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The Ethereum price correction shows a key support test at the multi-month support triangle pattern, threatening a potential breakdown ahead. BitMine Immersion Technologies expanded its ETH reserves by over 35,000 tokens in the past week. Trend Research increased leveraged exposure through Aave-backed borrowing and spot ETH purchases. On Tuesday, January 20th, the crypto market witnessed another wave of selling pressure as US-EU trade war continued to weaken investors sentiment. As a result, the Ethereum price dives below the $3,000 mark, registering an intraday loss of 6%. While the sell-off has liquidated retailers in the derivative market, the institutional investors continue…

As bitcoin’s price has drifted south, long-silent bitcoins have been stretching their legs after years in a deep freeze. This week, several sizable chunks have been on the move, peeling away from long-held vintage caches. On Monday, a wallet inactive for more than 13.5 years sprang to life, moving 909.37 BTC valued at $84.2 million. […] Credit: Source link

Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BMNR) has accelerated its accumulation of Ethereum (ETH). The company acquired 35,628 ETH last week, valued at around $110 million at press time.The strategic acquisition increased its ETH holdings to 4,203,036 coins, valued at about $13 billion. As such, BitMine now holds 3.48% of the circulating supply of ETH. BitMine Shareholders Vote to Strengthen ETH Holdings According to the announcement, BitMine shareholders have voted to strengthen the company’s ETH holding. Furthermore, 52% of 500k BitMine’s shareholders voted to increase the company’s stock to purchase ETH.“We view the fact that 81% of votes cast favored increasing authorized shares,…

The US Senate Banking Committee is due to look over and decide on the Crypto Market Structure Bill this month, which could boom or bust XRP based on the result. The bill is under the spotlight currently due to the ongoing Davos World Economic Forum, as well as the crypto market teetering between bulls and bears.Most analysts eye the bill as a potential catalyst for Bitcoin and other top coins to rally. If the U.S. Crypto Market Structure Bill passes, it could increase investor confidence in Bitcoin. Further, a clearer regulatory framework might encourage institutions to enter the market more…

Peter Zhang Jan 20, 2026 20:57 New Sei Labs paper models how dollar-pegged stablecoins export U.S. monetary policy worldwide, creating an ‘impossible quartet’ for central banks. A research paper published by Sei Labs on January 20, 2026 presents a formal framework arguing that widespread stablecoin adoption effectively transforms the Federal Reserve into the world’s retail bank—whether countries like it or not.The paper, authored by Ben Marsh, arrives as the stablecoin market exceeds $230 billion in total capitalization, with dollar-pegged tokens comprising nearly 99% of that value. Just hours before publication, Circle’s USDC Treasury…

Jessie A Ellis Jan 20, 2026 20:26 GitHub releases new APIs and artifact tracking tools enabling enterprises to trace software from source code through production deployment with cryptographic verification. GitHub rolled out a significant security upgrade on January 20, 2026, introducing new APIs and tooling that let development teams track build artifacts from source code all the way to production environments—even when those artifacts live outside GitHub’s ecosystem.The release addresses a persistent blind spot in enterprise software security: knowing exactly what code is running in production and whether it matches what was actually…

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Mike Selig posted an op-ed on Tuesday outlining an aggressive push to modernize U.S. financial regulation, pledging to move away from what he called years of “regulation by enforcement” and toward clear, tailored rules for digital assets, prediction markets and other emerging technologies. In a policy statement and accompanying opinion piece, Selig framed the effort as a pivotal moment for American financial markets, arguing that advances in blockchain and artificial intelligence are enabling entirely new products, platforms and business models that legacy regulations were never designed to oversee. “Advances in technology are transforming…

Bitcoin slid below $90,000 for the first time in more than a week, extending losses alongside a sharp global market selloff as investors pulled back from risk amid mounting geopolitical tensions and turmoil in bond markets. Summary The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell as volatility swept across equities, long-dated U.S. Treasuries and Japanese government bonds. The downward trajectory underscores Bitcoin’s continued sensitivity to macro shocks rather than its “digital gold” narrative. Trump doesn’t feel the sting, having raked in an estimated $1.4 billion since his second term began. Bitcoin dropped 3.9% to about $89,417 by about 3 p.m. in New York,…

Timothy Morano Jan 20, 2026 19:52 Monica Long predicts stablecoins, tokenized assets, custody consolidation, and AI-blockchain convergence will drive $1T in institutional digital asset holdings by year-end. Ripple (XRP) President Monica Long has laid out an ambitious roadmap for institutional crypto adoption in 2026, predicting that balance sheets will hold over $1 trillion in digital assets by year-end and roughly half of Fortune 500 companies will have formalized digital asset strategies.The predictions, published January 20, center on four key areas: stablecoins becoming default settlement rails, mainstream institutional exposure, custody consolidation, and the convergence…

When asked about the U.S. government’s approach to Bitcoin and recent BTC seizures, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent re-affirmed that the administration will halt all sales of seized BTC and instead add it to the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR).  At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bessent told journalist Christine Lee that the initiative is part of a larger effort to bring digital-asset innovation onto U.S. soil while keeping federal oversight of seized cryptocurrency This sentiment comes from questions about the government’s handling of BTC seized from developers linked to Tornado Cash in the Southern District of New York as…