👻 Threading Daily — 13.01.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- Odds of Jan rate cut plunge to 4%
- Gold, silver, S&P 500 hit ATH
- DoJ opens criminal investigation into Powell
- Powell says he will remain in Fed position
- Trump calls for 10% cap on credit card rates
- US to discuss Greenland with Denmark on Jan 14
- US ‘looking at’ military operations in Iran
- Trump wants oil execs to invest $100b in Venezuela
- Trump imposes a 25% tariff with Iran's biz countries
- China inflation hits three year high
- Google adds AI shopping to Gemini, adds Walmart
- Instagram suffers data breach

🔖Crypto News
- ETH staking queue highest since 2023
- XRP ETFs hit record weekly volume
- Bitmine added +24,266 ETH
- Whitewhale hits $180m, up 80x in 3 weeks
- Pumpfun overhauls creator fees
- Former NYC mayor creates memecoin that -80% in minutes
- Iran moved $1b through UK crypto exchanges
- Ripple secures FCA authorization in UK
- S Korea ends corporate crypto investments ban
- Dubai moves to ban privacy coins
- Wells Fargo allows BTC as collateral for loans
- a16z raises $15b, pens 3 main trends for crypto
- Rain raises $250m at $2b valuation
- Tennessee bans prediction markets from sports
- Kalshi hits ATH daily volume on Saturday
- Crypto YouTube viewership falls dramatically

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- 3 Key Points from Dan Koe "How to fix your entire life in 1 day" — Eli5
- INSURANCE quietly building real cashflow onchain — arndxt
- 2026 IPO Watchlist: US vs China — Eli5

🔖Raises
- VelaFi (Series B) $20M, Stablecoin-based Financial Infrastructure < XVC, BAI
- Neuramint (Seed) $5M, Web3 AI Agent Platform < Maelstrom, Borderless

🔖Early Projects
- @HadrianInc, Bio: Hadrian builds autonomous factories to Reindustrialize America. Production is deterrence.
- @stormrae_ai, Bio: Turning essential AI tasks into engaging consumer experiences. stormrae.ai
- @ravntools, Bio: Eliminate the Noise. We will NEVER have a token

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