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HYPE reclaims key level after 23% rally, trading at $28 as HIP-3 open interest hits $790M and whales remove supply from exchanges.

In his latest interview, American media personality Tucker Carlson challenged Peter Schiff on whether Bitcoin can fix the declining US dollar system. In a new interview with US media personality Tucker Carlson, gold advocate Peter Schiff renewed his attack on Bitcoin and the broader crypto industry. Speaking on Carlson’s show, he argued that Bitcoin (BTC) is a speculative instrument with “no actual use” and warned that proposals for a US strategic reserve amount to a taxpayer‑funded bailout for early adopters.  Schiff also spent much of the conversation attacking official inflation data and fiscal policy, telling Carlson that Americans are “being lied to” about inflation, and arguing that the government changed the Consumer Price Index so that it could blame the private sector for the higher cost of living, when it was “simply raising prices in response to inflation.” Read more

Chinese-language laundering networks now handle roughly 20% of illicit crypto flows.

Trading cryptocurrencies has changed quite a bit throughout the past few years. Where early adopters used to rely on complex exchange terminals filled with order books, charts, and a variety of confusing order types, many new traders now prefer simpler interfaces with a simple “Swap” button. One tap, one confirmation, and one asset turns into […]

Data from the CBECI suggest that any miner paying at least $0.10 per kWh for energy will be making a loss on each Bitcoin mined.

Bitcoin saw two long-term moving averages cross over for the first time since April 2022 in a fresh BTC price bear market warning. Bitcoin (BTC) bear market comparisons are growing as the weekly BTC price chart repeats April 2022. Key points: Two long-term BTC price trend lines stage a bearish crossover for the first time since April 2022. Read more

AI’s foundational role in knowledge work means monopolies can’t be broken like social media or browsers. Alternatives to centralized AI systems must be built now. Opinion by: Scott Stuart, founder at Kava Labs During November 2025, OpenAI executives floated the idea of a government partnership that sounded remarkably similar to a bailout. They walked it back after significant blowback. The trial balloon marked what everyone already knew but didn't want to say out loud: AI's biggest companies are already "too big to fail." In 2024, the US government proved the point. After a multiyear Google antitrust trial, the US government secured a liability ruling finding the company maintained an illegal monopoly, but remedies have yet to be finalized, highlighting how slow and uncertain antitrust enforcement can be. Read more

Your day-ahead look for Jan. 27, 2026

Ethereum elevated post-quantum cryptography to a top strategic priority this month, forming a dedicated PQ team led by Thomas Coratger and announcing $1 million in prizes to harden hash-based primitives. The announcement came one day before a16z crypto published a roadmap arguing that quantum threats are frequently overstated and premature migrations risk trading known security […] The post Ethereum’s massive fee shock: New post-quantum signatures are 40x larger, threatening to crush network throughput and user costs appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The legislation would place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot as the state attempts to establish a crypto-friendly policy.

Stablecoin growth could drain bank deposits, with regional US banks most exposed, Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick warned. Stablecoins pose a real risk to bank deposits both globally and in the United States, according to a new report by Standard Chartered analysts. The delay of the US CLARITY Act — a bill proposing to prohibit interest on stablecoin holdings — is a “reminder that stablecoins pose a risk to banks,” Geoff Kendrick, global head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, said in a report on Tuesday seen by Cointelegraph. “We estimate that US bank deposits will decrease by one-third of stablecoin market cap,” the analyst said, referring to a $301.4 billion market of US dollar-pegged stablecoins, as measured by CoinGecko. Read more

Wemade added Chainlink to its Korean won stablecoin alliance to strengthen oracle and data infrastructure as South Korea debates stablecoin regulation. Blockchain company Wemade added Chainlink Labs to its Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoins (GAKS), expanding the consortium’s data and oracle infrastructure as it builds compliance-focused rails for won-pegged stablecoins.  On Tuesday, Wemade announced that Chainlink will provide technical support for data integrity, infrastructure standards and tokenized asset use cases. Wemade said Chainlink’s role will also focus on supporting standardization and enabling alliance members to leverage oracle services.  The addition follows earlier partnerships with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, security auditor CertiK and remittance provider SentBe, which collectively formed the GAKS initiative.  Read more

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.