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In brief Shares of Strategy, SharpLink Gaming, MARA Holdings, and other top crypto stocks fell as Bitcoin hovered around $90,000. Bitcoin lost 2.5% in 24 hours while trading volume increased 14% to $68.6 billion amid post-holiday trading resumption. Trump’s tariff threats on European nations over Greenland added to market uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. Strategy, SharpLink Gaming, and MARA Holdings took a dive with the rest of the crypto equities category as Bitcoin dipped below $90,000 on Tuesday morning.At the time of writing, Bitcoin has been hovering between the $90,000 and $91,000 marks after having lost 2.5% since this time yesterday,…

XRP’s on-chain structure now mirrors a precarious moment from early 2022, when short-term accumulation beneath longer-term cost bases set the stage for prolonged sideways chop.Glassnode flagged the pattern on Jan. 19: investors active over the 1-week to 1-month window are buying below the realized price of the 6- to 12-month cohort.That age-band inversion means newer buyers hold a better average entry than prior “top buyers,” and as the configuration persists, psychological pressure on underwater holders intensifies.XRP’s 6-12 month cohort (yellow line) holds cost bases above current spot price, creating overhead resistance as newer buyers accumulate lower.Each rally toward their breakeven…

In brief Strategy spent $2.1 billion on Bitcoin last week. That’s the company’s largest purchase in more than nine months. The acquisition was partly funded with proceeds from STRC. Bitcoin’s price may be falling as markets digest U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed push for Greenland, but Strategy just notched one of its largest purchases within the past year.Although the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin has stepped up to the plate in recent weeks, its recent purchase of 22,300 Bitcoin for $2.1 billion represents its biggest swing in more than nine months, as the asset’s price wavers around the $90,000 mark,…

In brief BitMine Immersion Technologies expanded its leading Ethereum treasury to more than 4.2 million ETH, adding $108 million in ETH last week. The firm now holds nearly 3.5% of the ETH circulating supply, with 1.8 million of its ETH now being staked for yield. Nevertheless, BMNR has dropped more than 7% on the day as indices and crypto prices slide. Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) added around 35,268 ETH valued at more than $108 million to its leading ETH treasury last week, though its stock has plunged so far on Tuesday as markets react to U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ripple’s UK & Europe policy director Matthew Osborne is urging central banks to stop treating stablecoins as an external threat and instead fold well-regulated issuers into core safeguards, arguing that oversight plus access to official infrastructure can make stablecoins a net stabiliser for payments and settlement. Writing for the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum on 19 January 2026, Osborne said stablecoins have moved well beyond a niche experiment, citing a market value “in excess of $300bn” and annual transaction volumes that he wrote now surpass Visa…

Vanguard increased its position in Metaplanet from 14.12 million shares at the end of November to 15.64 million shares by Dec. 31, an 11% jump that sent speculation rippling through Bitcoin (BTC) treasury circles.The move arrived at a moment when digital asset treasury companies had spent months nursing underwater positions and watching their market valuations compress below the value of their crypto holdings.For those tracking the sector, the question became immediate: Is Vanguard betting that the DAT playbook works again, or is this just index mechanics doing what index mechanics do?The reality is less dramatic than the framing suggests.Vanguard Total…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors selloff amidst Trump tariff turmoil; BTC -2% at $91,100 NYSE announces plans to launch 24/7 stock trading + tokenization Bermuda wants to bring its national economy onchain with Coinbase & Circle Pump Fun introduced its Pump Fund and upcoming Hackathon Trove fell over 90% in a disastrous TGE 🏛️ NYSE Leans Into 24/7 Tokenized TradingWall Street is finally capitulating into blockchain and around-the-clock trading.📌 What…

Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest publicly traded corporate holder of bitcoin, has added another major tranche of BTC to its balance sheet, purchasing 22,305 bitcoin for approximately $2.13 billion over the past week. The acquisition, disclosed today, was made at an average price of roughly $95,284 per bitcoin, roughly 4% more than current prices. As of Jan. 19, 2026, Strategy now holds a total of 709,715 BTC, acquired for approximately $53.92 billion at an average price of $75,979 per coin. The latest purchase marks Strategy’s largest weekly bitcoin acquisition since November 2024 and its fifth-largest bitcoin purchase announcement to date.…

In brief Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong arrived at the World Economic Forum Tuesday to lobby world leaders on economic freedom, push for market structure legislation, and promote tokenization. Armstrong said Coinbase plans to meet with bank CEOs to “figure out how we can make this a win-win.” Coinbase withdrew support for the crypto market structure bill last week, forcing the Senate Banking Committee to cancel Thursday’s markup over stablecoin yield restrictions. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong touched down in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday with an agenda to resurrect the crypto market structure bill that his company torpedoed just days ago.Armstrong tweeted…

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), announced plans on Jan. 19 to develop a new trading platform for tokenized US-listed equities and exchange-traded funds.While the headline features include stablecoin-based funding and blockchain integration, the initiative represents a deeper structural bet on the future of market infrastructure where settlement time, rather than just execution speed, becomes the primary competitive battleground.The proposed platform would operate as a distinct venue separate from the core NYSE exchange.According to ICE, the system is designed to enable 24/7 trading, offer immediate settlement via tokenized capital, and support fractional share trading.…

In brief Social media platform X has open-sourced its Grok-based transformer model, which ranks For You feed posts by predicting user actions without relying on hand-engineered features. The GitHub repository includes all code determining organic and advertising post visibility, built in Rust and Python for modular retrieval and scoring. The release follows owner Elon Musk’s pledge to update the algorithm every four weeks, accompanied by comprehensive developer notes. Elon Musk’s social media platform X delivered on its promise to pull back the curtain on one of social media’s most closely guarded secrets Tuesday, releasing the machine learning architecture that determines…