🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today:

🔸 Belgium's second-largest bank KBC becomes the first Belgian bank to offer Bitcoin and Ether trading through its Bolero platform starting mid-February under MiCAR.

🔹 West Virginia introduces bill allowing state treasury to invest up to 10% in precious metals and digital assets with market cap exceeding $750 billion.

🔸 Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says the firm is “spending a lot of time” on tokenization, stablecoins, and prediction markets in their latest earnings call.

🔹 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says, “Crypto companies should be allowed to compete and offer loans just like banks.” He also expects the market structure bill markup coming in a few weeks.

🔸 Lemon launches Argentina’s first Bitcoin-backed Visa credit card, letting users borrow pesos without selling $BTC .

🔹 Interactive Brokers is rolling out 24/7 funding with $USDC, with Ripple and PayPal stablecoins expected next week.

🔸 Kaito sunsets Yaps and incentivized leaderboards, launches Kaito Studio for selective creator partnerships, per founder Yu Hu.

🔹 Solana’s RWA ecosystem just hit a new all-time high of $1.15B in value.-$SOL

🔸 X is banning rewards for posts, effectively blocking “InfoFi” projects, says X's Head of Product Nikita Bier.

🔹 Ripple invests $150M in LMAX Group to roll out $RLUSD for institutional margin and settlement.-$XRP