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Bitcoin dropped further below $90,000 while gold and silver kept beating records, leading to a long-term price forecast of $23,000. Bitcoin (BTC) stayed trapped below $90,000 at Friday’s Wall Street open as gold and silver approached historic milestones. Key points: Bitcoin fails to shift its sideways trading behavior while gold comes within 2% of $5,000 per ounce. Read more

Increasing transaction activity on Ethereum and Tom Lee's continued buying bode well for the crypto, which has tumbled from 2026 highs in recent days, said Geoff Kendrick.

“Farcaster is not shutting down,” Merkle co-founder Dan Romero said, as the project transitions under new ownership.

Internet Computer (ICP) joined Polygon (POL) as an underperformer, declining 1.7% from Thursday.

UBS will gradually introduce crypto services, starting with select private clients in Switzerland, according to Bloomberg.

The geopolitical tension was quickly developing in the past week and BTC, alongside the rest of the market, suffered.

Nansen co-founder Alex Svanevik believes a “tidal wave” of new money is set to enter crypto, potentially doubling the total market cap.

The crypto industry's capital headline for 2025 looks like a comeback story: $50.6 billion across 1,409 transactions, up sharply from 2024's totals. However, the composition tells a different story. According to the annual Crypto Fundraising Report, 43.7% of that capital came from just 21 mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Traditional venture capital and private investment accounted […] The post Crypto’s $50 billion lie masks a brutal reality where massive mergers are quietly killing off every new experiment appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto is shedding its illicit money image, but central bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2026 warned it threatens monetary sovereignty. While geopolitical tensions and the Greenland standoff set the tone at Davos 2026, crypto resurfaced as a secondary but consequential theme. US President Donald Trump used a few minutes of his Davos speech to double down on his ambition to turn the US into the world’s crypto capital and voice support for crypto-friendly legislation. His tone was different from central banks. In a panel with crypto bigwigs, the governor of the Bank of France criticized private money and yield-bearing stablecoins while promoting central bank digital currencies (CBDC). Read more

The plan would give ultra-high net worth clients an in-house crypto on-ramp at one of the world's biggest private banks. The world’s biggest global wealth manager, UBS, is reportedly exploring a move to open crypto trading to its wealthiest clients.  Bloomberg reported Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter, that the Swiss banking giant aims to let select private banking clients in Switzerland trade Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) first, with a possible rollout to the Asia‑Pacific region and the United States later. The person also reportedly said that UBS was currently selecting partners for its crypto offering, although the bank has not publicly confirmed the details. Read more

The Big Four firm argues in its latest report that institutional adoption has permeated crypto so much there's no turning back.

BTC price faces pressure as markets brace for a sustained rise in long-term yields driven by economic deficits, particularly in Japan. The gap between the United States’ longer-dated and shorter-dated bonds has widened to its highest level since 2021, signaling potential trouble for Bitcoin (BTC) in 2026. Key takeaways: A wider gap means long-term yields are rising, which can pressure Bitcoin. Read more

The following is a guest post by Nischal Shetty, Founder at WazirX and Shardeum. On 2nd January 2026, an anonymous trader on crypto prediction platform Polymarket put down roughly $30,000 on a contract that Nicolás Maduro would be out of power by 31 January 2026. Within hours of a U.S. special forces raid that resulted […] The post Crypto bets on war go mainstream appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Revolut is planning to apply for a US banking license through the OCC after previously considering a bank acquisition that could have required branch commitments. Crypto-friendly fintech unicorn Revolut plans to apply for a banking license in the United States, abandoning earlier plans to acquire a local lender as it seeks to expand its global presence, the Financial Times reported Friday. The United Kingdom-based fintech has been in discussions with US officials about applying for a bank license through the Office for the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the newspaper reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The move, if confirmed, would be a milestone in strategy for Revolut, which said in September 2025 that it was exploring the purchase of a US bank to accelerate its global expansion. Read more

Binance’s application for MiCA is reportedly being fast-tracked, after the exchange established a holding company in Greece in December.

Bitcoin trades near $89K as Wall Street launches a Bitcoin-gold ETF. Institutional flows, tight ranges, and strong support hint a $94K breakout ahead. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Wall Street Combines Bitcoin and Gold in One ETF – Trillions Incoming? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Pi Network's team introduced another update, while XRP and ETH have fallen below key levels.

[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 23rd, 2026] In 2026, the global digital asset trading platform KAI Exchange officially announced the launch of the KAI Global Ambassador Program, inviting influential, creative, and community-driven partners from around the world to jointly accelerate the adoption and development of Web4 and crypto finance. As a new-generation […]

Ledger is working with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Barclays to list in New York, potentially tripling its last valuation, the Financial Times reported.

Prediction market odds of Bitcoin falling to $69,000 have more than doubled in a week as BTC continues to trade below $90,000.