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Cointelegraph.com - 21:45 Jan 21, 2026
Institutional investors and crypto whales viewed the ETH price drop below $3,000 as a buying opportunity, but data still hints at a deeper sell-off to $2,700. Ether (ETH) price saw a daily candle close below $3,000 on Tuesday, but a positive is that data showed large holders were buying throughout the dip. While ETH whale accumulation signals growing confidence, conflicting indicators suggest rising market risk for the altcoin. Key takeaways: ETH whales and institutional investors bought over $130 million in Ether as the price closed below $3,000 on Tuesday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:30 Jan 21, 2026
The committee released a draft bill in November proposing a regulatory framework, but some lawmakers still have concerns about provisions on DeFi, ethics and stablecoins. The US Senate Agriculture Committee, one of two committees in the chamber considering legislation to establish digital asset market structure, is expected to release its text of the bill by the close of business on Wednesday. Chair John Boozman said last week that the committee would release its version of the Digital Asset Markets Clarity (CLARITY) Act on Wednesday, with a markup hearing scheduled for the following Tuesday. However, the committee had not announced any updates since Coinbase effectively derailed a scheduled markup in the Senate Banking Committee last week by pulling its support for the bill. Some Senate Democrats have reportedly been pushing for additional restrictions on decentralized finance within the market structure bill. Coupled with Coinbase pulling its support for the banking committee’s bill and concerns over the w... -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:35 Jan 21, 2026
In an interview from the WEF in Davos, David Sacks addressed disputes over stablecoin yield and the crypto market structure legislation that's stalled in the US Senate. White House crypto czar David Sacks said banks and crypto companies will ultimately merge into “one digital asset industry” once Congress passes the long-delayed market structure bill. The comments came during an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, where Sacks was asked about the negotiations around the proposed CLARITY Act, a market structure bill that has stalled amid debate over whether stablecoin issuers should be permitted to offer yield. Sacks said the yield debate has become the primary obstacle to advancing the legislation, but noted that lawmakers, banks and crypto companies must compromise to get a market structure bill to US President Donald Trump to sign into law. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:19 Jan 21, 2026
The Central Bank of Iran reportedly stockpiled more than half a billion dollars worth of USDt amid escalating protests and crypto usage in the country. Blockchain analytics platform Elliptic reported that the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) acquired more than half a billion dollars worth of Tether’s USDt, with indications that the stablecoins were used to prop up the country’s fiat currency. In a Wednesday report, Elliptic said Iran’s central bank had about $507 million in USDt (USDT), the US dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Tether. According to the platform, it was likely that the bank used the digital assets to address the collapse of Iran’s rial or settle international trade. “The CBI's accumulation of USDT began in earnest during a period of extreme economic volatility,” said Elliptic. “The value of the rial had halved in just eight months, to a record low against the dollar (at the time). Iran's central bank may have attempted to stem this decline by buying rials with USDT on Nobitex, effectively using cryp... -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:10 Jan 21, 2026
A bearish signal from XRP’s cost-basis metric projected a major price drop, fueled by a weakening technical structure and spot ETF outflows. Will bulls defend critical price support? XRP’s (XRP) onchain market structure resembles a setup that led to significant losses in 2022 after the price lost a key support level. Key takeaways: XRP's onchain structure mirrors the February 2022 setup that led to a 68% price drop. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:49 Jan 21, 2026
Technical charts highlight improving fundamentals in Bitcoin and select altcoins, but bears selling the range highs and softening investor sentiment threaten to snuff out the recovery. Key points: Bitcoin is attempting to find support near the $88,000 level, signaling a positive sentiment. Buyers will have to defend the support levels in select major altcoins, or else the recovery may fizzle out. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:22 Jan 21, 2026
The US president said he supported the GENIUS Act because it was "politically popular,” but added the main reason was in response to China. US President Donald Trump used part of his speech addressing the crowd at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday to discuss the motivations behind his crypto policies, saying China’s regulatory landscape was a factor. In a Wednesday speech at the WEF’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said he supported the signing of the payment stablecoin-focused legislation, the GENIUS Act, in July because it was “politically good” and “China wanted that market, too.” “[I]t is politically popular,” said Trump on crypto. “But it’s, much more importantly, we have to make it so that China doesn’t get the hold of it. And once they have that hold, we’re not going to be able to get it back.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:14 Jan 21, 2026
The fast-food chain said employees will receive a BTC bonus per hour worked, with payouts vesting after two years and limited to company-operated locations. US fast-food restaurant chain Steak ’n Shake plans to offer Bitcoin bonuses to hourly employees at company-operated locations, signaling a move to use digital assets as a retention tool. In an X post on Wednesday, the company said hourly employees will be able to collect a Bitcoin (BTC) bonus of $0.21 per worked hour starting March 1, with a two-year vesting period. At $0.21 per hour, a full-time employee working 40 hours a week would earn about $8.40 in Bitcoin per week, or $437 per year based on a standard 52-week schedule. The program is supported by the Fold, a Bitcoin rewards and payments company. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:30 Jan 21, 2026
Gold’s record-breaking rally inadvertently put pressure on Bitcoin’s allure, but analysts say historical data shows BTC eventually starts a catch-up rally. Bitcoin’s (BTC) relative performance against gold has weakened sharply, but several analysts argue that this setup remains a long-term investment opportunity for BTC. Key takeaways: The Bitcoin-to-gold ratio fell to 18.5 ounces per BTC, its lowest since November 2023. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:23 Jan 21, 2026
Scheduled for release from a halfway house on Wednesday, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison will have served 440 days in federal custody. Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, is scheduled for release from federal custody after serving 440 days of a two-year sentence. According to inmate records with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Ellison is expected to be released from the Residential Reentry Management field office in New York City on Wednesday, more than a year after she reported to prison in Danbury, Connecticut. The former Alameda CEO was one of three executives linked to the defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX to serve prison time, along with former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried and former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:05 Jan 21, 2026
Bitcoin joined stocks in a relief bounce as US President Donald Trump hinted at new legislation "very soon" and a doubling of the Dow Jones. Bitcoin (BTC) sought a $90,000 reclaim around Wednesday’s Wall Street open as US President Donald Trump pledged to sign pro-crypto legislation. Key points: Trump breathes modest gains into BTC price action with his World Economic Forum speech. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:49 Jan 21, 2026
Crypto’s move into banks and state-backed systems is accelerating a clash between financial privacy and public ledger design, said Aleo’s Yaya Fanusie. Financial privacy is becoming the next structural battle in crypto, and neither governments nor the technology are fully prepared for mass digital surveillance or large-scale privacy. Institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies is accelerating, as more banks and payments companies test blockchain for settlements, but the technology itself exposes transaction data to the public. “What people are not comfortable with is having their transactions broadcast to the entire world,” Yaya Fanusie, head of global policy at Aleo Network and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) economic and counterterrorism analyst, told Cointelegraph. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:19 Jan 21, 2026
Solana economist Max Resnick is OK with making enemies in the pursuit of what he thinks is the optimal course of action for ETH and SOL. -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:19 Jan 21, 2026
Solana economist Max Resnick is OK with making enemies in the pursuit of what he thinks is the optimal course of action for ETH and SOL. -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:19 Jan 21, 2026
Solana economist Max Resnick is OK with making enemies in the pursuit of what he thinks is the optimal course of action for ETH and SOL. -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:55 Jan 21, 2026
One of Argentina's longest‑running exchanges, Ripio, is betting on local currency stablecoins and tokenized bonds to drive a decade‑long boom in tokenized money across Latin America. Argentine exchange Ripio is leaning into local currency stablecoins and tokenized bonds as CEO Sebastián Serrano braces for what he expects to be a “lateralized” or down year for crypto in 2026 — but a decade-long boom for stablecoins. Founded in 2013, Ripio has shifted from a pure retail exchange into a B2B infrastructure provider serving banks, fintechs, and big platforms like Mercado Libre (Latin America’s answer to Amazon). The exchange now offers a range of local fiat-backed stablecoins, including the Argentine peso‑pegged wARS, the Brazilian real-pegged wBRL, the Mexican peso-pegged wMXN and a tokenized version of Argentina’s most‑traded sovereign bond, AL30, which Serrano says traded “more than a million units” on the Sunday of the last Argentinian election in October, 2025. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:44 Jan 21, 2026
The Bank of Italy's Fabio Panetta said stablecoins can only play a complementary role in the monetary system, arguing that their stability depends on fiat currency pegs. Commercial bank money is likely to become fully digital in the future, alongside central bank money, according to Fabio Panetta, the governor of Italy’s central bank, Banca d’Italia. Panetta made the remarks on Wednesday while addressing the executive committee of Italy’s banking association. According to a report by Reuters, Panetta said both digital commercial bank money and central bank money would continue to anchor the monetary system, while stablecoins would only play a complementary role. He added that the stability of stablecoins ultimately depends on their peg to traditional currencies, limiting their ability to function independently in the financial system. Panetta's comments came during a broader discussion on payments, financial infrastructure and geopolitical uncertainty. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:32 Jan 21, 2026
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the French central bank governor and Coinbase CEO clashed over whether trust in money comes from institutions or decentralized Bitcoin. The long-running tension between central banks and Bitcoin resurfaced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where senior executives and policymakers debated regulation versus innovation in digital finance. Trust in money must come from regulated public institutions rather than private crypto issuers, French central bank Governor François Villeroy de Galhau said during a panel titled “Is Tokenization the Future?” on Wednesday. “The guarantee for trust is independence on the central bank side,” Galhau said, adding: “I trust more independent central banks with a democratic mandate than private issuers of Bitcoin.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:25 Jan 21, 2026
Crypto markets dip as global macro pressures mount, with US-EU trade tensions and Japanese bond sell-offs fueling institutional caution. Spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) faced heavy outflows on Tuesday, as macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty continued to weigh on markets. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded $483.4 million in daily outflows, with the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF (GBTC) leading the selling at $160.8 million, followed by Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) at $152 million, according to data from SoSoValue. Spot Ether (ETH) ETFs posted $230 million in net outflows, ending a five-day streak of positive flows, with BlackRock's ETHA seeing $92.3 million exit. Spot XRP (XRP) ETFs also registered their largest single-day outflow yet at $53.3 million, while Solana (SOL) ETFs bucked the trend with $3 million in net inflows. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:19 Jan 21, 2026
Several chartists warn that Bitcoin could decline toward $30,000 in February as the price action mirrors previous four-year cycles. Bitcoin’s (BTC) 30% drawdown from all-time highs did little to deter large investors, who continued to increase their holdings throughout January. Key takeaways: Large holders are buying the dip, signaling long-term confidence. Read more
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