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China accuses the U.S. of hacking to obtain 127,271 Bitcoin from alleged scam kingpin Chen Zhi.

Interest payments reached $1.47T, 4.7% of US GDP. Highest in 27 years. Debt servicing grows faster than social spending. CBO projects decade of structural pressure ahead.

Buterin says Ethereum tripling down on sovereign individuals vs custodial stables, centralized DeFi, yield products. Oracle capture and governance extraction criticized.

Smart Cashtags let users tag exact assets or contracts instead of ambiguous symbols. X becomes precision market lens. Reduces scam exploitation of ticker overlap.

Polygon team transferred 20M POL worth $3.5M to Binance and GSR Markets amid token's 50% weekly rally.

Solana pushed urgent v3.0.14 fix Jan 10, but 51% stake remains on old software amid 42% validator decline over past year.

WSJ reports Venezuela used Tether to evade sanctions. PDVSA settled oil trades in USDT while stablecoin aided crisis-hit citizens.

X announced Sunday it will introduce Smart Cashtags, a feature allowing users to specify exact financial assets when posting ticker symbols.

Tom Lee's BitMine Immersion Technologies staked an additional 86,400 ETH worth $266 million.

Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $681 million in net outflows during the first trading week of 2026 as redemptions erased early gains.