The S&P 500 closed marginally higher after a sharp intraday drop, while the Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones Industrial Average were little changed, as investors continued debating AI disruption and heavy tech capital spending.
The STOXX Europe 600 rose modestly, led by healthcare and real estate, while banks gained and basic resources and energy stocks declined amid weaker commodity prices and easing geopolitical tensions.
Japan exports growth surges to over 3-year high, up nearly 17% in January, as shipments to China soar: Value of exports to China, Japan's largest trading partner, jumped 32%, after rising 5.6% in December.
Gold and oil fell on reduced supply fears and thin holiday liquidity in Asia, while Bitcoin extended its pullback and currency moves were relatively modest.
US Spot ETF Flows
Asset
Daily Inflow
Daily Change
Weekly Inflow
Total Assets
Daily Volume
BTC ETFs
$-104.9M
-789.8%
$-104.9M
$85.5B
$3.1B
ETH ETFs
$48.6M
+373.8%
$48.6M
$11.5B
$848.6M
SOL ETFs
$2.2M
+39.6%
$2.2M
$726.2M
$24.2M
US BTC Spot ETF Flows
US ETH Spot ETF Flows
US SOL Spot ETF Flows
Crypto Liquidations Summary
Liquidation Type
Value
% of Total
24h Change
Total Liquidations
$172.41M
-
$-44.48M (-20.51%)
Shorts
$56.64M
32.9%
$-25.20M (-30.79%)
Longs
$115.77M
67.1%
$-19.27M (-14.27%)
BTC
$67.76M
39.3%
$-26.96M (-28.46%)
ETH
$44.35M
25.7%
$-10.66M (-19.38%)
Polygon surpassed Ethereum in daily fees with a surge in Polymarket activity, driven by increased usage of the prediction market platform on the Polygon network.
Binance consolidates 65% of CEX stablecoin reserves as outflows slow to $2 billion, according to CryptoQuant, amid the ongoing crypto bear market.
Strategy and Bitmine add 717,131 BTC and 4.37 million ETH to their stacks, expanding corporate crypto treasuries despite market weakness.
Growing institutional adoption — highlighted by BlackRock’s staking-enabled Ethereum ETF, Harvard’s shift from Bitcoin to Ether exposure, and Ethereum’s dominance in the $20 billion real-world asset tokenization market — is fueling optimism that ETH could rebound toward $2,500 despite recent ETF outflows.
Pump.fun introduces trader cashbacks to its memecoin model after months of criticism over low trader profitability, aiming to increase break-even rates among its users.
HIVE Digital posts 219% revenue jump in third-quarter results, driven by its miner-AI hybrid strategy and new AI computing contracts, despite lower Bitcoin prices.
