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Blockchain analytics firm Nansen will establish a local entity in Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City, incorporating within the Special Administrative Region as it advances its digital asset strategy.

A 39-year-old South Korean man has been indicted for attempted murder after allegedly poisoning his business partner over losses tied to a Bitcoin investment programme, prosecutors in Seoul said.

Crypto.com has donated $35 million over the past year to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc., with its latest $5 million contribution coming in January, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed an amicus brief backing Crypto.com in a Ninth Circuit appeal against Nevada regulators, arguing that sports-based prediction markets fall under exclusive federal jurisdiction rather than state gambling laws.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned a Russian exploit brokerage network for purchasing stolen U.S. government cyber tools with cryptocurrency and reselling them, marking the first action under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act.

Vitalik Buterin has sold more than 3,100 Ethereum tokens worth over $6.1 million in recent days, continuing a pattern of ETH disposals as the asset trades near multi-week lows.

Bitcoin slid to $63,822, extending weekly losses to 6.4% and marking a roughly 50% drawdown from its October high of $126,080 amid tariff-driven volatility and persistent ETF outflows.

Engie is evaluating the addition of battery storage systems or bitcoin mining data centres at its 895-megawatt Assu Sol solar plant in Brazil to mitigate curtailment losses and improve project economics, according to Reuters.

Binance has seen its stablecoin reserves decline 18.6% since November, falling by roughly $10 billion from $50.9 billion to $41.4 billion amid ongoing liquidity pressures.

ProCap Financial, led by crypto investor Anthony Pompliano, has repurchased 148,241 shares of its BRR stock as the firm trades at a steep discount to its net asset value.

The wind-down trust of Terraform Labs has sued Jane Street, alleging the trading firm used non-public information to profit during the May 2022 collapse of TerraUSD.

Kalshi is preparing to publish a series of disciplinary actions against users after clearing a backlog of suspicious trading activity, as it seeks to strengthen safeguards against insider trading and market manipulation.

The Federal Reserve is seeking public feedback over 60 days on a proposal to formally remove “reputation risk” from its banking supervision framework, a move widely viewed as targeting crypto debanking concerns.

Chainlink Labs confirmed Lindman’s departure after five years at the company, while SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, who leads the task force, also announced the appointment.

Step Finance said it will wind down operations following a $27 million treasury wallet hack in January, with subsidiaries SolanaFloor and Remora Markets also set to close.

Cardano has entered a critical technical phase after confirming a bearish head-and-shoulders breakdown, with whale selling preceding the move and retail investors aggressively buying into weakness.

Paris Blockchain Week 2026 will convene senior decision-makers from traditional finance and digital asset markets, positioning blockchain within existing regulatory and financial frameworks rather than as a parallel ecosystem.

Bitcoin’s often-cited Ramadan rally appears less convincing in 2026, although a familiar pattern of early volatility and unstable follow-through remains visible.

A cryptic post from blockchain investigator ZachXBT triggered more than $2.2 million in trading volume on Polymarket, as users wagered on which crypto company he plans to expose in a forthcoming insider-trading investigation.

Binance has recorded $8.24 billion in Bitcoin whale inflows over the past 30 days, the highest level in 14 months, as large holders shift capital onto the exchange.

Backpack Exchange said users who stake its forthcoming Backpack token for at least one year will be eligible to exchange those tokens for equity representing 20% of the company, as it advances plans for a potential US initial public offering.

Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov said decentralised finance protocols can no longer rely on inflationary token emissions to drive growth and must instead generate sustainable revenue.

Michael Saylor said any credible quantum computing threat to Bitcoin is likely more than a decade away, arguing that the cybersecurity community broadly expects ample warning before such risks materialise.

World Liberty Financial said it was targeted by a coordinated attack involving hackers, paid influencers and short sellers aimed at destabilising its USD1 stablecoin and WLFI token.