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Ethereum price is trading around $3,00 per $ETH right now. A reasonable base case is a choppy range between roughly $2,400 and $3,600 over the next 6–12 months, with upside capped unless macro and ETF flows turn decisively risk‑on again. Summary BitMine added 171,264 $ETH to staking, lifting its staked stack to about 1.94m $ETH worth roughly $5.7b, with total holdings near 4m $ETH and a 5% supply target.​ Altcoin Vector estimates 30% of all $ETH is now staked, arguing that Ethereum has become core digital financial infrastructure and that $ETH staking is the new “risk‑free rate” of on‑chain finance.​…

Investment money is flowing into developing countries at a pace not seen before, as growing friction between the United States and Europe pushes the dollar lower and prompts investors worldwide to look for alternatives. Stock markets in emerging economies continued their climb on Friday, with major indexes posting gains for the fifth week in a row. This marks the longest stretch of weekly increases since May. So far in 2026, these markets have jumped 7%, far outpacing the S&P 500’s modest 1% rise. Technology companies in Asia have been driving much of this rally, while stocks in Latin America have…

According to Polymarket data, the probability of another US government shutdown by January 31st is rapidly increasing. On their prediction platform, the probability for this scenario has reached 76%. This situation has also caused Bitcoin to fall. Democrats in the U.S. Senate threatened to block a spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), increasing the risk of a partial government shutdown. Tensions escalated following a shooting in Minnesota in which a Border Patrol agent killed a civilian. The incident marked the third fatal shooting by federal agents in the state this month, amid ongoing protests against immigration policies.…

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has branded a flurry of online criticism directed towards himself and Binance a “coordinated attack.” The criticism came in response recent to a post he made in which he appeared to encourage users to simply “buy and hold.” “Lots of accounts I don’t recognize suddenly tweet roughly copy and paste on the same topic,” Zhao said. He previously described the criticism as “twisted FUD” and clarified that he doesn’t mean traders should buy and hold every single token, as that would lead to a terribly performing portfolio. Read more: How Binance’s $USDe ‘depeg’ cost the…

Ethereum remains in a corrective, range-bound environment after failing to sustain the early-month advance above the mid-$3,000s. The price action is oscillating between a higher-timeframe demand cluster in the $2,700 region and a broad supply band closer to $3,500, while the main moving averages continue to cap the upside. This structure keeps directional conviction limited and increases the importance of reaction at the nearby support zones during the current pullback. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily chart, $ETH has been rejected once again from the confluence of the $3,500 resistance block and the declining 100-day moving average,…

Michael Saylor wants everyone to zoom out, and he’s got a point. Since adopting the Bitcoin Standard in August 2020, Strategy stock (MSTR) has returned 1,202%, nearly doubling Bitcoin’s own 650% gain over the same period. And he is not letting Wall Street forget it. The chart Saylor posted shows MSTR outperforming $BTC, gold, QQQ, SPY and real estate and bond benchmarks. At first glance, MSTR seems like the ultimate high-beta Bitcoin proxy, and the numbers prove it. According to Bitcointreasury, Strategy now amasses 709,715 $BTC, which is about $63.1 billion. The average purchase price is $75,974, which is only…

According to Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham, the crypto industry begged for regulation, but was deliberately left dealing with strategic ambiguity by the previous SEC administration. “I disagree with these people, but I have to point out that they wanted crypto regulated, not deregulated,” Graham said. Graham has described the approach of former SEC Chair Gary Gensler as “stupid,” noting that the agency had deliberately refused to clarify the legal status of cryptocurrencies. Legitimate companies that wanted to follow the rules (like Coinbase) were stonewalled or sued. This forced some of them to move offshore or stifle features. The SEC…

Coinbase (COIN) has rolled out its new prediction market platform to U.S. users, enabling them to trade on the outcomes of real-world events including elections, sports, collectibles, and economic indicators. The platform, announced in December, is built in partnership with Kalshi, a U.S.-regulated prediction market operator recently valued at $11 billion. Kalshi offers event-based contracts that function like simplified derivatives—traders buy “yes” or “no” positions on specific outcomes, with the price of each contract reflecting the probability assigned by the market. The launch, which the crypto exchange announced in a post on X on Wednesday, brings prediction markets to Coinbase’s…

As an Arctic storm front batters multiple U.S. states, bitcoin mining activity across the country has pulled back sharply, with American-based operators scaling down operations to ease pressure on the power grid during a difficult stretch. As a result, Bitcoin’s network hashrate has declined notably, with current data placing total hashpower between 800 and 875 exahash per second (EH/s) over the past day. Six-Day Slide: Bitcoin Hashrate Loses Nearly 250 EH/s During Arctic Blast The Arctic storm front in late January 2026 is bearing down hardest on the South and the lower Ohio Valley, with the most severe conditions centered…

Ethereum developers are confronting the possibility of reducing the scope of the blockchain’s next major Glamsterdam upgrade to meet a mid-year deadline, according to Christine D. Kim, founder of Protocol Watch. In a newsletter published on Friday, January 23, 2026, on X and Substack, Kim stated that developers had come to a hard realization during this week’s All Core Developer Consensus (ACDC) call that some of the feature set planned for the Glamsterdam upgrade may be incompatible with shipping by mid-2026. The situation is reminiscent of challenges that plagued the previous Pectra upgrade. “Some of my readers who have followed…