CZ has unfollowed Solana co-founder Toly's X account

Bitcoin dropped below $83,000 on January 31, per data from HTX, with its 24-hour gain narrowing to 0.53%.

On January 31, Jupiter launched its Solana Ecosystem Explorer — a tool integrating data from Solscan and DefiLlama to build a discovery layer for the entire Solana ecosystem. Users can now access unified project overviews via a single dashboard, with support for: - Project financials (fees, revenue, TVL) - Social media presence (tweets, follower counts, updates) - User activity (trades, growth metrics) - Products and tokens

On January 31, Solana co-founder Toly took to social media to note that if we’re lucky, the October 11 market crash could kick off an 18-month bear market—one during which we can build new things in the crypto space.

As of January 31, data from GMGN (via https://t.me/gmgnaibot?start=i_m4TE56o8) shows Base Layer meme token trading is active, with several tokens posting strong recent gains—driving up the Base ecosystem issuance platform token CLANKER and AI agent token BNKR. Standout performances include: - CLANKER: Hit a $47.6M market cap earlier today, now at $4M (24h +22.4%). - BNKR: Reached a $96M market cap earlier today, now at $60M (24h +23.2%). - Meme coin MOLT: Hit an all-time high (ATH) of $124M market cap this morning, now at $95M (24h +264.2%); 24h trading volume = $107M. - Meme coin CLAWNCH (launched 4 hours ago): Reached $9.7M market cap, now at $5.6M; 24h volume = $17.3M. - Meme coin KellyClaude (launched 15 hours ago): Hit $4.3M market cap, now at $1M; 24h volume = $17.4M. - Meme coin CC (Clawd Clawderberg): Rose to $4.8M market cap, now at $2M; 24h volume = $10.7M. BlockBeats reminder: Many meme coins lack practical use cases and have extreme price volatility—investor

January 31 – Per LookOnChain monitoring data, spot silver prices fell below $75/ounce today, with a single-day plunge of over 35% marking the largest daily drop on record. The whale address "0x94d3"—which held a $29 million long position in silver—had its position liquidated, resulting in losses exceeding $4 million.

On January 31, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two digital asset exchanges linked to Iranian businessman Babak Morteza Zanjani: Zedcex Exchange and Zedxion Exchange. Since its August 2022 registration, Zedcex has processed more than $94 billion in transactions. Multiple addresses tied to both exchanges have handled funds for wallets associated with Iranian officials. OFAC also imposed sanctions on several Iranian officials, including Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni Kalagari.