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Solana (SOL) joined Internet Computer (ICP) as an underperformer, falling 4.5% from Monday.

Vanguard increased its position in Metaplanet from 14.12 million shares at the end of November to 15.64 million shares by Dec. 31, an 11% jump that sent speculation rippling through Bitcoin (BTC) treasury circles. The move arrived at a moment when digital asset treasury companies had spent months nursing underwater positions and watching their market […] The post Why Metaplanet is the only Bitcoin treasury surviving a brutal market shift that left Strategy investors totally exposed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin is undergoing a decisive pullback after the strong recovery that followed the early-January reset. The price has been rejected from a major confluence area around $98,000, where higher-timeframe resistance and a key moving average cluster are. It is now rotating lower while still holding above the most important higher-low zones established during December. The […]

Strategy acquired 22,305 BTC last week at about $95,284 per coin, lifting its holdings to 709,715 BTC. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, blasted past 700,000 BTC in holdings with its latest large-scale purchase. Strategy bought 22,305 Bitcoin (BTC) for $2.13 billion last week, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The purchases were made at an average price of $95,284 per BTC, with Bitcoin briefly rising past $97,000 on Wednesday, according to CoinGecko data. Read more

Donald Trump, Greenland and EU trade tensions are grabbing most of the headlines, but financial pros are eyeing Tuesday's shocking surge in Japanese bond yields.

Crypto led the way and Wall Street is finally following, as the NYSE prepares to support 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks and ETFs.

Some lenders are willing to accept Bitcoin and recognize crypto holdings when considering a mortgage application, but issues around risk remain. On Jan. 16, Pennsylvania-based lender Newrez announced plans to accept certain cryptocurrency holdings when considering mortgage applications. The change, which the company said will take effect in February, will apply to loans for homes, refinancing and other investment properties. For Newrez, the plan comes on the tailwinds of directions from the US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) last year. In June 2025, the FHFA ordered Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) to develop plans for recognizing crypto in loan applications. In doing so, crypto gained at least partial recognition from two major government enterprises that provide liquidity and stability to mortgage markets. At the time, Michael Saylor, chair of Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company Strategy, said, “Future generations will remember this...

The company now holds 709,715 bitcoin, acquired for nearly $54 billion.

The policy paper argues that access to capital markets, rather than income or banking, now defines who can build wealth and says tokenization could widen participation. A new Coinbase Institute report argues that the most important divide in global finance is no longer rich versus poor, but between those who have direct access to capital markets and those who do not, which it describes as the “brokered” versus the “unbrokered.” The report estimates that traditional intermediated rails exclude roughly four billion unbrokered individuals from owning productive assets or raising capital at scale. Closing this gap, it argues, will require rebuilding core market infrastructure so smaller investors and issuers can participate directly rather than through layers of intermediaries. According to the report, over the last 40 years in the United States alone, capital income grew 136% while labor income lagged at just 57%.  Read more

Brian Armstrong is set to meet bank CEOs a week after Coinbase pulled support for the crypto market structure bill.

Patrick Gruhn and Robin Matzke were the co-founders of Digital Assets, which was acquired by FTX’s Sam Bankman Fried in 2021 and rebranded as FTX EU.

Saylor hinted about this purchase on Sunday.

PI is down 9% for the past week, but a resurgence in the near future is not unlikely.

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, January 20th, 2026] Pendle, the world’s largest crypto yield trading platform, has announced an upgrade to its native token, introducing sPENDLE. The update is intended to unlock deeper liquidity, diversify revenue streams, and strengthen Pendle’s position within the on-chain yield and rates segment. Supported by recent performance metrics from Pendle […]

Passive crypto hoarding exposes DATs to compliance risks while missing opportunities to provide patient capital. DAT 2.0 invests in infrastructure supporting ecosystem longevity. Opinion by: Mike Maloney, Chairman of 21 Vault, a company operating in digital asset infrastructure and treasury strategy ​Digital asset treasuries (DATs) started back in 2020 with Strategy’s decision to buy and hold Bitcoin (BTC). ​That fateful decision has created a treasury with a market capitalization exceeding $80 billion. ​A flurry of companies began to replicate this buy-and-hold approach. These new DATs raise huge amounts of capital to buy their chosen asset before merging with publicly traded companies, giving investors exposure to crypto via their stocks. Read more

The top nine wallets controlled nearly 60% of voting power in WLFI’s USD1 governance vote, raising questions about insider influence as locked holders were unable to participate. World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is facing criticism following a governance vote that approved a USD1 growth proposal, despite objections from the community over the lack of voting access for locked WLFI holders. Onchain voting data shows that the largest “FOR” votes were cast by top wallets flagged as team-linked or strategic partner addresses, according to pseudonymous crypto trader and researcher DeFi^2. The top nine wallets accounted for about 59% of total voting power, giving a small cluster of big holders effective control over the outcome of the USD1 growth proposal. The largest wallet contributed 18.786% of the total voting power based on the snapshot vote for WLFI governance. Read more

Your day-ahead look for Jan. 20, 2026

South Korea is reportedly reviewing exclusive bank partnerships for crypto exchanges as regulators assess competition and prepare the Digital Asset Basic Act. South Korea’s financial regulators are reviewing a long-standing practice that effectively ties each cryptocurrency exchange to a single banking partner, as part of a broader examination of competition in the country’s crypto market, according to local media. Business media outlet the Herald Economy, citing government officials familiar with inter-agency discussions, said a review effort is being coordinated between the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Fair Trade Commission as policymakers evaluate whether existing practices contribute to market concentration.  Although the “one exchange–one bank” model is not explicitly codified in South Korean laws, it emerged in practice due to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and customer due diligence requirements.  Read more

The moves highlight growing uncertainty over whether crypto prediction markets are to be treated as finance or gambling. Update Jan. 20, 12:29 p.m. UTC: This article has been updated to include a paragraph on the details surrounding Portugal’s ban on Polymarket. Hungary and Portugal have taken steps to restrict access to the crypto-based prediction market Polymarket, adding to mounting regulatory pressure on the platform across Europe. Hungary’s regulatory authority, Szabályozott Tevékenységek Felügyeleti Hatósága, has temporarily blocked access to Polymarket’s domain and subdomains, citing the “forbidden organization of gambling activities.” According to an official notice released Friday, the restriction will remain in place until the authority completes its review. Read more

The veteran trader who accurately called the 2018 bitcoin crash has tipped bitcoin to fall to $58,000. Experts said macro conditions favor a bearish bitcoin trend.