Month: January 2026

ASIC Flags Crypto as Licensing Boundary Issue in 2026 Outlook

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Australia’s financial regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), framed new participants in emerging sectors like digital assets as a “regulatory perimeter” issue in its Key Issues Outlook 2026 paper, signaling how it intends to regulate crypto entities in the year ahead.  In the report published on Tuesday, ASIC grouped digital assets alongside payments and artificial intelligence-driven financial services, citing risks tied to unlicensed activity, misleading conduct and businesses operating at the edges of existing laws.  Instead of a warning about token adoption or crypto volatility, ASIC focused on…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta signs $6B fiber deal with Corning to expand US data centers

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is partnering with Corning in a multi-year agreement worth up to $6 billion to supply fiber-optic cables for its AI data centers, the tech giant disclosed in a Tuesday press release. The agreement will allow Corning to expand manufacturing in North Carolina and grow its workforce, while Meta’s data centers will continue to support thousands of construction and operational jobs. “Building the most advanced data centers in the US requires world-class partners and American manufacturing,” Joel Kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer at Meta, said in a statement.…

Animoca Japan, RootstockLabs Partner to Bring Bitcoin DeFi to Corporates

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Animoca Brands Japan has partnered with RootstockLabs to introduce Bitcoin-native decentralized finance (DeFi) tools to Japanese corporations and institutions. The collaboration aims to localize and deploy Rootstock’s institutional program for the Japanese market, enabling companies to manage Bitcoin (BTC) as part of their corporate treasury strategies while accessing onchain financial tools secured by Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work (PoW), according to a Tuesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph. “In Japan, an increasing number of companies are beginning to utilize cryptoassets as part of their financial and treasury strategies,” said Kensuke Amo, CEO of Animoca…

Tether debuts USAT stablecoin to support US digital financial infrastructure

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Tether has launched USAT, a new US-regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin created for the federal stablecoin framework introduced by the GENIUS Act, the company said in a Tuesday statement. The token is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, the nation’s first federally regulated stablecoin issuer, and led by CEO Bo Hines. According to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, the stablecoin gives institutions an additional choice for a dollar-backed token produced in America, complementing USDT’s established reputation for reliability and transparency, and introducing a federally compliant solution specifically for American users. “USDT has proven for…

Tucker Carlson Presses Peter Schiff on Bitcoin as Global Reserve Currency

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In a new interview with US media personality Tucker Carlson, gold advocate Peter Schiff renewed his attack on Bitcoin and the broader crypto industry. Speaking on Carlson’s show, he argued that Bitcoin (BTC) is a speculative instrument with “no actual use” and warned that proposals for a US strategic reserve amount to a taxpayer‑funded bailout for early adopters.  Schiff also spent much of the conversation attacking official inflation data and fiscal policy, telling Carlson that Americans are “being lied to” about inflation, and arguing that the government changed the Consumer…

Japan’s financial watchdog opens public feedback on digital payment and crypto oversight

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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has opened a public comment period on draft implementation rules affecting crypto, electronic payment instruments, and financial institutions. According to a recent press release, the proposals clarify how the 2025 amendments to the Payment Services Act will be enforced in practice, including updates to official notices, administrative guidelines, and supervisory rules. The underlying law was enacted in June 2025, and the FSA is now finalizing the accompanying regulatory framework. The draft proposals address multiple areas, including new designations for bonds used as backing assets, regulatory…

Bitcoin EMA Bear Cross Brings 2022 Comparisons

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Bitcoin saw two long-term moving averages cross over for the first time since April 2022 in a fresh BTC price bear market warning. Bitcoin (BTC) bear market comparisons are growing as the weekly BTC price chart repeats April 2022. Key points: Two long-term BTC price trendlines stage a bearish crossover for the first time since April 2022. Last time, Bitcoin took around seven months before it hit a long-term bottom. Against silver, BTC is already at its 2022 bear market bottom level. Bitcoin “bull market” moving averages flip bearish New…

OpenAI Is Too Big To Fail, And That’s The Point

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Opinion by: Scott Stuart, founder at Kava Labs During November 2025, OpenAI executives floated the idea of a government partnership that sounded remarkably similar to a bailout. They walked it back after significant blowback. The trial balloon marked what everyone already knew but didn’t want to say out loud: AI’s biggest companies are already “too big to fail.” In 2024, the US government proved the point. After a multiyear Google antitrust trial, the US government secured a liability ruling finding the company maintained an illegal monopoly, but remedies have yet…

Stablecoins Threaten Bank Deposits, Standard Chartered Warns

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Stablecoins pose a real risk to bank deposits both globally and in the United States, according to a new report by Standard Chartered analysts. The delay of the US CLARITY Act — a bill proposing to prohibit interest on stablecoin holdings — is a “reminder that stablecoins pose a risk to banks,” Geoff Kendrick, global head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, said in a report on Tuesday seen by Cointelegraph. “We estimate that US bank deposits will decrease by one-third of stablecoin market cap,” the analyst said, referring…

Wemade Adds Chainlink to KRW Stablecoin Alliance Infrastructure

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Blockchain company Wemade added Chainlink Labs to its Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoins (GAKS), expanding the consortium’s data and oracle infrastructure as it builds compliance-focused rails for won-pegged stablecoins.  On Tuesday, Wemade announced that Chainlink will provide technical support for data integrity, infrastructure standards and tokenized asset use cases. Wemade said Chainlink’s role will also focus on supporting standardization and enabling alliance members to leverage oracle services.  The addition follows earlier partnerships with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, security auditor CertiK and remittance provider SentBe, which collectively formed the GAKS initiative. …