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“The White House has been super constructive here,” said CEO Brian Armstrong.

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of crypto exchange Coinbase, denied reports that the White House is considering pulling support for the CLARITY Act, a crypto market structure bill, and also denied rumors that the administration is “furious” with Coinbase.“The White House has been super constructive here. They did ask us to see if we can go figure out a deal with the banks, which we’re currently working on,” Armstrong said. On Friday, independent journalist Eleanor Terrett reported a clash between Coinbase and the administration of US President Donald Trump, with the White House threatening to withdraw support for the market structure bill…

GitHub has implemented a new rate limit on its Actions cache system, capping uploads at 200 new cache entries per minute for each repository. The change, announced January 16, 2026, targets repositories that were hammering the cache system with rapid-fire uploads and causing stability problems across the platform.Downloads remain unaffected. If your workflows pull existing cache entries, nothing changes. The limit specifically targets the creation of new entries—a distinction that matters for teams running parallel builds that generate fresh cache data.Why now? GitHub cited “cache thrash” as the culprit. Repositories uploading massive volumes of cache entries in short bursts were…

Internal OpenAI call notes show Elon Musk agreed to explore an ICO with a for-profit arm in early 2018, but later dropped the idea and exited the organization.

Fogo’s mainnet went live on January 15, 2026, with Wormhole integrated as the blockchain’s official native bridge—giving the trader-focused Layer 1 immediate access to liquidity across more than 40 connected networks. The FOGO token is currently trading at $0.037 with a $201 million market cap, though it’s down 9.36% in the past 24 hours as launch volatility plays out.The Solana Virtual Machine-based chain is positioning itself as infrastructure for latency-sensitive DeFi applications. Fogo claims 40-millisecond block times and 1.3-second confirmation speeds through what it calls “multi-local consensus”—specifications that would make it attractive for on-chain order books and liquidation engines where…

A sharp fault line is forming across the digital asset industry between crypto products that increasingly resemble regulated financial institutions and a traditional banking sector warning that some of those innovations may be going too far.That tension is on full display this week. JPMorgan is cautioning that yield-bearing stablecoins risk recreating core banking functions without the safeguards built up over decades of regulation. At the same time, Wall Street’s engagement with crypto continues to deepen, with Morgan Stanley’s exchange-traded fund (ETF) filings signaling what analysts describe as the next phase of institutional adoption, one that could force other banks to accelerate…

Dubai, UAE, January 16th, 2026, Chainwire NEXT INNOVATIONS TECHNOLOGY L.L.C. (NEXST), a next-generation Web3 entertainment platform, announced a strategic partnership with KISS OF LIFE, the winner of the 2025 Asia Artist Awards “Best Musician Group.” The group will join NEXST VR LIVE as the platform’s second official collaboration artist. NEXST VR LIVE is the immersive VR concert service within the NEXST ecosystem, supported by the $NXT token. Through this collaboration with KISS OF LIFE, NEXST continues its mission to bring large-scale global fandoms on-chain by embedding digital ownership, decentralized access, and immersive technology into entertainment experiences. Building a Gateway From…

Gibraltar, Gibraltar, January 16th, 2026, Chainwire MINGO today announced the launch of MINGO Tickets, its digital ticketing platform, alongside its expansion across 54 countries. Designed to make event access verifiable and reliable, the platform improves the fan experience while giving organisers greater confidence and control over ticketing. Live event ticketing continues to face major challenges worldwide, from ticket fraud and duplicated access to high fees and poor fan experiences. As demand for live events grows globally, organisers are under increasing pressure to adopt systems that are secure, scalable, and accessible across multiple markets.  Built as a progressive web app and…

Short-term price action is driven by technical positioning, with $2.13 acting as a key resistance level.

The U.S. Treasury’s sanctions machine has been working overtime on crypto. A comprehensive tracker from Chainalysis documents how OFAC designations have evolved from targeting individual Bitcoin addresses in 2018 to dismantling entire financial ecosystems processing tens of billions in illicit cryptocurrency.The numbers are staggering. Russia’s A7A5 ruble-backed token alone has processed over $93.3 billion in volume, according to Chainalysis data from August 2025. Huione Group, designated under FinCEN’s Section 311 in October 2025, laundered more than $4 billion between August 2021 and January 2025—including $37 million from North Korean cyber heists.2025: The Year of Infrastructure TargetingOFAC’s strategy has shifted decisively…