10 #Bitcoin ETFs inflows 7,066 $BTC(+$703.6M) and 9 #Ethereum ETFs inflows 14,425 $ETH(+$48.32M) yesterday.

January 15 — The Zcash Foundation said Wednesday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally closed its years-long investigation into the group and confirmed it does not intend to take enforcement action or seek remediation. The foundation disclosed it received an SEC subpoena in August 2023 related to “Certain Crypto Asset Offerings.” The regulator has now completed its review and closed the case. An SEC spokesperson declined to comment on the existence of any investigation. The closure comes amid a shift in the SEC’s approach to crypto regulation. Over the past year, the commission has dropped or terminated enforcement actions and investigations against several crypto firms—including Coinbase and multiple DeFi projects—under the Trump administration, a stark contrast to the Biden administration’s aggressive “enforcement-first” stance. Current SEC Chair Paul Atkins is leading updates to crypto regulatory rules via “Project Crypto,” focused on on-chain activ

**January 15th: Coinbase Opposes Current Crypto Bill Ahead of Senate Banking Committee Vote** Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday the exchange will not support the current version of comprehensive cryptocurrency legislation set for markup and a vote by the Senate Banking Committee this Thursday. While praising senators’ bipartisan effort, Armstrong argued the draft is “worse than the current regulatory regime,” adding Coinbase prefers “no bill over a bad bill.” The legislation aims to clarify oversight boundaries between the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for digital assets, define when tokens qualify as securities or commodities, and establish new disclosure requirements. The committee will hold a hearing and vote on the bill Thursday morning. Armstrong flagged critical issues: provisions on decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoin yields, some of which could grant the governm

January 15th — Per OnchainLens monitoring, Ethereum treasury firm Bitmine has staked another 154,304 ETH, worth roughly $5.1976 billion. As of now, Bitmine’s total staked ETH stands at 1,685,088, with an overall value of approximately $5.65 billion. Earlier, the firm staked over 340,000 ETH in the past two days.

Jan 15: Ethereum briefly topped $3,400, per HTX market data, and is now trading at $3,385—up 6.22% over the past 24 hours.

January 15 — Solana’s official Twitter account claimed, “Ethereum Layer 2 project Starknet has just 8 daily active users and 10 daily transactions, yet it boasts a $10 billion market cap and a $150 billion fully diluted valuation.” The tweet prompted StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson to fire back: “Solana has 8 bald marketing interns tweeting 10 times a day.” Solana co-founder Toly responded, “This is an unnecessary bald-on-bald CEO clash.” Notably, Dune Analytics data shows Starknet’s daily transaction count at 245,416 and daily unique addresses at 2,369.

On January 15, Hyperinsight data shows that as Bitcoin leads the broader cryptocurrency market rally, the "BTC OG Whale Insider" long positions have posted over $60 million in unrealized profits. As of press time, their position breakdown is: - BTC Long (5x leverage): Unrealized profit of $5.86 million - ETH Long (5x leverage): Unrealized profit of $45.63 million - SOL Long (10x leverage): Unrealized profit of $9.02 million