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Bitcoin hovers around $88K as ETF outflows weigh on momentum and gold extends its historic rally past $5,100. Meanwhile, Ethereum lags the broader market even as the Ethereum Foundation launches a post-quantum cryptography team, NFT platform Nifty Gateway prepares to shut down, and a $40M U.S. government crypto theft is linked to the family of a seized-asset contractor.
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News Roundup
Artificial Intelligence
EU Launches Formal Probe Into Musk’s xAI Over Grok Deepfake Abuse (Financial Times)
NVIDIA Deepens CoreWeave Partnership With $2B Investment to Scale AI Factories (NVIDIA)
Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance
Colombia Pension Fund Manager AFP Protección to Offer Bitcoin Exposure Fund (Criptonoticias)
Sui Group Pivots Crypto Treasury Model Toward Stablecoins and DeFi Yield (CoinDesk)
Crypto Funds Suffer Biggest Weekly Outflows Since November (CoinShares)
Ripple Teams Up With Riyad Bank’s Innovation Arm to Advance Blockchain Payments and Custody (Cointelegraph)
UK Crypto Debanking Intensifies as Banks Block or Delay Roughly 40% of Exchange Payments (DL News)
Republic Europe Opens Door for Retail Investors to Access Kraken Ahead of IPO (The Block)
Tether Added 27 Tons of Gold to Reserves in Q4 2025 (Reuters)
Tether Gold Tightens Grip on Tokenized Bullion Market as XAU₮ Tops $4B (Tether)
Exchanges
Coinbase Adds Doodles (DOOD) and Moonbirds (BIRB) to Listing Roadmap (Coinbase Markets)
Coinone Explores Partial Stake Sale as Overseas Exchanges Enter Talks (The Block)
Binance Expands Spot Markets With New USD1 and “/U” Trading Pairs (Binance)
Binance Futures to Launch TSLA-Linked Perpetual Contract With 5x Leverage (Binance)
Kraken Launches DeFi Earn Across US, EU, and Canada With Onchain Yield Vaults (The Block)
Coinbase Expands Commodities Lineup With Copper and Platinum Futures (Coinbase Markets)
Exchange-Traded Products
From Jan. 19–23, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $1.33 billion in net outflows.
U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $611.17 million in net outflows from Jan. 19-23.
From Jan. 19-23, U.S. Solana spot ETFs posted net inflows of $9.57 million.
U.S. XRP spot ETFs logged $40.64 million in net outflows from Jan. 19-23.
ARK Buys the Dip on Crypto Stocks as Market Slump Weighs on ETFs (Cointelegraph)
Japan Targets 2028 Launch for First Crypto ETFs (The Block)
Valour Wins FCA Approval to Offer Yield-Bearing Bitcoin and Ethereum ETPs (Valour)
BlackRock Moves to Launch Bitcoin Income ETF Using Options Strategy (Decrypt)
VanEck Debuts First U.S. Avalanche ETF With AVAX Staking Exposure (The Block)
Infrastructure
Ethereum Foundation Launches Post-Quantum Team to Prepare for Quantum Threats (Justin Drake)
Tezos Tallinn Upgrade Goes Live, Cuts Block Times to 6 Seconds (Cointelegraph)
Bitcoin Nodes Signaling BIP-110 Pass 2% as OP_RETURN Spam Debate Intensifies (Cointelegraph)
Markets
Tokenized Gold Market Surpasses $4B as Gold Nears $5K (The Defiant)
SocialFi Collapse Leaves Most Tokens Down 90%+ (Our Talk Crypto)
Dormant Whale Moves 50,000 ETH to Gemini After Nine Years of Inactivity (EmberCN)
$464M+ in Token Unlocks Set to Hit Markets This Week (Tokenomist)
Crypto Liquidations Hit $750M as Bitcoin Slumps on Japan-Led Macro Stress (Decrypt)
Gold Surges Past $5,100 as Ethereum Lags and Safe-Haven Trade Dominates (Decrypt)
Bitcoin Hovers Near $88K as ETF Outflows Mount and Gold Extends Record Rally (The Defiant)
Meme Coins
PENGUIN Memecoin Soars 564% After Viral White House Post (Cointelegraph)
Mining
Foundry USA Hashrate Drops 60% as Winter Storm Fern Knocks Out Power (Cointelegraph)
CleanSpark Shares Drop 10% as Storm Risks and $45M CEO Pay Rattle Investors (The Block)
Non-Fungible Tokens
Nifty Gateway to Shut Down, Enters Withdrawal-Only Mode (Nifty Gateway Studio)
Politics & Regulation
SEC Drops Gemini Earn Case, Ending Long-Running Enforcement Fight (SEC)
Russia Labels Ukrainian Crypto Exchange WhiteBit an “Undesirable Organization” (bits.media)
OCC Says World Liberty Financial Charter Review Will Stay Apolitical (Cointelegraph)
Democrats Push Ethics Guardrails Into Crypto Market Structure Debate (Cointelegraph)
Winter Storm Pushes Senate Agriculture Crypto Bill Markup to Thursday (CoinDesk)
SEC and CFTC Reschedule Joint Crypto Harmonization Event for Jan. 29 (SEC)
Rhode Island Revives Bill to Study Crypto and Blockchain (Bitcoin Magazine)
Brazil Supreme Court Reconsiders Ban on Crypto Use in Election Campaigns (DL News)
Token Generation Events
Spacecoin Unveils SPACE Airdrop Schedule and 10% Staking Program (Spacecoin)
Treasuries
Ethereum Treasury Firm Buys Jet Engines in Tokenization Pivot (CoinDesk)
Metaplanet Boosts 2026 Revenue Outlook Despite $680M in Unrealized Losses on Bitcoin Holdings (Cointelegraph)
Strategy Adds Nearly 3,000 Bitcoin, Lifts Holdings to Over 712,000 BTC (Strategy)
BitMine Pushes Toward 5% ETH Goal With Fresh 40,302 ETH Buy (The Block)
Sharps Technology Reveals Solana Staking Income (The Block)
Venture Capital
Other News
South Korea Loses $48M in Seized Bitcoin After Phishing Breach (Cointelegraph)
Institutions Aren’t Allies or Enemies of Cypherpunks (Vitalik Buterin)
More Las Vegas Businesses Accept Bitcoin Payments (FOX5)
Scroll Co-Founder Kenneth Shen’s X Account Hacked, Sending Phishing Messages (Wu Blockchain)
South Korean Lawyer Fined for Embezzling Police Clients’ Funds to Buy Crypto (DL News)
MoonPay Becomes Title Sponsor of New X Games League (Decrypt)
ZachXBT Ties $40M Government Crypto Theft to Family of Seized-Asset Contractor (The Block)
Vitalik Buterin No Longer Agrees with "Recording Only Transactions Without Committing State" (Vitalik Butern)
Matcha Meta Hit by $16.8M SwapNet Exploit as Contracts Are Disabled (The Block)
Three Takeaways From Davos On How Politics and Wall Street Are Reshaping Crypto (DL News)
Massive Infostealer Leak Exposes 149M Passwords, Researchers Warn (Helsinki Times)
Check This Out!
China may have banned crypto, but it’s just 4,012 BTC behind the U.S. in becoming the world’s largest government Bitcoin holder.
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