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The Daily: Trumps’ crypto wealth jumps $1.4B, Strategy makes biggest bitcoin buy in over a year, OG whale moves $85M in BTC, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Stablecoin-focused Noble protocol will sunset Cosmos appchain and launch EVM-based Layer 1
“Cosmos has served us well for the last couple of years, but for us, it’s time to move on,” Jelena Djuric, foun…
Prediction markets on pace to smash monthly volume record after $814 million day
Fee generation is accelerating alongside volumes, with weekly revs hitting a record as short-dated markets capture gr…
SVM-powered Solayer launches $35 million ecosystem fund on the heels of alpha mainnet launch
Initially focused on a Solana-based restaking solution, the team announced it was building a high-throughput Layer 1 …
While 71% are in profit XRP just triggered a rare signal last seen in 2022 that could paralyze rallies for months
XRP's on-chain structure now mirrors a precarious moment from early 2022, when short-term accumulation beneath longer…
Trump Media sets Feb. 2 record date for upcoming rewards token
The token may be launched on Crypto.com’s Cronos blockchain, with the exchange providing custodial services for the…
Pendle retires vePENDLE multi-year lockups as sPENDLE staking goes live
Pendle launches sPENDLE, replacing vePENDLE’s multi-year lockups with liquid staking, protocol buybacks, and a 14-d…
SOL Strategies deepens Solana footprint with STKESOL liquid staking token
SOL Strategies has launched STKESOL, staking over 500,000 SOL to expand its Solana-focused infrastructure operations.
Natural gas surged 17% yesterday and it’s triggering a macro trap that could suddenly tank Bitcoin prices
Natural gas prices surged 17.76% on Jan. 19, driven by cold forecasts across Northeast Asia and Europe, tightening li…
Makina Finance suffers $5 million stablecoin pool exploit: CertiK
Makina Finance’s DUSD/USDC pool lost approximately $5 million in a flash loan exploit, security firms reported.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to work on market structure bill in Davos
Coinbase withdrew support from the bill after seeing that it would ban crypto companies from paying interest on idle …
Bitcoin could be your only liferaft as Bank of England experts brace for alien disclosure chaos
Bitcoin could emerge as a long-term winner if global authorities confirm the existence of non-human intelligence, eve…
Bermuda teams up with Coinbase and Circle, aiming to build a ‘fully onchain’ economy
The initiative aims to pilot stablecoin payments across government agencies, expand USDC adoption among local busines…
4 In 5 Hacked Crypto Projects Don’t Bounce Back, Expert Says
A worrying pattern has formed in the crypto sector. Reports say that about four in five projects hit by major hacks d…
The Daily: Bitcoin slips as US-EU tariff war fears mount, NYSE develops 24/7 tokenized securities trading platform, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on every weekday.
How Trump’s tariff threat cycle broke from past playbook for the first time causing Bitcoin to miss Sunday night relief rally
On Monday morning, the market did that thing it always does when politics stops being background noise and starts gra…
Paradex’s ‘free bitcoin’ pricing glitch triggers mass liquidations, forces rollback
Paradex intends to roll back its appchain after a glitch briefly priced bitcoin at zero, triggering mass liquidations.
Why Bitcoin investors should worry about a 17% fertilizer surge that threatens to blow up the cooling inflation narrative
Bitcoin investors may be watching CPI prints, but the real inflation stress is showing up in stranger places. Inflati…
Bitcoin is lagging while metals soar, but this rare divergence preceded every major crypto breakout since 2019
Gold and copper have moved higher even as the Federal Reserve continues to signal patience on rate cuts, a divergence…
Bitcoin is the only “escape valve” left as the ECB warns a political tussle will soon destabilize the dollar
European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane delivered a warning that most markets treated as European housekeep…
Ethereum staking just hit a $118B record at 30% of all coins, but one whale might be skewing the signal
More than 36 million ETH is now staked in Ethereum's proof-of-stake system, close to 30% of the circulating supply an…
Bitcoin options just overtook futures for the first time, and the new way institutions hedge is trapping retail leverage
By mid-January, open interest in Bitcoin options rose to about $74.1 billion, edging past Bitcoin futures open intere…
Bitcoin’s next major move hinges on a $63 billion “fallen angel” signal that most investors are completely ignoring
Corporate credit quality is deteriorating beneath a surface that looks deceptively calm. JPMorgan tallied roughly $55…
Why writing open-source code is suddenly an existential risk, and the five-page bill designed to fix it
Two senators have introduced a short bill with an unusually big ambition: to stop US law from treating people who wri…
Bitcoin difficulty just retreated, but a more critical “survival metric” signals the mining sector is bleeding out
Bitcoin’s first difficulty adjustment of 2026 was anything but dramatic. The network nudged the dial down to about …
XRP volume is exploding in Korea because it exploits a specific gap in the country’s spot-only exchange laws
XRP has become the default trading chip of South Korea, bypassing Bitcoin and Ethereum to dominate the country’s hi…
Kalshi and Polymarket face a “sports gambling” probe that could void your trades and shut down the market
On Jan. 9, Tennessee’s sports betting regulator sent a set of letters that, at first glance, looked like the kind o…
Vitalik Buterin declares 2026 the year Ethereum reverses ‘backsliding’ of self-sovereignty and trustlessness
Buterin said major improvements are underway to make it easier to run a full node, use dapps, and take control over p…
Bitcoin’s hashrate continues to fall as the price spike doesn’t convince miners to turn machines back on
Bitcoin miners entered early 2026 in a familiar but increasingly unforgiving setup: network hashrate is slipping from…
Why a record 13M crypto projects are now dead as Bitcoin critics still claim “anyone can launch a token”
Bitcoin developer, Jameson Lopp, posted a simple observation days after CoinGecko published its 2025 dead coins repor…