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GM. Crypto news can be harder to digest than biting a lemon straight - let's keep it a little sweeter.

Here's what's freshly stirred for your taste buds:

🍍 The market's green;

📉 NYC token collapse;

🍋 Pakistan tests stablecoin remittances, $26M minted from Truebit bug + more

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🍍 Market flavor today

Fear and Greed Index
Find out more about the Fear & Greed Index here.

 Crypto Market Cap: $3.25T 3.66% (24H)
  Name   Price 24H 7D
Bitcoin Bitcoin BTC $96,289.16 3.79% 5.00%
Ethereum Ethereum ETH $3,330.24 5.69% 4.83%
XRP XRP XRP $2.14 2.88% -2.81%
BNB BNB BNB $938.17 2.66% 3.98%
Solana Solana SOL $146.31 2.91% 7.20%
Prices as of 11:00 AM EST. Click here to see live data.

Quite a nice view looking at all the green in crypto charts today 🥹

The mood was cautious yesterday, but then, the macro news hit:

👉 US inflation came in softer than expected.

Lower inflation = less pressure for higher rates.

Less pressure on rates = risk assets breathe easier.

Kobeissi Letter tweet about CPI data, 01-14

Source: @KobeissiLetter

Once that idea landed, Bitcoin stopped hesitating.

It pushed through resistance and ran to $95K+. That break alone was enough to wake the whole market up.

Then the dominoes started falling: ~$664M in short positions got liquidated as the price climbed. And when shorts are forced to buy, things can speed up fast.

Sentiment flipped from "this rally feels tired" to "okay, maybe this has legs."

Bitcoin price chart from BitDegree, 01-14

Source: BitDegree

Ethereum followed - it pushed back toward the $3.9K - $4K range.

Volumes picked up alongside price, which is important, because it means this wasn't thin trading or one-sided flows - it was broad participation.

That's usually a healthier signal than a quick increase.

Ethereum price chart from BitDegree, 01-14

Source: BitDegree

Then came the fun part: altcoins.

When Bitcoin breaks out on macro instead of hype, alts usually get invited to the afterparty.

Total crypto market cap climbed back above $3.3T, and several large-cap tokens posted 8% - 15% gains.

When you see that kind of breadth, it tells you capital is moving into the market, not just rotating inside it.

And here's what was happening under the hood:

👉 Volatility picked up = traders expect movement;

👉 Stablecoin inflows rose = people are loading dry powder, not cashing out;

👉 Even crypto stocks and miners caught a bid alongside BTC.

Translation: this doesn't look like people heading for the exits. It looks like people tightening their laces.

What matters next is whether Bitcoin can hold $94.5K - $95K.

👉 If it does, confidence builds.

👉 If it doesn't, we probably chop and shake out weak positions before the next move.

Either way, the mood has changed 👀

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🥝 Memecoin harvest

Who needs fundamentals when you've got meme-mentals 🤪

Data as of 09:34 AM EST.

Check out these memecoins and plenty more here.

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📉 NYC token collapse

Imagine you hear a well-known local figure - someone with real authority - is opening a pop-up food stand.

They're on camera talking about why they're doing it, what it stands for, how it's supposed to help the community.

So you go after work. You wait. You pay. But then... the stand packs up and vanishes.

No burger. No refund. Just regret.

That's basically the emotional arc of the story we're covering today.

Ex-NYC mayor Eric Adams publicly launched a crypto token - the NYC Token.

He announced it himself, spoke about it publicly, with messaging around social good, education, and fighting antisemitism.

So, when the token went live, people didn't see it as a random crypto experiment. They saw it as:

👉 A mayor-backed project;

👉 A symbolic extension of NYC's crypto-friendly stance;

👉 Something that felt closer to a civic initiative than a speculative gamble.

People started buying in - quickly.

... And almost just as quickly, the token collapsed.

Tweet about NYC token collapse

Source: @im_BrokeDoomer

Its value dropped hard. Trading became chaotic.

Then blockchain watchers noticed something crucial: a large chunk of the token supply and trading liquidity was controlled by a very small number of wallets.

Soon after, that liquidity (the money that makes buying and selling possible) was pulled.

Once that happens, there's no soft landing. Prices fall off a cliff. Regular buyers are stuck.

Which is what we, in the biz, call a rug pull.

Crying

Now, what makes this story big isn't just the money lost. It's the mismatch between what people thought they were joining and what the project actually was.

Most people didn't buy in because they misunderstood crypto. They bought because the context felt reassuring.

When a public official launches a project and speaks about it openly, people naturally assume:

👉 Someone has thought through the risks;

👉 The structure matches the message;

👉 There's alignment between intent and execution.

That assumption isn't foolish - it's how trust works everywhere, not just in crypto.

The problem is that in crypto, those assumptions don't get automatically enforced.

In traditional settings, there are usually layers that slow things down or catch issues early - legal reviews, operational controls, institutional checks.

Crypto strips most of that away.

👉 That's part of why people like it → it's open, fast, and flexible.

👉 But it also means the burden shifts onto the structure itself. If the design doesn't actually support the story being told, the system won’t correct for that.

So the caution here is that in crypto, the difference between a well-intentioned experiment and something risky often comes down to details that aren't obvious from the headline or the person attached to it.

For everyday participants, that means pausing long enough to ask a few basic questions:

👉 Who actually controls the mechanics?

👉 What happens if something goes wrong?

👉 Is this built to match the expectations being set?

Because in crypto, protection only exists if it's designed in from the start.

That's the lesson hiding underneath this story.

Maybe don't immediately trust a random food stand that has a big name attached to it.

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🍋 News drops you can't miss

🇵🇰 Pakistan made a deal with SC Financial Technologies to try out the USD1 stablecoin for sending money abroad. They locked it in while World Liberty Financial's CEO, Zach Witkoff, was visiting.

🐞 A bug in Truebit's code let someone mint about $26M in tokens basically for free. Shows older blockchains can still get hit by surprise flaws.

🏅 21Shares rolled out its new Bitcoin and Gold ETP on the London Stock Exchange. The fund actually holds the real assets, but there's more gold than Bitcoin in the mix.

🕵️‍♂️ Impersonation scams in crypto shot up 1,400% between 2024 and 2025. Scammers posing as real people or companies grabbed way more crypto than before.

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🍌 Juicy memes

Meme about the spectrum of productivity, contrasting healthy habits and detrimental choices.

Source: @Trader_Theory

Meme about job interviews and unrealistic future aspirations involving cryptocurrency.

Source: @dubzyxbt

Meme about complicated explanations and misunderstandings in conversation.

Source: @BillyM2k

Gode S. Web3 Market Analyst
Gode is a Web3 Market Analyst who researches the most important industry events and interprets how they affect the wider Web3 space. Her formal education in media culture & digital rhetoric allows her to employ a methodical approach to evaluating critical Web3 news data, including large-scale events and the wider social sentiment within the ecosystem.
Gode is a mutilingual professional, having studied in multiple universities all across Europe. This allows her to have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to analyze Web3 social sentiments spanning different cultures and languages and, in turn, develop a much deeper understanding of how the Web3 space is growing within different communities. With the rest of her team, Gode works to identify crucial crypto news patterns and provide unbiased and data-driven information.
Gode’s passions include working and communicating with people, and when she’s not researching Web3 news, she spends her time traveling and watching true crime documentaries.

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