**Market Brief Tuesday - Jan 27**

+ Gold and silver diverge, US stocks rebound, BTC remains stuck at $88K - $89K, while altcoins show little momentum

+ President Trump raises tariffs on South Korea from 15% to 25% as the country has not ratified the previously signed trade agreement

**📝 Spot ETF Session Jan 26**
+ BTC is down -$6.2M, BlackRock data pending
+ ETH is up +$137.2M, BlackRock data pending
+ SOL is up +$2.5M

+ The US 🇺🇸 Senate crypto bill vote and the CFTC-SEC meeting are postponed for 2 days due to a winter storm in the US

+ Russia 🇷🇺 bans crypto exchange WhiteBIT (Ukrainian roots) for facilitating fund withdrawals from Russia to finance the Ukrainian army

+ Ripple partners with a top Saudi Arabian 🇸🇦 bank to explore payments, digital asset custody, and tokenization

+ Binance will launch TSLA/USDT perpetual contracts at 21:30 on Jan 28

+ Kraken launches DeFi Earn in the US, EU, and Canada, offering yields up to 8% APY via Aave, Morpho, Sky

+ MicroStrategy accumulates an additional 2,932 BTC ($264M), bringing total holdings to 712,647 BTC ($62.7B)

+ Bitmine acquired 40,302 ETH ($120M) last week, has staked over 2 million ETH, and generates $374M/year in revenue

🔍 Lacola's Insight: While BTC price action remains stagnant, the divergence between significant institutional accumulation and positive ETH ETF inflows suggests smart money is positioning for a rotation, despite temporary macro headwinds.