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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…

Bitcoin’s price climbed back above $97,000 this week, supported by a sustained return of capital into US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, data and market watchers say, suggesting a structural shift in demand after months of sideways trading.Since the start of the year, US spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs have collectively attracted nearly $1.5 billion in net inflows, according to data cited by Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. That total reflects a multi-day stretch of positive creation activity amid renewed interest from larger allocators, following a period of muted ETF flows at the end of 2025.Balchunas said in a post on X…

One trader went against the current trend of low chances for a strike tonight by placing the new $40,000 bet.

GitHub has shipped a substantial update to Copilot CLI, adding GPT-5 mini and GPT-4.1 models that won’t count against premium request limits for paid subscribers. The January 14 release also introduces four specialized agents designed to handle discrete development tasks without cluttering your main conversation context.The new agents—Explore, Task, Plan, and Code-review—each tackle specific workflows. Explore handles fast codebase analysis for quick questions. Task runs builds and tests, returning brief summaries on success but full output when things break. Plan maps out implementation by analyzing dependencies. Code-review focuses on surfacing genuine issues rather than nitpicking style preferences.What’s actually useful here:…

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.