Month: January 2026

Barclays Invests In Ubyx Stablecoin Platform

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Barclays, one of the world’s biggest banks and a systemically important global financial institution, has made its first investment in a stablecoin-related company. The United Kingdom-based bank said Wednesday it had invested in Ubyx, a US stablecoin clearing platform that aims to connect regulated issuers with banks and fintech companies. Barclays did not disclose the size of the investment. “As the landscape of tokens, blockchains and wallets evolves, specialist technology will play a pivotal role in delivering connectivity and infrastructure to enable regulated financial institutions to interact seamlessly,” said Ryan…

Ethereum and Solana Taking Different Paths to Blockchain Resilience

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Ethereum and Solana are not only separated by questions of scalability, they are increasingly divided by competing visions of what blockchain networks must be built to withstand in the future. Recent remarks from the co-founders of each network revealed two competing definitions of “resilience,” rooted in different assumptions about risk, infrastructure and the future shape of blockchain adoption. In an X post revisiting Ethereum’s Trustless Manifesto, co-founder Vitalik Buterin framed resilience as protection against catastrophic failure, including political exclusion, infrastructure collapse, developer disappearance and financial confiscation.  Buterin argued that Ethereum…

RAKBank Wins In-Principle Approval for AED-Backed Stablecoin

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RAKBank is preparing to join the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) fast-evolving stablecoin ecosystem after receiving in-principle approval on Wednesday from the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) to issue a UAE dirham-backed payment token.  In-principle approval means the CBUAE has agreed to RAKBank’s stablecoin plans subject to final regulatory and operational conditions, and the bank, already licensed and supervised by the CBUAE, must satisfy those before any live issuance. In a Wednesday press release shared with Cointelegraph, the bank said the forthcoming stablecoin will be fully backed 1:1…

Ripple’s XRP Rejected at $2.40, Bitcoin (BTC) Volatility Roars Back: Market Watch

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RAIN is today’s top gainer, followed by M and HYPE. Bitcoin’s price actions became significantly more volatile yesterday when the asset neared $95,000 only to be rejected and driven south by several grand before staging a comeback. Several altcoins have posted some gains over the past day, including ETH, which has risen to $3,250, and BNB, which has tapped $920. BTC Goes Up and Down and Up The start of the year brought some gains for the bulls as the primary cryptocurrency quickly erased some of the late December…

$15B in Forced Selling Off The Table as MSCI Keeps Crypto Treasury Firms in Indexes

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Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) has decided not to exclude digital asset treasury companies (DATs) from its market indexes. In a note published on Tuesday, MSCI stated that it has “determined at this time not to implement the proposal to exclude digital asset treasury companies from the MSCI Global Investable Market Indexes as part of the February 2026 Index Review.” However, it added that it intends to open a “broader consultation on the treatment of non-operating companies generally.” In October, the MSCI announced that it was consulting with the investment…

Top Ethereum (ETH) Price Predictions for 2026

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Can ETH reach a new ATH this year? The final months of 2025 were brutal for Ethereum (ETH), whose price briefly collapsed below $2,700 before finishing the year slightly below the $3k psychological level. However, it started 2026 on the right foot and climbed above $3,200, which caused many analysts to set ambitious targets. Some of them are extremely bullish, envisioning an explosion beyond $10,000. The Short-Term Goals The second-largest digital asset has followed the broader crypto market’s revival, with its valuation rising 9% over the past week alone.…

‘I’ll Get Impeached’ if Dems Win Midterms

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US President Donald Trump told Republicans on Tuesday he could be impeached if the party loses the US midterm elections this year. “You got to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just going to be — I mean — they’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Trump said in a speech to House Republicans on Tuesday. “I’ll get impeached.” Trump’s approval rating has slid to 42% as voters feel the president isn’t doing enough to alleviate the rising cost of living, and the GOP’s base…

Crypto Adoption Could Rise as Wealth Transfers to Younger Generations

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Crypto mass adoption could just be a matter of time, as older, crypto-averse generations eventually pass their wealth to their descendants, according to an industry executive.  During an episode of the Milk Road show on Tuesday, Zac Prince, the head of Galaxy Digital’s banking venture, Galaxy One, predicted that as older people pass away and younger generations inherit assets, some of it could make its way into crypto. “I see a lot of stuff about how like younger people are getting screwed because older people are holding all the money,”…

Gold and Silver Market Caps Hit Top Two Global Spots

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Gold and silver briefly reclaimed their spot as the two biggest assets by market capitalization as the new year rolled in with uncertainty.  According to data from analytics platform CompaniesMarketCap, gold currently has a market cap of $31.1 trillion, sitting at the top spot.  Silver, which has been trading places with Nvidia for second place since December, flipped Nvidia briefly, only to be overtaken again at the time of publication. Silver and Nvidia are almost neck and neck. Source: CompaniesMarketCap Nvidia is seeing a gold rush of its own amid…

XRP Outperforms Bitcoin as CNBC Names It Crypto’s New Darling

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Ripple’s payment token, XRP, has just been labelled by CNBC as the “new cryptocurrency darling” after gaining 25% in the first week of the new year. “The hottest crypto trade of the year is not Bitcoin, it is not Ether, it is XRP,” said CNBC’s Power Lunch host Brian Sullivan on Tuesday. XRP price surges in the new year XRP (XRP) has gained 25% since Jan. 1, outperforming Bitcoin (BTC), which is up 6%, and Ether (ETH), which has risen 10% since New Year’s Day. But there could be many…