Month: January 2026

Louisiana public pension fund holds $3M in Bitcoin-linked Strategy shares

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Key Takeaways Louisiana State Employees Retirement System holds 17,900 shares of Strategy, valued at over $3 million. Strategy is a significant proxy for institutional Bitcoin exposure without direct ownership. Share this article The Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (LASERS) reported holding 17,900 shares of Strategy (MSTR) worth over $3 million by the end of 2025, according to a recent SEC filing. LASERS has held MSTR shares since late 2024, first disclosing the position on January 29, 2025. Strategy is the world’s largest Bitcoin treasury company, with its valuation largely tied…

Bitcoin Drives Crypto ETP Inflows Above $2 Billion: CoinShares

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Crypto investment products continued gathering steam last week, with fund inflows outpacing every other week in 2026 so far and marking the largest gains since October. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) drew $2.17 billion of inflows last week, European crypto asset manager CoinShares reported on Monday. The bulk of inflows came earlier in the week, but Friday saw sentiment shift as $378 million in outflows amid Greenland geopolitical escalation and fresh tariff worries, CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill, said. “Sentiment was also weighed down by suggestions that Kevin Hassett, a…

Toobit and LALIGA Kick Off $800,000 Elite Championship

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Toobit is one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, and it has just announced the launch of its Elite Championship. This is a trading campaign that’s designed and organized together with the premier football league in Spain – La Liga. Campaign Spanning Until the End of February This opportunity will run from January 15th to February, and it will reward traders of different levels through three main activities with a total prize pool of 800,000 USDT. The activities are: Activity 1: By completing tasks, such as making…

Bridges Are Crypto’s Next FTX Waiting To Happen

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Opinion by: Kadan Stadelmann, chief technology officer of Komodo Platform Crypto didn’t get wrecked by regulators or some shadowy conspiracy. The industry did this to itself. It handed control of cross-chain liquidity to a handful of intermediaries, who it called “bridges,” wrapped assets in slick tickers, and pretended that was decentralization. Every time one of these house-of-cards systems collapses, billions vanish, and the rest of the industry shrugs, as if these were isolated accidents instead of warning sirens blaring across the ecosystem. Multichain’s collapse was a mess. The Ronin hack…

Paradex Reports Service Outage, Cancels Open Orders

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Crypto derivatives exchange Paradex reported a platform-wide service outage on Monday, leaving its trading interface and supporting infrastructure unavailable as the team investigates the issue.  According to its public status page, the disruption affected multiple business services, including its user interface, cloud and API services, blockchain components, bridge, block explorer and remote procedure call proxy.  Paradex said it’s working through a rollback and recovery process, but did not provide a cause for the outage or a timeline for full restoration.  As part of the recovery effort, Paradex said it would…

Digital asset funds record nearly $2.2B inflows in strongest week since October

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Key Takeaways Digital asset investment products saw almost $2.2 billion in inflows, marking the strongest week since October 2025. Bitcoin led with over $1.5 billion in inflows; Ethereum and Solana attracted $496 million and $45 million, respectively. Share this article Investors poured approximately $2.2 billion into digital asset products last week, marking a peak in weekly inflows not seen since October 2025, according to CoinShares. By assets, Bitcoin dominated with over $1.5 billion in new capital. Ethereum trailed with nearly half a billion dollars, while XRP rounded out the top…

Vitalik Buterin Calls for ‘New Designs’ of DAOs

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called for new decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) designs, arguing that the sector needs more than token-voting treasuries if it wants to improve on traditional corporate and political structures.  In a Monday X post, Buterin said that current DAOs often amount to “a treasury controlled by token holder voting.” That model is widely copied but it is “inefficient, vulnerable to capture and fails utterly at the goal of mitigating the weaknesses of human politics,” he said. Buterin argued that DAOs should solve specific infrastructure problems, starting…

XRP Longs Wiped for Over $5M as Trump’s Greenland Tariff Threats Rattle Crypto

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Binance accounted for more than $1M of XRP long liquidations as leveraged traders were caught in a rapid risk-off move. XRP derivatives traders faced heavy losses on January 19 after a sharp crypto market pullback tied to renewed U.S.-EU trade tensions linked to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats over Greenland. The selloff triggered more than $5 million in forced XRP long liquidations, with Binance accounting for over $1 million, as leveraged bets unraveled alongside a broader risk-off move across digital assets. XRP Liquidations Follow Trump Tariff Headlines According to…

Ethereum Price Remains Bullish Above $3,000: Here’s Why

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Ether’s (ETH) price had dropped 7% since being rejected from the $3,400 mark last week, falling to key support levels. Data suggested that increased staking demand, coupled with renewed ETF inflows and strong technical support, could lead to a sustained recovery.  Key takeaways: Ether queued for staking goes parabolic, with a 44-day wait time. Ethereum institutional demand is recovering along with ETF inflows. ETH bulls must defend the support at $3,100 to set the stage for sustained gains. Ethereum staking demand soars to 30-month highs Ethereum’s entry queue has surpassed…

XRP Price Could Surge Another 30% If This Trend Is Confirmed

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Crypto analyst ChartNerd has raised the possibility of the XRP price recording another 30% surge from its current level. This comes even as the altcoin risks erasing its year-to-date (YTD) gains due to the recent crypto market crash.  How The XRP Price Could Rally To $2.70 In an X post, ChartNerd stated that a potential XRP price rally to $2.70 is a possibility in the near term if the altcoin can hold the Fib support targets and mark a higher low. He highlighted three Fib support levels, including the 0.5…