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The extended outflow streak comes as a widely used crypto sentiment indicator has stayed within the “Extreme Fear” range since Wednesday. US-based spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have extended their outflow streak to five days as crypto market sentiment continues to wane. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs posted $103.5 million in net outflows on Friday, continuing an outflow streak that began the previous Friday. Over the five days, including the four-day trading week in the US shortened by Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, total outflows reached approximately $1.72 billion, according to Farside data. Read more

Most respondents emphasized that merchants lack the infrastructure to support crypto payments for everyday transactions.

Crypto sales are taxable under current United States policy, but lawmakers have proposed tax exemptions for small transactions. The biggest obstacle to Bitcoin (BTC) being used as a payment method is tax policy, not scaling technology that reduces settlement times and transaction costs, according to Pierre Rochard, a board member for Bitcoin treasury company Strive.  “Here’s a metaphor: the best athlete can win against the worst athlete 100% of the time, if the best athlete plays. It drops to 0% if he doesn’t play and lets the weak athlete win,” Rochard said about BTC’s current lack of use as a method of payment. In December 2025, the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a non-profit policy advocacy organization, sounded the alarm on the lack of a de minimis tax exemption for small Bitcoin transactions. Read more

It’s about deposits and who gets paid on them, argues Le.

Bitcoin behaves more like an "ATM" during uncertain times, with investors quickly selling it to raise cash.

The Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) memecoin had a market capitalization of about $387,000 before the US White House published its post. The Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) token, a memecoin launched on the Solana layer-1 blockchain network, surged by about 564% following a social media post from the United States White House. On Friday, the White House published a social media post on X of US President Donald Trump and a penguin holding hands and walking through the snow, which went viral. PENGUIN traded at a market capitalization of about $387,000 before the post and recorded $244 million in trading volume in the 24 hours after the post, according to SolanaFloor. Read more

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake said the ecosystem is moving from research to execution as the threat from quantum computing draws closer.

The firm argued crypto can counter AI centralization by giving users control over identity, data ownership, and payments.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman on Jan. 21 released updated text for a crypto market structure bill and set a committee markup for Jan. 27. The draft bill, titled the “Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act,” would give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) a defined framework to supervise parts of the spot crypto market when […] The post CFTC’s $150 million war chest to stop failing crypto exchanges delaying withdrawals and weaponize complaints appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Brian Armstrong returns from World Economic Forum with message: traditional finance is taking crypto seriously

The Bitcoin proposal caps arbitrary data in an attempt to combat spam from non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network. The number of Bitcoin (BTC) nodes signaling support for Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110), a temporary soft fork limiting the amount of data included in each transaction at the consensus level, rose to 2.38%.  583 out of 24,481 nodes are running BIP-110, and the primary node software implementation for running the soft fork proposal is Bitcoin Knots, according to The Bitcoin Portal. BIP-110 limits the size of transaction outputs to 34 bytes and caps the OP_RETURN data limit to 83 bytes. The temporary soft fork will be deployed for 1 year, with possible extension or alteration after the 1-year term, according to the proposal’s GitHub page. Read more

Agora CEO Nick van Eck sees stablecoin adoption shifting to real-world business for cross-border payments.

ETHZilla is betting on bringing real-world assets on blockchain rails after it sold at least $114.5 million of its ETH stash over the past months.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its delayed Personal Income and Outlays report on Jan. 22, publishing October and November PCE inflation together. The print put headline PCE at 0.2% month over month in both months, with headline PCE at 2.7% year over year in October and 2.8% in November. Core PCE was also […] The post Hidden inflation risks are lurking in “patched” data, leaving Bitcoin stuck in a high-stakes waiting game appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP remains in a corrective phase across both USD and BTC pairs, with recent strength fading back into established resistance and trend filters. The price action is now testing whether the early-January rebound was merely a short-covering rally within a broader downtrend or the start of a more durable base. Ripple Price Analysis: The USDT […]

Bitcoin remains in a corrective phase after the failure to sustain the breakout above the mid-$90,000s. The recent price action resembles a pullback within a broader range rather than a confirmed trend reversal, but the rejection at key moving averages and supply zones has shifted the short-term balance of risk toward further consolidation and possible […]

The project aims to create a decentralized satellite internet network, with the initial satellites, CTC-0 and CTC-1, already demonstrating blockchain-based communication from space.

It's about a lot more than "zooming out." Supply overhangs and investor "muscle memory" regarding gold help explain bitcoin's poor absolute and relative performance.

Solana price prediction as SOL holds $126 support while $107B DEX volume and institutional adoption fuel long-term upside into 2026. The post Solana Price Prediction: Why $126 Could Be the Calm Before SOL’s Next Surge appeared first on Cryptonews.

The platform, Nifty Gateway, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative projects in 2024, but will now close.