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The second week of 2026 finally delivered the first real fireworks we’ve seen in a while, with Bitcoin breaking out of its multi-month trading range and Ethereum staking hitting all-time highs amid softer inflation data and renewed institutional flows. From macro relief to altcoin surges like Monero’s privacy breakout,...

Ethereum price is slipping slightly on January 16, as ETH fights to maintain the $3,300 mark. Moves so far indicate consolidation, with no clear short-term trend emerging....

Ethereum (ETH) climbed above $3,000 this week to a level not seen in almost a month. During the same time, ETH futures trading volume on Binance climbed to nearly $21.7 billion. This, interestingly, is its highest level since mid-December. Such a pattern indicates a renewed surge in activity in...

CEO Ronald O’Hanley says the transformation isn’t about bitcoin, but about reengineering traditional assets for faster, modern rails....

New validators now need to wait more than 44 days to start earning staking rewards, the biggest backlog since late July 2023....

The Democratic contingent in negotiations over U.S. crypto market structure got back into the talks over the bill, though they sought to keep details private....

Ethereum scaling firm Polygon Labs disputed reports of a 30% workforce reduction, saying role overlaps from acquisitions drove the changes while its headcount remains the same....

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) fell 6% in 2025 while gold surged 65%, but ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood says Bitcoin wins in 2026 because gold just hit valuations only seen once in 125 years—during the Great Depression. Why Gold Hit Extreme Levels Gold, as measured by the (NYSE:GLD) rallied 166%...

The Ethereum Foundation has published a step-by-step plan to let Ethereum’s main chain validate blocks using zkEVM proofs, reducing the need for validators to re-run every computation themselves. The proposal, shared via X on Jan. 15 by Tomasz K. Stańczak, Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation, lays out the...