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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…

Gemini stock price crashed to a record low, continuing a trend that started soon after its initial public offering in September. Summary Gemini share price has crashed and triggered a $2.6 billion wipeout. Its drop coincided with the sell-off in Bitcoin treasury companies. Technicals points to more downside, potentially to $5. Gemini Space Station, which the Winklevoss Twins backed, plunged to a record low of $9.70, down by ~80% from its all-time high. Its market cap has dropped from $3.81 billion to the current $1.14 billion. Why Gemini stock price crashed Gemini is a top crypto exchange established by Tyler…

White House crypto and AI advisor David Sacks said U.S. banks will eventually adopt cryptocurrencies, especially stablecoins, once new legislation reshapes how the sector is regulated. Sacks said the divide between banks and crypto firms will vanish after Congress passes market structure rules currently in development. “We’re not going to have a separate banking industry and crypto industry. It’s going to be one digital assets industry,” he said in a CNBC interview. Sacks’ comments reflect the Trump administration’s belief that its legislative push will further unlock institutional participation in crypto markets. Many major U.S. banks have historically remained on the…

Binance Futures has announced it will be launching a new perpetual futures contract to expand its product offerings and enhance the user trading experience. According to the exchange’s announcement, the USDⓈ-backed AIAUSDT Perpetual Contract will be launched on January 20, 2026, at 2:15 PM. With this new contract, investors will be able to trade using up to 20x leverage with the DeAgentAI (AIA) token. The underlying asset for the AIAUSDT perpetual futures contract has been determined as DeAgentAI. DeAgentAI stands out as an artificial intelligence infrastructure project that aims to enable the creation, deployment, and coordination of autonomous agents in…

Chainlink now allows popular stocks and ETFs to be accessed on-chain 24 hours per day, 5 days per week. This upgrade opens up numerous on-chain use cases, such as trading, lending, and more. The move integrates the $80 trillion U.S. stock market onto the blockchain. DeFi platforms now have secure access to U.S. equity market data, including after-hours and overnight sessions. The 24/5 U.S. Equities Streams expand Chainlink Data Streams, providing fast and secure market data for U.S. equities and ETFs across all trading sessions. Equity RWAs have lagged on-chain U.S. equities are underrepresented on-chain despite the growth of real-world…

Ethereum’s latest upgrade sparked a burst of activity, but Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM) is skeptical it will last. In a Wednesday note to clients, the bank said December’s Fusaka upgrade expanded data capacity and drove an immediate drop in fees alongside a jump in transactions and active addresses. Fusaka builds on the Pectra upgrade earlier in 2025, the report said, which helped revive usage after the Dencun upgrade pushed activity toward layer-2 networks. While the combined upgrades lifted network activity over the past year, the bank warned that in the past, similar rebounds have tended to fade. “Historically, Ethereum’s…

BlackRock’s 2026 market outlook report says the fragility of the U.S. economy and projections that the federal debt will surpass $38 trillion will weaken the hedges used by long-term Treasury bonds, which form the basis of traditional finance. The world’s largest asset manager argues that this environment will quickly push Wall Street giants towards digital assets, particularly Bitcoin. The report noted that rising public debt has created significant vulnerabilities in the financial system. BlackRock states that high debt “increases the risk of sudden interest rate shocks stemming from fiscal concerns or political tensions between managing inflation and servicing debt.” The…