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Changpeng “CZ” Zhao is pushing back on the idea that he had business ties to President Donald Trump’s family, calling the claims a full-on misunderstanding. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, CZ told CNBC, “There’s no business relationships whatsoever.” He said people were reading too much into the events that followed his 2025 pardon, especially around the use of a stablecoin linked to Trump’s relatives. The rumors began after Trump’s October 2025 pardon, which came a year after CZ was released from prison. He had served four months following a 2023 guilty plea for allowing money laundering at…

The altcoins with the largest user base in the cryptocurrency market have been identified through on-chain data. According to Token Terminal data, the current ranking is based on the number of unique wallet addresses holding at least one token from different blockchains. $BNB Chain ($BNB) tops the list. The number of unique addresses holding $BNB on $BNB Chain has reached 291.4 million. A 3.9% increase in users over the last 30 days indicates that the network is still experiencing strong growth. Here are the altcoins with the highest number of users in the last 30 days, and their changes compared…

Writing on X in response to Justin Drake’s announcement that the Ethereum Foundation (EF) had created a dedicated post-quantum cryptography team, Franklin Bi, a general partner at Pantera Capital, challenged conventional assumptions about which sector is better positioned for the quantum transition. “People are over-estimating how quickly Wall Street will adapt to post-quantum cryptography,” he wrote. “Like any systemic software upgrade, it’ll be slow & chaotic with single points of failure for years.” Quantum computing continues to advance from a theoretical field to practical applications, and as more progress is being made, so is the attendant threat it poses to…

US dollar DXY has just registered the largest weekly decline since April 2025. It fell toward the 98.5 level. The chart has indicated a definite violation of its recent range. This action is an indicator of deteriorating dollar strength. The markets are now discounting reduced confidence in international funds flows. The DXY just saw its largest weekly drop since April 2025.The USD is struggling right now due to:-Anti US asset sentiment in Europe over the Greenland/tariff situation-The investigation into Powell being seen as an attack on Fed independence-Global investors moving capital… pic.twitter.com/gfHxFnPczR — Satoshi Stacker (@StackerSatoshi) January 24, 2026 Part…

Kevin O’Leary says U.S. crypto market structure legislation is finally on the brink, predicting it will pass before the midterm elections despite months of delays. Summary The Shark Tank star gave CoinDesk his estimate of when the crypto bill will clear Congress. O’Leary, chairman of O’Leary Ventures, often praises the Trump administration’s embrace of digital assets. Technical analysis suggests that the Strategy stock will drop to $100. Speaking to CoinDesk on Friday, the outspoken investor said he’s “hopeful” the bill could clear Congress by May 15, arguing that lawmakers’ staff are now consumed by the effort. “These bills are written…

The UAE based ADGM Registration Authority (“RA”) has published Discussion Paper No. 1 of 2026, inviting stakeholder feedback on proposed guidance for crypto mining activities conducted within or from ADGM. As per the announcement, the proposal aims to provide clarity on regulations alongside responsible innovation and governance standards for crypto mining. In the discussion paper, ADGM defines crypto mining as the verification of transactions on a decentralized ledger or infrastructure network, in return for rewards in the form of digital assets generated by a consensus mechanism. The financial freezone has take a technology neutral approach to the framework, and accept…

The DAO model is changing, affecting most of the biggest organizations. Governance is reaching its limits, with some protocols moving back to partial centralization. DAO platforms are evolving in 2026, as some have reached the capacity for governance. Others have shed the model entirely, citing slowness and the need for emergency decision powers. Based on the latest estimates, DAO holds $13.6B in total liquidity for over 50,845 organizations. The funds are mostly locked in the biggest DAO. Governance tokens were still highly active, recently expanding their value to over $31B. Of 11.8M DAO token holders, only around 3.3M are active…

Ethereum price extended losses and traded below the $2,865 zone. $ETH is now consolidating losses and might aim for a recovery if it clears $2,920. Ethereum remained in a bearish zone and traded below $2,950. The price is trading below $2,900 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a bearish trend line forming with resistance at $2,920 on the hourly chart of $ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a fresh increase if it stays above the $2,800 zone. Ethereum Price Dips Further Ethereum price failed to remain stable above $2,950 and extended losses, like Bitcoin. $ETH…

Cyber Hornet has filed for the registration of the S&P Crypto 10 ETF (CTX) with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The CTX index seeks to offer exposure to the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap from the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Asset index. The CTX index has favored $BTC and $ETH, allocating 69% to $BTC and 14% to $ETH. Additionally, $XRP holding exposure stands at 5%, Binance Coin at 4%, Solana at 2%, TRON at 1%, Cardano at 0.5%, Bitcoin Cash at 0.4%, Chainlink at 0.3%, and Stellar at 0.2%. Balchunas says the CTX basket could be the first S&P-linked…

Bitcoin mining stocks saw a significant bump on Wednesday after the US winter storm forced some companies to wind down operations, leading to lower block competition and more profitable mining operations. Shares of several major mining companies posted double-digit gains over the past 24 hours. TeraWulf rose about 11%, Iren Limited gained roughly 14%, and Cipher Mining climbed around 13%, according to data from Barchart. The rally occurred days after the Bitcoin network’s hashrate sank to a seven-month low of 663 exahashes per second (EH/s) on Sunday, a 40% drop in two days due to a severe winter storm battering…