Today's Crypto Pulse
Bitcoin slides below $70k as energy‑price worries spark $1.8B in liquidations
Bitcoin fell under $70,000 amid heightened energy‑price uncertainty linked to U.S.–Iran tensions. The dip triggered roughly $1.8 billion in crypto liquidations, while institutional investors pulled more than $4.2 billion from digital‑asset positions.
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By the numbers: Strive acquires 2,500 Bitcoin for $185.2M
WH Advisor Patrick Witt: Davos 2026 Was ‘Turning Point’ for Global Crypto Normalization
White House advisor Patrick Witt told CoinDesk that the World Economic Forum in Davos 2026 was a turning point for normalizing digital assets. He reiterated the administration’s pledge to make the United States the “crypto capital of the world” and to foster a symbiotic relationship between traditional finance and crypto innovators. Congressional action is moving forward, with the Senate Agriculture Committee slated to markup the market‑structure portion of digital‑asset legislation on Jan 29, while the Banking Committee’s schedule remains uncertain. Witt also hinted that a crypto‑tax package will follow once the market‑structure bill clears, emphasizing that stablecoin rewards can benefit consumers through increased choice.
Aave Joins Tangem, Unlocking Non‑custodial Yield for 6M Users
Aave is now integrated into @Tangem. Providing non-custodial yield from the most trusted lending protocol to +6M hardware wallet users.
HFDX vs Paradex: Comparing Market Share as On-Chain Perpetuals Capture More CEX Volume
HFDX.xyz and Paradex are the latest contenders in the on‑chain perpetual futures arena, each pursuing market share through distinct strategies. HFDX pairs perpetual trading with Liquidity Loan Note (LLN) instruments that offer fixed‑rate returns tied to protocol activity. Paradex, by...
Tom Lee: Crypto Rally When
NEW: Fundstrat's Tom Lee says crypto could rally once gold and silver pause, as metals have overshadowed prices. Source: @Cointelegraph https://t.co/51xpKvWosg
Privacy-Focused Miden, Korea Digital Asset Agree to Build Crypto Infrastructure for Institutional Adoption
Miden, a privacy‑focused blockchain firm, has signed an MOU with Korea Digital Asset (KODA), South Korea’s largest institutional crypto custodian. The collaboration will develop privacy‑preserving, compliance‑ready infrastructure and standards for regulated digital‑asset adoption in the country. The deal aligns with...
Metals Booming, Bitcoin Stagnating
Gold and silver surged to fresh all‑time highs of $5,110 and $117, while Bitcoin remained stuck in the upper $80,000 range with minimal momentum. The metals rally is fueled by safe‑haven buying, industrial demand and macro‑geopolitical stress, whereas Bitcoin faces...
How Dubai Lawyers Are Shaping the Legal Future of Crypto and Digital Assets
Dubai’s legal sector is emerging as a pivotal force in the global crypto ecosystem, offering specialized guidance as the UAE refines its virtual‑asset regulations. Lawyers are translating fragmented frameworks into actionable compliance strategies for token issuers, platform operators, and investors....
Passey Announced as Secondary Exhibition Sponsor for Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026
Passey has been named a Secondary Exhibition Sponsor for the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026, scheduled for April 20‑23 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The AI‑driven platform brings Bitcoin and Ethereum options trading to retail users via...
Tether Takes the Fight to Circle with a New 'Made in America' Stablecoin
Tether has launched USAT, a U.S.-regulated dollar‑backed stablecoin issued through Anchorage Digital Bank, aligning with the GENIUS Act. The token is overseen by the OCC and backed by Cantor Fitzgerald as reserve custodian, positioning it as a domestic alternative to...
Trump Family-Backed American Bitcoin Lifts Bitcoin Holdings to Nearly 5,900 Coins
American Bitcoin, the Trump‑family‑backed mining firm, raised its bitcoin reserves to roughly 5,843 BTC, positioning it as the 18th‑largest corporate holder worldwide. The company posted a 116% bitcoin yield from its September 2025 Nasdaq debut through January 2026, achieving this...
Animoca, RootstockLabs Partner to Bring Bitcoin DeFi to Japanese Institutions
Animoca Brands Japan has teamed up with Rootstock Labs to launch Bitcoin‑native DeFi tools for Japanese corporations and institutions. The partnership will localise Rootstock’s institutional program, allowing firms to manage Bitcoin treasury assets via the rBTC token and RIF utility...
BNB Smart Chain Rolls Out Fermi Hard Fork Upgrade
BNB Smart Chain has launched the Fermi hard fork, cutting block production time from 0.75 seconds to 0.45 seconds. The upgrade, delivered via BSC client v1.6.4 and refined in v1.6.5, introduces new Blockchain Enhancement Proposals to boost efficiency. Faster block...
Crypto Crime Soars: $16.1B Laundered in One Year
$16.1 billion laundered in a single year. 1,799 wallets. $44M per day. A new Chainalysis report shows how crypto crime has quietly scaled. Full story here: https://t.co/oXjntBhduW
G_Wagon NPM Package Exploits Users to Steal Browser Credentials with Obfuscated Payload
Security researchers identified a malicious npm package, ansi-universal-ui, that houses the G_Wagon infostealer. The package pretends to be a UI component library but delivers a Python‑based payload that extracts browser passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, cloud credentials, and messaging tokens. Over ten...
Tucker Carlson Presses Peter Schiff on Bitcoin as New Global Reserve Currency
Gold advocate Peter Schiff appeared on Tucker Carlson’s program to reiterate his criticism of Bitcoin, labeling it a purely speculative instrument with no intrinsic use. He dismissed proposals for a U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve as a taxpayer‑funded bailout and contrasted...
Chinese-Language Networks Now Power a Fifth of Crypto Money Laundering
The Chainalysis report reveals that Chinese‑language money‑laundering networks have become a dominant force in the illicit crypto ecosystem, processing roughly $16.1 billion in 2025 alone. That translates to about $44 million a day and accounts for one‑fifth of all known illicit crypto...
Bitcoin Trend Line Cross Mimics 2022 Amid ‘Insane’ BTC Vs. Silver Breakdown
Bitcoin’s weekly chart showed a bearish crossover as the 21‑week exponential moving average slipped beneath the 50‑week EMA, mirroring the pattern last seen in April 2022. The crossover marks the first long‑term trendline reversal in four years, reinforcing the notion of...
Stablecoins Are Real Threat to Bank Deposits, Says Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered warns that stablecoins could erode a third of U.S. bank deposits, equating to roughly $100 billion of the $301.4 billion stablecoin market. The analysis highlights that regional banks are disproportionately exposed because deposits fund net interest margin (NIM) revenue. Tether...
Wemade Taps Chainlink for Korean Won Stablecoin Infrastructure
South Korean gaming platform Wemade has brought Chainlink Labs into its Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoins (GAKS), adding oracle capabilities to the consortium’s infrastructure. The alliance, which already includes Chainalysis, CertiK and remittance firm SentBe, aims to build a compliant,...
Bitcoin to Silver Ratio Nears Levels Last Seen During the FTX Capitulation
Silver’s price has surged roughly 300% over the past year, but recent volatility sparked a sharp intraday swing, pulling back from $117 to $112 per ounce. The bitcoin‑to‑silver ratio now sits around 780, aligning with the low levels seen during...
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A former employee of a crypto‑romance scam compound in Laos, calling himself Red Bull, leaked extensive internal documents exposing how pig‑butchering operations function. He described forced‑labor conditions, daily quotas, and a reward system that celebrates six‑figure fraud wins. After being captured...
What to Expect at American Banker's Inaugural On-Chain Summit
American Banker’s inaugural On‑Chain Finance Summit on March 19‑20 brings together senior banking executives and crypto‑industry leaders to discuss the accelerating integration of stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure, and tokenization. The event follows the passage of the GENIUS Act, which gave U.S....
Trading 212 Let UK Retail Trade Crypto ETNs without FCA Approval: FT
Trading 212, a major European investment platform, allowed UK retail customers to trade cryptocurrency‑linked exchange‑traded notes (ETNs) without the FCA’s required permission. The FCA lifted its 2021 ban on crypto ETNs in October 2025, but firms must obtain specific debenture...
As Bitcoin Miners Cut Unprofitable Production, Hash Ribbon Metric Points to BTC Price Rebound
An intense U.S. storm forced Bitcoin miners to shut down equipment, slashing the network hashrate by roughly 20% and prompting a projected 17% difficulty cut—the steepest since July 2021. The drop triggered a miner capitulation signal on Glassnode’s Hash Ribbon, where...
Panic Selling Bitcoin on Coinbase Triggers a Binance Price Gap that Reveals a “Messy” Institutional Market Failure
Coinbase’s Bitcoin price slipped below Binance, pushing the Coinbase‑Binance premium into negative territory for the first time this year. The divergence coincided with more than $1.3 billion of net outflows from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, indicating waning institutional demand. Mechanical factors,...
ECB Paves the Way for the Use of DLT-Based Assets as Eligible Collateral
The European Central Bank announced that, starting 30 March 2026, the Eurosystem will accept marketable assets issued by central securities depositories (CSDs) using distributed‑ledger‑technology (DLT) as eligible collateral for its credit operations. This marks the first formal recognition of tokenised securities as...
KuCoin Taps Former LSEG Exec Sabina Liu to Lead MiCA Expansion in Europe
KuCoin has appointed former London Stock Exchange Group executive Sabina Liu as Managing Director of its European unit, overseeing the exchange’s expansion under the EU’s Markets in Crypto‑Assets (MiCA) framework from Vienna. The move follows KuCoin’s recent acquisition of a...
Tomorrow: Dive Into YGG_Play’s Latest Updates
Lots going on in the @YGG_Play world, check out the @AbstractAsia episode tomorrow to tune in!
ASIC Wins $9.3M Penalty Against BPS Financial over Misleading Qoin Wallet
Australia’s securities regulator ASIC secured a Federal Court order forcing BPS Financial to pay AU$14 million after finding the firm operated the Qoin Wallet without a licence and made misleading statements about its crypto token. The penalty includes a AU$1.3 million fine...
Australia's Corporate Regulator Flags Risks From Rapid Innovation in Digital Assets
Australia’s corporate regulator ASIC warned that rapid growth in digital assets and artificial intelligence is exposing consumers to unlicensed services. Its 2026 Key Issues Outlook highlighted regulatory gaps in crypto, payments and AI, urging the government to clarify whether these...
60% of Top US Banks Are Geared up for Bitcoin: River
River reports that 60% of the top 25 U.S. banks are either offering or planning Bitcoin‑related services such as trading, custody, or loans. JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup are among the three Big Four banks moving toward crypto offerings, while...
Hyperliquid HIP-3 Open-Interest Hits $793M on Commodities Surge
Hyperliquid’s permissionless market‑creation framework HIP‑3 has pushed open interest to an all‑time high of roughly $790 million, up from $260 million a month earlier. The surge is driven by a commodities rally, especially gold breaking the $5,000 barrier and silver reaching new...
Bitcoin and Ether Volatility Trading Gets Easier with Polymarket's New Contracts
Polymarket has launched two new prediction contracts linked to Volmex’s 30‑day implied volatility indices for Bitcoin and Ethereum. The contracts pay out if a one‑minute candle on the volatility index reaches a preset target before year‑end, letting users bet on...
2025 a Tipping Point: GENIUS, $308B Stablecoins, XRP & NFT Wins, Circle IPO
In this episode, Tedd Huff and legal expert Robert Musiala dissect how 2025 became a watershed year for crypto regulation, highlighting the SEC’s reversal on securities classification, the rapid passage of the Genius Act, and the surge of stablecoins to...
Bitwise to Launch Onchain Vaults via Moprho
Digital asset manager Bitwise has partnered with DeFi lending protocol Morpho to roll out non‑custodial on‑chain vaults, starting with a strategy that aims for a 6% annual percentage yield by allocating capital to over‑collateralized lending pools. The vaults are curated...
Bitcoin Job Listings Rise 6% in 2025, Led by Non-Technical Roles
Bitcoin‑focused job listings rose 6% in 2025, reaching 1,801 positions. Non‑technical roles now account for 74% of openings, up from 69% last year, with product managers leading demand. The United States remains the largest market, while Singapore’s postings surged 158%...
Japanese Researchers Reduce Blockchain Delays in IoT Infrastructure
Japanese researchers at Chiba University introduced Dual Perigee, a lightweight peer‑selection algorithm that slashes IoT‑blockchain latency by roughly 48.5% versus the standard Ethereum approach and outperforms the earlier Perigee method by over 23%, all without extra computational overhead. Published in...
Macro Monday: Broad Market Snapshot Across Crypto, Metals, Energy
Market Update with Landy: Macro Monday 01/26/2026 $BTC $GOLD $SILVER $COPPER $NG $DJI $NDX $SPY Brought to you by @davidgokhshtein @gokhshtein and presented by @CryptoLandy. https://t.co/iCxSzoXxcz
Stablecoin Market Fall Shows Flight to Gold, Not Bitcoin: Santiment
Santiment reported a $2.24 billion drop in the combined market cap of the top 12 stablecoins over the past ten days, indicating a notable outflow of capital from the crypto ecosystem. The analysis links this flight to heightened demand for traditional...
Crypto Coin Minute for January 27th, 2026 at 05:15 AM Pacific Time.
Tether disclosed that it added 27 tons of gold to its reserves in Q4, strengthening the collateral backing of its USDT stablecoin. Anthropic secured a contract with the UK government to power the GOV.UK Assistant, marking a high‑profile public‑sector AI deployment....
Davos Insights, Metals Surge, Japan Bonds Falter, Bitcoin Updates
Don’t miss this week’s 10 min News Block update. Takeaways from Davos. Gold & silver at new highs. Japan’s bond market flashing red. Rapid-fire Bitcoin developments. Listen wherever you get your podcasts & subscribe to the free newsletter. https://lnkd.in/gwJcu2DW
Zama’s Encrypted Ethereum Token Auction Draws $118M in Commitments
Zama, a fully homomorphic encryption startup, closed a $118.5 million encrypted token auction on Ethereum, marking the first such ICO on the network. The sealed‑bid Dutch auction attracted 11,103 unique bidders, oversubscribed by 218% and clearing at $0.05 per token. Zama’s...
Bitmine’s Staked Ether Holdings Point to $164M in Annual Staking Revenue
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, the world’s largest publicly traded Ether treasury, now holds 4.24 million ETH, with 2.01 million ETH actively staked. At a 2.81% Composite Ethereum Staking Rate, the staked position generates an estimated $164 million in annual revenue. Chairman Tom Lee notes...
TradeXYZ Volume and Open Interest Hit All-Time Highs
TradeXYZ, Hyperliquid’s tokenized equity platform, recorded a record $1 billion in 24‑hour trading volume, while open interest climbed to $790 million, a 200 percent rise month‑over‑month. The surge follows the November “growth mode” upgrade that cut fees by over 90 percent, propelling daily volumes...
Why Bitcoin Beats Gold as an Investment Choice
I genuinely don't understand why anyone would want to buy gold rather than Bitcoin.
Historical Patterns Losing Relevance in Today's Market
"The historical correlations and patterns are getting tossed out of the window," @ramahluwalia "I don't thik historial patterns will matter as much" https://t.co/9G7qiMfZcp
BlackRock Expands Bitcoin ETF Lineup Beyond Two Offerings
Blackrock is only has 2 crypto ETFs Bitcoin and Ethereum BlackRock officially filed an S-1 for another BITCOIN ETF https://t.co/p5vzheQmbj
New Generation Joins Space Debate, Beyond Libertarians
"You'll see a new entire generation of people coming into the space... not just libertarians" - Chris Perkins "It depends on the time horizon..." says Charles Edwards https://t.co/9G7qiMfZcp
Gold's Appeal Stems From Aversion, Not Attraction
The move into gold isn't so much that people like gold—it's more that people dislike everything else, says @austincampbell on @bitsandbips https://t.co/9G7qiMfZcp
30‑Minute Video Offers Clear Overview of Money History
The 30-minute video version of Broken Money is a really accessible overview of money and its history: https://t.co/ctSK0Eif4g