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XRP is holding the $1.80-$2 support, with multiple indicators suggesting an extended sideways price action before a “liftoff” toward double figures.

Ripple’s agreement with Riyad Bank highlights growing institutional interest in blockchain for payments, custody and tokenization across global financial markets.

Severe storm conditions in the United States caused the Senate and other government offices to be closed on Monday.

The CLARITY Act aims to address the crypto market structure. See how it approaches token classification, exchanges, disclosures and regulatory oversight.

Bitcoin price analysis warned that BTC would follow the US dollar toward a long-term bottom next, adding pain for crypto bulls.

As the US delays crypto laws and Europe enforces MiCA, markets face regulatory gaps, capital shifts and uneven compliance costs for global firms.

A new UK Cryptoasset Business Council report found that almost all major banks are imposing blanket limits or blocks on transfers to crypto exchanges, effectively debanking crypto users.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation.

A researcher uncovered a 149 million-credential dump from infostealer malware, including 420,000 Binance logins, exposing growing risks to crypto users.

Strategy acquired $264 million of Bitcoin last week during a market pullback, boosting its holdings to more than 712,000 BTC, according to a Monday SEC filing.

Bitcoin dipped below $87,000 as the Coinbase Premium hit 12-month lows, signalling weak US demand and with technicals hinting at a $66,000 BTC price target.

The blockchain battle is now centered on distribution, as established firms convert existing customers into network participants and create new competitive landscapes.

Past yen shocks were followed by BTC dropping 30% before rebounding more than 100%, a pattern traders are watching as talk of Japan's intervention returns.

Crypto ETPs reversed course last week, with outflows led by Bitcoin and Ether as bearish sentiment outweighed inflows into altcoins such as Solana.

Bitcoin price analysis forecasts a long-term BTC price bottom in the coming days as geopolitics and macroeconomic mayhem seize markets.

Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet has hiked its 2025 revenue and profit guidance, forecasting a near doubling of sales in 2026 as its BTC income and treasury strategy scale up.

Matcha Meta urged users to revoke one-time approvals for SwapNet’s router contract after a smart-contract vulnerability saw as much as $16.8 million stolen on the Base blockchain.

South Korean crypto exchange Coinone has reportedly begun selling major shareholder stakes, with Coinbase rumored to be eyeing a strategic entry.

Japan’s financial regulator is weighing rule changes that could allow crypto assets to qualify for ETFs, signaling a possible shift in retail access.

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao says Binance doesn’t need a “backseat driver,” even though he says his pardon from Donald Trump could allow him to.

The Financial Conduct Authority has begun seeking final feedback on a set of proposals aiming to apply traditional finance standards to the UK crypto sector.

ETHZilla acquired two aircraft engines for $12 million, just weeks after the company said it was renewing its focus on tokenizing real-world assets.

Bitcoin has fallen nearly 30% since a major market crash in October, while traditional safe havens like gold and silver have soared.

Gold reached a record over $5,000 amid trade tensions while Bitcoin fell to $86,000, marking a sharp divergence as the precious metal surged 17% in January.

Entropy founder and CEO Tux Pacific says that, after four years and multiple pivots, the project was unable to find a scalable business model.

One proposed fund will attempt to exactly mimic the CoinDesk 20, but the other would track the index, excluding bitcoin.

Nvidia’s deepened partnership with CoreWeave raises pressure on bitcoin miners pivoting to AI infrastructure.

The Senate Agriculture Committee pushed its planned markup hearing, where lawmakers would debate and vote on its market structure bill, to Thursday morning.

The ETF would actively manage a covered call bitcoin exposure through BlackRock's existing iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), to generate income for investors.

Failure to pass market structure legislation this year wouldn’t derail U.S. crypto, but it would prolong regulatory ambiguity, favoring bitcoin and infrastructure.

Internet Computer (ICP) was also among the underperformers, falling 3.9% over the weekend.

The crypto treasury firm added over 40,000 ETH last week and has now staked over 2 million tokens.

The company recently walked away from multi-billion dollar acquisition talks with Mastercard, instead opting to remain independent.

Already an investor in CoreWeave, Nvidia last September had agreed to purchase $6.3 billion of computing services from the AI infrastructure provider.

The company’s stack now stands at 712,647 BTC, worth about $62 billion at the current price of $87,500.

Your day-ahead look for Jan. 26, 2026

The temporary loss of mining power underscores academic concerns that geographic and pool concentration can magnify infrastructure failures, though markets showed little immediate reaction.

A rare streak of four consecutive declines collides with January options expiry that could influence short term price action.

Bitcoin bounced off $86,000 alongside the CME futures open, but broader price action still points to a grinding downtrend as risk-off sentiment lifts precious metals.

The Financial Services Agency is moving to classify crypto as an eligible asset for exchange-traded funds, with potential inflows reaching $6.4 billion, according to Nikkei.

The company forecasts revenue of over $100 million for FY2026, with 97.5% of projected sales coming from its Bitcoin Income Generation business.

As bitcoin remains in a downtrend, several technical and onchain levels stand out as critical areas of support.

The purchases of Coinbase, Circle Internet and Bullish were Ark's first buys of the three stocks since mid-December.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Jan. 26.

Bitcoin’s onchain data points to supply overhang and weak participation, while gold’s breakout is priced by markets as a durable macro regime shift.

There’s a good chance snow will be cleared in D.C. by Thursday’s markup—but a “99%” chance the bill won’t receive any Democratic support, one Senate source said.

BlackRock filed for a Bitcoin income ETF using an options strategy to generate premium income for investors beyond spot price gains.

Strategy continued buying Bitcoin last week, but the company’s latest acquisition marked a deceleration from the previous two additions.

Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies added to its stash with its largest ETH acquisition of the year so far.

Gold smashed past $5,100 as Ethereum falters below $3,000—and prediction market users called it months ago.

Extreme cold led miners to curb their electricity use, briefly cutting hashrate as grid stress spread across several regions.

The Ethereum Foundation is starting to prepare one of the biggest risks facing the crypto industry: quantum computing.

Long positions bore the brunt of a $750 million crypto liquidation spike, as prices slid toward $88K amid Japan's financial turmoil.

A new academic paper examines how autonomous AI agents could make influence campaigns harder to detect and more effective at scale.

Ethereum treasury firm SharpLink Gaming hopes to stand apart from the pack by focusing on the long-term—with shareholders top of mind.

X Games will share a title with MoonPay as part of an eight-figure deal, as the action sports spectacle adopts a league-based format.

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake said the ecosystem is moving from research to execution as the threat from quantum computing draws closer.

Nearly all stablecoins track the U.S. dollar. Experiments with baskets and commodities show how hard that grip is to loosen.

BitGo's stock fell nearly 22% on day two of trading after the crypto custody firm's IPO, diving below the offering price.

While Bitcoin treads water below the death cross, Axie Infinity is exploding this week as GameFi catches fire and whales pile in.

Investors appear to be rotating to silver from gold, right as both surge to new highs, in a trend that echoes past altcoin seasons.

Ryan James Wedding was accused of using stablecoin Tether to fuel a cocaine smuggling and murder operation in Latin America and the U.S.

Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao thinks that 2026 will bring a supercycle for Bitcoin, ending the asset's previous four-year trend.

Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that enables users to hide key details of transactions by leveraging zk-SNARKs.

UBS will reportedly offer Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to select private banking clients in Switzerland, signaling growing crypto adoption.

The Crown Prosecution Service has given Zhimin Qian’s fixer Sen Hok Ling three months to cough up the funds.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen a four-day outflow streak as fading basis trade yields and macro jitters force a hedge fund retreat.

Streetwear label RIPNDIP is launching a new collab with Solana meme coin brand Ponke, offering blind box collectibles with a crypto twist.

“Farcaster is not shutting down,” Merkle co-founder Dan Romero said, as the project transitions under new ownership.

The Big Four firm argues in its latest report that institutional adoption has permeated crypto so much there's no turning back.

Binance’s application for MiCA is reportedly being fast-tracked, after the exchange established a holding company in Greece in December.

Prediction market odds of Bitcoin falling to $69,000 have more than doubled in a week as BTC continues to trade below $90,000.

The hardware wallet firm is following BitGo in tapping U.S. public markets, amid renewed crypto investor appetite.

The proposal seeks to place abandoned digital assets under state custody, allowing staking rewards to flow into a reserve fund.

The scheme distributed drugs as counterfeit pharmaceutical pills throughout New Jersey, with eight co-defendants already pleading guilty.

Bitcoin mining output fell across major US firms during Winter Storm Fern as grid pressure prompted power curtailments.

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