Crypto

Volatility, historical timing, and relative value signals raise questions around a potential blow off top for silver.

Bitcoin and ether traded little changed on weak liquidity as gold and silver rallied, highlighting a risk-off rotation that’s also lifting niche crypto tokens.

Sentiment among traders on prediction market Myriad is thawing towards the privacy coin, after flipping bearish last week.

Former SEC attorney Teresa Goody Guillen backed Ripple’s view that speculation alone should not trigger securities laws, responding to concerns over the CLARITY Act. A response posted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force page echoed concerns raised by Ripple that speculation alone should not automatically subject cryptocurrencies to federal securities laws, as lawmakers continue debating the CLARITY Act. The response, written by former SEC attorney Teresa Goody Guillen and published Monday as public input on the SEC’s website, argued that holding a “passive economic interest,” such as buying a token in hopes its price rises, should not, by itself, trigger securities regulation. Guillen wrote that digital assets should instead be assessed using a broader set of factors applied on a sliding scale. “I agree with Ripple’s assertion that “[f]rameworks suggesting that a ‘passive economic interest’ alone could trigger securities laws mistakenly conflate speculation with investment rights ...

Bitcoin broke below $88,000 on January 26, losing both psychological and technical support as selling pressure intensified. But the pain didn’t stop there, and then slid to intraday lows near $86,000, extending losses across the broader crypto market. This took place after geopolitical tensions escalated, resulting in continued outflows from US-based spot Bitcoin ETFs, as […]

In October 2025, the FCA stressed that companies must hold the correct permissions and comply with strict marketing and consumer protection rules before offering crypto ETNs. Trading 212, one of Europe’s biggest online investment platforms, allowed UK retail customers to trade cryptocurrency-linked exchange-traded notes (ETNs) without having the required permission from the country’s financial regulator, according to the Financial Times. Crypto ETNs returned to the UK retail market in October 2025 after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reversed a ban imposed in 2021. The products, which track the price of digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), are structured as debentures and require specific regulatory approval to be sold to everyday investors. Still, Trading 212 offered crypto ETNs to retail clients without the required authorization until Monday, the Financial Times reported, citing the company’s entry on the FCA’s financial services register. The company reportedly applied for the additional permissio...

Bitcoin faces rising volatility as Federal Reserve rate decisions and U.S. oil data converge on January 28.

The hashrate shock from extreme weather in the U.S. revives a historically bullish onchain indicator.

Coinbase's Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped below competing exchanges this week, and the gap continues to widen. CoinGlass reported on Jan. 26 that its Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index, which tracks the price difference between Coinbase's BTC/USD and Binance's BTC/USDT, turned sharply negative, indicating Bitcoin trades at a discount on the largest US venue compared to offshore […] The post Panic selling Bitcoin on Coinbase triggers a Binance price gap that reveals a “messy” institutional market failure appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Former London Stock Exchange Group executive Sabina Liu will lead KuCoin EU’s MiCA-era expansion from Vienna, as the exchange pivots toward a compliance-first European strategy. KuCoin has appointed former London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) executive Sabina Liu to lead its European business, tasking her with steering the exchange’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) expansion from Vienna after securing a crypto asset service provider license in Austria. Liu, who will serve as managing director of KuCoin EU, previously ran KuCoin’s institutional business and also spent more than a decade at the LSEG working with global investment banks and cross-border trading clients, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. Liu told Cointelegraph that securing a MiCA license was a “major milestone” that gave KuCoin a unified regulatory framework to serve a region with mature and diverse finance, increasing crypto use and “significant room” for further adoption across stablecoins, payments and wealth pr...

HYPE and PUMP are the two top gainers over the past 24 hours.

Traders spotted multiple signals that suggest Bitcoin could be gearing up for another bull run, but onchain data still highlights weakness in the market. Bitcoin (BTC) traders highlighted multiple signals, predicting a “massive” price upswing. Still, onchain data shows that BTC price recovery could be delayed as market participants take a more defensive stance. Key takeaways: Bitcoin surged 600% in 2021 after a similar key bullish cross was confirmed.  Read more

Bitcoin trades below $90,000 after rejecting major resistance, with technical signals pointing toward $70,000 and rising bearish pressure.

Retail attention, including from crypto traders, spiked just as silver hit its local top, Santiment data shows.

[PRESS RELEASE – London, United Kingdom, January 27th, 2026] Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, has announced a partnership with OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, to streamline fiat settlement across its global trading operations. The partnership addresses a critical bottleneck for digital asset markets as institutional participation grows and […]

Meanwhile, the PI token marked another all-time low hours ago.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has flagged digital assets and AI risks in its annual report.

A winter storm in the US state of Texas is putting even more pressure on Bitcoin miners, causing hashrates to tumble. 

Polymarket has launched new prediction markets tied to Volmex's bitcoin and ether 30-day implied volatility indices.

The warning comes as Canberra moves to close digital-asset regulatory gaps through long-awaited licensing legislation.