HYPE Rallies as Hyperliquid DEX Growth Grabs Traders’ Attention: Will It Last?
Hyperliquid’s HYPE token jumped 60% to $34.90, up from $21.80 in two days. The rally was sparked by institutional buying through Hyperliquid Strategies, a large staking unlock, and an ARK Invest bullish report. Bearish leveraged positions were liquidated for more than $20 million, while open interest stayed flat around $8.5 billion and perpetual volumes showed little change. Despite claims of overtaking Binance in BTC futures liquidity, Hyperliquid’s on‑chain activity remains modest compared with the centralized exchange.
AI-Enabled Scams Rose 500% in 2025 as Crypto Theft Goes ‘Industrial’
TRM Labs reports a five‑fold surge in large language model‑powered scams in 2025, propelling AI‑generated deepfakes, voice clones and synthetic images into mainstream fraud. Crypto theft amounted to $35 billion, a slight dip from 2024, while illicit crypto wallet inflows jumped...
Blockchain Platform Nansen Partners with Sui to Enable Onchain Analytics
Nansen has integrated its AI‑driven on‑chain analytics platform with Sui, a high‑throughput Layer‑1 blockchain built on the Move language. The partnership delivers real‑time dashboards, wallet categorization, and social analytics that illuminate fund flows and token trends across DeFi, gaming, AI...
SEC Issues Statement on Tokenized Securities
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a formal statement defining tokenized securities as financial instruments whose ownership records are kept on crypto networks. It distinguished two categories: securities tokenized by the issuer and those tokenized by unaffiliated third parties....
Bullish Partners with Liquid Mercury to Enable Institutional Crypto Derivatives Trading
Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) has partnered with Liquid Mercury to give institutional investors direct access to its high‑liquidity crypto derivatives suite. The integration links Liquid Mercury’s trading platform with Bullish’s pools, offering perpetuals, futures and a fast‑growing options market. Bullish’s options...
Crypto Coin Minute for January 29th, 2026 at 05:15 AM Pacific Time.
Bitcoin fell 2.5% to $87,959, while Ethereum dropped 3.5% to $2,930, extending a market‑wide correction. Exchange‑held Ether supply contracted as staking participation surged, signaling a shift toward on‑chain yield strategies. Meanwhile, Cere Network’s co‑founder and board face a $100 million fraud...
Bitcoin’s Coal Mine Canaries Are Starting to Chirp with Specific Alarms Already Signaling a Market Shift
Bitcoin’s market indicators remain largely calm, with key liquidity and credit gauges below stress thresholds in January 2026. The Chicago Fed’s NFCI and the St. Louis Fed’s STLFSI4 both posted negative values, while rates volatility (MOVE) and high‑yield spreads stayed...
Base AI Agent Deployers Rally as CLAWD Surges
AI agent tokens on Base surged after Austin Griffith launched the CLAWD agent, a Claude‑based self‑regulated AI that can deploy smart contracts and run on‑chain experiments. CLAWD’s market cap briefly hit $40 million, propelling related tokens BANKR (+34%) and CLANKER (+24%)....
White House to Meet with Crypto, Banking Executives to Discuss Market Structure Bill
The White House’s internal crypto policy council will meet with executives from crypto firms and traditional banks to address stablecoin yield provisions in the pending market‑structure bill. The legislation, delayed after lawmakers objected to how it would regulate interest‑bearing stablecoins,...
Crypto's Political Power Supercharged with $193 Million in Fairshake, Thanks to New Cash
The crypto industry’s primary political action committee, Fairshake, announced a $193 million war chest, bolstered by a $25 million contribution from Ripple and $24 million from Andreessen Horowitz. This cash pool would place Fairshake among the nation’s top five PACs, eclipsing its 2024...
Coinbase Rolls Out Prediction Markets to All U.S. Customers
Coinbase has opened its prediction‑market platform to all U.S. customers, leveraging a partnership with regulated operator Kalshi, which was recently valued at $11 billion. The service lets users trade binary contracts on events such as elections, sports outcomes, collectibles and economic...
MegaETH Mainnet to Go Live Feb. 9 in Major Test of ‘Real-Time’ Ethereum Scaling
MegaETH, a high‑performance Ethereum layer‑2, announced its public mainnet will launch on February 9, 2026. The rollout follows a heavily oversubscribed $450 million token sale in October 2025 that sold 5 % of the 10 billion MEGA supply. Backed by Ethereum co‑founders Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin, the...
Wall Street Giants Push Back on Exemptions for Tokenized Securities in SEC Meeting
Wall Street firms—including SIFMA, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Citadel and JPMorgan Chase—met with the SEC Crypto Task Force to argue against special exemptions for tokenized securities. They warned that blockchain‑based issuance should not create a separate regulatory track and urged...
Dubai Insurance Launches Crypto Wallet Premium Payments, Claims Settlements
Dubai Insurance has introduced a crypto‑enabled digital wallet that lets policyholders pay premiums and receive claim settlements in digital assets. The wallet is built on Zodia Custody’s institutional custody platform and operates within the United Arab Emirates’ existing regulatory framework....
Circle Shares Rise 4% as Polymarket-Driven USDC Growth Prompts Analyst Upgrade
Circle (CRCL) shares jumped 4% after Mizuho upgraded the stock to neutral, citing a surge in USDC usage on prediction market Polymarket. The analyst projects Polymarket’s 2026 trading volume to reach $50 billion, roughly three times 2025 levels, potentially adding 25%...
Coinfari Introduces a Unified Digital Platform for Crypto Trading and Market Engagement
Coinfari has launched a unified digital platform that merges cryptocurrency spot‑trading, real‑time market data, and community‑engagement tools into a single web‑and‑mobile interface. The solution supports multiple digital‑asset pairs and caters to both novice traders and seasoned participants, emphasizing usability, performance...
Robinhood CEO Says Tokenized Stocks Could Prevent Another GameStop Freeze
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the 2021 GameStop buying halt was caused by outdated settlement infrastructure, not market actors. He argues that blockchain‑based tokenized stocks would eliminate the multi‑day settlement lag that still exists under the T+1 regime. Robinhood has...
Global Blockchain Show Abu Dhabi 2025 Concludes as a Landmark Gathering Shaping the Future of Web3 and Digital Economies
The Global Blockchain Show Abu Dhabi 2025 wrapped up on Dec 10‑11, drawing over 5,000 participants, 100+ international speakers and more than 100 exhibiting companies. Organized by VAP Group and backed by the Abu Dhabi Convention & Exhibition Bureau, the two‑day summit...
Peter Thiel and Galaxy-Backed Citrea Wants to Turn Idle Bitcoin Into a High-Speed Bank Account
Citrea, backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, has launched its Bitcoin‑focused mainnet, aiming to create a credit market anchored directly to BTC. The platform introduces ctUSD, a Treasury‑backed stablecoin issued by MoonPay, designed for U.S.‑dollar settlement and compliance...
Moonbirds Debuts BIRB Token on Solana at $200M FDV
Moonbirds, the Ethereum‑based NFT collection, launched its native BIRB token on Solana, seeing the price jump from $0.20 to $0.35 within hours and a 70% intraday gain. The token’s fully diluted valuation tops $300 million while market capitalization sits near $86 million....
Sperax Joins Forces with Google Cloud: Accelerating AI-Integrated DeFi Tools for Seamless User Experiences
Sperax, the DeFi protocol behind SperaxOS and the auto‑yield stablecoin USDs, has announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate AI‑integrated financial tools. The collaboration introduces the open‑source Model Context Protocol, allowing AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to...
Europe’s DeFi Tax Gap Won’t Last Forever, Says Ex-OECD Official
The EU’s DAC8 directive, aligned with the OECD’s Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), will obligate crypto exchanges and custodians to collect and report user activity data starting in 2026. The framework deliberately leaves decentralized finance (DeFi) out of scope because...
Fidelity Investments Starts Its Own Stablecoin in a Massive Bet that Future of Banking Is on Blockchain
Fidelity Investments is launching the Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD), an Ethereum‑based stablecoin redeemable 1:1 for U.S. dollars, in early February. Backed by cash, cash equivalents, and short‑term Treasuries, the coin will be issued by Fidelity Digital Assets, a federally chartered...
Crypto Loses Speculative Edge as AI and Robotics Attract Capital: Delphi
Delphi Digital reports that speculative capital is migrating from cryptocurrency to artificial intelligence and robotics, eroding crypto’s traditional role as the go‑to high‑risk asset class. Over the past year Bitcoin fell about 12% while the Global X Robotics and AI...
Traditional Banks Set to Increase Engagement with Digital Assets : Analysis
Elliptic’s 2026 forecast predicts traditional banks will move digital assets from experimental projects to core offerings. Major institutions such as JPMorgan, BNY Mellon and Citi are already piloting tokenized funds, crypto custody and stablecoin initiatives. A wave of clearer regulations...
Stablecoin Player Fitpo Achieves Dual Authorisation Status
Fitpo, a regulated payment infrastructure for stablecoins, announced it received a Crypto‑Asset Service Provider (CASP) licence from France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers. The approval grants Fitpo dual authorisation status, complementing its existing licence in another jurisdiction. This regulatory clearance enables...
For Wall Street’s Most Sophisticated Trading Firms, the Next Alpha Is Onchain
Wall Street’s high‑frequency trading firms are shifting their edge from physical data‑center proximity to on‑chain infrastructure. By running validators, designing low‑latency nodes, and participating in blockchain governance, they aim to capture the next source of alpha in decentralized finance. Early...
WisdomTree Expands Tokenized Fund Access to Solana in Multichain Push
WisdomTree announced that its full suite of tokenized funds will now be available on the Solana blockchain through its WisdomTree Connect and WisdomTree Prime platforms. Both institutional and retail investors can mint, trade, and hold these real‑world asset tokens directly...
WisdomTree Brings Its Full Tokenized Fund Lineup to Solana
WisdomTree announced that its entire catalog of tokenized exchange‑traded products is now available on the Solana blockchain. The move expands the firm’s multi‑chain deployment, adding Solana to its existing presence on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base and Optimism. Institutional and retail...
Masumi Network: How AI-Blockchain Fusion Adds Trust to Burgeoning Agent Economy
Masumi Network, a collaboration between NMKR and Serviceplan Group, launched as a framework‑agnostic platform that lets autonomous AI agents collaborate, monetize services, and exchange value with verifiable trust. Built on the Cardano blockchain, the network equips each agent with a...
BeeXpay Expands Its Crypto-Funded Payment and Digital Travel Services Through Regulated Partners
BeeXpay announced an expansion of its crypto‑funded platform to deliver broader payment and digital travel services through regulated third‑party partners. The rollout adds eSIM connectivity for international data, while payment cards remain issued by licensed financial institutions. Future integrations will...
South Korea Regulator Backs Ownership Caps for Crypto Exchanges
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) announced it will impose ownership caps of roughly 15%‑20% on licensed crypto exchanges, aligning them with governance standards applied to securities markets. The proposal, part of the draft Digital Asset Basic Act, would shift...
Digital Euro Key to Payments Sovereignty in ‘Weaponised’ World: ECB Exec
European Central Bank executive Piero Cipollone said the digital euro is essential for payment sovereignty amid rising geopolitical tensions. He highlighted that cash now represents only 24% of transaction value, underscoring the need for a public‑money digital alternative. The ECB...
Nomura's Laser Digital Applies for U.S. National Trust Bank to Offer Crypto Custody
Laser Digital, Nomura’s digital‑assets division, filed an OCC application to launch a U.S. national trust bank that would provide crypto custody, spot trading and staking services under federal supervision. The bank would serve institutional clients and also hold U.S. government...
Bitget Appoints Oliver Stauber as EU CEO
Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange, has appointed Oliver Stauber as CEO of its European operations and will locate its EU headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Stauber brings deep regulatory and legal experience from previous leadership roles at KuCoin EU and Bitpanda....
Red Horse (RH) Launches On-Chain Membership Protocol to Turn Commitment Into a Verifiable Signal
Red Horse (RH) launched a Solana‑based on‑chain membership protocol that converts token locking into verifiable tiered membership. Users lock RH tokens in a non‑custodial contract, and their tier determines access, priority, and reward weighting across ecosystem programs. The tokenomics allocate...
Fufuture Joins Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 as a Secondary Exhibition Sponsor
Fufuture has become a secondary exhibition sponsor of the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026, scheduled for April 20‑23 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The partnership showcases its decentralized perpetual options protocol to a gathering of DeFi innovators,...
Bitget Wallet Shifts Toward an Everyday Finance App
Bitget Wallet is rebranding itself as an all‑in‑one everyday finance app, placing payments at the core of its refreshed interface. The update follows the wallet surpassing 90 million global users and reflects a broader industry shift from investment‑centric wallets to real‑world...
Chinese National Sentenced to 46 Months for Laundering Millions Stolen From U.S. Investors
A Chinese national, Jingliang Su, received a 46‑month federal prison sentence for laundering roughly $36.9 million stolen from U.S. investors in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme run from Cambodia. The court ordered him to pay nearly $27 million in restitution and highlighted a...
Wallet Linked to Alleged US Seizure Theft Launches Memecoin, Crashes 97%
A Solana‑based memecoin called John Daghita (LICK) was launched on the Pump.fun launchpad by a wallet investigators link to an alleged theft of US government‑controlled crypto. Within its first day the token lost roughly 97% of its value, dropping from...
Metroblox Unveils Ride USD Stablecoin for Everyday Transportation Payments
Metroblox announced the launch of Ride USD, a USD‑pegged stablecoin designed for everyday transportation payments. The token will be usable across ride‑hailing, public transit, and micro‑mobility services, offering instant settlement and near‑zero transaction fees. By embedding the stablecoin into its...
OKX Launches EU Stablecoin Payment Card via Regulated Issuer Monavate
OKX has introduced the OKX Card in Europe, a Mastercard‑compatible payment card that lets verified users spend stablecoins such as USDC and Global Dollar. The card is issued by Monavate, an EMI regulated under the EU’s MiCA framework, and requires...
Understanding Fiat Cryptocurrency: Bridging Traditional and Digital Finance
Halcón Portflow explains that fiat cryptocurrency blends government‑issued money with blockchain technology, offering a stable digital asset for Chile’s evolving financial system. By pegging tokens to fiat currencies, volatility is curbed, making them suitable for daily transactions, payroll, and cross‑border...
Cryptocurrency Leverage Trading Explained: How It Really Works
Cryptocurrency leverage trading lets Australian traders borrow capital to control positions far larger than their own funds, magnifying both potential profits and losses. Leverage ratios such as 10:1 or 50:1 determine how much exposure a trader gains per dollar of...
Hackers Exploit React2Shell Vulnerability to Deploy Miners and Botnets Worldwide
A critical insecure‑deserialization flaw in React Server Components, identified as CVE‑2025‑55182 or “React2Shell,” is being actively exploited worldwide. The vulnerability affects react‑server‑dom‑webpack, –parcel and –turbopack versions 19.0‑19.2, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code and deploy a range of malware, including...
Here's How China's Response to Trump Tariffs Silently Rocks Bitcoin
China has countered President Trump’s roughly 29% tariffs on its goods by tightly managing the yuan, preserving export competitiveness and keeping the currency range‑bound. This exchange‑rate discipline amplifies dollar‑driven liquidity cycles, which in turn influence macro‑sensitive assets like Bitcoin. JPMorgan...
Global Asset Manager Mirae Asset Eyes Fund Tokenisation in UAE with Ctrl Alt Deal
Mirae Asset Global Investments, managing over $350 billion, signed an MoU with UAE fintech Ctrl Alt to explore tokenising investment funds. The partnership will develop a compliant framework for issuing and managing tokenised funds under the UAE’s VARA regulations, starting with...
Dogecoin Turns Lower After Failing to Hold $0.124
Dogecoin hovered near $0.124 but failed to sustain the breakout, closing the 24‑hour period at $0.1246 after a modest 0.6% gain. The token traded in a tight $0.122‑$0.125 range, with sellers turning the $0.1243 level into resistance in the final...
UK Bans Coinbase Ads that ‘Trivialized’ Crypto Risks: Report
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has banned a series of Coinbase advertisements that portrayed cryptocurrency as a remedy for cost‑of‑living pressures while omitting risk warnings. The campaign, which included a satirical video and three high‑traffic posters, was deemed irresponsible for...
Things Worth Reading: 28th January 2026
Chris Skinner’s latest reading roundup spotlights several pivotal developments across finance. Chainalysis estimates cryptocurrency‑related money laundering reached $82 billion in 2025, while Revolut secured a full banking licence to launch a digital bank in Mexico. Tether’s CEO envisions the stablecoin as...