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Crypto’s next phase may hinge on resisting short-term trading pivots and fixing regulatory fog, as a16z leaders warn that durable products and clear U.S. rules will decide which blockchain businesses survive and scale.
Trading Dominates Crypto Today — But the Smart Money Is Positioning for What’s

Bipartisan legislation seeks to protect U.S. blockchain developers from being treated like financial intermediaries, aiming to remove legal uncertainty that supporters say has slowed innovation and pushed digital asset development overseas.
Blockchain Builders May Catch a Break as Bipartisan

Bitcoin briefly topped $93,700 before settling near $93,500, buoyed by fresh consumer price index data at 2.7% and a sharp rebound in spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds inflows.
ETF Flows Flip Positive
On Jan. 13, 2026, bitcoin briefly vaulted above $94,100, extending its early-year momentum

Franklin Templeton has repositioned two institutional money market funds managed by Western Asset Management to support stablecoin reserves under the GENIUS Act and to operate across blockchain-enabled distribution platforms, signaling another step toward merging traditional liquidity products

Since the Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a probe into the U.S. Federal Reserve over its renovation projects, and Chair Jerome Powell has brushed it off as a clash over monetary policy views, chatter about the central bank’s so-called independence has been everywhere.
Rethinking the Fed’s

On Tuesday morning (8:30 a.m. EST), bitcoin’s price action danced between $91,800 and $92,479 today, carving out a narrow but significant range in a broader game of “will they or won’t they” among traders. With a market cap firmly seated at $1.83 trillion and a hearty $44.68 billion in 24-hour

Julia Rosin, President of Abcripto, the Brazilian Association of Cryptoeconomics, stated that if the Ministry of Finance decides to tax stablecoins transactions by decree, the institution will take legal actions alleging unconstitutionality. Abcripto groups over 50 companies of the Brazilian

Vaneck did the math to find the “real price of gold” if it were to reclaim its role as the global reserve asset, given that central banks have maintained steady demand. It estimated that each ounce of gold would be priced at $184,211 if adopted as broad money.
Vaneck Puts Gold at $184K if

Senior Labour backbenchers are pressuring U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer to ban cryptocurrency donations to political parties, warning that digital assets and AI make foreign interference cheaper and harder to trace.
Concerns Over Foreign Interference
United Kingdom (U.K.) Prime Minister Keir S

Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) has unveiled three predictions on how it sees crypto going “beyond crypto” this year.
$45 Billion VC Giant Eyeing Developments in Prediction Markets, Media, and the Potential for a Completely New Crypto Primitive
In a blog post, A16z analysts

Bitcoin’s explosive rally may have gone too far, with oversupply, rising volatility risk, and shifting macro forces setting the stage for a major reset that could redefine crypto’s next cycle, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence outlook.
Bloomberg Intelligence: Oversupplied Crypto Markets

Robert Kiyosaki warns that silver prices may peak soon, indicating a potential market crash due to increasing speculation and selling pressure. He advises patience and plans to buy silver up to $100, highlighting the importance of restraint in the investment approach.

Ripple presses U.S. regulators to redraw the boundaries of crypto oversight, arguing securities laws should hinge on enforceable legal rights — not speculation, decentralization, or trading behavior — and warning that blurred lines could permanently expand SEC jurisdiction.
Ripple Urges SEC to

Precious metals analyst Lynette Zang has warned that the global financial order is shifting away from legal norms toward coercive power, arguing in a 2026 outlook interview that bank bail-ins, asset seizures, and renewed gold confiscation risks are increasingly plausible in this day in age.
Zang

President Donald Trump is pressing major U.S. oil companies to invest billions in Venezuela’s battered energy sector, but his enthusiasm cooled quickly after Exxon Mobil’s CEO dismissed the country as “uninvestable.”
Trump Pitches Venezuela Oil Revival
Venezuela reportedly holds the world’s

Japanese investment giant Softbank, recently sold off its entire stake in Nvidia; and now Peter Thiel’s hedge fund is following suit.
Nvidia’s Sell-Off: A Signal From Smart Money?
A curious trade was revealed on Peter Thiel’s Macro LLC hedge fund’s 13F filing that was submitted on Friday; all of

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya believes a new cryptographic paradigm will emerge to overcome the privacy limitations inherent to bitcoin and gold. He emphasized that this is needed to create assets that are “not easily disclosed.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Raises the Problem of Bitcoin’s