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CZ‑backed YZi Labs has sharply criticized CEA Industries’ adoption of a poison pill and the postponement of its 2025 annual meeting, calling the board’s actions "shareholder-unfriendly." The post CZ-Backed YZi Labs Slams CEA’s “Poison Pill” As Boardroom War Escalates Fast appeared first on Cryptonews.

The stablecoin will be backed by Brazil's National Treasury bonds and offer exposure to the country's interest rate, currently 15%.

Hedera (HBAR) was also among the underperformers, down 1.4% from Tuesday.

Integrated into the Rumble app, the non-custodial wallet allows fans to tip content producers.

The investment shows UK institutions are taking ‘practical steps’ to bring digital money into regulated frameworks, CryptoUK told Decrypt.

Ethereum and Solana ETF trading accelerated sharply in early January amid increasing institutional interest in crypto assets.

The SEC is set to continue last year’s pro-crypto rulemaking, as the commission and other federal agencies are controlled solely by Republicans. Caroline Crenshaw has left the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), leaving the agency solely comprising Republicans. As a result, nothing stands in the way of pro-crypto rulemaking. Republicans in Washington have generally been friendlier toward the crypto industry than their Democratic counterparts. The SEC made a 180-degree turn last year, after President Donald Trump entered office and Congress moved on landmark crypto legislation. Now, just one week into 2026, the Senate is set for a markup vote on the crypto market structure bill — and there is an entirely Republican SEC.  Read more

Gracy Chen went from TV star to entrepreneur, becoming the CEO of top crypto exchange Bitget — and then blended it all together on Killer Whales. Young girls who grew up in Asia in the ’90s were enamored by female anchor Yang Lan, much like Americans were with Oprah. Gracy Chen was so inspired that she followed Lan into a career as a TV host and producer.  Chen then went from TV host to entrepreneur, falling in love with the mathematical beauty of Bitcoin and later became the only female CEO leading one of the five biggest exchanges in the world (although Binance recently announced Yi He as co-CEO along with Richard Teng.) Chen was poised, positive and pragmatic when she spoke to Magazine. During her stint at Phoenix TV, she interviewed business leaders and celebrities like venture capitalist Tim Draper and renowned computer scientist and inventor Ray Kurzweil.  Read more

CoinFlip unveiled a payroll-based crypto investing option as employers and policymakers explore broader access to digital assets and retirement-linked investing. Digital asset company CoinFlip has launched a new workplace benefit that allows employees to invest in cryptocurrencies directly through payroll deductions, offering a payroll-based investing mechanism to digital asset investing as interest in portfolio diversification continues to grow. The program enables employees to automatically purchase cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Solana (SOL) and select stablecoins, with minimum allocations starting at $25 per pay period. According to CoinFlip, the product is designed to appeal to workers who prefer a gradual, cost-averaging approach to crypto investing. The company cited research estimating that tens of millions of US adults already own digital assets, suggesting a growing appetite for regulated and accessible investment options tied to existing financial habits. Read more

Analysts called the outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs a temporary repositioning rather than a structural shift in sentiment.

DeFi and smart contract-tied cryptocurrencies fell by over 66% during 2025, but analysts are pointing to maturing digital asset valuations due to incoming institutional capital. The steep decline in altcoins over the past year may reflect a broader reassessment of which blockchain networks are likely to attract long-term capital, as institutional investors begin a gradual, multiyear entry into the market, analysts say. Excluding Bitcoin (BTC), 2025 turned out to be a bear market for the wider cryptocurrency market. Decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens fell 67% while cryptocurrencies associated with smart contract blockchains delivered a negative average return of 66%, according to blockchain data shared by Jamie Coutts, the chief crypto analyst at Real Vision. The past year’s poor performance was a “repricing” of the leading crypto projects as institutional capital was seeking to gain more exposure, Coutts wrote in a Wednesday X post. Read more

Bitcoin trades near $92K as Morgan Stanley files for a spot Bitcoin ETF. Institutional demand grows, but technical resistance caps short-term upside. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Banking Giant Morgan Stanley Files for Spot Bitcoin ETF – Is Wall Street About to Go All In? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Dfns integrated Concordium’s layer-1 blockchain to add identity-verified wallets to its WaaS platform as institutions seek compliant Web3 adoption. Dfns, a digital wallet infrastructure provider and a partner of tech giant IBM, has integrated Concordium’s layer-1 (L1) blockchain to launch an identity-verified Web3 wallet solution. Concordium’s privacy-preserving identity layer is now part of Dfns’ wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) platform, the companies announced Wednesday in a joint statement shared with Cointelegraph. “This integration enables financial institutions and enterprises to instantly deploy compliant, privacy-preserving wallets without building complex identity infrastructure from scratch,” Dfns CEO Clarisse Hagège said. Read more

Funding will be used to build and scale Babylon Trustless BTCVaults, enabling native bitcoin to be used as onchain collateral without custodians or wrapping.

Major banks are beating down the doors to get into the crypto game, and Morgan Stanley just became the first major player to make an ETF move.

The company raised $500 million in November 2025 at a valuation of $40 billion from investors such as Fortress Investment Group and Citadel Securities.

An attacker exploited IPOR Labs' legacy USDC vault on Arbitrum for $336,000 by hijacking an administrator account through Ethereum's new EIP-7702 delegation feature, with the protocol confirming all affected depositors will receive full refunds while newer vaults remain secure with enhanced validation. The post IPOR Labs Loses $336K in Arbitrum Vault Exploit, Vows Full Refund appeared first on Cryptonews.

The US Supreme Court returns from a four-week break on Jan. 9 with a potentially consequential economic ruling: whether the President Donald Trump administration lawfully imposed sweeping tariffs under emergency powers, or whether those duties on hundreds of billions in imports violated Congressional limits. Prediction markets give the government only a 23% to 30% chance […] The post Friday Supreme Court ruling could trigger an instant “tariff shock” crash as Bitcoin wildly misprices impact appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The bank has filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. SEC for an Ethereum Trust, on the heels of its applications for Bitcoin and Solana ETFs.

JPMorgan’s Kinexys unit is taking JPM Coin beyond its existing rails, planning a native launch of the US dollar deposit token on the Canton Network. Digital Asset, the creator of the Canton Network, and Kinexys by JPMorgan plan to bring USD JPM Coin (JPMD) natively to the Canton Network, extending the bank’s deposit token from its existing infrastructure onto a public, institutional-grade blockchain.  The bank has already begun deploying JPM Coin on Coinbase’s Base network for institutional clients as part of a pilot, and has indicated it plans to support additional public blockchains over time, making Canton another leg in a multi-chain strategy. According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, JPM Coin by Kinexys Digital Payments is “the first bank‑issued, USD‑denominated deposit token” designed for institutional clients and represents a digital claim on JPMorgan US dollar deposits on distributed ledger infrastructure.  Read more