The January Bitcoin rally was a key trigger for the surge in user activity on spot cryptocurrency exchanges.

✅ According to CryptoRank, trading volumes soared by 65% ​​last month. In December, the amount of transactions with digital currencies on the spot market amounted to $397 billion, and in January - $657 billion.

Solana rolled out the post and here are some thoughts/statements:

- 2023 is a special year for Solana - the community will take control into its own hands;

- organic growth of developers continues, 2000+ active developers per month;

- the number of validators increases;

- the test client is capable of processing 600k transactions per second;

💰 On January 31, the Bitcoin rate in Nigeria reached $47,924.

A day earlier, the first cryptocurrency was traded on the local crypto exchange NairaEX at 17.8 million naira (~$38,886).

Currently, the price of BTC on the platform is 17.26 million naira (~$37,482).

Such quotes indicate increased demand for the asset, which, in turn, is provoked by restrictions on cash withdrawals from ATMs.

🤝 Hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger and electronics manufacturer Samsung have announced a partnership.

When purchasing Ledger Nano X wallets on Amazon.de, Samsung will offer users a special Web 3.0 package.

In addition, the parties will launch a joint collection of Samsung MX1 Genesis Edition non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

📊 Experts from the analytical company Santiment named the reason why the Litecoin (LTC) rate has increased by 105% since November 2022.

On November 9, the asset was at a local minimum of $47.6, and on January 29, 2023, it reached $97.77 per 1 LTC, which is the highest level over the past eight months.

What are the reasons for the growth? According to analysts, large LTC holders continued to accumulate coins in their wallets. Over the past seven months, addresses with balances between 100 and 10,000 LTC have added a total of 1.15 million coins, representing 0.5% of Litecoin's total supply. The growth in asset volumes in the wallets of large investors amounted to 4.92%.

🔐Moonbeam (GLMR), 46 million tokens worth $15 million - January 11;

🔐Aptos (APT), 4.5 million tokens worth $16 million - January 12;

🔐BitDAO (BIT), 187 million tokens worth $67 million - January 15;

🔐ApeCoin (APE), 7.3 million tokens worth $28 million - January 17;

🔐Axie Infinity (AXS), 4.9 million tokens worth $31 million - January 23;

🔐Ronin (RON), 42 million tokens worth $12 million - January 27.

Tuesday, 01/10/2023

17:00 - Speech by Fed Chairman Powell

20:00 - Short-term forecast of the situation in the energy markets from the EIA

Wednesday, 01/11/2023

17:30 - Crude oil reserves

Thursday, 01/12/2023

15:30 - Speech by Fed Member Harker

16:30 - Core consumer price index y/y (December)

16:30 - Consumer price index m/m (December)

⬆️ An analyst at Ren & Heinrich conducted a study of the impact of listing on the Binance cryptocurrency exchange on the further price of tokens.

According to his findings, on the first day after listing, the value of assets increases by an average of 41%, but after 22 days the rate begins to decline.

⛏ According to the analytical company Glassnode, the market is currently witnessing the end of the Bitcoin sales phase on the part of miners.

For the first time since September 2022, there has been a change in the aggregate net position of miners in the first cryptocurrency.

By the end of 2022, the number of Bitcoin ATMs in the Russian capital reached 7 devices.

✅ According to CoinATMRadar, the seventh terminal was installed in the last days of December in the Europolis shopping center in Rostokino. The operator is RusBit. Using this crypto machine you can buy bitcoins for rubles, but selling cryptocurrency is not yet available.

At the end of 2022, Bitcoin fell in price by more than 60%, and the market decline weakened the interest of institutional investors in crypto funds.

✅ The total inflow of capital into these instruments last year amounted to $433 million. This is the minimum since 2018: then institutions invested only $233 million in crypto funds, reports CoinShares.