Month: January 2026

Elon Musk’s X to launch Smart Cashtags for accurate asset tracking and live pricing

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Key Takeaways X is developing Smart Cashtags for real-time asset pricing and tracking. The feature allows users to specify assets or smart contracts when posting tickers. Share this article Elon Musk’s X plans to introduce Smart Cashtags, a new feature aimed at improving how financial assets such as stocks and cryptocurrencies are referenced on the platform, Nikita Bier, X’s Head of Product, said Sunday. The feature allows users to specify the exact asset or smart contract when tagging a ticker, reducing ambiguity across crypto, equities, and other financial instruments. Tapping…

2 Signals Suggest XRP’s Early 2026 Rally Is Running Out of Steam

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XRP is already down by double digits since its recent peak, is there more pain ahead? Almost the entire cryptocurrency market began the new year with a bang, charting substantial gains in the span of just a few days, even as the political tension in the Americas unfolded. Ripple’s native token was among the prime examples, as it skyrocketed by about 30% in less than a week from under $1.90 to a multi-month peak of $2.41. This came amid growing ETF inflows and declining token holdings on exchanges. However,…

Tennessee Orders Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com to Halt Sports Betting

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Tennessee’s sports betting regulator has ordered prediction market platforms Kalshi, Polymarket and Crypto.com to halt the offering of sports event contracts to residents of the state. In cease-and-desist letters dated Friday, the Tennessee Sports Wagering Council (SWC) accused all three platforms of illegally offering sports wagering products without holding a license issued under the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act, according to copies of the letters published on X by sports betting attorney Daniel Wallach. The SWC said the sports event contracts listed on Kalshi, Polymarket and Crypto.com’s North American Derivatives Exchange…

Samson Mow Tips Elon Musk Will ‘Go Hard’ Into Bitcoin In 2026

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Jan3 founder Samson Mow anticipates billionaire investor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk will aggressively move into Bitcoin in 2026. It was one of five bold Bitcoin (BTC) predictions from Mow for 2026, coming off a year where several Bitcoin forecasts from prominent crypto executives missed the mark. “@elonmusk goes hard into BTC,” Mow said in an X post on Saturday. Musk has shown his support for cryptocurrency over the years, but has raised concerns around Bitcoin’s environmental risks. Tesla stopped taking Bitcoin payments in May 2021 due to environmental concerns.…

Truebit hacker launders $26 million in ETH via Tornado Cash

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Key Takeaways The hacker behind the Truebit exploit fully laundered 8,535 ETH through Tornado Cash. The Truebit team is coordinating with law enforcement and conducting a protocol review following the attack. Share this article The Truebit hacker has laundered all 8,535 ETH stolen, valued at approximately $26 million, through Tornado Cash after exploiting a smart contract vulnerability in the Truebit Protocol on January 8, according to data tracked by Lookonchain. The #Truebit hacker has deposited all 8,535 $ETH($26.44M) they stole into #TornadoCash and laundered it.https://t.co/nYUNcqv46vhttps://t.co/JLPKkMjkUP pic.twitter.com/0unM8sK3h5 — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) January…

XRP Prints Gravestone Doji On Weekly Timeframe — What This Means For Price

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Semilore Faleti is a cryptocurrency writer specialized in the field of journalism and content creation. While he started out writing on several subjects, Semilore soon found a knack for cracking down on the complexities and intricacies in the intriguing world of blockchains and cryptocurrency. Semilore is drawn to the efficiency of digital assets in terms of storing, and transferring value. He is a staunch advocate for the adoption of cryptocurrency as he believes it can improve the digitalization and transparency of the existing financial systems. In two years of active…

Ether Sentiment Is ‘Way Down’ Near Levels Before ‘Major Run’

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Ethereum’s declining social media sentiment is mirroring levels similar to those seen before its 2025 price rally, which eventually pushed the asset back to its 2021 all-time highs, according to a crypto sentiment analyst. “Ethereum is actually way down, this would argue against us falling too much further,” Santiment analyst Brian Quinlivan said in a video published to YouTube on Saturday. “This is kind of reminiscent of what we saw before Ethereum went on its major run last year,” Quinlivan said. On August 23, Ether (ETH) surged back to its…

ETH, XRP, and Meme Coins Shine as Retail Sentiment Reacts to Short-Term Catalysts

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Crypto enters 2026 on a positive footing, but retail sentiment remains fragile and driven by immediate news catalysts. Crypto market sentiment has improved at the start of 2026 as prices across major digital assets rebound from last year’s extended correction. New data shows retail traders growing more optimistic as ETF headlines and macro narratives increasingly influence crypto price movements. According to the latest social and sentiment data compiled by Santiment, there has been a renewed optimism among retail traders, even as recent price action has begun to flatten and…

Bitcoin Network Mining Difficulty Falls in Jan 2026

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The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first difficulty adjustment of 2026.  “The next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is estimated to take place on Jan 22, 2026, 04:08:12 AM UTC, increasing the Bitcoin mining difficulty from 146.47 T to 148.20 T,” according to CoinWarz.  Average block times are 9.88 minutes at the time of this writing, slightly below the 10-minute target, which means the next difficulty adjustment will increase…

Starknet Team Outlines Root Cause of Latest Network Outage

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The outage was the second major network disruption in 2025, with both incidents requiring a block reorganization that rolled back some activity. The team behind Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 (L2) scaling network, released a post-mortem report outlining the root cause of the temporary mainnet downtime on Monday. The root cause of the mainnet downtime was a discrepancy in the network state between the blockifier execution layer and the proving layer that checks that the execution layer is processing transactions correctly, according to the report. The Starknet team explained: “In one…