tokens that flooded the market in 2025, most of them low quality.

Perhaps 2025 was not the best period for “buy and hodl.”

👉 cryptorank.io/exchanges/listing-performance

​​📉 Market Overview

Amid hawkish Fed sentiment, a protracted rally in precious metals, and no significant ETF inflows, the broader crypto market can’t find sustainable growth and is consolidating in a range.

Bitcoin: $88,187 -1%
Ethereum: $2,951 -2%

Wendesday ETF flows:
BTC ETFs: $5M outflowed
ETH ETFs: $800K inflowed

Last week’s top performers have turned red: RIVER -13%, DASH -10%, ZEC -7%. Meanwhile, some coins are still printing strong candles on bullish news: STABLE +26%, WLD +11%.

Market Cap: $3.07T
Liquidations: $347M
Fear & Greed Index: 26 (Fear)
Altcoin Index: 32/100

👉 Read our Recent Articles

- Buybacks Can’t Save Crypto and Here’s Why
- Why Altseason Haven't Come?
- What 2025 Reveals About New Token Listings

👉 Small Cap Gainers

BULLA +109%
ETHGAS +64%
PlaysOut +53%
币安2017 +42%
The White Whale +34%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Whetstone research $9M Seed round led by Pantera Capital
- Bleap $6M Seed round led by Blossom Capital
- Bulletin M&A round backed by DefiLlama

​​Altcoin Season Is Fading

Today, the top 10 altcoins account for around 82% of the total altcoin market capitalization. This concentration may continue to increase as TradFi capital enters the market, favoring more established, familiar, and lower-risk assets.

At the same time, ETF exposure to Ethereum, Solana, and XRP puts additional pressure on the broader altcoin market, as capital increasingly flows into the largest assets via passive investment vehicles rather than into smaller tokens.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/charts/fear-and-greed

🚨Just in: BTC is nearing the $85,000 level, down 4% on the day.

Just another day in trenches.

👉 cryptorank.io/price/bitcoin

​​Almost all Hyperliquid traders remain bullish despite broader market underperformance.

Can crypto repeat the metals rally this year?

👉 cryptorank.io/performance

​​Yes, Solana trenches are alive

There's been a spike in activity this January. On 27th, active addresses surged over 300K for the 1st time in many month.

Daily volumes are now approaching $200M, while daily token launches hit 44.5K.

Will we see another $100M runner on February?

👉 https://cryptorank.io/tags/solana-meme

​​📉 Market Overview

The market entered the max pain zone, with BTC now trading around $82K after dropping 6% in a day. Total market cap slid to $2.9T, and about $1.5B in long positions was wiped out over the past 24 hours.

Bitcoin: $82,716 -6.2%
Ethereum: $2,739 -7.3%

Thursday ETF outflows:
BTC ETFs: $818M
ETH ETFs: $156M

Surprisingly, there are still alts that look good in this squeeze. CC held strong and gained 7%, bringing weekly growth to 22%. 2Z is also in the green, up 3% on the da

Market Cap: $2.90T
Liquidations: $1.7B
Fear & Greed Index: 16 (Extreme Fear)
Altcoin Index: 29/100

👉 Latest News

- Gold has outperformed Bitcoin over the past five years.
- The Hyperliquid team said 140,000 HYPE will be unstaked and given to team members on Feb 6.
- Bitcoin is now 10% above the April lows.

👉 Small Cap Gainers

BULLA +75%
RollX +48%
分红狗头 (dividend dog head) +43%
币安2017 +25%
U.S Oil +25%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Flying tulip $25.5M Series A round backed by Amber Group
- Whetstone research $9M Seed round led by Pantera Capital
- Startale $13M Extended Series A round backed by Sony Innovation Fund

​​Tether Holds More Gold Than Qatar

Tether is building a digital dollar designed to withstand traditional banking crises and fiat currency inflation. The company has accumulated over 140 tons of physical gold, valued at roughly $23 billion, which would place it around 23rd globally by gold reserves, just behind the Central Bank of Brazil (≈145 tons), if it were classified as a country.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/price/tether

​​Are There Any Safe Havens Left?

During yesterday’s gold pullback, most major assets across categories followed metals, even crypto that don’t have gains for a while.

As of now, markets are highly correlated during panic selling, and the US dollar is losing value rapidly.

What we’re using for a hedge, folks?

👉 cryptorank.io/coin-categories

​​RWA holders have grown ~10x over the past year, now nearing 800K

Public equities (294K) and commodities (206K) make up most holders, even though their combined dollar value represents only 25% of the total RWA market.

At this pace, RWA holders could surpass 1 million within months.

👉 https://cryptorank.io/tags/real-world-assets

​​🚨 Just in: Bitcoin falls under $80,000 for the first time in 8 months.

👉 cryptorank.io/price/bitcoin

​​📉 Market Overview

As the market keeps going down, BTC has recorded a 13% drop in a week and nearly lost the $75K support level, while ETH has fallen 23%, losing the $2,200 level. Total crypto market cap has fallen 14% and is now around $2.65T.

Bitcoin: $76,209 -2.9%
Ethereum: $2,213 -8.4%

Last week ETF outflows:
BTC ETFs: $1.5B
ETH ETFs: $327M

Altcoins are mostly in the red, following the majors. However, some have managed to outperform the falling market. HYPE bounced 36% in a week, followed by STABLE up 30% and CC +22%.

Market Cap: $2.67T
Liquidations: $800M
Fear & Greed Index: 14 (Extreme Fear)
Altcoin Index: 29/100

👉 Latest News

- Crypto market cap fell by about $230B in one day.
- Step Finance was hacked for 261,854 SOL (around $30M).
- A senior member of the UAE royal family secretly bought a 49% stake in WLFI for $500M.

👉 Small Cap Gainers

BUTTCOIN1 +75%
Limitless +56%
elizaOS +24%
QuarkChain +21%
Uchain +18%

👉 Recent Funding Rounds

- Flying tulip $25.5M Series A round backed by Amber Group
- Metaplanet $78M Post-IPO round
- Whetstone research $9M Seed round led by Pantera Capital