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Ether treasury firm ETHZilla (ETHZ) said it bought 20% of Karus, an AI-driven auto loans platform, in a deal valued at $10 million. The agreement marks ETHZilla’s entry into the U.S. asset-backed securities market by using blockchain to tokenize real-world credit, the company said in a press release. Karus specializes in AI models that analyze loan-level risk, using over 20 million historical auto loan outcomes and thousands of real-time variables. ETHZilla plans to integrate the technology into its Ethereum-based infrastructure to tokenize the loans, turning predictive credit data into tradable onchain chain assets. The companies say the first tokenized loan…

Authorities in Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency, have seized $11.4 million (£9 million) in assets linked to the OneCoin fraud, one of the largest and longest-running crypto scams on record. Officials did not detail the digital assets involved, but placed their value at just under £9 million, according to a report released Monday by Guernsey Press, the Bailiwick’s paper of record, citing proceedings at the Royal Court. The seizure followed the Royal Court’s decision to uphold an overseas forfeiture order sought on behalf of German authorities in Bielefeld under Guernsey’s proceeds of crime laws, updated in 2024 to govern seized…

Binance announced it will delist certain trading pairs as part of its periodic reviews of margin markets, aimed at protecting user security and maintaining a high-quality trading environment. According to the exchange’s statement, trading in certain Cross and isolated margin trading pairs will be completely suspended as of 09:00 on January 23, 2026. Cross-margin pairs to be delisted include YGG/BTC, ARPA/BTC, OGN/BTC, COMP/BTC, SUPER/BTC, and JOE/BTC. On the isolated margin side, the following trading pairs will be removed from the platform: YGG/BTC, CELO/BTC, VET/ETH, ARPA/BTC, OGN/BTC, GAS/BTC, COMP/BTC, SUPER/BTC, and DIA/BTC. Immediately following the decision, Binance announced that users would…

Enterprise-grade Web3 blockchain, ENI, has declared a strategic alliance with UXLINK, the biggest Web3 social network and social layer of infrastructure in the world, which is expected to speed up the adoption of decentralized social networks worldwide. The partnership will combine high-performance blockchain infrastructure at ENI and fast-growing social ecosystem at UXLINK to drive what both companies call a new Social Growth Layer of Web3 on a global scale. @ENI__Official × @UXLINKofficial 🤝Partnering with the largest Web3 social platform and infrastructure layer, powering the Social Growth Layer at global scale.With 55M+ users, 300+ ecosystem partners, strong VC backing, and listings…

Ethereum price dropped below $2,900 for the first time in 5 weeks as recent geopolitical concerns drove investors away from the crypto market. Summary Ethereum price briefly fell to a 5-week low of $2,872 on Thursday. Geopolitical concerns and consecutive outflows from ETFs impacted market sentiment. A bearish pennant pattern was confirmed on the daily chart. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) fell to an intraday low of $2,872 on Thursday morning Asian time after it lost the key $3,000 pyscologcial support level earlier on Tuesday. Ethereum price dropped because investors had turned risk-averse after U.S. President Donald Trump…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has effectively shut down the launch of highly leveraged ETFs that aim to triple or even quintuple daily returns on stocks, commodities and cryptocurrencies. The agency sent nine separate warning letters to the most active issuers in this area, such as Direxion, ProShares and Tidal, informing them that the planned products would not be subject to review. The letters stated that the risk levels of these ETFs could exceed the SEC’s permitted limits based on fund assets. Therefore, the regulator asked the companies to either restructure their strategies or withdraw their applications entirely.…

U.S. President Donald Trump said he helped secure America’s place as the “crypto capital of the world” by backing legislation aimed at boosting the digital asset industry in a lengthy speech to world leaders and bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump claimed on Wednesday that he signed a “landmark GENIUS Act” last year, focused on stablecoins, partly to gain political support and partly to keep China from leading the space. He added that Congress is now working on broader market structure rules, which he said he hopes to sign “very soon.” The U.S. Senate is currently…

OKX TR announced it will delist certain cryptocurrency pairs in order to maintain the quality of transactions in spot markets and create a more robust trading environment for users. According to the exchange’s statement, spot trading pairs for ULTI, GEAR, VRA, DAO, CXT, RDNT, and ELON tokens will be delisted because they do not meet the criteria determined through regular performance reviews and user feedback. The delisting process will take place in two phases. First, trading pairs involving USDⓈ will be removed on January 27, 2026, between 11:00 and 13:00. Specifically, the following pairs will cease trading: ULTI/USDⓈ, GEAR/USDⓈ, VRA/USDⓈ,…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he plans to fully recommit to decentralized social media in 2026, arguing that only platforms built on shared, decentralized data layers can foster real competition and support mass communication systems aligned with users’ interests rather than engagement metrics. In a Wednesday post on X, Buterin said he has shifted his activity toward decentralized social platforms this year, noting that every post he has written or read in 2026 has been accessed through Firefly, a multi-client interface that supports X, Lens, Farcaster and Bluesky. “If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools,”…

After weeks of corrective pressure, Ethereum has managed to return to the $3,000 mark, but this move is more accurately described as a test than a confirmation. A more crucial question for investors is raised by the return to this psychological zone: will ETH truly hold here, or is this merely a brief upswing within a larger consolidation phase? Ethereum remains unstable Ethereum’s price structure is still unstable as of right now. ETH is still trading in a technically compressed area where momentum is uncertain, even though regaining $3,000 helps to stabilize sentiment. Although the market is no longer in…