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[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, January 5th, 2026] Taisu Ventures, a global Web3 venture capital firm, today announced Keio ChainHack 2026, a one-day pitch and hackathon co-hosted with the Keio FinTEK Center. The event forms part of Taisu Ventures’ broader initiative to support early-stage builders working at the intersection of blockchain infrastructure, regulation, and real-world […]

[PRESS RELEASE – HONG KONG, HONG KONG, January 5th, 2026] TermMax, the leading fixed-rate protocol for decentralized finance, today announced the launch of the first fixed-rate borrowing market for tokenized stock collateral on BNB Chain, making Ondo Global Markets’ tokenized securities eligible collateral. The launch comes amid unprecedented market volatility over the past two months, […]

Experts are maintaining a cautious tone even as Bitcoin breaks above $92K, coupled with a 34x increase in whale deposits to Binance.

Strategy bought 1,283 BTC for $116 million, lifting holdings above 673,000 BTC, while reporting a $17.4 billion unrealized Q4 loss in an SEC filing Monday. Strategy, the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin, began the new year with its first purchase of 2026 while reporting a steep fourth-quarter paper loss as Bitcoin prices slid late last year. Strategy acquired 1,283 Bitcoin (BTC) for $116 million, boosting its holdings to 673,783 worth $62.6 billion purchased at an average cost basis of $75,026 per BTC, according to a Monday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The coins were acquired at an average purchasing price of about $90,000 each using proceeds from the sale of shares of MSTR Stock under the company’s at-the-market (ATM) offering. Read more

The bank said it is 'selectively constructive' on brokers and crypto companies heading into 2026.

Prior to the US market opening this week, Bitcoin traded around the low $90,000s again after the unprecedented weekend macro activity. You can feel the familiar shift in the room: less celebration, more checking phones, more chart screenshots. More people are asking the same question in different ways: “Are we about to dip?” Right now, […] The post Bitcoin crash imminent? Price spike makes two new CME gaps and closing one carries a punishing cost appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Markets are signaling a risk-on start to 2026 following the U.S. military raid on Venezuela—but will it last?

Ethereum remains in a corrective structure, but the recent price behaviour suggests the market is attempting to stabilize after a prolonged downside phase. Current price action is compressing near key technical levels, making the next directional move increasingly important. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily chart, ETH has slightly broken above the […]

Bitget Wallet CMO Jamie Elkaleh tells Decrypt how the platform is evolving from a crypto wallet to a everyday finance app that seamlessly integrates crypto with TradFi, building on its vision of "Crypto for Everyone." - (Sponsored post by Bitget Wallet)

The company's USD stash now stands at $2.25 billion.

PeerDAS is already live on Ethereum's mainnet, while zkEVMs are at an advanced stage, focusing on safety and scalability.

Global-e, a payment platform integrated by Ledger in 2023, suffered a data breach affecting some of the wallet's customers. Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Ledger has clarified a recent data incident involving its e-commerce partner Global-e. Global-e, a cross-border e-commerce platform integrated by Ledger in October 2023, experienced unauthorized access to order data in its information systems, which affected some Ledger customers. Ledger told Cointelegraph that the incident was limited to Global-e’s systems and did not involve a breach of Ledger’s platform or its hardware and software. Read more

High concentration in major wallets, particularly for shiba inu, contributed to potential volatility in the market.

How an onchain investigator linked a Coinbase impersonation scam to $2 million in losses and why social engineering remains the real risk. A convincing “Coinbase support” impersonation campaign was linked by onchain investigator ZachXBT to roughly $2 million in stolen crypto. The attribution relied on corroboration across multiple signals, including onchain activity and Telegram or social media footprints rather than a single “magic” transaction. Coinbase says its real support team will never ask for your password or 2FA codes or request that you move funds to a so-called “safe” address. Read more

XRP price gained in the first five days of 2026 as chart breakouts and steady ETF inflows produced targets near $3, with longer-term projections as high as $7-$8. Key takeaways: XRP’s technical setup is turning bullish, with breakout patterns signaling trend continuation. Institutional demand is absorbing supply, as ETF inflows and falling exchange balances tighten liquidity. Read more

XRP trades at $2.15 after a 12% weekly rise as analysts watch the $2.5 level, which could decide whether the rally continues or fades.

The Michael Saylor-led company added 1,287 BTC and $62 million in cash via the sale of common stock.

Privacy-focused coins including Midnight, Canton Network and Monero have slipped as investors rotate capital out of defensive holdings.

Starknet, an Ethereum ZK‑rollup network used for decentralized finance and gaming, is facing mainnet downtime following previous outages in 2025. Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 network that uses zero‑knowledge (ZK) rollups, is experiencing fresh mainnet disruption as the project enters 2026. In an X post, the Starknet team said the network was facing downtime and that engineers were “actively investigating the issue and working to restore full functionality as quickly as possible,” without immediately disclosing a root cause. At the time of writing, the network had been experiencing downtime for just over two hours. ​Starknet is a ZK‑rollup–based layer 2 that batches transactions offchain and posts cryptographic proofs to Ethereum, aiming to deliver higher throughput and lower fees for smart contracts, decentralized finance and gaming applications while inheriting Ethereum’s base‑layer security.  Read more

Ledger is dealing with a new data exposure incident involving its third-party payment processor, Global-e.