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Tokenized gold emerged as one of crypto’s fastest-growing asset classes in 2025, accounting for roughly a quarter of all net growth in real-world assets (RWAs).The market capitalization of tokenized gold jumped 177% over the past year, while the number of holders nearly tripled, with more than 115,000 new wallets added during the year, outpacing most other RWA categories, according to data accumulated by Cex.io. The tokenized gold market added close to $2.8 billion in net value in 2025, expanding from about $1.6 billion to $4.4 billion, per the report. That increase alone represented nearly 25% of total net inflows across…

The Senate Agriculture Committee said Tuesday its postponed crypto market structure bill would drop on Jan. 21 and be debated six days later.

Google DeepMind rolled out significant upgrades to its Veo video generation model on January 13, 2026, adding 4K resolution output, native vertical video support, and enhanced consistency features aimed at both casual creators and professional filmmakers.The Veo 3.1 update focuses on what Google calls “Ingredients to Video” — the ability to generate videos from reference images. Character identity now stays consistent across scene changes, addressing a persistent pain point in AI video generation where faces and features would drift between frames.What’s Actually NewThree technical improvements stand out. First, native 9:16 vertical video generation eliminates the quality loss that comes from…

A new US Senate CLARITY Act draft allows crypto companies to offer activity-based rewards to stablecoin users.The proposal, titled the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, reveals that certain rewards and incentives tied to the use of stablecoins would be permitted. Still, the provision notes that offering rewards does not cause a stablecoin to be treated as a security or a bank-like product.“Families and small businesses benefit from clear rules of the road,” Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott, who released the amended draft, said in a statement shared with Cointelegraph. “This bill reflects months of serious work, ideas, and concerns that…

From fully staked ETFs to customizable institutional vaults, staking is evolving from a secondary consideration into a foundational pillar of Ethereum’s market structure.

Aave (AAVE) is currently trading at $164.45, down 1.21% in the past 24 hours, as the DeFi lending protocol navigates mixed technical signals. Despite the recent decline, analyst predictions suggest significant upside potential for the remainder of January 2026. AAVE Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $175-$180• Medium-term forecast (1 month): $185-$195 range• Bullish breakout level: $174.38• Critical support: $159.08 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Aave Recent analyst coverage presents an optimistic AAVE price prediction outlook for the coming weeks. Rebeca Moen provided bullish commentary on January 3, 2026, stating that “AAVE price prediction shows bullish reversal…

Viewership of crypto content on YouTube has declined to its lowest level since January 2021 following a sharp retreat over the past three months.On Sunday, ITC Crypto founder Benjamin Cowen shared a 30-day moving average of views across various crypto YouTube channels, highlighting the drop. “So it’s not just X and an algorithm change,” he said regarding a similar fall in engagement across crypto channels on microblogging platform X.It has “collapsed across all platforms, and has had a noticeable local decline since just October,” commented crypto YouTuber Tom Crown. “In reality, it’s been in a ‘bear market’ since 2021, having never reached…

Recent analyst forecasts suggest AAVE could rally 18-25% from current levels, with technical indicators showing mixed signals as the token trades at $167.02. AAVE Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $185-196 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $186-214 range• Bullish breakout level: $169.61 • Critical support: $162.57 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Aave While specific analyst predictions from major crypto influencers are limited in recent hours, several research firms have published bullish AAVE price predictions for January 2026. According to recent analysis from blockchain.news, Rebeca Moen highlighted on January 3rd that “AAVE price prediction shows bullish reversal potential…

The retail giant said a new Gemini integration reflects a broader shift from search-based shopping to AI systems that can act on a customer’s behalf.

The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first difficulty adjustment of 2026. “The next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is estimated to take place on Jan 22, 2026, 04:08:12 AM UTC, increasing the Bitcoin mining difficulty from 146.47 T to 148.20 T,” according to CoinWarz. Average block times are 9.88 minutes at the time of this writing, slightly below the 10-minute target, which means the next difficulty adjustment will increase slightly to align better with the target block time. The Bitcoin network…