Solana Mobile Sets Jan. 21 Launch Date for SKR Token, Confirms Airdrop
Solana Mobile announced that its SKR token will launch on Jan. 21, 2026, with a fixed supply of 10 billion. A snapshot for the airdrop has already been taken, reserving 20 % of the supply for eligible users and developers. SKR will serve as the governance and incentive token for the Seeker smartphone ecosystem, enabling staking to Guardians who secure the network and vote on proposals. The launch gives Seeker users a clear timeline for staking and governance activation.
XRP Spot Trading Is Now Live on Hyperliquid with Flare's FXRP Listing
Flare has launched FXRP, an on‑chain representation of XRP, on Hyperliquid’s spot market, debuting with an FXRP‑USDC pair. Hyperliquid’s on‑chain order‑book recorded $185 million in 24‑hour volume, offering tighter spreads than typical AMM venues. The FXRP token leverages Flare’s FAssets and...
Aptos' APT Falls Amid a Decline in Wider Crypto Markets
Aptos’ APT token slipped 1.1% to $1.88, trading within a narrow $0‑$0.11 band as broader crypto markets weakened. Volume spiked 24% above the weekly average, reaching a peak of 5.3 million tokens near the $1.91 resistance level. Technical analysis highlights $1.87...
Tokenization 'Supercycle' Set to Drive Crypto’s Next Leg Higher in 2026: Bernstein
Bernstein predicts a tokenization “supercycle” beginning in 2026, arguing that crypto markets have likely bottomed after a volatile 2025. The firm maintains its Bitcoin price target of $150,000 for 2026 and $200,000 at the 2027 peak, while noting crypto‑linked equities...
World's Elites Want to Invest Big in Crypto and Binance Is Moving to Help Them
Binance has launched Binance Prestige, a white‑glove service aimed at ultra‑wealthy investors with $10 million-plus portfolios. The offering expands on Binance Wealth by handling fiat‑to‑crypto onboarding, large‑order execution using VWAP/TWAP strategies, and tailored custody solutions. Catherine Chen, head of VIP and...
Former Brazil Central Bank Official Unveils Real-Pegged Stablecoin with Yield Sharing
Former Central Bank of Brazil director Tony Volpon launched BRD, a real‑pegged stablecoin backed by national Treasury bonds that distributes the sovereign debt yield to token holders. The token targets foreign investors seeking Brazil's 15% benchmark rate, positioning itself against...
Rumble Introduces Crypto Wallet with Tether, Allowing Tips in BTC, USDT, XAUT
Rumble has rolled out a non‑custodial crypto wallet built with Tether’s Wallet Development Kit, allowing viewers to tip creators in Bitcoin, USDT, or XAUT directly within the app. The wallet, powered by MoonPay, eliminates traditional payment intermediaries and gives users...
Babylon Labs Raises $15 Million From A16z Crypto to Develop Bitcoin Collateral Infrastructure
Babylon Labs announced a $15 million investment from a16z crypto to accelerate its BTCVaults infrastructure, which lets native Bitcoin serve as collateral in on‑chain financial applications. The funding will enhance core technology and drive integration with external platforms, while the company’s...
Ripple Again Rules Out IPO, Saying Balance Sheet Gives It Room to Stay Private
Ripple announced it will not pursue an initial public offering, preferring to remain private while it scales through acquisitions and product development. The company recently closed a $500 million financing round at a $40 billion valuation, backed by investors such as Fortress...
Strategy’s STRC Perpetual Preferred Stock Returns to $100, May Trigger More Bitcoin Buying
Strategy’s perpetual preferred equity, STRC, reclaimed its $100 par value in pre‑market trading, the first time since early November. The stock now pays an 11% annual dividend, marking its fifth rate increase since launch and delivering roughly an 11% effective...
Nike Sells Its NFT and Virtual Sneakers Amid Lack of Digital Art Market Interest: Report
Nike quietly sold its RTFKT digital‑products subsidiary in December, ending a year‑long shutdown of the NFT unit. The company did not reveal the buyer or transaction value, framing the divestiture as a "new chapter" for its community. The move reflects...
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...
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...
Barclays Invests in Stablecoin Settlement Firm as Tokenized Infrastructure Advances
Barclays has taken an undisclosed stake in Ubyx, a U.S. startup building a clearing system for tokenized money such as regulated stablecoins and bank deposits. The move signals traditional banks’ growing appetite for blockchain‑based settlement solutions that comply with existing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Arthur Hayes' Maelstrom Enters 2026 at 'Almost Maximum Risk' Betting on Altcoins
Arthur Hayes' Maelstrom fund entered 2026 with near‑maximum risk exposure, shifting heavily toward privacy‑coins, DeFi tokens and other altcoins while keeping stablecoin holdings minimal. The strategy leans on an anticipated liquidity surge from U.S. deficit spending and Federal Reserve balance‑sheet...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Bitcoin Miners Continue to Face Dwindling Profits Despite Lower Competition, JPMorgan Says
JPMorgan reports that Bitcoin’s network hashrate fell a second month in December, dropping 3% to 1,045 EH/s, indicating reduced mining competition. Despite this, miner profitability continued to erode, with daily block‑reward revenue per exahash falling 7% month‑over‑month and 32% year‑over‑year, while...
Bitmine Immersion Adds 33,000 ETH, Bringing Total Crypto and Cash Holdings Above $14 Billion
Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced it added 33,000 ether, bringing its total holdings to over 4.14 million ETH—about 3.4% of the global supply. The combined crypto and cash portfolio now exceeds $14.2 billion, including $915 million in cash, 192 BTC and a $25 million stake in...
Goldman Sachs Upgrades Coinbase to Buy, Cuts eToro to Neutral
Goldman Sachs upgraded Coinbase to a buy rating, lifting its price target to $303 and implying more than 30% upside, while the stock rose 4.3% in early trading. The bank downgraded eToro to neutral, cutting its target to $39 as...
Crypto Wallet Firm Ledger Faces Customer Data Breach Through Payment Processor Global-E
Ledger, a leading hardware wallet provider, disclosed a data exposure incident tied to its third‑party payment processor Global‑e. Unauthorized actors accessed personal details such as names and contact information from Global‑e’s cloud system, though payment card data and private keys...
U.S. Jobs Report, Ethereum Upgrade: Crypto Week Ahead
The Crypto Week Ahead preview highlights Ethereum’s second Blob Parameter Only (BPO‑2) hard fork on Jan 7, expanding blob capacity to 21 per block as part of the Fusaka scaling roadmap. BNB Chain is holding a governance vote to tweak system parameters...
Bitcoin Traders Kick Off 2026 with Bets on Price Rally Above $100,000
Bitcoin traders opened 2026 by aggressively buying $100,000‑strike call options on Deribit, pushing open interest up by 420 BTC and adding $38.8 million in notional value. The $100k call now holds $1.45 billion total open interest, with $828 million tied to the January...
PwC Deepens Crypto Push as U.S. Rules Shift and Stablecoins Go Mainstream: Report
PricewaterhouseCoopers is intensifying its crypto practice as U.S. regulators clarify stable‑coin rules. The firm cites the passage of the GENIUS Act as a catalyst to "lean in" on audit and consulting work for digital‑asset clients. PwC plans to promote stablecoins...
Neobanks Will Fuel Ethereum's 2026 Growth, Says ether.fi CEO
Ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze predicts Ethereum’s 2026 growth will be powered by crypto‑native neobanks offering familiar financial products. He notes that 2025 saw institutional digital‑asset treasuries (DATs) deploy into ether.fi, lifting ETH from a low of $1,472 to $4,832. Silagadze...
Bitcoin Tops $91,000 with Ether, Dogecoin Higher Amid U.S. Action on Venezuela
Bitcoin surged past $91,000 on Sunday, gaining about 1.4% intraday and over 4% in a week, while ether rose to roughly $3,150 and other altcoins posted double‑digit weekly gains. The rally followed a $180 million futures liquidation wave, primarily wiping out...
