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). Since the first BPO fork in December 2025, transaction fees have shown greater stability, and developers are eyeing a gas‑limit boost to 80 million, with the upcoming Glamsterdam fork targeting 200 million and parallel processing via EIP‑7928.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
‘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)...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price Predictions 1/5: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, BCH
Bitcoin rallied after the United States launched operations in Venezuela, nudging the Crypto Fear and Greed Index back to neutral. Institutional confidence surged as Bitcoin ETFs recorded $471.3 million of inflows, the largest weekly net purchase since late 2025. Simultaneously, most...
Famed Coinbase Backer Fred Wilson Predicts 2026 UX Pivot for Crypto
Fred Wilson, co‑founder of Union Square Ventures, predicts that crypto’s breakout in 2026 will come not from new blockchains but from user experiences that hide the underlying technology. He argues that mainstream adoption requires apps to abstract chain selection, allowing...
Grayscale Declares First Ethereum Staking Payout for US-Listed ETF
Grayscale announced the first cash payout tied to on‑chain staking for a U.S.-listed spot crypto ETF. Shareholders of the Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF will receive roughly $0.08 per share, reflecting rewards generated since the fund activated staking on Oct. 6. The...
Filecoin Surges 6%, Outperforms Wider Crypto Markets
Filecoin (FIL) jumped 6% on Monday, reaching $1.59, outpacing the CoinDesk 20 index, which was up 2.2% at the time. The rally occurred in a volatile crypto market but lacked a clear fundamental catalyst, with technical analysis pointing to algorithmic momentum....
Tom Lee Calls for a New Bitcoin ATH in January, While Warning of a Volatile 2026
Tom Lee, co‑founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, predicts Bitcoin could top $100,000 by the end of January 2026, despite a volatile first half of the year. He views the early‑2026 turbulence as a strategic reset rather than a structural weakness,...
China’s Financial Associations Reclassify RWAs as ‘Risky‘: Report
China’s leading financial industry associations have reclassified Real‑World Asset (RWA) tokenization as a risky business model rather than a nascent technology. The notice groups RWAs, stablecoins, “air coins” and mining with illegal cryptocurrency activities, emphasizing fraud, operational and speculative risks....
Venezuela’s Secret $60 Billion Bitcoin Empire From Illicit Gold and USDT Swap Rumors Ignite After US “Intervention”
A Whale Hunt report alleges that Venezuela has amassed up to 600,000 Bitcoin, worth roughly $60 billion, far exceeding the official 240‑coin holding reported by Bitcoin Treasuries. The stash is said to have been built through gold swaps and oil‑linked USDT...
BNB Token Ticks Higher as Technical Upgrades Frame Tight Price Compression
BNB rose 1.7% to roughly $906, holding between the high‑$890s and low‑$910s. The token is trapped in a tight compression zone, with rising support from December lows and a descending resistance line near $910. Trading volume spiked as price breached...
Robinhood Leaning Into Advanced Traders as Crypto Volatility Reshapes User Behavior
Robinhood is pivoting toward advanced cryptocurrency traders by rolling out sophisticated tools such as tax‑lot selection, custom cost‑basis options, and multi‑venue routing. The platform now offers fees as low as three basis points for high‑volume users and routes trades through...
Bitcoin Rally Masks Fragile Liquidity as Spot Volumes Hit Year-Long Lows
Bitcoin rallied 7.5% to $93,500 in early January, yet spot trading volumes for both Bitcoin and altcoins have fallen to their lowest levels since November 2023, according to Glassnode. The drop in on‑chain volume indicates that the price gains are...