🔎 NEW: Changpeng Zhao rejected claims that #Binance dismissed internal investigators over Iran-linked transactions, calling the report “self-contradicting.”

🔥 NEW: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has withdrawn a 2024 proposal that would have barred political prediction market contracts.

🔴 NEW: Spot #Bitcoin ETFs saw $545M in outflows on Wednesday as BTC slid toward $70K.

👀 NEW: #Tether is reconsidering its previously floated $15B–$20B funding plan, with advisers now pitching a smaller raise.

⛏️ NEW: #Tether has released MiningOS, an open-source #Bitcoin mining operating system it says is designed to simplify mining, scale operations, and support decentralization across the network.

🔥 NEW: Hong Kong–listed OSL Group raised $200M in equity financing to accelerate global expansion in #stablecoin trading and digital payments.

📣 NEW: Crypto exchange #Bybit plans to launch retail banking services in February with a new product called 'My Bank powered by Bybit'.

🤑 NEW: #Crypto-focused PAC #Fairshake ended 2025 with $193M in fundraising, building a major war chest ahead of key crypto votes in Congress and the 2026 midterms.

🚨 NEW: Digital asset custodian Cactus Custody launched an institutional-grade self-custody platform built on MPC, targeting firms looking for direct asset control without centralized custody risk.

📣 NEW: Asset manager WisdomTree is expanding its full suite of tokenized funds to #Solana.