There was a modest bounce after the president said the U.S. had no intention of taking Greenland by force, but prices quickly resumed their decline.
After nearly a year in federal custody, Caroline Ellison — the former co-CEO of Alameda Research — is scheduled to be released on Wednesday.
Network activity has risen, driven by speculation around AI tokens, with active addresses increasing from 14.7 million to 18.9 million in a week.
Elliptic traced more than $500 million in USDT tied to Iran’s central bank, suggesting the stablecoin was used to manage foreign-exchange pressures and build a “sanctions-proof” alternative to dollar banking.
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On January 21, 2026, the crypto market is witnessing a powerful institutional-led breakout, with River (RIVER), MYX Finance (MYX), and Canton Network (CC) emerging as today’s top performers. This surge is largely driven by a massive rotation into protocols that provide real financial infrastructure, moving away from pure speculation and into “utility-first” assets. Today’s crypto …
Dogecoin price has returned to a level that should be watched closely for long-term price action, as multi-year chart structures begin to resemble conditions that preceded its last historic rally. Still spending years correcting from its 2021 peak, Dogecoin is now trading inside a well-defined accumulation zone on the higher time frame, according to a new technical analysis shared by Crypto Patel on X. The analyst noted that this phase may be setting the stage for a macro Wave 5 expansion that takes the meme coin to new price highs, provided important support levels continue to hold. Dogecoin Sitting In High-Timeframe Accumulation Zone Technical roadmap on the 2-week candlestick timeframe chart breaks Dogecoin’s price action after the 2021 price high into Elliott Wave phases. Wave 1 and Wave 2 are marked as complete, followed by a strong Wave 3 advance that topped around $0.48 in December 2024. Since then, DOGE has entered a Wave 4 corrective phase, forming a descending channel that has guided price lower for over a year without invalidating the broader bullish structure. Related Reading: Why The Dogecoin Price Could Outperform Bitcoin Again This descending channel is important to this technical analysis. Similar corrective behavior appeared just before Dogecoin’s last major expansion in 2021, where the price consolidated for an extended period before breaking upward decisively. Dogecoin is now trading inside a high-timeframe demand zone that acted as the base for its 2020 to 2021 parabolic rally. This area sits just above a long-term horizontal support level that has held firm for an extended period, including through the depths of the 2022 bear market. According to the analyst, this region between $0.115 and $0.09 is a clear zone of sustained accumulation, where buying pressure has consistently prevented deeper breakdowns. Wave 5 Targets Multi-Year Expansion Path If the accumulation zone continues to hold and the price breaks out of the descending channel, then the next projection is the playout of a Wave 5 impulse move. Crypto Patel’s mapped targets for this phase start around $0.28, followed by higher extensions at $1, $2, and ultimately $4. Related Reading: Dogecoin Is Breakout Ready: Analyst Shows Major Target For The Meme Coin King At the time of writing, Dogecoin is trading at $0.1247. Therefore, from current levels, that final target of $4 would represent a move of over 3,100%. However, this is small compared to the magnitude of Dogecoin’s previous macro expansion of 26,800% in the previous cycle. On the other hand, the analysis noted that invalidation is also well defined. A weekly close below $0.06 would break the higher-timeframe structure and invalidate the Wave 5 thesis. Until then, the technical analysis suggests Dogecoin is in a compression phase where downside risk is increasingly defined, but upside expansion into new price highs is possible if Dogecoin embarks on the final impulse of the cycle. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com
A macro market expert has offered a simple explanation for why large institutions are increasingly comfortable with XRP, using Toyota as a real-world example to describe how trust is built in global payments. Speaking in an interview, the expert Jim Willie described XRP as a “trusted bridge asset” that works through what he called a …
The integration of tokenized stocks on Solana could revolutionize blockchain finance, enhancing accessibility and liquidity for global investors.
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This follows news from a few days ago that the company added $10 million worth of bitcoin to its corporate treasury.
The $10 trillion asset manager includes bitcoin, ether and stablecoins in its 2026 outlook, spotlighting blockchain as a rising force in modern finance.
Scheduled for release from a halfway house on Wednesday, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison will have served 440 days in federal custody.
President Trump says he hopes to sign crypto legislation into law "very soon," as key stakeholders splinter on key aspects of the bill.
Sacks believes the divide between banking and crypto industries will disappear, with banks potentially seeing stablecoin issuance as a way to enter the market.
Ethereum is currently reporting the highest daily network growth in its history, a statistical surge that ostensibly signals a massive return of user activity. Over the past week, the Ethereum mainnet processed 2.9 million transactions, a new all-time high according to Token Terminal data. This activity was accompanied by a sharp jump in daily active […]
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The debate over U.S. crypto regulation is heating up, and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is making his position clear: the industry needs rules, even if they are not perfect. Reacting to growing discussion around the proposed Clarity Act, Garlinghouse said lawmakers should avoid delaying regulation in search of a flawless bill. “Let’s not let perfect …
The MYX Finance price is gaining attention as early-year price action has been turning into a potential bullish setup, and on-chain tools are signaling improving market sentiment. As already seen, following a strong January start, MYX Finance was consolidating in a symmetrical triangle until it, in the intraday session, broke out, hinting at strong accumulation …
Bitcoin joined stocks in a relief bounce as US President Donald Trump hinted at new legislation "very soon" and a doubling of the Dow Jones.
The crypto industry assumes institutions discover products the way retail traders do: stumbling across them on Twitter, experimenting quickly, and iterating in public. But that's not how asset allocators at pension funds or family offices operate, argues Dean Khan Dhillon, head of growth at RWA.xyz.
Cork is building a "programmable risk layer" to make the implicit risks in real-world assets transparent and tradable through tokenization.
The integration of banks into the crypto sector could reshape financial landscapes, fostering a unified digital asset industry.
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The explosive growth stems from the virality of Anthropic's Claude Code, creating a feedback loop where speculators launched tokens for trending AI repositories.
Crypto’s move into banks and state-backed systems is accelerating a clash between financial privacy and public ledger design, said Aleo’s Yaya Fanusie.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he supported efforts to legislate crypto because of the political support he received for doing so.
Delphi Digital is betting that Solana’s next major upgrade cycle will reposition the network as an “exchange grade” environment capable of supporting onchain order books that can realistically contend with centralized venues on latency, liquidity depth, and market structure. In a Jan. 20 post on X titled “2026 is the Year of Solana”, the research firm argued Solana’s 2026 roadmap is its “most aggressive upgrade cycle” yet, one that “overhaul[s] everything from consensus to infrastructure to become the decentralized Nasdaq.” Why Delphi Digital Calls 2026 “The Year Of Solana” Delphi framed the roadmap less as a grab bag of performance enhancements and more as a capital-markets push: “Solana’s roadmap is about transforming it into an exchange grade environment where a native onchain CLOB can viably compete with CEX latency, liquidity depth, and fairness. Here are all the upgrades making this possible.” In that view, shaving milliseconds matters only insofar as it produces predictable, enforceable execution outcomes for applications like high-frequency trading and central limit order books. The centerpiece, Delphi wrote, is Alpenglow, a consensus redesign it called “the most significant protocol level change in Solana’s history.” The firm said Alpenglow introduces a new architecture built around Votor and Rotor, with Votor changing how validators reach agreement. Rather than “chaining multiple voting rounds together,” validators would aggregate votes offchain and “commit to finality in one or two rounds,” producing “theoretical finality in the 100-150 millisecond range, down from the original 12.8 seconds.” Related Reading: Solana At Risk Of Breakdown After Key Rejection – Is $100 Next? Delphi emphasized Votor’s parallel finalization paths as a resilience feature, not just a speed play. If a block gets “overwhelming support (80%+ stake)” it finalizes immediately; if support is between 60% and 80%, a second round triggers, and finality follows if that also clears 60%. The goal, Delphi argued, is to preserve finality even with unresponsive segments of the network. Alpenglow also introduces what Delphi called a “20+20” resilience model: safety holds as long as no more than 20% of stake is malicious, while liveness persists even if another 20% is offline, “tolerat[ing] up to 40% of the network being either malicious or inactive while still maintaining finality.” Under this design, Proof of History is “effectively deprecated,” replaced by deterministic slot scheduling and local timers. Delphi said the upgrade is expected to roll out in early to mid 2026. Delphi also pointed to Firedancer, Jump’s C++ validator client, as a structural upgrade aimed at reducing a long-standing operational risk. Solana has historically relied on a single client, now known as Agave, and Delphi described that “monoculture” as a central weakness because client-level faults can cascade into broader network halts. Firedancer’s objective, Delphi said, is a deterministic, high-throughput engine that can process “millions of TPS with minimal latency variance.” Ahead of full readiness, Delphi highlighted “Frankendancer,” a transitional build that combines Firedancer’s networking and block production modules with Agave’s runtime and consensus components, as a bridge to “substantially” increased client diversity. On infrastructure, Delphi spotlighted DoubleZero as a private fiber overlay for validators, likening its transmission profile to traditional exchange connectivity: “the same infrastructure traditional exchanges like Nasdaq and CME rely on for microsecond level transmission.” The argument is that as validator sets expand, propagation variance becomes the enemy of tight finality windows. By routing messages along “optimal paths” and supporting multicast delivery, Delphi said DoubleZero can narrow latency gaps across validators—an enabler for both Votor’s quorum formation and Rotor’s propagation design. Related Reading: SOL Price Faces Key Support Amid Solana’s Rapid Network Expansion Delphi also framed Solana’s block-building roadmap as a market-structure project. It described Jito’s BAM (Block Assembly Marketplace) as separating ordering from execution via a marketplace and privacy layer, with transactions ingested into TEEs so “neither validators nor builders can see raw transaction content before ordering takes effect,” reducing pre-execution behavior like frontrunning. Harmonic, meanwhile, targets builder competition by introducing an open aggregation layer so validators can accept proposals from “multiple competing builders in real time,” with Delphi summarizing: “Think of Harmonic as a meta-market and BAM as a micro-market.” Raiku rounds out the thesis by adding deterministic latency and programmable execution guarantees adjacent to Solana’s validator set, using Ahead-of-Time (AOT) transactions for pre-committed workflows and Just-in-Time (JIT) transactions for real-time needs—without modifying L1 consensus. Delphi ultimately tied the technical roadmap to market demand: Solana’s spot trading gravity, the consolidation of onchain perps toward a handful of venues, and the need to reach performance parity with centralized platforms. It cited expectations for “new Solana native perps like Bulk Trade coming early next year,” and pointed to products like xStocks bringing “onchain equities directly to Solana,” arguing that liquidity and attention are consolidating toward a chain with faster settlement, better UX, and denser capital. At press time, SOL traded at $127. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
The expansion comes as tokenized real-world assets continue to gain traction across crypto markets.
Analyst Lance Vitanza noted the role of the company’s preferred equity in last week’s $2.1 billion bitcoin purchase.
Trump said U.S. prepares to negotiate to acquire Greenland that will not pose threat to NATO.
Sui (SUI) was also an underperformer, down 1.6% from Tuesday.
The move extends the firm's effort to apply crypto-style derivatives market structure to traditional and emerging asset classes.