Month: January 2026

Key Bitcoin Price Levels to Watch as BTC Bear Market Begins

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Bitcoin’s (BTC) drop below $90,000 has pushed onchain profitability metrics into the negative territory, signaling BTC’s entry into a bear market, new research revealed. Data from TradingView showed that Bitcoin price action had established a new range on lower time frames, and market observers were watching the key support levels below. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s net realized profit/loss reveals that the market could be entering a macro downtrend. The buyer congestion zone between $80,000 and $84,000 remains the main BTC support for now. Bitcoin profitability cycle turns negative In the Thursday…

TokenFi Unveils High-Visibility Branding Campaign Across Italy Ahead of 2026 Winter Olympics

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[PRESS RELEASE – Miami, Florida, USA, January 23rd, 2026] TokenFi, a next-generation platform focused on tokenization for real-world assets and digital economies, has launched a major branding and awareness campaign across Italy ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics. The four-week campaign will begin Jan. 26 and is strategically designed to capture the attention of a global, high-net-worth audience traveling to Italy for the Games. As part of the initiative, TokenFi has secured a full digital arrivals takeover at Venice Marco Polo Airport, one of the primary international gateways for Olympic…

Kansas Bill Eyes Bitcoin Reserve From Unclaimed Crypto Assets

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Lawmakers in the US state of Kansas are considering a bill that would create a state-managed Bitcoin and digital assets reserve fund funded through unclaimed property rather than direct purchases of cryptocurrency. ​Kansas Senate Bill 352, introduced by Senator Craig Bowser on Wednesday, would establish a “Bitcoin and digital assets reserve fund” in the state treasury, administered by the state treasurer.  The fund would consist of airdrops, staking rewards and interest earned on abandoned digital assets held under Kansas’ unclaimed property law.  It would include cryptocurrencies and “other digital-only assets,”…

Bitcoin (BTC) Death Cross Sparks Fears of 70% Price Crash

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Bitcoin trades near $89.5K as a 2-day death cross and bear flag raise downside risk, with analysts eyeing $60K–$40K targets. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $89,000 as of press time. Over the past 24 hours, the price has dipped slightly, while the 7-day change shows a drop of 7%. With trading volume reaching $39 billion, traders are watching the charts as new technical signals suggest more downside may follow. Death Cross Appears Again Crypto Crew University reported that Bitcoin has printed a 2-day death cross. This occurs when…

Binance Pursues MiCA Approval in Greece As EU Deadlines Loom

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Binance submitted an application for authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) in Greece as regulators warn of looming compliance deadlines. A Binance spokesperson confirmed to Cointelegraph on Friday that the exchange had filed for a MiCA license in Greece and was working with the country’s financial regulator, the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC). “We welcome the opportunity to work closely with the HCMC as this new regulation takes shape in the EU and look forward to contributing to the long-term growth of the EU’s Europe’s digital…

Ripple (XRP) Isn’t ‘Breaking Down’ Yet

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XRP’s internal structure looks intact on Binance; however, directional clarity remains absent as CVD fails to turn positive. Ripple (XRP) slipped to $1.91 after a fresh decline of 2% on Friday. The market lacks strong conviction. New data suggests that while XRP is not decoupling from volume flows, selling pressure has not yet fully transitioned into net buying dominance. Missing Buying Power According to CryptoQuant’s analysis, Binance’s XRP market shows that the current 30-day price-Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) correlation stands at around 0.61. This is a moderate to strong…

Vitalik Buterin’s 2026 Self-Sovereign Tech Stack

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Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin declared 2026 to be the “year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty,” starting with his own devices.  In a Friday post on X, he laid out the software changes he has made to reduce reliance on data-hungry, centralized platforms. The “two major changes” to the software he used in 2025 were switching “almost fully” to Fileverse, an open-source, decentralized document platform — a kind of privacy-preserving Google Docs — and switching “decisively” to Signal as his primary messaging app. Signal uses end-to-end encryption by…

Ledger Eyes US IPO After Record Year: FT

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French crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger is planning an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, which may value the company at more than $4 billion. Ledger is in talks with bankers at Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Barclays about a potential US listing, the Financial Times reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. In November 2025, Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier said the company was planning fundraising or a listing in New York, noting that money for crypto was “certainly not in Europe.” If confirmed, the IPO talks would…

Will Markets React When $1.8B Bitcoin Options Expire Today?

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The end of another week is here again, which means a new round of Bitcoin and Ether options contracts are expiring while spot markets have tanked this week. Around 21,700 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Jan. 23, with a notional value of roughly $1.8 billion. This event is slightly smaller than last week’s, as derivatives trading remains sluggish. Crypto markets have lost around $200 billion since the start of the week, amid escalating trade wars, Japanese bond turmoil, and delays in US crypto legislation. Bitcoin Options Expiry This week’s…

XRP Funding Clones April’s Latent Buying Pressure: 100% Surge Next?

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Similar XRP funding conditions preceded rebounds of roughly 50% in August and September 2024 and about 100% in April 2025. XRP (XRP) funding rates on Binance have been mirroring the behavior seen ahead of sharp price rebounds since 2024. Key takeaways: Negative funding led to short squeezes since late 2024 Binance funding rates stayed mostly negative in the past two months. That meant more leveraged traders bet on XRP price falling, and that they had to pay to keep their short positions open. XRP Ledger funding rates on Binance. Source:…