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Senate Democrats seek conflict-of-interest safeguards in crypto market-structure bill — Images.cointelegraph.com

Senate Democrats seek conflict-of-interest safeguards in crypto market-structure bill

Democratic leaders on Senate committees considering crypto market-structure legislation are reportedly pushing for conflict-of-interest guardrails to bar elected officials from profiting from ties to crypto companies, Punchbowl News reported. According to the report, Senate Democrats including Adam Schiff and Ruben Gallego pressed for safeguards in the Republican-led Responsible Financial Innovation

BitMine and ETFs Create Month‑Long Bottleneck in Ethereum Staking — Assets.beincrypto.com

BitMine and ETFs Create Month‑Long Bottleneck in Ethereum Staking

Beincrypto reports Ethereum’s staking system is being strained by a surge of institutional participation, with firms such as BitMine and newly launched staking ETFs swelling the entry queue. On January 9 blockchain analyst Ember CN said BitMine moved more than 1 million ETH (over $3.2 billion) into Ethereum’

Colombia mandates crypto platforms to report user and transaction data — Images.cointelegraph.com

Colombia mandates crypto platforms to report user and transaction data

Colombia’s tax authority, DIAN, has introduced a mandatory reporting regime requiring crypto exchanges and intermediaries to collect and submit user and transaction data as part of its oversight of the digital asset sector. The rules are set out in Resolution 000240, issued on Dec. 24, and align with OECD-developed

Advocacy group runs prime-time ads pushing DeFi exclusion from Senate crypto bill — Assets.beincrypto.com

Advocacy group runs prime-time ads pushing DeFi exclusion from Senate crypto bill

Beincrypto reports a new advocacy group has launched prime-time television ads urging lawmakers to exclude decentralized finance from the upcoming Senate crypto market-structure bill. The group, calling itself 'Investors for Transparency,' began airing spots during Fox News prime-time and urged viewers to pressure senators to remove DeFi provisions

Betterment warns users after fake crypto promotion urged sending BTC or ETH — Images.cointelegraph.com

Betterment warns users after fake crypto promotion urged sending BTC or ETH

Betterment warned users on Friday to disregard a crypto promotion message that circulated, calling it an unauthorized notification sent through a third-party system. Screenshots shared on Reddit showed the message urging recipients to send as much as $10,000 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH) to specified wallet addresses

BNY Mellon launches tokenized deposit service with Ripple Prime and Circle — Assets.beincrypto.com

BNY Mellon launches tokenized deposit service with Ripple Prime and Circle

Beincrypto reports BNY Mellon has launched a tokenized deposit service that allows institutional clients to convert cash into digital tokens on a private blockchain, and the platform is being tested by major crypto and financial firms including Ripple Prime and Circle. The bank said the hybrid structure keeps deposits recorded

Nasdaq and CME rebrand Nasdaq Crypto Index as Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index — Images.cointelegraph.com

Nasdaq and CME rebrand Nasdaq Crypto Index as Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index

The Nasdaq Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group have joined forces to unify their crypto indexes, rebranding the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) as the Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index, Cointelegraph reported. Spokespersons for Nasdaq confirmed to Cointelegraph that the NCI benchmark includes Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP (XRP), Solana

USDC overtakes USDT in 2025 transfer volume driven by Solana growth — Assets.beincrypto.com

USDC overtakes USDT in 2025 transfer volume driven by Solana growth

Beincrypto reports that Circle’s USDC processed $18.3 trillion in transfers in 2025, surpassing Tether’s USDT which processed $13.2 trillion and marking the first time USDC has overtaken USDT in annual transaction volume. According to Artemis Analytics, the $18.3 trillion versus $13.2 trillion result represents

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Post $681M Outflows in First Week of 2026 — Images.cointelegraph.com

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Post $681M Outflows in First Week of 2026

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded $681 million of net outflows in the first full trading week of 2026, according to data from SoSoValue. The funds saw four consecutive days of net outflows between Tuesday and Friday that outweighed inflows earlier in the week. The largest daily redemption was $486 million

Binance Blockchain Week points to Dubai as a leading crypto hub — Assets.beincrypto.com

Binance Blockchain Week points to Dubai as a leading crypto hub

Beincrypto reported that Binance Blockchain Week (BBW) in Dubai signalled a shift in the industry’s centre of gravity, portraying the city as a major hub for what some participants called the “4th Technology Revolution.” The coverage highlighted three dominant narratives at BBW: the rise of real‑world assets (RWA)

Pump.fun to revamp creator fee model with fee sharing and new controls — Images.cointelegraph.com

Pump.fun to revamp creator fee model with fee sharing and new controls

Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen said the Solana-based memecoin launchpad is overhauling its creator fee system after concluding the existing model may have skewed incentives. Cohen wrote that the Dynamic Fees V1 system, introduced several months ago, did drive activity but “failed to produce sustainable market behavior,” encouraging low-risk token

Ripple subsidiary secures FCA registration in UK as XRP price stays muted — Assets.beincrypto.com

Ripple subsidiary secures FCA registration in UK as XRP price stays muted

Beincrypto reports that Ripple Markets UK Ltd. has received registration from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), clearing a major regulatory milestone and allowing the company to operate under the UK’s regulated financial framework. The approval enables Ripple to work directly with banks and financial institutions and positions it as

Group runs Fox News ads urging senators to strip DeFi from CLARITY Act — Images.cointelegraph.com

Group runs Fox News ads urging senators to strip DeFi from CLARITY Act

An anti-decentralized finance group, Investors For Transparency, reportedly ran advertisements on Fox News asking viewers to contact their senators to remove DeFi provisions from the CLARITY Act, according to screenshots shared on X by Crypto in America host Eleanor Terrett. The screenshots show ad text such as "Tell Your

Altcoin Season Index Rises to 55, Highest in Three Months — Assets.beincrypto.com

Altcoin Season Index Rises to 55, Highest in Three Months

Beincrypto reports the Altcoin Season Index climbed to 55 in early January 2026, its strongest reading in about three months. The index measures periods when alternative cryptocurrencies outperform Bitcoin and defines an altcoin season as at least 75% of the top 50 non-stablecoin tokens beating Bitcoin over a 90-day window.

Dragonfly says stablecoin payment cards set to surge in 2026 — Images.cointelegraph.com

Dragonfly says stablecoin payment cards set to surge in 2026

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at crypto-focused venture firm Dragonfly, said stablecoin-powered cards are shaping up to be one of the biggest crypto themes of 2026. He posted the comment to X Friday after stablecoin startup Rain raised $250 million in a funding round that pushed its valuation to nearly $2

Stable demand and active development position Monero (XMR) for 2026 — Assets.beincrypto.com

Stable demand and active development position Monero (XMR) for 2026

Beincrypto reports Monero (XMR) could emerge as a standout performer in 2026, driven by three catalysts: sustained on-chain transaction demand, decentralized developer activity, and rising privacy demand under new tax reporting rules. Bitinfocharts data tracking daily transactions for the three leading privacy coins over nearly the past three years shows

Andreessen Horowitz raises $15B to back US-aligned tech, keeps crypto central — Images.cointelegraph.com

Andreessen Horowitz raises $15B to back US-aligned tech, keeps crypto central

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) said it has raised more than $15 billion to invest in companies and technologies it views as critical to securing America’s future, and said crypto remains a key part of that mission. In a post to X on Friday, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz acknowledged that China

Chainalysis: IRGC moved over $2 billion in crypto to fund proxies — Assets.beincrypto.com

Chainalysis: IRGC moved over $2 billion in crypto to fund proxies

Beincrypto reports that Chainalysis found Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) transacted more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions and fund proxy operations. Chainalysis said illicit on-chain activity surged in 2025, rising 162% to at least $154 billion. Russia accounted for the largest share: transactions linked to

UK approvals let Ripple route payments using XRP inside regulated flows — Assets.beincrypto.com

UK approvals let Ripple route payments using XRP inside regulated flows

Beincrypto reported that Ripple has secured UK Financial Conduct Authority approvals allowing it to operate a licensed digital-asset payments stack that can use XRP inside regulated payment flows. The company obtained an EMI licence and cryptoasset registration, enabling UK institutions to send cross-border payments “using digital assets” through Ripple’s

Bitcoin retests support after futures-driven surge toward $95,000 — Images.cointelegraph.com

Bitcoin retests support after futures-driven surge toward $95,000

Bitcoin traders showed renewed risk appetite after a futures-led advance toward $95,000 this week, but bulls pulled back to retest a key underlying support level near the 20-day moving average at about $89,400. The start of 2026 saw Bitcoin and select altcoins rally toward weekly range highs, with

US jobs report eases recession risk, helps Bitcoin hold above $90,000 — Assets.beincrypto.com

US jobs report eases recession risk, helps Bitcoin hold above $90,000

Beincrypto reports Bitcoin held above $90,000 after US labor market data showed slower hiring but no sign of a sharp economic downturn. The US economy added 50,000 jobs in December, the report said, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.4% and wage growth remained firm at 3.

Senate Republicans move toward crypto vote as Democratic support uncertain — Cdn.sanity.io

Senate Republicans move toward crypto vote as Democratic support uncertain

Senate Republicans are moving toward a vote on a cryptocurrency bill, and Senator Cynthia Lummis has hinted that a Banking Committee draft is circulating. The Agriculture Committee said it is still hoping to produce a bipartisan version. Democratic buy-in remains uncertain. It is unclear whether the Banking Committee draft will

Byron Donalds filed $100,000 Bitcoin purchase as CLARITY Act nears — Assets.beincrypto.com

Byron Donalds filed $100,000 Bitcoin purchase as CLARITY Act nears

Beincrypto reported that Representative Byron Donalds filed this week a purchase of up to $100,000 in Bitcoin while serving on the House Subcommittee on Digital Assets. The timing of the disclosure has drawn scrutiny amid renewed concerns about congressional trading and speculation that clearer regulation could influence Bitcoin’s

CLARITY Act's fate rests on bipartisan support in Senate Banking Committee, analyst says — Images.cointelegraph.com

CLARITY Act's fate rests on bipartisan support in Senate Banking Committee, analyst says

The passage of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, known as the CLARITY market structure bill, hinges on bipartisan support in the United States Senate Banking Committee, Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy, said. Thorn added the bill is unlikely to come up for a second vote

XRP Falls 14% as Whales and Long-Term Holders Accumulate During Sell Wave — Assets.beincrypto.com

XRP Falls 14% as Whales and Long-Term Holders Accumulate During Sell Wave

Beincrypto reports XRP fell about 14% after topping on January 6, even as long-term holders added roughly 8 million tokens and whale wallets accumulated about 180 million XRP (nearly $390 million) during the dip. From December 18 through January 9 the price trended higher while On‑Balance Volume (OBV) trended