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  • Ethereum aims to stop rogue AI agents from stealing trust with new ERC-8004 – but will it?
    CryptoSlate - 18:05 Jan 29, 2026
    Ethereum (ETH) announced ERC-8004 is heading to mainnet, positioning the network as a neutral infrastructure for a problem the AI industry can't yet solve: how agents prove they're trustworthy when no single platform controls the reputation layer. The timing reveals the underlying tension, as AI agents are moving from demos into production systems that trigger […] The post Ethereum aims to stop rogue AI agents from stealing trust with new ERC-8004 – but will it? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Global markets crash as everything including Bitcoin sells off at once erasing trillions
    CryptoSlate - 16:25 Jan 29, 2026
    Markets dumped into the US open, Bitcoin fell through $85k, gold slipped too At 09:30 EST the tape changed in a way traders can feel in their stomach, the kind of flip where you stop looking for clever explanations and start checking how much margin you actually have. Bitcoin rolled over, then it dropped, then […] The post Global markets crash as everything including Bitcoin sells off at once erasing trillions appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Furious crypto lobbyists aim $193M war chest at Washington chokepoints for 2026 midterms
    CryptoSlate - 14:45 Jan 29, 2026
    Fairshake and its affiliate super PACs announced they have more than $193 million in cash on hand heading into the 2026 midterms. The amount includes $74 million raised since July from three contributors: $25 million from Coinbase, $25 million from Ripple, and $24 million from a16z. The network, consisting of Fairshake plus Protect Progress (Democratic-oriented) […] The post Furious crypto lobbyists aim $193M war chest at Washington chokepoints for 2026 midterms appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Banks may lose up to $500B after Fidelity’s official token launches on Ethereum with freeze powers
    CryptoSlate - 12:55 Jan 29, 2026
    Fidelity announced the launch of a stablecoin on the Ethereum mainnet, positioning the token as a compliance-wrapped settlement dollar distributed through the firm's brokerage, custody, and wealth management channels. The move lands amid what looks like a stablecoin sprawl, as estimates suggest 59 new major stablecoins launched in 2025 alone, per third-party tracker Stablewatch. This […] The post Banks may lose up to $500B after Fidelity’s official token launches on Ethereum with freeze powers appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Ripple’s billion dollar masterstroke forces 13,000 banks to rethink corporate cash while raising tough questions for XRP
    CryptoSlate - 10:47 Jan 29, 2026
    Ripple has pushed deeper into corporate finance with a new treasury platform that aims to let finance teams manage cash and digital assets in one system. The product, called Ripple Treasury, is built on treasury management software Ripple acquired in October 2025 when it bought GTreasury in a $1 billion deal. The new move represents […] The post Ripple’s billion dollar masterstroke forces 13,000 banks to rethink corporate cash while raising tough questions for XRP appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin’s coal mine canaries are starting to chirp with specific alarms already signaling a market shift
    CryptoSlate - 21:45 Jan 28, 2026
    Amid a general sense of unease around the spike in precious metals, the decline in the dollar, Bitcoin's weak-to-flat price action, geopolitical uncertainty, and persistent trade wars, several economic stressors actually appear relatively relaxed. The canaries in the coal mine for Bitcoin are still singing, and while a few have started to flutter, none have […] The post Bitcoin’s coal mine canaries are starting to chirp with specific alarms already signaling a market shift appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin historically crushed silver but a huge flip since 2021 has changed everything for investors
    CryptoSlate - 19:05 Jan 28, 2026
    Silver has now outperformed Bitcoin from early 2021 to “today.” While Bitcoin still crushes the full 2018-to-now window, the difference comes down to regime, timing, and the kind of pain you can actually hold through. Every cycle has its signature trade, in 2021 it felt obvious. Bitcoin had the story, the momentum, the cultural gravity, […] The post Bitcoin historically crushed silver but a huge flip since 2021 has changed everything for investors appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin enters 72-hour danger zone as both historic Supreme Court battle and Fed decision threaten to tank the dollar
    CryptoSlate - 18:05 Jan 28, 2026
    Bitcoin has entered a 24–72 hour window in which Federal Reserve messaging, dollar pricing, and an active Supreme Court test tied to Fed independence could set the near-term regime traders apply to the asset. Fed decision and near-term market regime As of the morning of Jan. 28, markets are waiting on the Fed’s first policy […] The post Bitcoin enters 72-hour danger zone as both historic Supreme Court battle and Fed decision threaten to tank the dollar appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Urgent HSBC risk-on order issued as dollar hits 2021 lows which could flip Bitcoin’s next move
    CryptoSlate - 17:15 Jan 28, 2026
    HSBC issued a directive on Jan. 27 for investors to stay aggressively risk-on. The bank recommends overweighting equities, high-yield debt, emerging-market bonds, and gold while underweighting sovereigns, investment-grade credit, and oil. The call rests on a specific macro view: US growth holds up, rate volatility stays contained, and markets tilt back toward mega-cap tech. Meanwhile, […] The post Urgent HSBC risk-on order issued as dollar hits 2021 lows which could flip Bitcoin’s next move appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • BlackRock is cannibalizing Bitcoin gains for “income” in a move that could leave retail investors behind during rallies
    CryptoSlate - 15:35 Jan 28, 2026
    BlackRock is moving deeper into the “Bitcoin as a portfolio sleeve” trade, this time by packaging the flagship digital asset's inherent volatility into distributable income. On Jan. 23, the $14 trillion asset management firm filed a registration statement for the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF. This is a fund designed to track BTC's price (via […] The post BlackRock is cannibalizing Bitcoin gains for “income” in a move that could leave retail investors behind during rallies appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin will either join the Gold rush or succumb to a risk-off reality after the dollar plunge
    CryptoSlate - 13:35 Jan 28, 2026
    The US dollar slid to a four-year low, while gold and silver pushed deeper into record territory as Bitcoin attempted to recliam the $90,000 level. During the past day, the dollar index, a gauge of the greenback against major peers, touched 95.566, its weakest level since February 2022, after President Donald Trump dismissed concerns about […] The post Bitcoin will either join the Gold rush or succumb to a risk-off reality after the dollar plunge appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • The big lie about 24-hour trading ignores the $4.5 billion crypto market that never actually closes its doors
    CryptoSlate - 11:45 Jan 28, 2026
    The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation spent 2025 building infrastructure for extended trading hours, targeting a 24×5 schedule that would keep US markets open from Sunday night through Friday evening with brief daily maintenance windows. Nasdaq filed plans for 23-hour trading days. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced it has developed a tokenized securities platform that is […] The post The big lie about 24-hour trading ignores the $4.5 billion crypto market that never actually closes its doors appeared first on CryptoSlate.
  • How Aave’s DeFi monopoly created a risky feedback loop with only a $460M backstop
    CryptoSlate - 10:16 Jan 28, 2026
    Aave now controls 51.5% of the DeFi lending market share, the first time any protocol has crossed the 50% threshold since 2020. The milestone arrives not through competitor collapse but through steady accumulation: Aave's $33.37 billion in total value locked sits atop a $64.83 billion lending category that has consolidated around a single liquidity hub. […] The post How Aave’s DeFi monopoly created a risky feedback loop with only a $460M backstop appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Gold demand breaks into the crypto whale market as it hits a rare extreme last seen over a decade ago
    CryptoSlate - 22:45 Jan 27, 2026
    Crypto whales are reaching for gold as Bitcoin stalls, but the trade may be less of a verdict on crypto than a hedge for a specific macro window. On Jan. 27, blockchain sleuth Lookonchain flagged three addresses that collectively withdrew about $14.33 million in tokenized gold from centralized exchanges, including Bybit, Gate, and MEXC. The […] The post Gold demand breaks into the crypto whale market as it hits a rare extreme last seen over a decade ago appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Gold
  • Take away the violent weekends and Bitcoin’s bull run is still alive while the dollar continues to fall
    CryptoSlate - 20:25 Jan 27, 2026
    Bitcoin’s 2026 problem is the weekend I keep coming back to this line because it feels brutally true in the way only markets can be true. The only thing worse than buying Bitcoin this year was not buying Bitcoin. If you held dollars, you got quietly taxed. The dollar has been sliding, and the mood […] The post Take away the violent weekends and Bitcoin’s bull run is still alive while the dollar continues to fall appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Vitalik Buterin admits his biggest design mistake since 2017 – so is your Ethereum at risk?
    CryptoSlate - 18:05 Jan 27, 2026
    Vitalik Buterin said he no longer agrees with his 2017 tweet that downplayed the need for users to personally verify Ethereum end-to-end. This week, he argued the network should treat self-hosted verification as a non-negotiable escape hatch as its architecture gets lighter and more modular. Buterin’s original position grew out of a design debate over […] The post Vitalik Buterin admits his biggest design mistake since 2017 – so is your Ethereum at risk? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin breaking above $100k silently broke its positive adoption curve as usage craters
    CryptoSlate - 16:10 Jan 27, 2026
    Bitcoin Is Being Bought, Not Used For most of Bitcoin’s history, price and usage told broadly the same story. When price moved higher, more people showed up. More wallets became active. More transactions hit the chain. The relationship was never perfect, but it was stable enough to treat price as a rough signal for adoption. […] The post Bitcoin breaking above $100k silently broke its positive adoption curve as usage craters appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin faces slide to $60,000 if impending US shutdown triggers a statistical blackout
    CryptoSlate - 14:05 Jan 27, 2026
    Bitcoin traders are aggressively positioning for a US government shutdown that could begin Jan. 31 if Congress fails to extend funding that expires Jan. 30. The urgency of the setup is visible in prediction markets, where odds changes have become tradable headlines in their own right. Shutdown contracts on prediction platforms like Polymarket have swung […] The post Bitcoin faces slide to $60,000 if impending US shutdown triggers a statistical blackout appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Ethereum’s massive fee shock: New post-quantum signatures are 40x larger, threatening to crush network throughput and user costs
    CryptoSlate - 12:14 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.
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  • Panic selling Bitcoin on Coinbase triggers a Binance price gap that reveals a “messy” institutional market failure
    CryptoSlate - 10:49 Jan 27, 2026
    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.
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