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The proposed restrictions on stablecoin yields under the US CLARITY Act risk driving capital out of regulated markets and into offshore, opaque financial structures. Colin Butler, head of markets at Mega Matrix, said banning compliant stablecoins from offering yield would not protect the US financial system, but instead sideline regulated institutions while accelerating capital migration beyond US oversight. “There’s always going to be demand for yield,” Butler told Cointelegraph, adding that if compliant stablecoins can’t offer it, capital will simply move “offshore or into synthetic structures that sit outside the regulatory perimeter.” Under the recently enacted GENIUS Act, payment stablecoins…

BitMart to launch trading pair USAT/$USDT on January 28, 2026, effective 5:00 AM UTC. The stablecoin segment is dominating with $315.49 billion in market cap. The USAT listing comes when the US Dollar has plunged to a near 4-year low. BitMart, a digital asset exchange platform, has announced that it will list a trading pair of USAT. Deposits are available with trading scheduled to go live soon. The development comes at a time when the US Dollar has dropped to a near 4-year low. BitMart earlier listed a trading pair of KABOSU. USAT on BitMart BitMart has announced that it…

There is no legal way for Web3 prediction markets to operate in Ukraine under current laws, according to a senior official involved in shaping the country’s digital economy policy. In comments shared with CoinDesk days after Ukraine blocked access to Polymarket and nearly 200 gambling-related websites Dmitry Nikolaievskyi, chief legal officer at the Project Office for the Development of Ukraine’s Digital Economy at the Ministry of Digital Transformation, revealed a deadlock for Web3 prediction markets in the country. Nikolaievskyi said that while the decision to ban Polymarket followed existing legal procedures, the underlying problem is that the country’s legal framework…

Binance Futures announced it will delist multiple USDⓈ-M perpetual futures contracts as part of updating its product portfolio and risk management framework. According to the official statement from the exchange, all open positions in the 42USDT, COMMONUSDT, CUDISUSDT, and EPTUSDT perpetual contracts will be closed on January 30, 2026, at 12:00 PM, and an automatic settlement process will be implemented. Following the completion of settlement, these contracts will be completely removed from the Binance Futures platform. Binance has advised users to manually close their open positions before the specified date to mitigate potential risks. Furthermore, new order placement for these…

Bonzo Vaults offers automated yield strategies via EVM smart contracts that rebalance and auto-compound on the Hedera network. $HBAR, HBARX, $USDC, BONZO, SAUCE, DOVU, PACK, and JAM are supported, and wETH/wBTC (ERC-20) is scheduled for support. Bonzo Finance Labs has introduced Bonzo Vaults, a beta product that automates yield strategies for Hedera decentralized finance (DeFi). The product relies on smart contracts based on the Ethereum Virtual Machine and deployed on Hedera. It executes deposits and strategy logic onchain. Each vault accepts a single asset or an asset pair and mints a vault share token that tracks a user’s portion of…

Binance Wallet has validated a significant update. Binance Alpha will be the first platform that will have a native token of Moonbirds, $BIRB. The trading will commence on January 28. The airdrop will use Binance Alpha Points to claim the airdrop by eligible users. The process of claiming will be opened when the trading becomes active. This news makes Binance Alpha the focal point of early discovery of tokens. It also provides Moonbirds with a high profile launch setup. Consequently, there is now a steep rise in attention in $NFT and token communities. Binance Alpha will be the first platform…

Bitcoin miners just triggered one of the biggest retreats in years, and almost no one is talking about it. Hashrate has fallen by over 40% from its all-time high, which some experts are calling the biggest failure of miners since China’s ban in 2021. The red flag? Bitcoin’s Energy Value, a metric that does not get much attention but is actually pretty predictive — just took a hard dive with it. Charles Edwards, creator of the Energy Value model, sounded the alarm first. His take is that major BTC miners are shutting down. Again, not scaling back, but leaving en…

Early decentralized prediction market protocol Augur has released new oracle infrastructure designed to make dishonest reporting extremely costly in a bid to become a shared truth layer for other protocols. In an X announcement on Tuesday, Jan. 27, Augur introduced Augur Lituus, an Ethereum-native open blockchain oracle protocol that “will be designed as infrastructure to support” prediction markets, rather than competing with them directly. The new protocol will be developed by Lituus Foundation, which was introduced last March as part of Augur’s “reboot,” and now oversees the ecosystem’s development, including stewardship of its treasury. Augur said in the announcement that…

Key Notes USYC reached $1.69B while BUIDL fell to $1.68B. USYC grew 11% in 30 days while BUIDL declined 2.85%. Circle acquired Hashnote, the USYC issuer, in January 2025 and integrated the fund with Binance in July 2025. BUIDL maintains 103 distinct holders compared to USYC’s concentrated distribution, with positions remaining fluid. Circle’s USYC has overtaken BlackRock’s BUIDL as the world’s largest tokenized money market fund, a type of investment product that holds U.S. Treasury securities and trades on blockchain networks. USYC reached $1.69 billion in assets while BUIDL fell to $1.68 billion. USYC grew 11% in 30 days while…

Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn announced in a post on X that a critical legislative process that will shape the legal framework of the cryptocurrency market will enter a significant phase next week. According to Thorn, a key session on the structure of the crypto market will take place next week. The Republican-controlled Senate Agriculture Committee has released a draft text titled the “Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act.” This draft is expected to be combined with related regulations completed by the Senate Banking Committee to create a comprehensive “Cryptocurrency Market Structure Act.” Because the Committee on Agriculture has supervisory authority over…