News•Jan 7, 2026
Stablecoins Become Core Market Plumbing in Moody’s 2026 Outlook
Moody’s Digital Economy – Global 2026 Outlook reports stablecoins have become core institutional plumbing. In 2025, stablecoin settlement volume jumped 87% to roughly $9 trillion, driven by fiat‑backed coins and tokenized deposits. Banks, asset managers and market‑infrastructure providers are piloting blockchain settlement networks, with $300 billion projected investment in digital finance infrastructure by 2030. Regulators across the EU, US, Singapore, Hong Kong and the UAE are shaping frameworks, while Moody’s warns of operational and cyber‑risk exposure.
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 7, 2026
Bitcoin Slides Toward $91,000 with Two CME Pricing Gaps Coming Into Focus
Bitcoin is hovering just above $91,000 as traders focus on an unfilled CME futures gap that opened over the weekend between $90,600 and $91,600. The gap, created when cash‑settled contracts pause for the weekend, is viewed as a technical magnet...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 7, 2026
Lloyds Bank Completes UK’s First Gilt Purchase Using Tokenized Deposits
Lloyds Banking Group announced the UK’s first gilt purchase using tokenized deposits, leveraging blockchain technology. The bank partnered with crypto exchange Archax and the privacy‑focused Canton Network to issue tokenized deposits and settle the government bond instantly. The transaction demonstrated...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 7, 2026
Barclays Makes First Stablecoin Investment with Stake in Ubyx
Barclays has taken its first stake in a stablecoin‑related firm by investing in Ubyx, a U.S. clearing platform that connects regulated issuers with banks and fintechs. The bank did not disclose the investment amount, which follows Ubyx’s $10 million seed round...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 7, 2026
UAE’s Dirham Stablecoin Race Widens as RAKBank Nets In-Principle Approval
RAKBank announced it has received in‑principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE to issue a dirham‑backed stablecoin. The token will be fully collateralised 1:1 with dirhams held in segregated, regulated accounts and governed by audited smart contracts with...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 7, 2026
Hedge Fund Karatage Appoints IMC Veteran Shane O’Callaghan as Senior Partner
London‑based hedge fund Karatage has appointed Shane O’Callaghan, former global head of institutional partnerships and digital asset sales at IMC Trading, as a senior partner and head of institutional strategy. O’Callaghan previously held senior roles at crypto platform Portofino Technologies...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 7, 2026
Crypto Traders Can Now Take Leveraged Bets on Silver via Binance Futures
Binance Futures will debut silver perpetual contracts on Wednesday, offering up to 50× leverage and settling in USDT. The contracts have a 5 USDT minimum notional and a funding fee capped at ±2% every four hours. Silver’s 147% rally in 2025...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 7, 2026
Bitcoin and the Japanese Yen Are Moving Together Like Never Before
Bitcoin’s price has become unusually synchronized with the Japanese yen, as the 90‑day correlation coefficient between BTC and Pepperstone’s JPYX index climbed to a record 0.86. This translates to roughly 73 % of Bitcoin’s price swings mirroring movements in the yen...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 7, 2026
Wealth Transfer May Boost Crypto Adoption Among Younger Investors: Galaxy Exec
Galaxy Digital’s Zac Prince warned that the impending transfer of wealth from baby‑boomers—who control about $83.3 trillion of U.S. assets—could funnel significant capital into cryptocurrencies. Younger investors already hold crypto at three‑times the rate of older cohorts, according to Coinbase data....
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 7, 2026
Why XRP Is Outperforming Bitcoin and Ether at the Start of 2026
Ripple’s XRP surged 25% since Jan. 1, outpacing Bitcoin’s 6% gain and Ether’s 10% rise, prompting CNBC to label it the “new cryptocurrency darling.” The rally is fueled by strong spot XRP ETF inflows—$1.15 billion to date—and bullish social and smart‑money sentiment....
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 7, 2026
Ethereum Blob Limit Bumps up to 21, Boosting Network Scalability
Ethereum’s second Blob Parameter‑Only (BPO) hard fork went live Wednesday, raising the blob limit from 15 to 21. The upgrade also lifts the blob target to 14, allowing each block to carry up to 2.688 MB of data (128 KB per blob)....
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 7, 2026
Quantum Threat to Bitcoin Extends Past Wallet Hacks: Coinbase Analyst
Coinbase’s head of investment research, David Duong, warned that quantum computing could jeopardize Bitcoin on two fronts: breaking ECDSA signatures that secure wallets and accelerating SHA‑256 mining, potentially unsettling the network’s economic model. While today’s quantum machines are far too...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 7, 2026
Crypto Coin Minute for January 7th, 2026 at 05:15 AM Pacific Time.
The Crypto Coin Minute for January 7 2026 reports modest declines across the top five cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin slipping 2.04% to $91,865 and Ethereum down 0.92% to $3,203.75. XRP experienced the steepest drop at 5.52%, even after a recent 12% rally highlighted...
By Crypto Coin Minute
News•Jan 6, 2026
Flow Details December Exploit that Led to $3.9M in Losses Due to Counterfeit Tokens
The Flow Foundation disclosed a protocol‑level exploit on Dec. 27 that allowed an attacker to counterfeit tokens by exploiting a flaw in the Cadence runtime, causing roughly $3.9 million in losses before containment. Validators halted the network within six hours, switching to...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Bullish for Strategy? MSCI Keeps Digital Asset Treasury Companies in Indexes
MSCI announced it will not exclude digital‑asset‑treasury (DAT) companies from its market indexes, prompting a 5.7% after‑hours rise in Michael Saylor’s Strategy shares. The firm, which holds 673,783 Bitcoin valued at roughly $63 billion, benefits from continued eligibility for passive index...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Strategy Surges 6% on MSCI Decision Not to Exclude DATs From Indexes
Strategy (MSTR) surged 6% in after‑hours trading after MSCI announced it will not exclude digital‑asset‑treasury companies (DATs) from its indexes. The decision keeps Strategy and peers eligible for passive fund inclusion, averting a potential billions‑dollar outflow. Bitcoin also rose about...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Jupiter Launches JupUSD Stablecoin Backed by BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund
Jupiter, the Solana‑based DeFi platform, has introduced JupUSD, a dollar‑pegged stablecoin issued as an SPL token. The coin’s reserves are 90% backed by USDtb, a licensed stablecoin collateralized by BlackRock’s BUIDL money‑market fund, with the remaining 10% held in USDC...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Kraken’s Ink Layer 2 Surpasses $500 Million in TVL
Kraken’s Ink, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, has surpassed $500 million in total value locked, climbing about 3% in a single day. The surge follows the October 2025 launch of Tydro, a white‑label Aave‑based lending protocol that now holds roughly $447 million in TVL....
By The Defiant
News•Jan 6, 2026
How Digital Asset Treasuries Went Mainstream in 2025
In 2025 digital‑asset treasuries (DATs) moved from niche experiments to mainstream corporate finance, with public companies treating Bitcoin, Ethereum and other tokens as core balance‑sheet assets. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) remained the dominant player, holding over $62 billion in Bitcoin, while newcomers...
By The Defiant
News•Jan 6, 2026
‘Like Sats for Bitcoin’: Tether Creates Tiny Gold Unit as Onchain Demand Grows
Tether unveiled Scudo, a new unit of account representing one‑thousandth of an ounce of gold and linked to its XAUT token. XAUT, backed by over 1,300 gold bars, holds a market cap around $2.3 billion, positioning it as a major tokenized...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Polkadot's DOT Declines in U.S. Afternoon Selloff
Polkadot’s native token DOT slipped 3.3% to $2.1886, erasing earlier gains and breaking the $2.19 support level. Volume surged 17% above its 30‑day moving average, a pattern CoinDesk’s model links to institutional distribution rather than retail capitulation. The token failed...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Why Crypto’s New Token Issuances Are Falling Flat and What Comes Next
In 2025, new crypto token launches dramatically underperformed, with Memento Research reporting that about 85% of 118 tracked issuances traded below their initial valuations and the median token lost more than 70% of its value. The downturn coincided with a...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Ethereum’s “HTTP Moment” With Marissa Posner & Yoav Weiss
In a Devconnect interview, Ethereum Foundation product lead Marissa Posner and security researcher Yoav Weiss unpack the Trustless Manifesto and introduce the Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL). They argue that hidden trust assumptions—especially in bridges, oracles and RPC providers—threaten Ethereum’s core...
By The Defiant
News•Jan 6, 2026
Riot Platforms Sold $200 Million of Bitcoin in 2025's Last Two Months
Riot Platforms sold roughly $200 million worth of bitcoin during November and December 2025, disposing of 1,818 BTC in November and 383 BTC in December. The sales cut the company’s bitcoin holdings to about 18,005 BTC at year‑end. VanEck’s digital‑assets head Matthew Sigel linked...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
MarketVector, Amplify Roll Out Stablecoin, Tokenization Benchmark, ETFs
MarketVector Indexes introduced two new benchmarks—the Stablecoin Technology Index and the Tokenization Technology Index—to give investors regulated exposure to firms and products involved in stablecoin issuance, payments, settlement, and real‑world‑asset tokenization. Amplify ETFs launched two exchange‑traded funds, TKNQ and STBQ,...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Iran’s Currency Collapse Shows Why Bitcoin Is Seen as an Exit Option
Iran’s rial plunged to record lows in 2025, erasing over 40% of its purchasing power and triggering bank failures that affected tens of millions. The collapse intensified public debate about financial alternatives, with Bitcoin emerging as a symbolic exit option...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz Joins SUI Group Board
SUI Group, the Nasdaq‑listed vehicle for the Sui blockchain, appointed former CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz as an independent director and audit committee member. The board reshuffle follows CFO Joseph Geraci’s move to a board observer role, leaving five directors with...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Liquidity Lifts Bitcoin, but ‘Halving Cycle’ Fears Could Limit Rally in 2026, Says Schwab
Schwab’s crypto strategist Jim Ferraioli says quantitative tightening has ended and balance‑sheet expansion is restoring liquidity, creating a supportive backdrop for Bitcoin. He outlines three long‑term drivers—global M2 growth, Bitcoin’s disinflationary supply, and adoption—and seven short‑term factors that currently align...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Why Crypto-Treasury Stocks Fall Faster than the Assets They Hold
Crypto‑treasury stocks once marketed as simple Bitcoin exposure now underperform their holdings during market declines. In bull markets these equities trade at a premium to net asset value, but when sentiment turns the premium evaporates, leading to steeper share price...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Ethereum’s Staking Queues Have Cleared and that Changes the ETH Trade
Ethereum’s validator queues have fully cleared, allowing new validators to join and exits to process in near real‑time. Staking rewards have compressed to roughly 3% as total staked ETH rose faster than issuance and fee income. The staking supply now...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
This Metric Suggests Bitcoin's Late November Plunge Was the Bottom and Major Upside Lies Ahead
Bitcoin’s short‑term holder profit‑to‑loss ratio plunged to a historic low of 0.013 on Nov. 24, coinciding with the price dip to roughly $80,000. Glassnode data shows that each prior instance of this ratio marked a market bottom in 2011, 2015, 2018...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Buck Launches Bitcoin-Linked ‘Savings Coin’ Tied to Michael Saylor’s Strategy
Buck Labs introduced the BUCK token, a dollar‑denominated "savings coin" that promises roughly a 7% annual yield. The yield is funded by income from Strategy’s bitcoin‑linked perpetual preferred stock, not by a hard dollar peg, so the token’s price can...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Solana Memecoin Frenzy Sends PumpSwap Trading Volume to Record $1.2 Billion
PumpSwap, the native DEX of Solana’s Pump ecosystem, recorded a record $1.28 billion in 24‑hour trading volume, pushing its 7‑day total to $6.15 billion and 30‑day total to $19.69 billion. Cumulative volume now approaches $176.8 billion, driven by a renewed memecoin frenzy across Solana....
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Telegram Revenue Jumps to $870M in H1 2025; $2B Full-Year Target: FT
Telegram reported H1 2025 revenue of $870 million, a 65% increase year‑over‑year, while targeting $2 billion for the full year. About $300 million of the revenue came from exclusivity agreements tied to its Toncoin cryptocurrency, and the company sold more than $450 million of TON,...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Circle's USDC Outpaces Growth of Tether's USDT for Second Year Running
Circle’s USDC outpaced Tether’s USDT for the second year in 2025, expanding its market cap by 73% to $75.12 billion, while USDT grew 36% to $186.6 billion. The growth reflects heightened demand for regulated digital dollars, as USDC complies with U.S. money‑transmission...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Polymarket Quietly Introduces Taker Fees on 15-Minute Crypto Markets
Polymarket has quietly added taker‑only fees to its 15‑minute crypto up/down markets, ending the platform’s zero‑fee tradition for these short‑duration contracts. The fee schedule is odds‑dependent, peaking at roughly 3% when prices sit near the 50% probability mark and tapering...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
BitMEX Pushes Into 24/7 Stock Perps as Tokenized Equities Heat Up
BitMEX has introduced Equity Perps, a suite of crypto‑collateralized perpetual swap contracts that give traders 24/7 exposure to major US equities such as Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The product mirrors crypto perpetual swaps, offering non‑expiring, funding‑rate‑based leverage...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Morgan Stanley Eyes the Spot Bitcoin ETF Market
Morgan Stanley filed a Form S‑1 with the SEC to launch the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust, a spot bitcoin exchange‑traded fund. The Trust will hold physical bitcoin, calculate NAV daily from major spot exchanges, and list on a national exchange under...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Largest Bitcoin ETF Inflow in Three Months Signals Institutional Bid Is Back
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs saw a $697.2 million daily inflow on Monday, the largest since October 2024, bringing net inflows to about $1.2 billion across the first two trading days of 2026. Bitcoin’s price rose roughly 7 % to just under $94,000 during...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Bitcoin Core V30 Bug Risks Fund Loss During Legacy Wallet Upgrades
Bitcoin Core developers identified a wallet‑migration bug in versions 30.0 and 30.1 that can delete an entire legacy wallet directory when pruning is enabled and a custom -walletdir is used. The flaw only triggers during migration of unnamed wallet.dat files,...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
U.S. National Debt Reaches New High of $38.5 Trillion
The United States national debt has climbed to $38.5 trillion, pushing the debt‑to‑GDP ratio above 120 %. More than 70 % of the debt is held by domestic investors, while foreign holders include Japan, China and the United Kingdom. Annual interest payments now...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Infinex Revises Fundraising Structure, Replaces $5 Million Raise Plan with Fair Allocation Model
Infinex, a non‑custodial crypto trading platform, scrapped its original $5 million public token sale plan after raising only about $600,000 in the first three days. The company eliminated the $2,500 per‑wallet cap and introduced a “max‑min fair allocation” or water‑filling model,...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
‘Mixed Year for IPOs’ as Crypto Pulls Down US IPO Performance
US IPOs delivered a 13.9% weighted‑average gain in 2025, lagging the S&P 500’s 16% rise, according to Bloomberg. The surge of crypto and AI listings, including Circle’s 170% first‑day jump and Gemini’s 65% decline, contributed to the underperformance. Mid‑size offerings (US$500 million‑US$1 billion)...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Bitcoin Outlook Bullish as Whales, Sharks Buy Retail Sell-Off: Santiment
Santiment reports that Bitcoin whales and sharks have accumulated 56,227 BTC since mid‑December while retail wallets under 0.01 BTC are net sellers. The cryptocurrency is trading near the upper edge of its six‑week range at about $94,800, hinting at a possible...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
Sui Outperforms Bitcoin and Ether as Mysten Labs Promotes Privacy Tech
Sui’s native token SUI surged more than 14% in the past 24 hours, eclipsing Bitcoin’s modest 1% gain and Ether’s 1.2% rise. The rally was sparked by a privacy‑focused research paper co‑authored by Mysten Labs, the blockchain’s creator, rather than a...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 6, 2026
Ethereum Staking Sees Tidal Shift as Validator Exit Queue Clears Out
The Ethereum validator exit queue has collapsed to just 32 ETH, a 99.9% drop from its September peak, virtually eliminating backlog. At the same time, the entry queue surged to 1.3 million ETH, the highest level since mid‑November, indicating fresh staking demand. BitMine,...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 6, 2026
US Access to Venezuelan Oil Could Make Bitcoin Mining Cheaper: Bitfinex
U.S. firms are poised to tap Venezuela’s 303 billion barrels of crude, a move that Bitfinex analysts say could drive down electricity prices for Bitcoin miners. The United States has begun seizing Venezuelan tankers and, after the recent capture of President...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 5, 2026
NFT Paris Cancels Conferences: ‘The Market Collapse Hit Us Hard‘
NFT Paris and RWA Paris conferences were cancelled for 2026 after organizers cited a severe market collapse. The events, slated for February, will not occur as the organizers announce they are "closing this chapter" despite aggressive cost cuts. NFT sales...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 5, 2026
Render Soars 30% as AI-Focused Tokens Rally
Render (RENDER) surged roughly 15% after an intraday peak of 34%, making it the top performer among AI‑focused tokens and the broader CoinGecko Top 100. The AI token sector’s market cap rose 6.3% to about $29.5 billion, with trading volume hitting $207.6 million...
By The Defiant
News•Jan 5, 2026
A Few Republicans Have Crypto's Destiny in Their Hands at the SEC, CFTC
After a wave of holiday appointments, the SEC and CFTC are now run exclusively by pro‑crypto Republicans, following the departure of the sole Democratic SEC commissioner, Caroline Crenshaw. Trump‑nominated chairmen Paul Atkins (SEC) and Mike Selig (CFTC) face no immediate...
By CoinDesk