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Bitcoin has slipped from highs near $94,000 as selling pressure returned, exposing the rally’s thin leverage despite improving liquidity.

The Community Bankers Council has asked the Senate for a crypto market structure bill that will ban exchanges and others offering interest on stablecoins. A group of US community bankers is pressuring Congress to change the GENIUS Act to close a supposed “loophole” that allows yield-generating stablecoins to undercut banks. The American Bankers Association’s Community Bankers Council said in a letter on Monday to the Senate that it must tighten the stablecoin regulating bill passed last year to stop stablecoin issuers from offering yield to tokenholders through third parties. “Some companies have exploited a perceived loophole allowing stablecoin issuers to indirectly fund payments to stablecoin holders through digital asset exchanges and other partners,” the group of more than 200 community bank leaders said. Read more

Bitchat developer Calle boldly said, “You can’t stop us” after Uganda threatened to block Bitchat ahead of elections next week. One of the developers of Jack Dorsey’s decentralized messaging app Bitchat has cast doubt on Uganda’s threat to shut down the app ahead of the country’s presidential election. On Monday, the Uganda Communications Commission executive director, Nyombi Thembo, said his team has the technical know-how to turn off Bitchat. Bitchat leverages Bluetooth mesh networks, enabling encrypted communication without the need for an internet connection.  Read more

The Senate is approaching a potential markup that may advance crypto legislation to a vote, and industry insiders are amassing for a lobbying push this week.

MSCI will keep crypto-heavy firms in its indexes through February, deferring changes after investor feedback raised classification concerns.

XRP has jumped 10% in the past 24 hours as a surge in trading volume sparks renewed bullish momentum.A breakout above the $2.13 level and out of a key high-probability pattern supports a bullish XRP price prediction in the short term.Trading volumes soared by 130% in just one day, with $7.8 billion in XRP changing […] The post XRP Price Prediction: ETFs Keep Buying as XRP Breaks $2.13 – Is the Next Stop a New All-Time High? appeared first on Cryptonews.

The altcoin market has seen new momentum as PEPENODE, an Ethereum-based mining token, gains attention ahead of its launch. With crypto sentiment improving and investors expecting rate cuts, the token’s accessible mining model has positioned it as one of the most discussed assets this week. The post Best Altcoin to Buy Today Under $0.01 – January 6 appeared first on Cryptonews.

The Senate Banking Committee will vote on its crypto market structure bill next week, even as Democrats and Republicans still appear far apart on major sticking points.

MSCI won’t drop firms like Strategy from indexes yet, but a broader rule change may still be on the table

EVA AI is launching a pop-up Café where users can dine with their AI companion, even as experts caution against substituting human connection.

While the rest of the crypto market battles red candles and hesitation, Pepe Coin (PEPE) is charging ahead. PEPE is up 65% in just seven days, making it the top performer among the top 10 meme coins.Speculation is heating up fast, and smart money appears to be circling.Fresh data from CoinGlass shows PEPE’s open interest […] The post Pepe Coin Price Prediction: While the Whole Market Tanks, PEPE Jumps 65% – What Do Whales Know That You Don’t? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Analysts have assessed the best crypto heading into 2026, pointing to XRP, Dogecoin, Pepe, and Bitcoin Hyper as potential outperformers. Bitcoin’s stabilizing price, XRP ETF launches, and rising meme coin demand have shaped a cautiously optimistic view for the next market cycle. The post Best Crypto to Buy Now 6 January – XRP, Dogecoin, PEPE appeared first on Cryptonews.

Chinese AI KIMI has projected bullish cryptocurrency outlooks for XRP, Solana, and Dogecoin, citing strong institutional demand and ETF expansion as drivers for potential new all-time highs across these assets during 2026’s expected bull market. The post Strange New Chinese AI Bot Predicts the Price of XRP, Solana and Dogecoin By the End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Tether moved to establish a new unit of account for gold, arguing that transactions denominated in "Scudo" could simplify digital payments.

The suspected scammers are using leaked order data to personalize messages, making the emails much harder to dismiss.

Solana is proving to be the altcoin play of choice this market cycle – Solana price predictions could pose a threat to Bitcoin. The post Solana Price Prediction: Early 2026 Flows Show SOL Outshining Bitcoin – Can SOL Overtake Bitcoin? appeared first on Cryptonews.

On paper, the U.S. national debt is a number so big it stops feeling real. Trillions do that to your brain. So let’s bring it back down to human size for a second. If you spread today’s federal debt across U.S. households, you land at roughly $285,000 per household, depending on the day you do […] The post Bitcoin faces a $40 trillion test as US debt races higher but one hidden buyer is changing everything appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A protocol-level flaw allowed assets to be duplicated rather than minted, prompting a network halt and a governance-led recovery process. The Flow Foundation on Tuesday published a technical post-mortem detailing a protocol-level exploit that occurred on Dec. 27, when an attacker was able to counterfeit tokens on the network, resulting in about $3.9 million in confirmed losses before the exploit was contained. According to the report, the attacker exploited a flaw in Flow’s Cadence runtime that allowed certain assets to be duplicated rather than minted, bypassing supply controls without accessing or draining existing user balances. Validators coordinated a network halt within six hours of the first malicious transaction, while exchange partners froze most counterfeit assets before they could be sold. Flow said the temporary halt placed the network into a read-only mode to sever exit paths and prevent further duplication while the issue was investigated. Operations resumed two days later under an “isolated rec...

MSCI announced it will keep digital asset treasury companies in its global indexes, citing investor feedback and the need for further study on non-operating firms. Shares in Michael Saylor’s Strategy rose 5% after Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) decided not to exclude digital asset treasury companies from its market index, for now. In a note published Tuesday, MSCI said digital asset treasury companies (DATCOs) would, however, be subject to broader consultations to distinguish between investment companies and other companies that hold digital assets as part of their core operations. The MSCI identifies DATCOs as companies in which digital assets make up 50% or more of their total assets. The continued inclusion ensures that DATs are still eligible for passive index funds, sustaining demand and liquidity while broadening institutional ownership of digital assets. Exclusion could have seen Strategy and other DATs lose billions of dollars in passive capital inflow. Related: Bitcoin advocate Machado i...

Canaan‘s pilot program will use the miner‘s liquid cooling systems to supplement the power needed to heat intake water for the greenhouses, helping grow tomatoes. Hardware manufacturer and Bitcoin miner Canaan has continued its initiative of reusing energy for commercial and consumer applications by making compute heat available for greenhouses in Canada. In a Tuesday notice, Canaan said it would participate in a 3 megawatt (MW) proof-of-concept with Bitforest Investment in the province of Manitoba to “recover heat from an Avalon computing system and use the heat as a supplemental source for greenhouse operations.” The pilot program, expected to run for an initial 24 months, will use Canaan’s liquid cooling systems to capture heat and preheat the intake water for the greenhouses, reducing the energy required. Read more