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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.

Binance saw its largest weekly net outflows since Nov 2025, with over $6B leaving across BTC, ETH, and USDT.

The probe will examine whether the platform adequately assessed risks tied to Grok’s rollout and complied with its obligations under EU law.

The following is a guest post and opinion from Laura Estefania, Founder and CEO of Conquista PR. The past decade of digital assets has been shaped as much by debacle as by innovation. High-profile collapses, sensational headlines, and regulatory whiplash distorted public perception, leaving technologies capable of modernizing global finance viewed through a lens of […] The post From marginal experiment to global market infrastructure: Tokenization is rewriting finance appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Top stablecoins have shed $2.2 billion in 10 days, in a sign investors are cashing out to fiat instead of waiting to buy the dip.

Hackers are using AI-generated video calls to impersonate trusted contacts and trick crypto workers into installing malware.

Upscrolled surged into the top 10 free apps after users accused TikTok of suppressing political content, straining UpScrolled’s servers.

Bitcoin has fallen nearly 30% since a major market crash in October, while gold and silver have soared to new highs. A $2.24 billion drop in total stablecoin market capitalization over the last 10 days could signal capital is leaving the crypto ecosystem and may delay market recovery, according to a crypto analytics platform.  In a post to X on Monday, Santiment said that much of that capital has rotated into traditional safe havens like gold and silver, pushing them to new highs, while Bitcoin (BTC), the broader crypto market and stablecoins have retraced. “A falling stablecoin market cap shows that many investors are cashing out to fiat instead of preparing to buy dips,” Santiment said, adding that rising demand for gold and silver suggests that “investors are choosing safety over risk.” Read more

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is warning that AI risks are rising as regulation falls behind rapid advances and his company pushes ahead.