This episode examines the January first activation of the OECD Crypto Asset Reporting Framework across forty eight jurisdictions, the SEC’s new three to zero Republican majority and its implications for ETF approval timelines, and China’s digital yuan incentive programs targeting BRICS settlement corridors. We cover institutional Ethereum positioning as whale entities withdrew twenty thousand ETH from major counterparties while Bitmine staked over eighty two thousand ETH, pushing aggregate institutional holdings to ten point seven four percent of total supply. The briefing also analyzes memecoin rally dynamics, macro calendar implications through ISM data and nonfarm payrolls, and the Senate’s upcoming CLARITY Act review, providing operators with a structured view of how regulatory infrastructure and cross border settlement competition are reshaping liquidity routing across chains.
