Cryptopolitan

Saga was hacked for $6.8M, of which $6M are held in ETH tokens. The exploiter minted Saga Dollar (D) stablecoins, bridged them to Ethereum, and swapped them for ETH. Another $800K were swapped through Uniswap V4.

The European Parliament has halted approval of the transatlantic trade agreement reached with the United States last July, citing President Donald Trump’s demand to buy Greenland and his threats to slap fresh tariffs on European goods. The decision came Wednesday, hours after Trump used his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos to push […]

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse predicts that crypto markets will have their best-performing year of all time in 2026. Garlinghouse cited that regulatory changes and institutional investment in the asset class are driving factors for this statement and have not been priced into the market yet. The CEO of Ripple stated in an interview with CNBC […]

Some of the largest successes in the crypto market started off small. Take, for instance, Solana, whose value in the crypto market started off at $0.24, and those speculators who saw it through are now wealthy individuals. An increasing number of these investors are now in the early stages of Mutuum Finance (MUTM). The reason […]

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee plans to unveil its latest bill on crypto market structure today.

The head of America’s largest bank issued a stark warning about potential economic fallout from limiting what credit card companies can charge customers, even as the president pushed forward with the controversial plan. Jamie Dimon, who runs JPMorgan Chase, told an audience in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday that forcing a cap on credit card rates […]

European Central Bank policymaker Fabio Panetta shared his views about the complementary nature of stablecoins, stating that they depend on traditional currencies.  The ECB is aiming to make the digital euro similar to the banknotes we use today. Meaning that it will be free, inclusive, and offer the highest levels of privacy, unlike private payment […]

Sony Group Corp. put out new clip-on earbuds on Wednesday, joining a market where Bose Corp., Motorola under Lenovo Group Ltd., and Huawei Technologies Co. already sell similar products. The LinkBuds Clip cost $230 and went on sale right after being announced. These earbuds are part of a newer category of open-style devices that sit […]

Investors of the crypto world are again seeking assets that could provide its early-stage returns before the second wave of utility uptake in the market. Although a big part of the entire market is already pricing in years of development, a cheap altcoin has already started drawing the attention as it has provided a steep […]

Intel shareholders are feeling more hopeful about the company than they have in several quarters, believing that CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s promised turnaround is starting to work and that growing data center construction is driving strong sales for the company’s traditional server chips. Several big-name investments arranged by Tan last year have renewed investor attention to […]

UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti stated that blockchain technology will be the future of the traditional banking industry.

The cash-and-carry arbitrage that used to be a goldmine for big desks is now barely hanging on. This was the play where companies would buy Bitcoin on the spot market and short it on the futures side, locking in the price difference as profit. For a while, it was the go-to move. But that’s not […]

Wallets and dApps can now tap TRON Network’s global stablecoin rails and DeFi ecosystemLisbon, Portugal, January 21, 2026 — WalletConnect, the infrastructure powering crypto payments, today announced support for the TRON network, expanding institutional access to DeFi on TRON and extending payment connectivity across one of the world’s largest blockchain networks. The TRON network is […]

Iran’s central bank purchased more than $500 million worth of digital currency last year as it struggles to handle a worsening money crisis and get around American sanctions, according to a report from blockchain research firm Elliptic. The bank made two separate purchases of Tether’s USDT in April and May 2025, Elliptic announced on Wednesday. […]

YouTube is set to introduce AI-generated content that will give creators new ways to scale their presence on the platform. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says that sometime this year, creators will  be able to make Shorts using their “own likeness.” YouTube Shorts, the platform’s short-form video format, now averages 200 billion daily views. “We’ll have […]

Coinbase’s top executive made waves at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday by bringing Bitcoin directly into policy discussions with global financial leaders. Attendees were waiting for US President Donald Trump to speak at the event, and many were anticipating his usual spontaneous remarks about foreign relations and trade policies when Brian Armstrong […]

Strategy announced its financing from preferred shares surpassed its issued debt, improving its financial structure.

Moody’s Ratings on Wednesday laid out exactly how a collapse in artificial intelligence stocks could hit every corner of the economy, from Wall Street to people’s wallets. They aren’t calling it a bubble… yet. But they did describe what it would look like if one blew up. They put the drop at 40%. And if […]

Big investors, known as mega-whales, are switching their plans. They are transferring wealth from older coins such as Solana to early projects that have more upside. Solana remains strong, but its price is slowing. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is still in presale and therefore has more room for growth. This is an early opportunity that has […]

A California crypto startup Bitgo has shifted its headquarters from Palo Alto to South Dakota as it gears up for an IPO targeting a $2 billion valuation.