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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Thursday, 8 January 2026 – As 2026 kicks off at full throttle, it’s impossible to overlook the strong “risk-on” signals lighting up markets worldwide. Just look at the Caracas Stock Exchange: Venezuelan equities have gone parabolic, posting a 44x surge since 2024, driven by recent political turmoil and a full-scale market re-rating. Investors are now chasing high-beta opportunities, but while legacy markets need years to pull off a 44x move, crypto can do it in moments. For those searching for pure, high-octane upside, Maxi Doge (MAXI) is…

Bitcoin’s four-year cycle used to be a comfort blanket. Even people who claimed they didn’t believe in it still traded as they did.The halving would cut new supply, the market would spend months pretending nothing happened, then liquidity would show up, leverage would follow, retail would rediscover its password, and the chart would start a new race to a new all-time high.21Shares lays out the “old playbook” in blunt numbers: 2012’s run from about $12 to $1,150 and an 85% drawdown, 2016’s move from about $650 to $20,000 and an 80% drawdown, 2020’s climb from about $8,700 to $69,000 and…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Nasdaq and the CME Group have stepped up a joint effort to give big investors a single, regulated way to measure crypto markets. According to Nasdaq, the firms have reintroduced the Nasdaq Crypto Index as the Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index (NCI), a benchmark built to support products like ETFs and structured funds. The announcement was made early this month and is presented as a move to bring clearer rules and governance to index-based crypto exposure. Nasdaq And CME Combine Index Expertise Reports have disclosed the NCI will be…

In brief The Department of Justice has filed a criminal lawsuit against U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Powell asserts the DOJ probe is a “pretext” for an attack on the Fed’s independence, aimed at pressuring its interest rate decisions, a claim echoed by a Republican senator. The event could trigger a long-term re-evaluation of non-sovereign assets like Bitcoin as a hedge against compromised monetary institutions. The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the sitting U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell—an unprecedented legal move igniting concerns over the central bank’s independence. “The legal proceedings have added a new…

In brief Monero rose above $558 to an all-time high, standing out as much of the broader crypto market struggled to establish a clear trend. Privacy-linked tokens showed relative resilience through late last year, with investors rotating into the segment even as attention centered on Zcash, market participants said. Thin and offshore-heavy liquidity may be amplifying price swings, raising caution about short-term moves in assets largely absent from regulated exchanges, Decrypt was told. Monero surged to a fresh all-time high on Sunday, lifting the privacy-focused crypto above $567 and reviving a corner of the digital-asset market that has largely traded…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The price of Bitcoin is infamous for its inactivity during the weekends, and it has not disappointed in the past day. The premier cryptocurrency continues to hover around the psychological $90,000 mark, with no significant movement observed over the past 24 hours. While the Bitcoin price action — or lack thereof — has lulled most investors to sleep, a particular market participant has just woken from their slumber. According to the latest on-chain data, a Satoshi-era miner just moved a significant amount of Bitcoin over the weekend.…

In brief The tool, called Smart Cashtags, will let users tag specific stocks or crypto assets, down to individual smart contracts, when posting symbols such as $BTC or $NVDA. Tapping a tagged asset opens an in-app page with live prices, charts, price moves and related posts, aiming to reduce confusion around overlapping tickers. X said it plans to gather user feedback ahead of a public rollout expected next month, without detailing whether trading or payments will be included. Elon Musk’s X app is developing a new feature called Smart Cashtags that will link ticker symbols in posts to real-time financial…

For years, stablecoins have been crypto’s most useful invention and its most awkward dinner guest. Useful because they turn blockchains into 24/7 dollar rails, and awkward because while the promise is simple, securing trust rarely is.A digital token worth exactly a dollar sounds reassuring to non-crypto folk right up until someone asks where the dollars are.Now Wyoming wants to answer that question with the oldest credibility hack in America: a state seal.The Frontier Stable Token, $FRNT, is Wyoming’s new, dollar-redeemable stable token, issued under a statutory framework and overseen by the Wyoming Stable Token Commission. It’s also an overt political…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin’s mining difficulty slipped to a little over 146 trillion in the network’s first difficulty recalibration of 2026, offering a small but measurable easing for miners. According to multiple reports, the adjustment completed in early January reduced the metric from levels seen at the end of 2025. First Adjustment Offers Brief Relief Average block times across the network were running near 9.88 minutes at the time of the change — a touch faster than Bitcoin’s target of 10 minutes — which helped produce the slight downshift in…

Grayscale has turned Ethereum’s staking yield into something ETF investors instantly recognize: a cash distribution.On Jan. 6, the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (ETHE) paid around $0.083 per share, totaling $9.39 million, funded by staking rewards the fund earned on its ETH holdings and then sold for cash.The payout covered rewards generated from Oct. 6 through Dec. 31, 2025. Investors on record as of Jan. 5 received it, and ETHE traded ex-distribution on that record date, following the same calendar mechanics used across its stock and bond funds.It’s easy to shrug at this as a niche detail inside a niche product.…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Samson Mow, the founder of Bitcoin infrastructure firm JAN3, said on social media that he expects Elon Musk to “go hard into BTC” in 2026. Reports have disclosed the comment came as part of a set of bold forecasts from Mow on January 11, 2026, and it quickly spread across crypto news sites and social feeds. Mow’s Price Call And Market Context Mow also attached a price target to his outlook, putting Bitcoin at $1.33 million — a rise of about 1,360% from levels near $90,590 cited…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Tennessee’s sports betting regulator has ordered Polymarket, Kalshi, and Crypto.com to cease offering sports betting contracts, bringing focus to the regulatory landscape of event contract exchanges. The agency accused the three major prediction market platforms of violating state gambling laws by operating in Tennessee without the required licenses. Polymarket, Others Threatened With Fines For Offering Sports Event Contracts On Friday, January 9, the Tennessee Sports Wagering Council (SWC) issued cease-and-desist letters to Polymarket, Kalshi, and Crypto.com’s Derivatives Exchange. In the letters, the state regulator asked all three prediction…

A tax employee in Bobigny used internal software to compile dossiers on cryptocurrency specialists, billionaire Vincent Bolloré, prison guards, and a judge. She passed the information to criminals who paid €800 to attack a prison officer at home in Montreuil.Her appeal was rejected Jan. 6, as reported by local media.The case matters less for what happened than for how targets were selected. The newest vector isn’t Telegram doxxing or compromised exchanges. It’s privileged access to state identity systems that map names to addresses, phone numbers, and family structures with a single query.France’s National Police Inspectorate logged 93 investigations in 2024…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A recently ratified law in the state of  Louisiana has helped seniors recover $200,000 following a Bitcoin ATM-related scam operation. This development represents a fine example of government protecting users’ interests even while encouraging digital asset adoption. Louisiana Law Presents Major Hurdle For Crypto Scammers According to a report by local media 7KPLC, a group of scammers recently targeted senior citizens in Louisiana and Texas in a sophisticated scheme resulting in at least four known victims. It was gathered that the scammers usually deceived the unsuspecting seniors…

Two years ago, Bitcoin gained something it had chased for a long time: a place in the tradfi default menu.Plenty of people could get exposure to Bitcoin in 2023, as anyone with an exchange account and a tolerance for operational risk could click “buy.” Yet most capital in the US moves through brokerages, retirement accounts, advisory platforms, model portfolios, and compliance checklists.For that money, Bitcoin needed to arrive in a form that looked and felt like the rest of a portfolio.On Jan. 10, 2024, the SEC approved the listing and trading of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products. A day later, the…