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Just days before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, a deal was quietly signed that now looks far more consequential than it first appeared.

According to documents that have only recently surfaced, representatives tied to an Abu Dhabi royal family agreed to purchase a 49% stake in the Trump family’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, for $500 million. The agreement was finalized just four days before the inauguration, well outside public view and without any immediate disclosure.
Under the terms of the deal, half of the purchase price was paid upfront, directing roughly $187 million straight to Trump family - linked entities. The contract itself was signed by Eric Trump, acting on behalf of the family.
The structure of the transaction didn’t stop there.
Documents indicate that at least $31 million from the deal was earmarked for entities affiliated with the family of Steve Witkoff, a co-founder of World Liberty Financial. Weeks earlier, Witkoff had been named the U.S. envoy to the Middle East, placing him at the center of both diplomatic and commercial channels in the region.
Behind the investment stood Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, one of the most influential figures in the United Arab Emirates. Tahnoon is the brother of the UAE president and serves as the country’s national security adviser. More importantly, he oversees a vast financial empire estimated at over $1.3 trillion, spanning oil, artificial intelligence, surveillance technology, and global infrastructure.
That context matters.
Tahnoon has been actively lobbying Washington for expanded access to highly restricted U.S. AI chips, which are tightly controlled due to national security concerns. His financial reach and strategic priorities place him at the intersection of capital, technology, and geopolitics - precisely where policy decisions carry enormous weight.
Viewed through that lens, the World Liberty Financial investment looks less like a routine crypto deal and more like a strategic relationship. A massive stake in a Trump-linked venture, signed days before a presidential transition, connects financial incentives with future political influence at a moment when access to advanced AI hardware is one of the most sensitive issues in U.S. foreign policy.
None of this proves an explicit quid pro quo.
But the timing, the players involved, and the overlapping interests are difficult to ignore. A crypto investment becomes a potential bridge between Gulf capital, U.S. political power, and the global race for artificial intelligence dominance.
In isolation, the transaction might have blended into the background noise of high-dollar finance.
In context, it reads like an early move in a much larger game - one where crypto, AI, and geopolitics are increasingly impossible to separate.
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In the past few hours, $BTC has dropped below $80,000 📉 amid another wave of liquidations as January comes to a rather volatile close. Analysts at Kobeissi note there have been three notable liquidation events in the past 12 hours, resulting in a combined loss of $1.3 billion 💥.
Such developments, coupled with a very fearful market 😨 after last week’s price slump, have pushed Bitcoin below a key price level. According to the renowned market expert Burak Kesmeci, Bitcoin’s behavior towards this $80,000 price zone holds significant consequences for the market trajectory.

Bitcoin Slips Under ETF Realized Price As Downside Risk Grows ⚠️
In a recent X post, Burak Kesmeci outlines the technical and on-chain importance of the $80,000 price level to the $BTC market. Before Bitcoin’s recent breakdown below $80,000, the asset had twice retested this zone following the correction phase that began in early October 2025.
Each successful rebound from these retests reinforced $80,000 as a critical support level, with certain chart formations even hinting at potential trend reversal 🔄. This underscored the market’s technical sensitivity to this level before the recent loss. However, Kesmeci highlights an on-chain importance of the $80,000 price point in that it also functions as the cost basis of the Bitcoin Spot ETFs. Therefore, the recent price fall below $80,000 places a large cohort of institutional investors at risk of entering unrealized losses.
In January 2026 alone, the Bitcoin ETFs already witnessed massive levels of withdrawals, resulting in a total net outflow of $1.61 billion 🏦. However, these figures are likely to surge higher as sustained price decline below the ETF cost basis is expected to trigger a wide-scale, panic-driven redemption among investors. In addition to its on-chain and technical importance, Kesmeci also notes that $80,000 presently functions as the True Market Mean.

What Next For Bitcoin? 🔍
According to Burak Kesmeci, a bearish scenario would require a weekly close below the $80,000 support level. If confirmed, the analyst warns that bearish momentum could intensify, potentially driving Bitcoin lower toward $72,000, $68,000, and eventually $62,000 in sequence. This is because these levels align with notable volume profile clusters, representing potential areas where liquidity could accumulate.

Conversely, in a bullish scenario 📈, Kesmeci notes that a sustained rebound from current levels could shift momentum back in favor of the bulls. The first major upside hurdle lies at $90,000, followed by the 111-period Simple Moving Average (SMA111) near $95,000, which is described as a critical level for confirming a medium-term trend reversal.
A decisive break above the psychological $100,000 resistance would further strengthen the bullish case and signal a potential resumption of the broader uptrend 🚀. At press time, Bitcoin trades at $78502.06, reflecting a 5.53% loss in the past 24hrs.
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XRP – Weekly Elliott Wave Structure

Price appears to be completing Wave (4) of a developing macro impulse that began from the 2022 low.

The current pullback is holding within the textbook 0.5 (HWB) – 0.618 (GZ) Fibonacci retracement zone — a typical Wave (4) support area. Structure remains corrective and overlapping, consistent with fourth-wave behaviour.

As long as this zone holds, the bullish count remains valid, with Wave (5) expected to unfold next. Projected targets align with the 0.236 macro retracement at 4.50, with potential extension toward 6.0 if momentum expands.

A decisive breakdown below the highlighted support would invalidate the preferred count and suggest Wave (4) is extending into a deeper correction, with downside risk toward 0.35–0.30.

This is a clear make-or-break level — hold above support favours continuation into Wave (5); loss of support opens the door for a larger corrective leg.

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