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Bitcoin drops 10% after long-term holders sold at $84,600 — $75K downside risk

Bitcoin fell more than 10% from its late-January highs, briefly dipping below $81,000 before stabilizing above $82,300, after long-term holders sold near $84,600 and liquidations accelerated, BeInCrypto reported. In 24 hours the market recorded over $1.7 billion in liquidations, with Bitcoin accounting for nearly $800 million

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Bybit's neobank push tests regulatory limits as it teams with Pave Bank

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou announced the exchange’s move into retail banking with a planned launch of a product called “MyBank” in February, a step Cointelegraph says will test how far crypto exchanges can expand into traditional finance. Bybit confirmed to Cointelegraph that it is working with Pave Bank, a

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Solana gains 10.2M new addresses daily as SOL holds $115 amid $2.2M ETF outflows

Glassnode data shows Solana is adding roughly 10.2 million new addresses daily, a sign of rising network participation, while SOL is trading near $115 and spot Solana ETFs recorded $2.2 million in outflows, the first daily outflow in nearly two weeks, according to BeInCrypto and SoSoValue. The new

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Crypto sell-off drags Strategy and BitMine stocks; BitMine faces ~$3.8B unrealized loss

Crypto market capitalization fell 6% over the past 24 hours, dragging down crypto-heavy treasury firms including Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) and BitMine, BeInCrypto reported. Bitcoin fell 6.7% and Ethereum 7.6%, with both sliding to two-month lows in early Asian trading on Binance. Shares of Strategy dropped sharply, with Google

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Benjamin Cowen says bitcoin rotation from gold and silver unlikely in short term

Crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen said in a video on Thursday that Bitcoin’s price downtrend may not be short-lived and that strong expectations of a “massive rotation” from metals like gold and silver into crypto may be misplaced. Cowen said “Bitcoin’s likely going to keep bleeding against the stock

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Bitcoin, Ethereum face $8.8B options expiry today as BTC drifts below $90,000

Roughly $8.8 billion worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum options expire today, January 30, 2026, increasing short-term price sensitivity and putting renewed focus on Bitcoin’s failure so far to reclaim the $90,000 level. The bulk of the exposure sits in Bitcoin options, about $7.54 billion in notional

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Circle to strengthen stablecoin infrastructure in 2026 and push Arc toward production

Circle Internet Group plans to focus on building more durable stablecoin infrastructure throughout 2026 to spur greater adoption among companies and institutions, Circle chief product and technology officer Nikhil Chandhok said in a blog post on Thursday. Chandhok said the company aims to push Arc, its layer-1 blockchain designed for

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Sentient (SENT) surges 60% amid market dip — BTC inverse, flows and leverage explain

Sentient (SENT) climbed more than 60% despite a broader crypto market drop of nearly 5%, though the token also fell about 18% after touching $0.044 before rebounding, according to a BeInCrypto price analysis. BeInCrypto says one key driver is SENT’s strong inverse correlation with Bitcoin: the token showed

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Crypto liquidations hit $1.7B as Bitcoin losses top $768M; Fear Index sinks to 16

Nearly $1.7 billion in crypto liquidations swept the market in the past 24 hours, pushing total market capitalization down about 6%, with Bitcoin accounting for roughly $768 million of the losses, BeInCrypto reported. Data from CoinGlass showed 270,438 traders were liquidated during the period as prices fell following

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Securitize Reports 841% Revenue Surge in SPAC Filing

Tokenization platform Securitize said its revenues rose 841% for the nine months ended September 2025 in a public registration statement filed as it moves ahead with plans to go public via a merger with a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald. The filing states Securitize’s total revenues for the nine

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Unclaimed ETH From 2016 DAO Hack to Fund Ethereum Security

Griff Green said unclaimed Ethereum (ETH) from the 2016 hack of The DAO will be redirected into a new security fund, he told Unchained podcast host Laura Shin on Thursday. The DAO was a decentralized autonomous organization that an anonymous hacker exploited in June 2016 to siphon more than $50

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Optimism governance approves 50% Superchain revenue buyback of OP tokens

The governance backing the Optimism blockchain has approved a proposal to allocate 50% of all Superchain revenue to buy back the network’s OP token over the next 12 months, starting in February, the vote result shows. The proposal was submitted by the Optimism Foundation on Jan. 8 as part

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Bybit rebounds after $1.5B hack, posts $1.5T trading volume in 2025

Bybit recorded the second-highest trading volumes among crypto exchanges in 2025, with $1.5 trillion in trading and an 8.1% market share, a CoinGecko report said, calling the performance a 'slow but steady comeback' after a $1.5 billion hack in February 2025. CoinGecko research analyst Shaun

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Avalanche tokenized assets rise to $1.3B in Q4 2025, BlackRock fund cited

Blockchain network Avalanche saw the total value locked (TVL) of tokenized real-world assets climb to more than $1.3 billion in Q4 2025, a 68.6% quarterly increase and nearly 950% year-over-year rise, driven in part by the $500 million BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) that launched in

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Bitcoin falls to $83,400 as futures deleveraging drives yearly low

Bitcoin slipped to $83,400, falling to a new yearly low below $84,000 during the New York trading session, Cointelegraph reported. The drop erased the cryptocurrency's early-year gains and was linked to aggressive futures deleveraging rather than sustained selling in spot markets: taker sell volume surged to

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Talos extends Series B to $150M with Robinhood and Sony backing

Digital asset infrastructure provider Talos raised a $45 million extension to its Series B round, extending the round to $150 million and valuing the company at about $1.5 billion, according to the company. New strategic investors include Robinhood Markets, Sony Innovation Fund, IMC, QCP and Karatage, alongside returning backers

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Coinbase launches prediction markets across all 50 US states with Kalshi

Coinbase has launched prediction-market trading for customers in all 50 US states through a partnership with Kalshi, the exchange announced Tuesday, making a new “Predict” tab available on the latest Coinbase app for wagering on sports, politics, entertainment, economic events and more. The feature runs via Coinbase’s partnership with

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21Shares lists JitoSOL-backed Solana ETP on Euronext Amsterdam and Paris

21Shares has launched a Jito-staked Solana exchange-traded product in Europe. The 21Shares Jito Staked SOL ETP will trade under the ticker JSOL in US dollars and euros on Euronext Amsterdam and Paris, and the issuer says it is the first Europe-listed ETP backed by JitoSOL. The product holds JitoSOL directly

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Bitfinex Bitcoin longs hit two-year high as BTC retests $84,000 support

Bitfinex Bitcoin margin longs reached a two-year high on Thursday, totaling 83,933 BTC (a nominal $7.3 billion), as Bitcoin fell to its lowest level in over two months and retested $84,000 support, Cointelegraph reports. Despite the large nominal position, borrowing costs on Bitfinex remain under 0.01%

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OJK: 72% of Indonesia's licensed crypto exchanges unprofitable despite 20M users

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) reported that about 72% of licensed crypto exchanges were unprofitable at the end of 2025, even as the number of crypto users in the country surpassed 20 million. OJK data cited by local media showed the total value of crypto transactions fell to IDR

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SEC issues tokenized securities framework as Robinhood pushes stock tokenization

On January 28 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Divisions of Corporation Finance, Investment Management, and Trading and Markets issued a “Statement on Tokenized Securities” that lays out a comprehensive taxonomy for blockchain‑recorded securities. That same day Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev publicly called for tokenizing stocks, while

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What Tether’s weekly gold buys mean for the XAU price

Tether is buying about 1–2 tons of physical gold each week and CEO Paolo Ardoino says the firm plans to lift gold to roughly 10–15% of its investment portfolio, a move that is turning the stablecoin issuer into a meaningful new force in the bullion market, Ardoino told

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Gold and silver hit record highs — Bitcoin rotation could follow in about 6 months

Gold and silver extended record-breaking rallies, with gold reaching $5,597 per ounce and silver climbing to about $119.3 in early Asian trading, as capital and retail attention shift from crypto toward precious metals, BeInCrypto reported. Gold rose 2.6% over the past day to hit $5,597, while

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Pi Coin nears $0.166 support as selling pressure raises risk of $0.150 low

Pi Coin is under sustained selling pressure and is trading near a $0.166 support level, with BeInCrypto reporting that a break could push the token toward its $0.150 all-time low. The outlet said holders have increased withdrawals in recent days and the Chaikin Money Flow has dropped below

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Bitcoin tumbles amid US‑Iran tensions, government‑shutdown fears and weak ETF demand

Bitcoin fell sharply on Wednesday, dropping more than 6% in 24 hours and briefly dipping into the low $83,000 range as US‑Iran tensions, near‑certain U.S. government shutdown fears and a severe North American winter storm prompted risk‑off positioning, BeInCrypto reported. BeInCrypto said geopolitical risk resurfaced