BlockBeats News, January 13th, according to Cointelegraph, Bitcoin briefly surged above $92,000 on Monday due to a criminal investigation launched by the US Federal Prosecutor against Federal Reserve Chair Powell. Analysts questioned whether the independence of the Federal Reserve could be compromised, potentially benefiting alternative scarce assets like Bitcoin. Despite causing a brief rally, the news, overall, left traders cautious, mainly influenced by ongoing Bitcoin ETF outflows and weak long leverage demand. Despite a recent rebound, Bitcoin is still down around 23% from its October 2025 high, while gold and silver hit all-time highs in 2026. This divergent trend has also led traders to start questioning whether the narrative of "Bitcoin as a digital store of value" is weakening.

The Bitcoin futures annualized premium (i.e., basis) remains at around a 5% neutral-to-bearish level. Generally, when market sentiment truly shifts to bullish, the premium of Bitcoin futures to spot tends to reach or exceed 10%. More importantly, Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a total net outflow of $1.38 billion over four consecutive trading days. What is more concerning is that, despite Strategy adding about $1.25 billion worth of Bitcoin to its holdings in the past month, the Bitcoin price has still struggled to hold above $94,000 effectively.

Overall, the appeal of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies remains subdued, as evidenced by ETF flows and the soft demand for Bitcoin leveraged long positions. This indicates that the probability of an unexpected surge in the short term, impacting $105,000, is relatively low.

BlockBeats News, January 13th, according to Bubblemaps analysis, former New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched the NYC token. Wallet 9Ty4M, associated with the token deployer, created a one-sided liquidity pool on the Meteora platform, withdrew approximately $2.5 million USDC at the price peak, and reinvested only about $1.5 million after a 60% token value drop, netting about $1 million in profit.

BlockBeats News, January 13th, BlackRock recently released its 2026 Global Outlook report. The report highlights the massive scale of investment in AI infrastructure, leading to the "micro is macro" phenomenon and bringing challenges such as rising leverage and the illusion of diversification. Overall, it maintains a pro-risk stance, overweights US stocks (especially AI-related ones), and is bullish on active investment opportunities.

Three core investment themes of the report:

Micro is macro: The AI buildout is dominated by a few companies, with capital expenditure on such a grand scale that it can impact the overall macroeconomy. Investments could reach $5-8 trillion (2025-2030), supporting US economic growth in 2026 (investment contribution is historically 3 times the average), even with a cooling labor market. However, it is uncertain whether revenue will be sufficient to match the expenditure and how much will flow back to the tech giants. The report believes that AI may accelerate innovation, but major technological changes in the past 150 years have not broken the US's long-term 2% growth trend; nevertheless, a "growth breakout" scenario is now imaginable.

Leveraging up: Early AI builders' massive investments and lagging revenue have led to increasing system leverage; coupled with high government debt, creating vulnerability. It favors private credit and infrastructure financing. Tactically underweighting long-term government bonds (such as US Treasuries) due to the unfavorable conditions for long bonds with high leverage and rising capital costs.

Diversification mirage: With the dominance of major trends, traditional diversified allocations may actually be concentrated bets. Investors need to actively take on risks, maintain portfolio flexibility (have a Plan B), and seek unique sources of returns from private markets and hedge funds.

The report specifically points out that BlackRock views digital assets (especially stablecoins) as the infrastructure for payments and settlements (plumbing of the financial system), rather than purely speculative assets. Stablecoins are seen as the "digital dollar rails," evolving from crypto-native tools to bridges connecting traditional finance with digital liquidity, expanding into areas such as cross-border payments, settlements, especially in slow/expensive/fragmented regions of the traditional system. The report suggests that crypto is integrating into mainstream finance, stablecoins are maturing into infrastructure, supporting global liquidity flow, and overlapping with traditional finance.

BlockBeats News, January 13th: According to an official announcement, starting from 08:00 on January 13, 2026, all Binance Booster Earn receipt-type tokens, including tETH, miBNB, maUSDT, zkUSDT, bwUSDT, and receipt-type tokens for upcoming Booster Earn events, will be counted towards users' Binance Alpha Balance Points.

BlockBeats News, January 13th, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins stated that whether the U.S. will confiscate Venezuela's alleged holdings of Bitcoin assets is still "to be seen." In an interview with Fox Business, he responded that the claim that Venezuela may hold up to $6 billion worth of Bitcoin (around 60,000 BTC) is currently unverifiable by multiple blockchain analysts, and any related actions will be decided by other government departments, with the SEC not being involved. (Cointelegraph)

BlockBeats News, January 13th, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, as Bitcoin surged above $92,000, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" once again approached breakeven. Currently, the overall position is in a profit of $5 million, including:

· BTC Long (5x): $2.39 million unrealized loss

· ETH Long (5x): $632,000 unrealized profit
· SOL Long (10x): $6.89 million unrealized profit

Due to the overall position size reaching $800 million, since the opening of this position, the account has paid $6.13 million in funding fees. It still needs to wait for further market appreciation to truly turn the position into a profit.

BlockBeats News, January 13th, according to Onchain lens monitoring, World Liberty Finance transferred 5 billion WLFI to Jump Trading 5 minutes ago, worth approximately $83.12 million.

BlockBeats News, January 12th — In a statement released on Monday, BitMine Chairman Thomas "Tom" Lee said that whether BitMine can continue to accumulate Ethereum (ETH) depends on whether shareholders approve a new share issuance authorization for the company. If not approved, the company may be forced to slow down its purchasing pace in the coming weeks.

Lee stated, "We must proceed with the issuance immediately because BitMine's current 500 million share authorization is about to be depleted, and once exhausted, our ETH accumulation rate will slow down." The shareholder vote is scheduled for Thursday. According to the regulations, the issuance proposal needs to receive support from 50.1% of all outstanding shares to pass. "This is a very high threshold, making it extremely difficult to obtain authorization for the issuance," Lee emphasized in the statement.