Bitcoin price fails to follow as gold hits $5.3K record into FOMC
Bitcoin (BTC) attempted a rebound past $90,000 at Wednesday’s Wall Street open as markets awaited US macro cues. Key points:...
Month: January 2026
Vitalik Buterin: Crypto Must Build Real Value or Face “Doomsday Script” of Pure Speculation
TLDR: Ethereum’s gas cap surged from 30 million to 60 million, but meaningful applications remain scarce despite progress. Buterin earned...
ERC-8004 Goes Live on Ethereum, Establishing Framework for On-Chain AI Agents
TLDR: ERC-8004 provides on-chain identity tokens and reputation tracking for autonomous agent operations. Cortensor delivers decentralized compute with proof systems...
Massive Bitcoin Difficulty Cut Looms After Hashrate Loses Nearly 250 EH/s
As an Arctic storm front batters multiple U.S. states, bitcoin mining activity across the country has pulled back sharply, with...
XRP Bull Case Grows as New Court Ruling Affirms Ripple’s Prior Legal Wins
XRP gains fresh legal certainty as a federal appeals court ruling narrows investor claims, reinforcing confidence in early token distributions...
Fidelity Moves Deeper Into Crypto With Proprietary Stablecoin
Fidelity Investments on Wednesday revealed plans to launch its own U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, marking a significant expansion of the asset...
Bitcoin Recovers Above $88K as Fed and Fiscal Risks Loom
Bitcoin has rebounded above $88,000, but options markets and a crowded U.S. macro calendar suggest downside risks remain elevated as...
Is This a Comeback or a Head Fake? Bitcoin Tests Traders’ Convictions
Over the last hour, the digital heavyweight stands at $89,884 to $90,136 per coin with a market cap of $1.79...
Crypto ETFs Falter as Bitcoin, Ether See Combined Exit of $211 Million
Crypto ETF flows turned mixed once again as bitcoin and ether slipped back into outflows, while XRP and solana quietly...
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee Says Earnings Growth, Dollar Weakness Primed To Drive Stocks Higher – Here’s His Target
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee says accelerating earnings growth and a weaker US dollar could help push equities higher by year-end, even...
HYPE price soars 58% amid exploding commodities trading on Hyperliquid
Hyperliquid's native token, HYPE (HYPE), is up 23% over the last 24 hours to trade at $33, significantly outperforming other...
Banks fear stablecoin ‘bank run,’ regulators see limited impact
Banks warn that stablecoins, especially those paying yield, could pull deposits out of the banking system, but policy and finance...
WisdomTree brings its full tokenized fund lineup to Solana
American asset management company WisdomTree said on Wednesday that it is expanding its tokenized funds onto the Solana network as...
For Wall Street’s most sophisticated trading firms, the next alpha is onchain
Opinion by: Annabelle Huang, co-founder and CEO of Altius Labs For centuries, the world’s traders and speculators have pursued one...
Gold hits $5,300 as Tether stacks bullion and Coinbase pushes futures
As gold prices surged to $5,300 this week, Tether and Coinbase — the two companies behind the world’s largest US...