Welcome to the US Crypto News Morning Briefing—your important rundown of the most vital developments in crypto for the day forward. Grab a espresso, settle in, and preserve one eye on the calendar as a result of tomorrow night time, one thing massive brews in the shadows of crypto. A single vote might quietly unleash…
A dealer turned $321 into $2.18 million in simply 11 days with the Chinese memecoin 114514, highlighting the extraordinary hypothesis driving the market initially of 2026. This surge aligns with focused investments by the BNB Chain Foundation and the cultural significance of the Year of the Horse. Analysts consider these tendencies could propel Chinese memecoins…
Grayscale, a digital asset supervisor overseeing roughly $35 billion in property, has taken the preliminary steps towards launching exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for BNB (BNB) and Hyperliquid (HYPE). The agency filed statutory trusts for each merchandise with the Delaware Division of Corporations, a vital precursor earlier than submitting formal ETF purposes to the US Securities and…
XRP is sending combined indicators to start out 2026. Exchange reserves on South Korea’s Upbit and Bithumb have dropped sharply, echoing a sample that preceded XRP’s 560% rally in late 2024. Whale transactions on the XRP Ledger hit a three-month high of two,802. Yet on January 7, US spot XRP ETFs recorded their first internet…
Ledger, the well-known {hardware} pockets supplier, reportedly suffered a brand new safety incident on January 5, 2026. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT revealed that buyer private knowledge had been compromised by the third-party fee processor Global-e. The newest breach exacerbates considerations over crypto safety, coming solely days after Trust Wallet customers suffered unauthorized fund outflows, and hours…
On January 1, 2026, a hacker seized management of a market maker’s Binance account and manipulated BROCCOLI(714) costs with aggressive spot shopping for. This incident delivered crypto’s first $1 million revenue occasion of 2026 as dealer Vida detected the anomaly with automated alerts, capitalized on the substitute pump, then flipped brief. The episode uncovered vulnerabilities…
Affluent Chinese traders are more and more questioning whether or not luxurious actual property nonetheless deserves its long-held standing as a secure retailer of worth. Viral discussions on Chinese social media now present ¥60–66 million ($414,000–$455,000) houses in Shenzhen Bay being weighed instantly in opposition to Bitcoin, Nvidia inventory, and BNB. Not as symbols of…
Crypto markets struggled all through December, however a small group of institutional traders managed to shut the yr in the black. New on-chain information from analytics platform Nansen reveals that whereas costs remained beneath strain, a number of main crypto funds generated thousands and thousands in realized good points, solely to pivot towards aggressive promoting…
Paul Grewal has criticized The New York Times for what he says is a deceptive narrative surrounding the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) pullback from crypto enforcement. The Coinbase CLO (Chief Legal Officer) argues that the paper’s personal reporting undermines its headline and broader narrative. Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal Pushes Back on NYT’s SEC Crypto…
Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has stepped in to quash rumors of a romance swirling round his transient interplay with a feminine KOL at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai. The hypothesis traces again to December 4, when CZ confronted off in opposition to gold advocate Peter Schiff in a much-anticipated debate. During the session, Tintin—a…