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A7A5, a ruble-linked stablecoin few outside Russia had heard of a year ago grew the most of any stablecoin, outpacing both USDT and USDC over the past 12 months.

The strategy combines native Ethereum staking yield with restaking rewards and incentives from Linea and ether.fi, under a qualified custodian structure.

Rapid pushback from prominent accounts highlighted how quickly misinformation can be challenged, yet still travel widely.

Bitcoin ETFs have registered a net outflow of over $1 billion in three days.

Protests began in Iran in response to worsening economic conditions and as the Iranian rial hit record lows against the US dollar. Internet access in Iran was cut on Thursday by the government as protests spread across the Middle Eastern country, raising the question: Can its citizens still use crypto?  Around seven million people, out of the country’s 92 million population, are estimated to be crypto users, according to Statista. TRM Labs tracked roughly $3.7 billion in total crypto flows in Iran between January and July 2025. But internet access has been cut off in the country as protests began over worsening economic conditions, and after the Iranian rial hit record lows against the US dollar. Read more

Another Friday has rolled around, which means another batch of crypto options are expiring while spot markets retreat from New Year highs.

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, January 9th, 2026] Morph, the Ethereum-based settlement layer purpose-built for payments, today announced the launch of its Payment Accelerator, a $150 million program designed to support payment companies bringing live, real-world transaction activity onchain. Stablecoins are increasingly being adopted as a settlement rail for global commerce and cross-border transfers. Morph […]

BitMEX says the era of easy money via arbitrage trades likely died in the October crash, as a liquidation spiral left many market makers naked. The massive crypto crash in October decimated market makers, ending an era where crypto traders were able to make easy money, says crypto exchange BitMEX. The crash between Oct. 10 and 11 wiped out $20 billion in the “most destructive event for sophisticated market makers in crypto history,” BitMEX said in its State of Crypto Perpetual Swaps in 2025 report released on Thursday. A feedback loop of auto-deleveraging, where exchanges liquidate profitable, leveraged positions to cover themselves and prevent further losses, broke the market makers’ “‘safe’ delta-neutral strategies,” forcing them to pull liquidity and leave orderbooks at multi-year lows, BitMEX said. Read more

Reports of non-consensual AI-generated sexual images doubled since late 2025, with some involving children, the Commissioner said.

The Zcash protocol remains unaffected despite the governance clash and restructuring with Bootstrap.

France is becoming a European hotspot for crypto wrench attacks, with over 14 crypto-related attacks documented last year.

The attack exploited a flaw in an older smart contract, allowing the attacker to buy TRU at no cost and sell it back to extract ether.

Traders absorbed a two-step liquidation reset that left price trapped between $2.07 support and $2.17 resistance.

Tactical de-risking and declining investor sentiment are the reasons behind the recent spot U.S. ETF outflows, Decrypt was told.

Cloudflare data shows a near-total blackout as demonstrations calling for regime change spread and authorities tighten control.

Trump was responding to a reporter who also asked about pardon requests for other high-profile figures, including Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Prediction markets see low odds of a clear Supreme Court ruling on tariffs, a setup that has previously triggered short-term volatility in bitcoin, which then stabilized.

Bank of America has upgraded Coinbase's rating on reversing short interest and tax-loss harvesting, while the exchange is broadening its vision to put the financial system onchain. Bank of America has joined Goldman Sachs in lifting Coinbase from “neutral” to “buy” this week, citing Coinbase’s lead role in bringing the financial system on-chain and becoming an “everything exchange.” In a research note released on Thursday, BofA said Coinbase’s expansion from trading to tokenizing real-world assets, including stocks and exchange-traded funds, as well as its move into prediction markets, is positioning it to cross-sell more products to new and future users and lead a “new financial system.” BofA said Coinbase (COIN) shares could rise around 38% from their current price to reach $340 as short interest in COIN reverses, while the tax-loss harvesting pressure seen in late Q4 is easing. Read more

New York lawmakers will soon review a bill that seeks to ban certain sports and political event contracts in the state, among others. New York Assemblyman Clyde Vanel has reintroduced legislation to the US state’s lower house that aims to restrict what event contracts prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket can offer. Vanel resubmitted the Oversight and Regulation of Activity for Contracts Linked to Events, or ORACLE Act, to the New York State Assembly on Wednesday, which was first introduced in November and aims to ban certain markets tied to politics, sports, the stock market and others. Prediction markets have gained popularity over the past year and offer bets on a range of events, but markets on sports are a particular money maker, with Foresight Ventures research finding up to 90% of Kalshi’s volume was tied to sports. Read more

PI’s trading volumes skyrocketed as the token touched a key area of support at around $0.20, favoring a bullish Pi Coin price prediction as it has temporarily bounced off this mark in the past few hours.Pi has booked a 2% gain in the past 7 days as the crypto market seems ready to make a […] The post Pi Coin Price Prediction: Bullish Pattern Forms as Volume Shoots Up – PI Could Go Higher Than Most Think appeared first on Cryptonews.