Ondo Finance Brings 200+ Tokenized U.S. Stocks and ETFs to Solana
Ondo Finance announced the launch of its tokenized equities platform on Solana, adding more than 200 U.S. stocks and ETFs to the high‑speed blockchain. The rollout expands Ondo Global Markets beyond Ethereum and BNB Chain, making the protocol the largest real‑world asset issuer on Solana by asset count. Ondo says the tokens will carry price parity and Wall Street liquidity, broadening access for crypto‑native traders. The move reflects growing demand for on‑chain securities across the crypto ecosystem.
Bitcoin Utility Blockchain VerifiedX Debuts ‘Venmo-For Crypto’ Payment App Butterfly
VerifiedX, the Bitcoin sidechain provider, launched Butterfly, a Venmo‑style crypto payment app. The service, built on VerifiedX’s layer‑1 blockchain, promises penny‑level transaction fees and an “undo” button to correct mistakes. Butterfly goes live through partnerships with Crypto.com, Moonpay and Blockdaemon,...
Chainlink Is One of Crypto’s Most Undervalued Infrastructure Bets: Bitwise
Bitlink’s chief investment officer Matt Hougan argues Chainlink (LINK) is a vastly underrated crypto infrastructure asset. The decentralized oracle network, valued at roughly $10 billion, supplies real‑world data to stablecoins, tokenized securities, DeFi protocols and major financial institutions. Bitwise’s high conviction...
Zcash Foundation Adds New Rust DNS Seeder to Improve Network Reliability
The Zcash Foundation released a new DNS seeder written in Rust, replacing older implementations used to bootstrap Zcash nodes. By leveraging the same networking code as the Zebra full‑node client, the seeder offers faster, safer peer discovery and aligns protocol...
Rolex, Patek Lead High-End Watch Market Rebound Even as Bitcoin Struggles
Luxury watch resale values have risen about 4% over the past six months, contrasting sharply with a 25% decline in Bitcoin and a 30% drop in the CoinDesk 20 index. Morgan Stanley attributes the modest rebound to cleared excess inventory,...
Not All Crypto Is Equal: Schwab Maps Where the Money Actually Is in Digital Assets
Schwab’s Center for Financial Research released a three‑layer model for crypto, dividing the market into foundational networks, infrastructure, and products. The base layer—Bitcoin, Ethereum and similar blockchains—accounts for roughly 80% of the sector’s $3.2 trillion market cap. Infrastructure protocols such as...
Solayer Unveils $35 Million Fund for Real-Time DeFi, AI and Tokenization Apps on infiniSVM
Solayer announced a $35 million ecosystem fund to accelerate development on its infiniSVM layer‑1 blockchain. The fund, sourced from Solayer Labs and the Solayer Foundation, will back early‑stage and growth teams building real‑time DeFi, AI‑driven and tokenized asset applications. infiniSVM boasts...
Mastercard Said to Weigh Zerohash Investment After Ending Takeover Talks Worth Billions
Mastercard is weighing a strategic investment in blockchain infrastructure firm Zerohash after acquisition talks collapsed, despite earlier reports that the payment giant might have paid up to $2 billion for a full buyout. Zerohash, valued at $1 billion after a $104 million Series D‑2...
Trump's New CFTC Chief Selig Starts 'Future-Proof' Initiative to Champion Crypto
Mike Selig, newly appointed CFTC chairman under President Trump, announced a "future‑proof" crypto initiative aimed at codifying digital‑asset oversight into formal rules. He emphasized that the $3 trillion crypto market warrants tailored regulations rather than ad‑hoc enforcement. Selig also unveiled an...
Chainlink Expands Data Streams to Cover Multitrillion-Dollar U.S. Stock Market
Chainlink has upgraded its Data Streams product to deliver 24/5 coverage of U.S. stocks and ETFs, using a pull‑based model that provides sub‑second updates only when trades occur. The new feed includes market‑status flags and bid‑ask spreads, reducing gas costs...
Tom Lee's Bitmine Immersion Wins Investor Backing to Expand Share Limit
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) secured 81% shareholder approval to raise its authorized share count, giving the firm greater leeway to issue equity in the future. The company now controls 4.203 million ETH—about 3.5% of the cryptocurrency’s circulating supply—alongside 193 BTC, a $22 million...
TenX Adds Tezos to Its Crypto Treasury, Targets Staking Revenue After Buying 5.5M XTZ
TenX Protocols announced the purchase of roughly 5.5 million Tezos (XTZ) tokens at an average price of $0.5868, funded by cash from its August 2025 financing round. The tokens will be staked through TenX‑operated validators, targeting an 8‑10% annual yield before costs....
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Internet Computer Drops 8.3% as All Assets Decline
The CoinDesk 20 index slipped 3.5% to 2,785.62 on Thursday, marking a broad‑based decline across its constituents. Internet Computer (ICP) led the losses, tumbling 8.3%, while Solana (SOL) added to the downside with a 4.5% drop. No asset in the index...
Japan Bond Market Panic Spills Into Crypto; 'Yields Will Keep Rising Until Something Breaks'
Japan’s 30‑year government bond yield surged 31 basis points to 3.91%, the highest in 27 years, ending a decades‑long era of falling yields. The spike triggered a broad risk‑off, pulling the Nikkei down 2.5%, US equity futures lower, and Bitcoin...
Former FTX EU Trading Specialists Unveil Perpetuals.com, an AI-Powered Derivatives Platform
Former FTX EU co‑founders Patrick Gruhn and Robin Matzke have launched Perpetuals.com, an AI‑powered derivatives exchange that will begin trading on Nasdaq this week. The platform leverages a proprietary AI model trained on more than 10 million retail cryptocurrency trading histories...
Bitcoin Is at Risk of Slide to $58,000 as 'Restrictive' Fed Policy and Trade Tensions Weigh on Crypto
Veteran futures trader Peter Brandt predicts Bitcoin could fall to $58,000‑$62,000 within two weeks, citing a bearish downtrend. Analysts Jason Fernandes and Mati Greenspan agree that macro‑economic pressures—particularly restrictive Federal Reserve policy and escalating U.S.–EU tariff disputes—are more decisive than...
Makina Loses $4.1 Million in Exploit Tied to Price-Feed Manipulation
Makina, a DeFi execution platform, suffered a $4.13 million exploit after an attacker used a flash loan to manipulate the price‑feed of its DUSD/USDC Curve pool. By inflating the MachineShareOracle’s reported prices, the hacker swapped roughly 110 million USDC against a pool holding...
BlackRock’s PFF ETF Has $380 Million Worth of Exposure to MSTR's Preferred Equities
BlackRock’s iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF (PFF) now holds roughly $380 million of MicroStrategy’s (MSTR) preferred equity products, making the crypto‑linked securities a material portion of the fund. The largest of these holdings is Stretch (STRC) with a $210 million allocation,...
Portugal Joins Growing List of Countries Cracking Down on Polymarket
Portugal’s gambling regulator ordered blockchain prediction market Polymarket to cease operations within 48 hours after the platform recorded over €103 million in bets on the Jan 18 presidential election. The country’s 2015 online gambling law bans political betting, allowing only sports, casino...
Trouble Mounts for Bitcoin and Stocks as Global Benchmark for Borrowing Costs Surges
The U.S. 10‑year Treasury yield rose to 4.27%, its highest level since early September, pushing borrowing costs higher worldwide. As the benchmark for risk‑free rates, the spike raises the floor for corporate loans, mortgages and other credit products, tightening financial...
'White Whale' Memecoin Slides 60% After Top Holder Dumps $1.3 Million
White Whale, a Solana‑based memecoin, plunged up to 60% on Monday after its largest private holder dumped roughly $1.3 million worth of tokens. The sell‑off thinned liquidity to just above $900,000 and briefly erased a large portion of the token’s market...
Bitcoin Whale Wakes up After 12 Years to Move $84 Million Fortune
A Bitcoin wallet that has been idle since 2013 transferred 909 BTC—now worth over $84 million—to a new address, marking a 13,000 % unrealized gain. The move, tracked by Whale Alert and Lookonchain, follows a wave of dormant‑address activity after Bitcoin breached $100,000...
Ethereum Posts Record Onchain Activity as Research Points to Possible Spam-Driven Growth: Asia Morning Briefing
Ethereum recorded an all‑time high of nearly 2.9 million daily transactions, yet Ether’s price stayed flat around $3,180, suggesting the activity may not stem from genuine user demand. On‑chain researcher Andrey Sergeenkov attributes the surge to a large‑scale address‑poisoning campaign that...
NFTs Are Not Dead: Wealthy Crypto Collectors Are Still Driving the Market, Says Animoca Brands' Yat Siu
Animoca Brands co‑founder Yat Siu says NFTs are far from dead, noting that a niche of wealthy collectors now sustains the market. Monthly NFT sales have contracted from over $1 billion at the 2021‑22 peak to roughly $300 million, driven by high‑net‑worth...
A Crypto Trader Turned $285 Into $627,000 in One Day, but some Say the Game Was Rigged
A trader bought $285 of the memecoin ZREAL and sold enough to net $627,000 in a single day, according to blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain. The platform traced the activity to a single wallet that acquired 66.3 million ZREAL tokens, sold roughly...
Bitcoin Price Consolidation Nears 60-Day Window That's Historically Triggered Rallies
Bitcoin has traded between roughly $80,000 and $98,000 for 59 days, edging toward the 60‑day consolidation window that has historically preceded strong rallies. Past cycles—April 2025, Dec 2023‑Feb 2024, Aug‑Oct 2023, and the post‑FTX bottom—each resolved after about two months with price breakouts. Digital...
Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and XRP Extend ETF Inflow Streak Before Reversal
Digital asset ETFs recorded $2.17 billion in net inflows last week, the strongest flow since October 2025. Bitcoin led with $1.55 billion, followed by Ether’s $496 million and Solana’s $45.5 million, while XRP added $69.5 million. The United States accounted for $2.05 billion of these inflows, but...
Bitcoin Hashrate Drops 15% From October High as Miner Capitulation Drags Into Almost 60 Days
Bitcoin’s network hashrate has slipped about 15% since its October peak, falling from roughly 1.1 ZH/s to 977 EH/s as miners shut down equipment amid shrinking profits. The upcoming difficulty adjustment on Jan 22 will cut mining difficulty by 4%, marking the seventh...
Bitcoin Price Briefly Plunges to $0 on Lesser-Known Paradex Exchange
Paradex, a Starknet‑based decentralized exchange, rolled back its blockchain after a database migration error caused Bitcoin’s price to briefly hit zero on the platform, triggering mass liquidations. All open orders except take‑profit/stop‑loss positions were cancelled, and the exchange was offline...
Chinese Crime Ring Arrested in South Korea Laundered over $100 Million Worth of Crypto
South Korean customs arrested three Chinese nationals accused of laundering $107 million in cryptocurrency. The ring moved funds through an unidentified exchange, using WeChat and Alipay deposits, and disguised transactions as cosmetic‑surgery or overseas‑study fees. The scheme operated from September 2021 to...
Bitcoin Slips Below Key Support as Tariff Talk Rattles Crypto: Crypto Markets Today
Bitcoin slipped below the $94,500 technical support line, trading around $93,000 after reports that the EU is preparing €93 billion in retaliatory tariffs against the United States. The dip erased roughly 2.5% of Bitcoin’s value and triggered $815 million in crypto‑wide liquidations,...
India's Central Bank Proposes a Plan to Create Digital-Currency Link Among BRICS Nations
The Reserve Bank of India is urging the government to place a proposal for linking the central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) of BRICS nations on the agenda of the 2026 BRICS summit it will host. The plan aims to create...
Polymarket Trader Nets $233,000 From XRP Markets in a Daring Weekend Move, Outsmarting Bots
A pseudonymous trader on Polymarket generated a $233,000 profit by exploiting thin weekend liquidity and outmaneuvering automated market‑making bots. The trader accumulated 77,000 “UP” shares at an average cost of 48 cents, then coordinated a $1 million Binance XRP purchase that...
Ethereum Transactions Hit Record as Staking Exit Queue Drops to Zero
Ethereum processed a record 2,885,524 transactions on Friday, the highest daily total in its history. The surge follows a rebound in on‑chain activity that began in mid‑December, while average fees have stayed near recent lows. Simultaneously, the validator exit queue...
Animoca’s Yat Siu Says Crypto’s Trump Moment Is Over
Yat Siu, co‑founder of Animoca Brands, says the era when crypto relied on Donald Trump’s political support has ended. He argues the market is now driven by infrastructure, regulation and institutional capital, with Bitcoin positioned as a digital reserve asset....
Large Bitcoin Holders Buy the Most Coins Since the FTX Collapse of 2022
Bitcoin’s mid‑ to large‑holder cohort, known as Fish‑to‑Shark, accumulated roughly 110,000 BTC in the past month—the strongest inflow since the 2022 FTX collapse. This brings the cohort’s total holdings to about 6.6 million BTC, up from 6.4 million two months earlier. Retail...
Here's Why Coinbase and Other Companies Soured on Major Crypto Bill
A sweeping U.S. crypto bill introduced comprehensive rules on decentralized finance, expands SEC jurisdiction, and imposes strict stablecoin yield limits. Coinbase, along with several other firms, publicly opposed the legislation, citing concerns that the language is overly broad and could...
Coinbase Refutes Rumors of White House's Threat to Pull Support for Crypto Bill
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong denied rumors that the White House would withdraw its backing for the crypto market‑structure bill, calling the administration "super constructive." He said the White House asked Coinbase to devise a deal with banks, focusing on community...
Lack of Liquidity Is a Growing Concern in Crypto, Says Auros' Jason Atkins
Jason Atkins, Auros’ chief commercial officer, warned that crypto’s biggest obstacle to institutional adoption is insufficient market liquidity, not volatility. He traced the thinness to the October 10, 2025 crash, which forced traders and leverage out faster than they could return. As...
Crypto Trading Platform with CZ as Advisor Sees Sudden $2 Billion Volume Surge on 'Airdrop' Hype
Genius Terminal, a crypto trading platform backed by YZi Labs and advised by Binance co‑founder CZ, has experienced a massive surge in activity ahead of a rumored token airdrop. Weekly trading volume exploded from roughly $85 million to more than $2 billion,...
Popular Burger Joint Steak ’N Shake Buys $10 Million Bitcoin
Steak ’n Shake announced it has added roughly $10 million worth of bitcoin—about 105 BTC—to its corporate treasury, expanding a crypto strategy that began eight months ago when the chain started accepting Bitcoin via the Lightning Network. The company says Bitcoin payments...
Elon Musk Once Backed a $10 Billion OpenAI ICO, Internal Notes Show
Internal call notes from January 2018 reveal Elon Musk briefly supported a $10 billion initial coin offering (ICO) to fund OpenAI’s research. Within weeks, the founders concluded the token sale would not raise sufficient capital, and Musk withdrew his backing. He...
Hacker Steals $282 Million Crypto in Hardware Wallet Social-Engineering Attack
A hacker executed a sophisticated social‑engineering attack on a hardware wallet, stealing roughly $282 million worth of Bitcoin and Litecoin. The stolen assets—1,459 BTC and 2.05 million LTC—were quickly swapped for the privacy coin Monero and partially bridged to Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin via...
Tom Lee's BitMine Pushes Ethereum Into $8 Billion Staking Backlog
Ethereum’s validator entry queue has swelled to over 2.55 million ETH, worth roughly $8.3 billion, creating a 44‑day wait—the longest since July 2023. The surge is driven by BitMine Immersion, which has already staked more than 1.25 million ETH from its $13 billion treasury. With...
HR Services Provider Gusto Taps Zerohash to Speed up Global Payouts with Stablecoins
Gusto, the payroll and HR platform serving over 400,000 small businesses, has launched a beta program with crypto infrastructure provider Zerohash to enable stablecoin payouts for international contractors. The new option lets eligible workers receive U.S. dollar‑denominated stablecoins with settlement...
PNC Bank CEO Says Stablecoins Must Choose: Be a Payment Tool or a Money Market Fund
PNC Bank CEO Bill Demchak told investors that stablecoins must be classified either as payment tools or as money‑market‑fund‑like investment products. He warned that offering interest blurs that line and would subject tokens to the same strict oversight applied to...
Crypto Card Spending Hits $18 Billion Annualized as Stablecoin Use Shifts to Everyday Payments
Crypto credit and debit cards have surged from roughly $100 million in early 2023 to over $1.5 billion monthly by late 2025, creating an $18 billion annualized spend that nearly matches peer‑to‑peer stablecoin transfers. The market grew at a 106 % compound annual growth...
Riot Platforms Surges 11% as Lease Deal with AMD Marks Major AI Infrastructure Pivot
Riot Platforms surged 11% after buying a 200‑acre Texas parcel for $96 million, funded by selling about 1,080 bitcoin, and signing a 10‑year, 25 MW data‑center lease with AMD. The AMD agreement is expected to generate $311 million in revenue, with options that...
Early 2026 Tailwinds for Bitcoin Miners as Hashrate Falls, Profitability Improves: JPMorgan
JPMorgan reports that U.S.-listed bitcoin miners added $13 billion in market value during the first two weeks of 2026, bringing the sector’s total capitalization to roughly $62 billion. A modest rise in Bitcoin price combined with a 2 % drop in network hashrate...
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Gains 3.1%, Leading Index Higher
The CoinDesk 20 Index rose 0.3% to 2,985.7 points on Thursday, driven by strong gains in Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Aave (AAVE). BCH led the pack with a 3.1% increase, while AAVE added 1.4%, pushing ten of the twenty assets higher....
