👨💻Analyst: Bitcoin rolled back to $91,000 due to strong selling pressure in the $94,000-$95,000 range.
📈The Solana memecoin hype has driven trading volume on PumpSwap to a record $1.2 billion.
📄Jupiter has released the BlackRock-backed stablecoin JupUSD.
👨💻Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley is growing rapidly! After Bitcoin and Solana, it announced its intention to acquire ETH.
🚫Polymarket has introduced restrictions for bots.
📉The crypto market may crash on January 9th. On this day, the US Supreme Court may publish its official decision in the case over whether Donald Trump's tariffs, imposed in 2025 through the EEPA emergency legislation, were legal.
👥Analysts have named XRP the crowd favorite for early 2026.
👨💼a16z: Privacy will be a key advantage of blockchains in 2026.
🚀The ETH price has broken its downward trend and is aiming for growth.
📊World Liberty Financial, a company linked to Donald Trump, has exchanged $1.3 million worth of WBTC for ETH.
🪙 Silver overtakes NVIDIA in market capitalization, becoming the second-most valuable asset in the world with a market capitalization of US$4.63 trillion, second only to gold with a market capitalization of US$31.34 trillion.
⊹ DeFi TVL on the network exceeded $99 billion, more than 9 times outpacing nearby L1 ecosystems. ⊹ Total stablecoin settlement volume reached $18.8t. ⊹ Average transaction fees on L2 networks dropped below $0.01. ⊹ ETFs and crypto treasuries have accumulated over $35 billion in ETH. ⊹ Currently, over 88 million smart contracts are deployed on the Ethereum network, with a peak of 1.74 million transactions per day, and approximately 32,000 active developers.
💰BlackRock clients purchased 3,948 bitcoins worth $372 million
📊Sui outperforms Bitcoin and Ethereum amid privacy technology developments
👨💼Morgan Stanley filed with the SEC to register Bitcoin and Solana spot ETFs
🐳 Santiment: Since mid-December, large investors have accumulated $5.3 billion in Bitcoin, while retail traders have locked in profits. This is a bullish signal, leading to a rise in the price of the leading cryptocurrency.
👨💻Forexcom owner StoneX adds cryptocurrency offerings under a MISA license
📈Saylor predicts that BTC could surpass gold by 2035
👥Early market rotation attracts major players to altcoins such as Solana, APEMARS, Sui, Hyperliquid, and Hedera.
🚀XRP Soars 11%, Nearly Reaching $2.40 - Spot ETFs Show Record Trading Volumes
😳US government agencies suspect Samourai Wallet of selling confiscated Bitcoin
🇨🇳🇯🇵 China imposes export controls on dual-use goods to Japan, banning the export of goods that strengthen Japan's military.
🤝 #TON TON Foundation selects OpenPayd as global fiat infrastructure provider.
👍 #TON Financial Times: Telegram's revenue in the first half of 2025 reached $870 million, up 65% from $525 million a year earlier. Approximately a third of this amount, or $300 million, came from "exclusive agreements" related to revenue from the Toncoin cryptocurrency.
1. Bitmine staked another 186,336 ETH ($604.5 million). In total, Bitmine has now staked 779,488 ETH ($2.51 billion); 2. Three new wallets withdrew 752 BTC ($70.3 million) from Binance and OKX.
🏦Bank of America has officially begun recommending its clients invest up to 4% of their portfolios in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
👨💻American Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency mining company backed by the Trump family, announced a significant increase in its Bitcoin reserves.
🇯🇵BoJ Governor Ueda promised to continue raising rates.
😳Venezuela's authorities may have secretly accumulated up to 600,000 Bitcoins
🤷♂️While the general public debates why the US needs Venezuela and what Donald Trump plans to do with the country's oil reserves, the crypto community is discussing something else. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts are concerned with a simpler and more pressing question: what will happen to Maduro's Bitcoins.
🐳BTC sales by whales reached a 10-month high
🤖RENDER token became one of the top gainers amid the AI boom
🥷Hackers hacked the BtcTurk exchange and stole $48 million
📉CryptoQuant: the crypto market is approaching a downturn
👨💻USDT on the blockchain TRON approved by the ADGM
Scammers are massively distributing fake emails with a "security warning."
What's happening • The user is shown a fake risk notification • They are asked to complete a supposedly mandatory 2FA verification • They are asked to enter a seed phrase during the verification • Once entered, the wallet is completely under the attackers' control
Important: MetaMask never asks for a seed phrase. Not during any verification. Not in the event of any errors.
🚨 48 countries launch comprehensive crypto transaction data collection
Starting in 2026, crypto services in 48 countries will begin recording user transactions for tax authorities. The exchange of this data between countries will begin in 2027.
What this means in practice: • CEX, some DEX, crypto ATMs, and brokers are subject to reporting. • Data collection begins in advance, even before the actual exchange between countries. • The stated primary goal is to combat tax evasion and money laundering. • An additional 27 countries will join the system starting in 2028. • Participants include most EU countries, the US, the UAE, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Hong Kong, the UK, and others.
Over time, this data may be used not only for tax reporting but also for the direct identification of crypto asset owners.
1. pension-usdt.eth opened a short with 3x leverage for 20,000 #ETH ($64.14 million), currently showing an unrealized loss of ~1 million; 2. Miner MARA transferred 288 #BTC ($26.3 million) to Wintermute.
🥷Admin Panel Access Kraken Listed for Sale on the Darknet for $1
📊XRP Overtakes BNB to Become Third-Largest Cryptocurrency Thanks to ETF Inflows
📈Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs Start the Year with a Sharp Capital Influx
🚀Bitcoin Climbs Above $91,000
🪙 Buterin stated that Ethereum is entering a new phase of development after PeerDAS launched on mainnet and ZK-EVM reached alpha stage. According to him, this isn't just a cosmetic improvement, but a fundamental change in the network's architecture.
📈Ethereum, Solana, and Cardano saw significant gains amid geopolitical news out of Venezuela, which increased risk appetite.
📊Memcoin sector market capitalization grew by more than 20% in a week
🥷Cardano users are being attacked via fake Eternl wallets
👨💻An expert called 2026 a turning point for Ethereum and predicted a price rise to $80,000 in 2027
👥Following the HNT project, discussions are underway in the JUP ecosystem about ending automatic token buybacks.
• Mining costs (attached chart) are currently ~$70,000–$85,000. The ~$80,000 zone is the lower boundary, below which some miners shut down, supply decreases, and the price finds support. • This forms a natural bottom for the market, as has happened in previous cycles. • At the same time, institutional demand is growing: funds, corporations, and banks are using BTC as a safe haven against inflation and macro risks.
Miners' forecast: BTC in 2026: range of $120,000–$180,000, depending on the strength of institutional inflows and macro conditions.
Monday, January 5th: 🔓 Unlocks: Ethena (#ENA) - 1.15% ($40.39 million) 👍 #THETA Theta Network launches TDROP 2.0 👍 #BGSC BugsCoin launches points program 🧯 #REZ Renzo to hold token burn 🍿 #BGB Bitget prepares announcement 🇺🇸 ISM Manufacturing PMI (Dec) - ISM Manufacturing Prices (Dec)
Tuesday, January 6th: 🎮 #WEMIX WEMIX to hold second point reset in Valhalla Trials 👍 #CROSS CROSS to launch CROSS Points program 🇺🇸 S&P Global Services PMI (Dec)
Wednesday, January 7th January: 🔁 #ETH Ethereum will hard fork BPO, gas limit will increase from 60 million to 80 million 🖼 #RARE SuperRare will release the #NFT collection "The Wedding" 👍 #GALEON Galeon will launch the Galeon Bond Program 🇺🇸 ADP Nonfarm Employment Change (Dec) - ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI (Dec) - ISM Non-Manufacturing Prices (Dec) - JOLTS Job Openings (Nov) - Crude Oil Inventories
Thursday, January 8: 🔓 Unlocks: Stable (#STABLE) - 0.89% ($15.05 million) 🙅♂️ #FORM Four will shut down the AI Hero service ⌚️ #PEPENODE End PepeNode token sale ✏️ #ZBCN Zebec Network will present its 2026 roadmap and tokenomics 🇺🇸 Initial Jobless Claims
Friday, January 9: 🇺🇸 Average Hourly Earnings (MoM) (Dec) - Nonfarm Payrolls (Dec) - Unemployment Rate (Dec)
Saturday, January 10: 🔓 Unlocks: Linea (#LINEA) - 6.34% ($9.66 million) 🎁 #VELVET Velvet will distribute ~977,000 VELVET
Sunday, January 11: 🔓 Unlocks: Aptos (#APT) - 0.70% ($21.38 million) 🔁 #BMB BTCMOBICK will release an update to New Bedford
The price of #Bitcoin on his birthday 🚀 17 years old: $90,000 16 years old: $96,000 15 years old: $45,000 14 years old: $18,000 13 years old: $44,000 12 years old: $33,000 11 years old: $7,000 10 years old: $3,000 9 years old: $14,000 8 years old: $1,000 7 years old: $432 6 years old: $275 5 years old: $816 4 years old: $13 3 years old: $5 2 years old: $0.25 1 year old: $0.01
🚨 Major players in the Bitcoin market have suddenly become very optimistic. Addresses holding over $1,000 BTC have switched from pure selling to active accumulation. Big money is returning to the market, and 2026 promises to be a big year for cryptocurrencies.
📈Analyst: ETH prices have recovered to the psychological $3,000 mark, but further growth is limited by low interest from major investors.
👩💼SEC crypto skeptic Caroline Crenshaw will leave the agency this week
📉XRP reserves on exchanges have fallen to an eight-year low
👥Traders transferred $960 million in ETH to Binance for December 2025
🇸🇻El Salvador has officially approved an ambitious development strategy, including Bitcoin and AI, as state policy.
🤷♂️Bitfinex hacker released early thanks to Trump's "law"
📈Solana RWA ecosystem reaches record high of $873 million, growing 325% through 2025
👨💻Bithumb identified approximately 2.6 million inactive accounts whose owners haven't used them for more than a year – these accounts hold approximately $201,800,000 in dormant funds.
🐶Major memecoins like Dogecoin have shown sharp growth in the past 24 hours, raising hopes for a New Year's rally for memecoins.