Circle’s USDC has overtaken Tether’s USDT in annual transaction quantity for the primary time, marking a historic shift within the stablecoin panorama. For a decade, USDT has reigned because the undisputed king of stablecoins. It nonetheless instructions a $187 billion market cap—practically 2.5 instances USDC’s $75 billion market cap. Yet 2025 revealed a unique story…
(*100*) the digital asset markets, time is a distorting lens. A single yr in crypto can really feel like a decade in the conventional monetary world. As we navigate the panorama of early 2026, the CoinMarketCap Top 100 has remodeled from a playground for experimenters right into a fortress of institutional capital. It is an…
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) noticed a complete $1.128 billion in outflows over three consecutive buying and selling days, practically reversing the web inflows recorded through the first two buying and selling days of 2026. Ethereum ETFs additionally prolonged a two-day run of web outflows, whereas a number of main altcoin ETFs continued to draw contemporary…
Altcoins have struggled to ascertain a sustained uptrend over the previous a number of months. Many traders gathered different cryptocurrencies throughout Q2 and the primary half of Q3 2025, anticipating outsized positive factors as soon as Bitcoin regained power. That expectation did not materialize as Bitcoin rallied whereas most altcoins stagnated. During that interval, capital…
The crypto market is up as we speak, albeit barely, with the cryptocurrency market capitalisation rising by 0.3%, standing at $3.18 trillion. Currently, 63 of the highest 100 cash have dropped over the previous 24 hours. At the identical time, the entire crypto buying and selling quantity stands at $112 billion. TLDR: Crypto market cap…
Rain, a stablecoin funds infrastructure supplier, has raised $250 million in a Series C funding spherical led by ICONIQ valuing the corporate at $1.95 billion and bringing its whole funding to greater than $338 million. Onchain rails have confirmed their worth.Rain is making them usable by everybody, and preserving them invisible within the course of….
Cathie Wood, ARK Invest’s founder and CEO, stated she expects the Trump administration may transfer past merely holding seized bitcoin and start buying BTC to construct a US strategic reserve, a shift she argued may turn into a catalytic sign for markets and different governments. Speaking on ARK’s “Bitcoin Brainstorm” podcast in an episode dated…
BlackOpal, an rising international funds and finance platform in Latin America, has unveiled GemStone, its flagship institutional providing centered on tokenized Brazilian bank card receivables. The launch is supported by a $200 million, three-year anchor facility organized by Mars Capital Advisors, a Swiss agency specializing in working capital with roughly $2 billion in property underneath…
January 9, 2026 – Evernorth, an XRP digital asset treasury firm supported by Ripple and SBI Holdings, and Doppler Finance (“Doppler”), a number one XRPfi infrastructure supplier, have entered right into a strategic relationship to discover potential collaboration in help of the XRP Ledger (“XRPL”), together with the design and pilot of institutional liquidity and…
Crypto pundit NoLimit has drawn consideration to a authorities analysis paper, which he described as extraordinarily bullish for XRP in the long run. He additionally highlighted how what’s being constructed on the XRP Ledger will be sure that the altcoin features real-world adoption, which may ultimately increase its worth. Pundit Draws Attention To Government Paper…