Crypto Pulse Last 7 Days

🏛️ Regulation / Policy (1/5)

• 🇺🇸 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged passage of the Clarity Act, calling for federal digital-asset rules this spring to reduce volatility

• 🏛️ Sen. Mark Warner pushed for market-structure bill progress, while SEC Chair Paul Atkins stated durable policy requires legislation

• 🇬🇧 DeFi Education Fund urged the Financial Conduct Authority to refine “control” definitions, arguing non-custodial developers shouldn’t be treated as intermediaries

• 🇰🇷 South Korea’s Financial Services Commission called for tighter oversight after the Bithumb $40B BTC distribution incident

#CryptoRegulation #Policy #DigitalAssets

🏦 Institutional Activity (2/5)

• ⚖️ Commodity Futures Trading Commission appointed executives from Coinbase, Ripple and others to its Innovation Advisory Committee

• 📉 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $410M in outflows, led by BlackRock’s IBIT; holdings stand at ~6.34% of BTC market cap

• 📊 Coinbase reported a $667M Q4 2025 loss, retail weakness partly offset by institutional & stablecoin growth

• 🌍 Global crypto ETP outflows slowed to $187M weekly, signaling moderation after prior heavy withdrawals

#Institutions #Bitcoin #ETFs

⛓️ On-chain / Protocol Updates (3/5)

• 🤖 Coinbase launched AI agentic wallets, enabling autonomous crypto payments via x402 protocol (50M+ tx processed)

• 💧 Spark opened a $9B stablecoin liquidity pool for institutional capital access

• 📈 Intercontinental Exchange launched CoinDesk index futures, covering BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and BNB

• 🔥 Ethereum reached 17.3M weekly transactions, with median fees at all-time lows

#OnChain #Ethereum #Web3

🔐 Security Incidents (4/5)

• 🔓 Mixin Network-linked wallet reactivated after 2 years, moving 2,005 ETH to Tornado Cash

• 🇰🇷 South Korea investigating Bithumb’s 620,000 BTC distribution error, 99.7% recovered

• 🚨 Two teens charged in $66M crypto-linked home invasion case in Arizona

• ⚖️ Connecticut man indicted for $950K crypto fraud, misused client funds on gambling platform

#CryptoSecurity #OnChainRisk #CyberCrime

🌍 Macro Events Impacting Crypto (5/5)

• 📊 Markets await U.S. January CPI data, after stronger jobs data repriced Fed expectations

• ⚠️ Bitcoin pressured below $60K, with liquidation risks tied near long-term support levels

• 🌏 Binance Co-CEO linked $19B liquidations to US-China macro shocks, not exchange issues

• 🏦 Standard Chartered forecasts further downside before recovery, revising 2026 targets

#Macro #Bitcoin #RiskAssets